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1998
GUSN-169887
Before, Josiah Wolcott was known among only a few as an ornamental and portrait painter working in 19th-century New England. Now, though, Wolcott is known to have been engaged in Fourierism and Associationism, the movements that gave life to the utopian community of Brook Farm. Associationism provided the spark for his hopeful, visionary work that adds an important dimension to Brook Farm scholarship and to an understanding of the movement in New England.
Article ID 283
SC001
Old-Time New England
SC001.1998.076.264.002
Before, Josiah Wolcott was known among only a few as an ornamental and portrait painter working in 19th-century New England. Now, though, Wolcott is known to have been engaged in Fourierism and Associationism, the movements that gave life to the utopian community of Brook Farm. Associationism provided the spark for his hopeful, visionary work that adds an important dimension to Brook Farm scholarship and to an understanding of the movement in New England.
Volume 76, Number 264 (Spring/Summer 1998)
Nancy Osgood (Author)
(1998). Old Time New England. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.
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Boston, Mass.
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Old Time New England
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