| Travel: Discovering New York City Arts Clubs |
3rd Anniversary
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William Merritt Chase's palette, stained glass created by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, and pages from a rare Gutenburg Bible, are a sampling of intriguing objects housed in some of New York City’s private arts clubs. Several of these historic...
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| Unraveling the Mystery behind the |
3rd Anniversary
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Although I have been collecting Anglo-American patriotic pottery for more than fifty years, I still become excited over new acquisitions, particularly personalized pieces displaying names of individuals, ships, and organizations. More often than not, the...
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| What's it Worth?: 19th Century Caucasian Village Rugs |
3rd Anniversary
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Woven in the Orient for thousands of years, handmade rugs have been coveted by everyone from European nobility to wealthy Boston matrons. Their appeal shows no signs of wearing out. Indeed, the market for antique Oriental rugs in this country has steadily...
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| Longfellow National Historic Site: 30th Anniversary & Rededication, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Holiday 2002
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An enthusiastic recitation of the well-loved poem "Paul Revere's Ride," penned in 1860 by Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882), inspired a congressional audience to allocate $1.64 million to historic restorations in 1998. The orator was Massachusetts Senator E...
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| Along The Hudson |
Autumn 2002
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'One of the gems of the earth,' is how artist Thomas Cole (1800–1848) described a favorite forest haunt...
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| American Vernacular |
Autumn 2002
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Scholarship, the marketplace, andmaturing tastes have all served to broaden the definitions of American folk......
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| Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor |
Autumn 2002
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A recent museum acquistion, Bombardment of Fort Sumter ranks among the finest works by William Aiken Walker, a native......
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| Boston's Trinity Church: Celebrating 125 Years |
Autumn 2002
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Trinity Church, which annually draws over 100,000 visitors from around the world to Copley Square in the heart of Boston......
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| Ceramic Craze in Minneapolis |
Autumn 2002
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Over the past dozen years, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has been actively collecting ceramics that together relay the history of art and design. To this end......
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| Curator's Choice: Pan of Rohallion |
Autumn 2002
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Pan of Rohallion is the First object seen when entering The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Berkshire home where she lived from 1902 until 1911......
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