Sculptor Elie and his heiress wife Viola Nadelman were famous folk art collectors. In a review by Lita Solis Cohen in the Maine Antique Digest, Aug. 2016, pp. 17-18D, of Making it Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman (by Markgaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson), it says of the Nadelmans: They began buying to furnish their houses at 4 and 6 East 93rd Street, New York City, and Alderbrook, their summer retreat on the Hudson River. It seems like she is talking about the early 1920s.
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Sculptor Elie and his heiress wife Viola Nadelman were famous folk art collectors. In a review by Lita Solis Cohen in the Maine Antique Digest, Aug. 2016, pp. 17-18D, of Making it Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman (by Markgaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson), it says of the Nadelmans: They began buying to furnish their houses at 4 and 6 East 93rd Street, New York City, and Alderbrook, their summer retreat on the Hudson River. It seems like she is talking about the early 1920s.