Linda
Baumgarten

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.

Linda
Baumgarten

Bio

Linda Baumgarten is curator of textiles and costumes at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation from 1978 to 2017, where she is responsible for their collection of extant garments, quilts, coverlets, and other textiles displayed within Colonial Williamsburg, at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.

Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship participant
Fellowship Year: 2006

Publications

  • 2007
    “The Layered Look: Design in Eighteenth-Century Quilted Petticoats,” Dress 34, the journal of the Costume Society of America.