May 17, 2012

A Well-Dressed Bed: The Material Culture of Sleep

February 6, 2004 – July 11, 2004

The Glenn C. Price & Strongwell Galleries

Opening Reception

January 30, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Interior of a bedroom in the Alexander Findlay home, c. 1904, Abingdon, VA

About the Exhibition

A Well-Dressed Bed: The Material Culture of Sleep, is an exhibition that has taken the fairly simple conceptual idea of 19th century bedsteads and bedcovers and expanded it for a rather full explanation of the bedroom through the objects that tell its story.

Please click here to view the Gallery Guide for this exhibition.