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Irina Tolford

American, born 1905

BiographyA Russian immigrant married to artist Joshua Tolford, Irina Tolford lived in Boston and Rockport, Massachustetts where she and her husband were painters and ran the Home Industries shop, which sold Folly Cove Designs, related to the Arts and Crafts Movement, beginning 1943. These designs grew out of a design course taught beginning 1938 by Virginia Lee Demetrios, who lived in Folly Cove, the northerly part of Lanesville in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Tolford studied at the Layton School of Art and the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and with Anthony Thieme. She was a member of the Rockport Art Association and exhibited with that group.

Sources include:
http://www.sarah-elizabeth-shop.com/background/follycovedesigners.shtml
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

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