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Sears was born to a wealthy Yankee family in Boston in 1863.
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First Edition. Decorative cloth binding, 298 pp. Sears was a preservationist, historian, and writer. According to the Fruitlands Museum website, fascination with Bronson Alcott and his experiment win Transcendental living at Fruitlands led Sears to the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, whom she befriended and admired as much as Alcott for their ingenuity, spiritual devotion, and industry. When the Shaker community closed in 1917, Sears brought the eighteenth-century Shaker office to Fruitlands, furnished it with Shaker artwork, implements, and artifacts, many donated by the Shakers themselves. Subsequently, Sears enlisted the help of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to develop a small but exquisite Native American collection, and later still, she built the Picture Gallery to house her Hudson River School landscapes and nineteenth-century vernacular portraits. This book is a result of her intimate knowledge of the Shaker community.
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Sears was born to a wealthy Yankee family in Boston in 1863.
Sears was educated at private schools in Boston and by tutors in Europe.
Her parents were Knyvet Winthrop Sears and Mary Crowninshield (Peabody) Sears. She authored several historical works as well as poetry, romantic works and popular songs for World War I.
In 1910 Sears purchased a summer estate in Harvard, Massachusetts, which included the farmhouse that was part of a failed Transcendentalist community known as the Fruitlands or consociate family. After restoring the house, and collecting numerous materials, Sears opened the building as the Fruitlands Museum in 1914.
When the Shaker community in Harvard closed in 1918, it was purchased by Fiske Warren a proponent for a single tax enclave.
Sears also worked with Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University in acquiring a Native American collection to display at the museum. Sears transferred all the museum assets to Fruitlands and the Wayside Museums, Incorporated., in 1930.
By this time the property included about 458 acres. Also during the 1930s, she collected early 19th century primitive portraits and built a gallery to display them in 1939.
She also collected Hudson River School paintings and other America folk art for the museum.
Clara Endicott Sears died in Boston in 1960.
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She was a member of the Colonial Dames of America, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Society of Mayflower Descendants.