Monday, January 11, 2010

mary childs black

daughter of george childs and isabel merrill
born june 7,1922 in pittsfield, mass
during wwii she was a lt, junior grade, waves in 1947
she married richard black
she worked colonial williamsburg as research assistant, registrar, curator,director of abby aldrich rockefeller folk art center
a free lance writer, art historian
a specialist in american folk art

mart died in 1994