Time Keeping

Exhibiting Henry Sheldon Museum’s vast collection of timepieces including clocks, watches, calendars, journals and time capsules the community will be welcomed to consider how time is kept, measured, worked, and recorded both individually and as part of collective history.

Artifacts & archival treasures from the 18th century through today will be presented in conversation with New England contemporary artist Luciana Frigerio’s ‘Clockworks’, the magically crafted worlds of paper theater within vintage clocks and watch housings. Showcasing stories of far-reaching possibilities in layers of time, Luciana Frigerio’s captivating mixed media collages mirror Henry Sheldon’s own passion for storytelling through paper and material culture. 

Stories of immigration and professional collaboration; tales of tragedy and war;  and the skillful beauty of pre-pocket fashion will be on view. Time Keeping will be presented as measured, responsive, fragile, artistic, illusionary and include opportunities for dreaming through an interactive community art making & recording project. In this current age when holding time is literally in the palm of your hand through personal devices, visitors are encouraged to curiously engage and take their time.

Gallery talk with artist Luciana Frigerio: June 5, 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Curated by Kelly Hickey with support by the Henry Sheldon Museum Staff, Ellery Foutch, Colin Boyd and Appelt Clock & Watch Repair.

Image:
Photographer once known
Main Street looking North to Congregational Church, 1904
Stewart Swift Research Center,1988.011.014

Maker once known
Textile, Reticule, early 20th Century
Rust colored velvet cloth
Henry Sheldon Museum, gift of Anna Wooster and Nellie Wright,1968.021.002

The Waltham Watch Company, Waltham MA
Watch Pendant, 1890-1910
Gold and porcelain-enamel
Given to Grace Foote (grandmother of donor) by her family when she graduated from Randolph, (VT) Normal School. The “F” on the cover stands for Foote.
Henry Sheldon Museum, gift of Anne Lawing, 2010.014.004

Tobin Bros. (location unknown)
Message roll, patented Apr 1st 1873
Brass and paper
Henry Sheldon Museum, x1987.244

Maker once known
Carriage Clock, late 19th Century
Marble, brass, glass, Mother of Pearl inlay, porcelain
Henry Sheldon Museum, x1981.213

Luciana Frigerio
Clockworks
“Untitled 26”
Wood, paper, metal