| Sense of Place: Strong Local Roots Define This Collection |
Summer 2008
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here's a story that Litchfield, Connecticut, antiques dealer Jeffrey Tillou likes to tell. It is about a certain high chest in the eighteenth-century tavern he calls home....
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| To Please Any Taste: Litchfield County Furniture and Furniture Makers, 1780-1830 |
Summer 2008
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In 1969 the Litchfield Historical Society published a catalogue to accompany their latest exhibition on Litchfield County furniture....
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| Maine's 2008 Folk Art Trail |
Summer 2008
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Maine is credited with being the birthplace of American folk art collecting, initiated in 1913 by New York painter and art critic Hamilton Easter Field (1873-1922), when he established an art school in the thriving art colony in Ogunquit, Maine....
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| El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III |
Spring 2008
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El Greco and Velazquez are the twin giants of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish painting. They loom so large that it can be hard to see past them and discern the wider artistic landscape in Spain at the moment when it was the richest...
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| A California Collection |
Spring 2008
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California is not known for its large quantity of antiques, but searching in local shops, estate sales, and auctions has rewarded this collector with many rare, important, and undocumented pieces....
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| A Reviviscent Newport Colonial: The Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House |
Spring 2008
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The restoration of the Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House was completed by the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1953, providing a splendid example of mid-eighteenth century colonial architecture in the Newport vernacular (Fig. 1)....
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| An Appreciation of Nineteenth-Century Folk Portraits |
Spring 2008
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Many so-called "primitive" portraits of the first half of the nineteenth century are extraordinarily captivating in their abstract, imaginative, and seemingly humble execution....
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| Art Focus: The Influence of Wiliam Morris Hunt |
Spring 2008
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One of the most important American artists of the second half of the nineteenth century, William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) transmitted his enthusiasm for the aesthetic ideals he espoused through rhetoric, instruction, and essay....
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| Christian Beschler: The Sussel-Unicorn Artist |
Spring 2008
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The Arthur J. Sussel estate auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, on October 23, 1958, included a religious text dated 1799 decorated with "a lion and unicorn and two pairs of parrots amid rosettes, tulips and vases of floral vines (Fig. 1)."...
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| Collecting Profile: J. Thomas Savage |
Spring 2008
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Are you curious to know what your art advisor may be buying when he/she is not buying for you? Ever wonder about the collections museum curators exhibit in their private homes? And -- just as important -- how do those working in a business that, more ofte...
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