| Art for the People: Decorated Stoneware from the Weitsman Collection |
Spring 2009
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Stoneware was the everyday ware of the nineteenth century. Used for such practical purposes as storing and serving food and liquids, it was also used to make such items as flower pots, banks, match holders, and pipes for tobacco. Potters often...
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| Discoveries from the Field: Edwin Lord Weeks' The Golden Temple at Amristar |
Spring 2009
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Considered a major work when painted in circa 1890, Edwin Lord Weeks’ (1849–1903) The Golden Temple at Amritsar had faded from public awareness as interest in Orientalist-themed paintings declined in twentieth-century America. Increasingly overlooked as...
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| Discoveries from the Field: Lydia's Drawers -- A Case for Localism in Chester County Furniture |
Spring 2009
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Rarely does one find a piece of furniture not only signed by the maker, but also noting where he was from and the date of construction. Even rarer is any inscription on the piece providing the name of the recipient. Might a client have...
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| Discoveries from the Field: New Bedford Rising -- Two Eighteenth-Century Furniture Finds |
Spring 2009
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A recently discovered table and chest-on-chest add to a small, but growing group of furniture that we can tie to eighteenth century New Bedford, Massachusetts. Together with the other documented examples, they testify to a sophisticated regional...
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| Historic Hotel: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort |
Spring 2009
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The 3,000-acre Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and sculpture garden is cloistered in the woods of Laurel Highlands, about sixty miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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| Lifestyle: Eagles & Tulips, Snakes & Weathervanes: A Pennsylvania Folk Art Collection |
Spring 2009
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Behind the facade of a sprawling Mid-Atlantic stone house is one of the foremost collections of American folk art. Exuberant color and an affinity for sculptural and playful forms characterize this astonishingly layered gathering of objects....
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| Lifestyle: Family Treasures |
Spring 2009
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Nearly half a century has passed since Clarence L. Prickett drove by a handsome 1800 stone farmhouse for sale in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and got out to take a look. A peek through the dining-room window revealed...
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| Museum Focus: Drayton Hall |
Spring 2009
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Drayton Hall is foremost an architectural wonder. It is the oldest and one of the most important examples of Georgian-Palladian architecture in America. The structure of the house follows many of the rules of architecture found in Andrea Palladio's...
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| Philadelphia Portrait Miniatures 1760-1860 |
Spring 2009
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William Dunlap's comments on miniature painting evoke the values and ideals that made it a prized genre for Philadelphians during the period of profound changes that transformed America...
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| The Craft of Conservation: Recreating a Philadelphia Cartouche |
Spring 2009
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In the spring of 2007, when a bedroom in Mount Pleasant, the historic house in Fairmount Park administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was being reinstalled, curators at the museum were given the opportunity to exhibit objects in the...
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