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Issue
Army Signalman Whirligig
Summer/Fall 2001
One of the treasures of American folk art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a large whirligig figure of an army...
John H. Twachtman, Niagara Falls
Summer/Fall 2001
John Henry Twachtman has long been considered one of America’s leading Impressionists. In the early 1890s, following a successful
Miniature Portrait of Abigail Lopez Gomez
Summer/Fall 2001
When Abigail Lopez was born in 1771, her father, Aaron Lopez, was undoubtedly the richest man in Newport, Rhode Island...
Painting of a Stranded Whale on the Beach of Katwijk
Summer/Fall 2001
We have recently purchased a Dutch painting depicting a stranded whale on the beach...
Sampler by Elizabeth Searles
Summer/Fall 2001
This recently rediscovered sampler belongs to a group of ten outstanding samplers worked under the instruction of Judith Hayle of Ipswich...
A Carved Church Pulpit
Summer 2001
Recently reinstalled in the First Church of Bethlehem, Connecticut, after years in storage, is the carved pulpit of the Second Meeting House of Bethlem...
Alfred Thompson Bricher - White Island Lighthouse, Isle of Shoals
Summer 2001
Born in New Hampshire, A. T. Bricher grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and in the 1850s studied art at the Lowell Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts...
Capen Perkins Chest of Drawers
Summer 2001
This historical chest was the gift of Mrs. William Goedecke, Mrs. William Lamborn, and Mrs. Edwin Hooker, direct...
Monumental Stoneware Pitcher
Summer 2001
This pitcher has incised decoration of a woman’s bust surrounded by abstract floral and geometric motifs, all filled in with...
Street Scene of Wall Street, Kingston, New York
Summer 2001
When I purchased this painting I knew nothing about its historical significance but was attracted by its appeal...
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