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Collector Pete Cecere
“Casa Cecere” is the home of Pete Cecere, a former Foreign Service officer who chose to retire and bring his large collection to Rappahannock County. While my appreciation of art earlier tended more towards the conventional, especially 19th century masters of luminous painting and impressionism, I am developing a new awareness of a broader definition of “art” that I find unexpectedly gratifying emotionally and intellectually. Folk art often combines both whimsy and sophistication, and the collection I just saw has elements of both.
Without embroidering further on this point, I am pleased that I’ve been nudged in this direction. Openings and possibilities are such tantalizing things. There’s truly enough curiosity, imagination, and energy in this collection to last anyone four lifetimes!
This new appreciation of “folk art” was awakened by a recent visit to Pete’s home-nay Folk Art Museum. The visit was arranged to acquaint me with the site of a major fundraiser in May to benefit the Ki Theatre in Washington. His collection is so large that he already has given away major pieces of his collection to the San Antonio Museum of Art for exhibit at their highly acclaimed Nelson Rockefeller Museum of Folk Art wing. Additional pieces of the collection are going to other museums around the country, including the American Museum of Folk Art in New York City, the Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona, and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And still there are thousands of cata
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