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“Inside the MFAH” provides perspectives, conversations, and opinions from insiders at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Hispanic Heritage Month Spotlight: A Rare Sampler from the Bayou Bend Collection September 19, 2018
A 19th-century sampler, or textile work with embroidery, is an important and rare reminder of the United States’ multicultural past.
Mary J. Greenfield Smith’s Window into American History March 22, 2017
In 1843, 14-year-old Mary J. Greenfield Smith stitched an elegant woolwork picture in school—surely not imagining that it would end up in a museum’s collection someday.