“ROSALIE - THE LANDMARK ROSALIE WHYEL MUSEUM OF DOLL ART, PART TWO” HARDBOUND BOOK - JANUARY 11-12, 2025 dollhouseJanuary 11 12, 2025 at Theriault's Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland. Rosalie Whyel spent her collecting years in the advocacy of the doll as an art form, indeed, even naming her justly celebrated museum in Bellevue, Washington as The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art. It was not simply a museum of dolls, but, boldly, a Museum of Doll Art. Through her leadership, many collectors came to realize that the sculpture and design of a doll was an art form as
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they simply seem to beam with specialness
Yet as the 150 antique doll bonnets shown in this book prove they did just that
5" x 11" softbound catalog 120 pages
acquired with a dogged persistence
the German Kathe Kruse and the Italian Elena di Scavini of Lenci
the very first time that she spotted a Wendy-kins doll the young Texas girl was enchanted with Madame Alexander
her favorite
what was its inspiration
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gentleman’s accessories
carefully and meticulously assembled over the past 30 years