Florence Dibell Bartlett

Florence Dibell Bartlett (1881–1953) was a Chicago heiress and folk art collector, who is best known for founding the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, the world's first international folk art museum. The museum was founded to express her belief that folk art is a bond between the people of the world.

Biography Bartlett was the daughter of Adolphus Bartlett, a wealthy partner in a large wholesale hardware business in Chicago that became part of True Value Hardware. She graduated from Smith College in 1904. Florence Bartlett's sister, Maie Bartlett Heard, was co-founder of the Heard Museum in Phoenix. named in honor of the museum's founder, has two galleries with rotating exhibits from the museum's collection and gathered in field studies of specific cultures or art forms. Focuses in the Bartlett wing have ranged from Turkish, Tibetan and Swedish traditions, to New Deal-era New Mexican art.