| The Broad Way, The Narrow Way |
Spring 2002
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This outstanding folk art drawing, of large size, exceptional color, and fine condition, was drawn in Lancaster County. The artist has created a wonderful......
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| Thomas P. Moses: Artist, Musician & Poet of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
Spring 2002
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Thomas Palmer Moses has long been recognized as a marine artist and folk painter, yet the facts about his life have often been confused. Most writers have misidentified his birth and......
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| Traditions in the Brandywine Valley |
Spring 2002
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From 1930 to 1950, a rebirth of the medieval and Renaissance technique of tempera painting took place in America. Prominent artists from New York......
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| What Is It Worth? Windsor Chairs |
Spring 2002
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Windsor chairs were once the seating of choice for many in Colonial and early Federal America. The market for these American icons......
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| A Rare George Washington Pearlware Jug |
Winter/Spring 2002
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The jug with bands of painted blue decoration to the rim and neck is decorated with a black transfer-print portrait of a military officer with......
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| A Yingqing Four-Handled Jar |
Winter/Spring 2002
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The body of this jar is of barrel shape, with a narrow shelf to mark off the shoulders, sloping up to the short-waisted neck with flat, everted rim......
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| Account Book of Artist Junius Brutus Stearn |
Winter/Spring 2002
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Under the careful hands of a paper conservator, the long-lost ledger of historical painter......
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| An Introduction to American Sporting Art |
Winter/Spring 2002
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By the mid-nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution had created an upwardly mobile middle class in America that enjoyed time for leisure pursuits such as hunting...
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| Blockfront Chest of Drawers |
Winter/Spring 2002
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This chest, of successful visual proportion and scale, is in a wonderful state of preservation, retaining an old finish and original brass hardware. Though the......
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| Curator's Choice: The Winds of Fame |
Winter/Spring 2002
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Pheme, or Fame, exists beneath the clouds in the ether between earth and sky. Her eyes never close, she never sleeps, and she sounds her trumpet to herald news both......
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