Handpainted Highball Glasses

Object/Artifact

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The Cardinal Collection

Name/Title

Handpainted Highball Glasses

Entry/Object ID

2022.2.85.128

Description

A set of twenty one clear glasses commemorate works by Bromfield with hand-painted red titles on them. Nineteen novels, one short story, and one collection of short stories are featured. According to popular stories, Anne Bromfield painted the titles on the highball glasses for her father. Visitors to Malabar Farm can see examples of Anne's art throughout the house. Some of her sculptures are in the flower room by Louis's office, and other examples of her work is in the girls' rooms upstairs. In fact, Anne was so active in her art that she had her own studio to work in above the dairy.