Museum Focus: A Winning Museum |
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For nearly half a century, one of the world’s greatest collections of Islamic (Fig. 1) and Asian manuscripts (Fig. 2), icons, and objets d’art lay tucked away in a quiet suburb of Ireland’s capital city, Dublin....
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Nedra Matteucci Galleries |
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In the tradition of Frederic Remington and other great painters of the American West, Frank Tenney Johnson loved the challenge of painting nocturnal scenes....
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New Museum in New Hope |
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Since opening in 1988, the collection of the James A. Michener Art Museum (named after Doylestown's Pulitzer Prize-winning writer) has grown from just 100 objects to 2,200, resulting in only a fraction of artworks being on view at any one time....
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Philip Colleck, Ltd. |
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It is rare to find a pair of George III chests of drawers, particularly of this quality and condition....
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Sargent’s Triumph of Religion Shines Again |
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On any given day this fall, you can poke your head into the Sargent Gallery in the Boston Public Library’s (BPL) McKim building and witness a miracle....
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Stephen & Carol Huber |
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Discovered in a San Francisco estate, this fine example of needlework is one of only eight known canvaswork over-mantels and was the only one still in a private collection....
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The Earliest American Easy Chairs |
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American furniture scholars have long assumed that the earliest easy chairs made in this country are of the seventeenth-century Boston, Massachusetts, William-and-Mary design, with scrolled or arched crests, wings with counter-curves, double-scroll arms,...
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The Grove |
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The Grove was purchased by philanthropist and art patron Clarence Black of Spokane, Washington, shortly after it was completed in 1915....
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The Wharton Esherick Studio |
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As an impressionist painter who trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Wharton Esherick (1887–1970) was obscure....
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The Wrestling Match at the Pied Merlin, 1922 |
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Major oils by the renowned American illustrator N. C. Wyeth rarely surface on the market, and this original book illustration has never before been offered for sale....
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