| Collectors' Corner: Mason Decoys |
Summer 2003
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In the early 1900s the Mason Decoy Factory (1896-1924) of Detroit, Michigan, advertised themselves as the...
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| Curator's Choice: The Peabody Essex Museum and the Sea |
Summer 2003
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The Peabody Essex Museum has been collecting maritime art and objects from America, Europe, and around the world for over 200 years. Today, the museum holds a rich collection of paintings and prints, as well as ship models, navigational instruments, scrim...
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| Curator's Choice: The Peabody Essex Museum's New Asian Galleries |
Summer 2003
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As part of the recent transformation of the Peabody Essex Museum, a suite of galleries devoted to art and culture from India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia has been inaugurated. The new exhibition spaces will present these collections in an inno...
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| Dealer Profile: Gerard Graci and Richard LeBlanc |
Summer 2003
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Twenty years ago, Richard LeBlanc began traveling the world, becoming increasingly intoxicated by Renaissance art and Asian antiquities. What started as an aesthete's hobby gradually evolved into a business, and in the early 1990s he joined forces with Ge...
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| Dealer Profile: Sandra Lepore |
Summer 2003
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A single mother with no formal training in art, Sandra Lepore was determined to challenge the industry's norms. She bought her first painting, a William Merritt Post, in 1977 for $45, and for the past twenty years has owned a gallery in Newburyport, Massa...
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| Destinations: Coastal New England |
Summer 2003
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From the days when the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) gained a stronghold on this Massachusetts island, distinguishing their late eighteenth and early nineteenth century homes with deliberate simplicity and superb craftsmanship, Nantucket has been...
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| Destinations: Santa Fe |
Summer 2003
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Countless others have been as similarly smitten as Lawrence by Santa Fe's allure (Fig. 1). Moved by the beauty and clear light of this so-called "City Different,"2 painters, photographers, writers, and sculptors have responded to its mystique, returning t...
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| Dodge MacKnight--Lantana Grounds, Somerset Parish, Bermuda |
Summer 2003
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Ranked with contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer as one of the top American watercolorists at the turn of the twentieth century, Dodge MacKnight was critically acclaimed for his vibrant Fauve-inspired color palette and lively brushwork. Hi...
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| Eagles in American Folk Art |
Summer 2003
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Our national bird, the American bald eagle, took flight in popular culture and decorative arts in the earliest days of the young Republic, enjoying a profusion of interpretations in the hands of idealistic American folk artists. As noted by Paul D'Ambrosi...
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| Frank W. Benson--Flying Eddy |
Summer 2003
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Frank Benson was an avid outdoorsman and recorded many of his experiences in his paintings. He began actively using watercolor, a portable medium ideal for plein air work, in the early 1920s. During this period Benson frequented Canada's Gaspe Peninsula w...
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