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Boston School Paintings: The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. James R. Taylor
When James R. Taylor (1887–1962) of Boston began acquiring paintings and decorative objects in the first quarter of the twentieth century...
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Son of Whom? A Collector's Journey
When my wife and I acquired a portrait at a Sotheby’s Important Americana auction in 1990 (Fig. 1), the catalogue entry read, “According to tradition, this young man is...
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I. Gilbert. Painter: Little Known Folk Artist
I first became acquainted with the work of the early American folk portrait painter I. Gillbert about thirty-five years ago on a visit to the home of noted collector, researcher, and writer...
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Clock Cases in American Colonies
In 1656 Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, invented the first practical pendulum clock....
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American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
Between the decade before the American Revolution and the eve of World War I, a group of modest British colonies along the eastern coast of North America became states; new states pushed the frontier westward;...
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