J. Stuart Halladay and Herrell Thomas, Holger Cahill, Edith Gregor Halpert, and John Law Robertson. Now the museum contains works of portraiture, Southern and African American folk art, sculpture, fraktur, and textiles. It includes representative works of well renowned artists, such as Eddie Arning, Wilhelm Schimmel, Erastus Salisbury Field, Edward Hicks, Lewis Miller, Albert Hoffman, Louis Joseph Bahin and Ammi Phillips. Various exhibitions of the museum regarded 18th and 19th-century painters such as Zedekiah Belknapp, James Sanforth Elsworth, and Asabel Lynde Powers. The museum includes notable 18th-century watercolor paintings such as The Old Plantation, by South Carolina slave owner John Rose. One of the notable curators of the museum has been Thomas N. Armstrong III. References Further reading 1957 establishments in Virginia Art museums established in 1957 Colonial Williamsburg Folk art museums and galleries in Virginia Museums in Williamsburg, Virginia