| Trendy Wine Furniture |
Early Summer 2003
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In his Works In Architecture of 1778, Robert Adam expressed the opinion that his countrymen liked to partake of wine more so than the French.1 The considerable amount of wine indeed consumed by the English upper class, and their French and colonial Americ...
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| Wallace Nutting Sudbury Cupboard |
Early Summer 2003
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The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) has recently acquired a significant piece of Wallace Nutting furniture--the Sudbury Cupboard of 1920–1930....
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| Wallace Nutting: Antiquarian & Entrepreneur |
Early Summer 2003
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, the hectic pace of life prompted many Americans to look to the colonial past as a peaceful, more harmonious time. Although antique collecting had long been a hobby of the well to do and the United States pr...
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| Walnut Kidney-Shaped Pedestal Desk |
Early Summer 2003
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This exceptional 19th-century desk is unique and unusually featured. The top, with its tooled-leather writing surface and broad-bordered walnut and brass gallery, surmounts three frieze drawers, the right of which conceals a swivel mechanism enabling the...
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| William Bradford: Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas |
Early Summer 2003
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William Bradford (1823-1892) recalled later in life, "I early felt a desire to paint, but had no idea I would ever do anything very special in this line or make it a life calling."1 How he came to do something very special in that line and make a career o...
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| Art Focus: Art Noir |
Spring 2003
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The art scene lights up with impressions of dark from Whistler's Nocturnes to Boston Japanning....
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| Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms |
Spring 2003
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The Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State fulfill a vision first articulated a mere forty years ago: to provide U. S. secretaries of state with an environment of rare beauty and civility in which to host official diplomatic events. Today,...
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| Dealer Dynasties: The Schwarz Gallery |
Spring 2003
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No art dealer is better known for historic Philadelphia painting than the Schwarz Gallery, which has gracefully inhabited a five-story townhouse a block from the city's famed Rittenhouse Square since 1942....
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| Dealer Profile: Allan and Penny Katz |
Spring 2003
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Allan Katz feels that "a fine folk art object transcends time." He and his wife Penny are passionate about the pieces they represent, which covers all categories of period American folk art, with an accent on sculptural work. Their eye for design is first...
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| Dealer Profile: Elle Shushan |
Spring 2003
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Portrait miniature dealer Elle Shushan has relocated from New York to Philadelphia, where she pronounces herself exceptionally pleased with her new city. Nesting in a landmark Georgian Revival building that she confesses is still a little unfinished, Shus...
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