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Celebrating America on Canvas Frederic Church Edward Potthast The Fourteenth Street School Americans Abroad

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

20th-Century Jewelry Shaker Design Grandeur in Connecticut: An Americana Collection Early Colonial Furniture Minton Porcelain Portrait Miniatures

george henry hall ⁽ 1825‒1913⁾

The Railway Carriage (detail) Oil on academy board, 12 x 10 in.

Signed and dated (at lower right): G. H. Hall / 56

21 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 Tel: 212.535.8810 Fax: 212.772.7237

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Participating in the Winter Antiques Show, New York, January 18–27

17th- and 18th-century American and European Furniture, Antique Carpets, American Folk Art, Arms and Armor, Early African Sculpture, Chinese Han and Tang Dynasty Pottery, Pre-Columbian Art, European Old Master Paintings, American Paintings and Sculpture, Classic Cars 1928‒1934, Rare Coins and Medals, Early American Blown Glass, Native American Art, and Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities.

Group of 19th Century Commemorative Gold Medals Since 1948, I have been collecting and dealing in rare coins and medals. This early passion of mine continues to excite me. I am always interested in acquiring fine single examples or entire collections of early American coins, paper money, and medals from the Renaissance to the 19th century.

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George Harcourt (Scottish) Dunbarton 1868–1947 Bushey Late News Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1919, 216 x 255 cm (85 x 100 inches) Provenance: A. Clough, Scotland Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1919, number 210 On the evening of November 11, 1918, a crowd of women gather to read the late newspapers proclaiming victory after four years of what The Times called “the greatest and most terrible of wars.”

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Frederic Edwin Church

Syrian Landscape,  Oil on panel  ¼ x  ½ inches

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A Selection of Federal pieces from our extensive collection.

Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837– 1908) Morning at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 1873 Oil on canvas 8 1 ⁄ 8 x 15 1 ⁄ 8 inches Signed lower left; signed, titled, and dated 1873 on verso

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Publisher’s Letter

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Editor’s Letter

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Contributors

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Discoveries

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Highlights News, Events, & Trends

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288 “In the Best Taste”

222 Connecticut Pastoral

203 Designer Style Sandra Nunnerley & Jamie Drake

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206 “The Art of It”: Lifestyle: The Stellar Folk Art Collection of Jerry and Susan Lauren

by nancy n. johnston photography by ellen mc dermott

222 Connecticut Pastoral Lifestyle

by gladys montgomery photography by j. david bohl

262 Artists of the Fourteenth Street School

by erik brockett 268 Seeking Perfection: The Shakers’ Material World Winter Antiques Show Loan Exhibition: The Shaker Museum and Library

by sharon duane koomler

276 Fine Art as an Investment Edward Henry Potthast (1857–1927)

by lisa bush hankin

236 The Worlds of Frederic Edwin Church

by william gerdts 248 Early Colonial Furniture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

279 Inspirations from the Garden 53rd Washington Antique Show

by gretchen m. bulova

by frances gruber safford

288 “In the Best Taste”: Sèvre-Style Minton

by amy gale

294 Abraham Parsell, Miniature Painter

by vincent di cicco and howard p. fertig

299 Cleaning Painted Surfaces Winterthur Primer

by joyce hill stoner

300 Going Green in the Eighteenth Century Understanding Original Windsor Furniture Color

Tribute 302 Marjorie H. (Peggy) Schorsch (1930–2007)

by deborah e. kraak

by john herdeg

by susan breitner

by christopher swan

254 Early Protective Covers for Upholstered Furniture: Fit, Fabric, and Applicability to Today’s Interiors

260 …Seven Holes The Story of a Serendipitous Find

282 Romancing the Stones: The Creative Genius of the Oscar Heyman & Bros. Jewelry Dynasty

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Fourteenth Street School

Tribute 303 H. Richard Dietrich Jr. (1938–2007)

Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN: 1535-5500), Vol. VIII, Issue 3, is published bimonthly (Spring, Summer, Summer/Autumn, Autumn/Winter, Anniversary, and Early Spring) by AFA, 125 Walnut Street, Watertown, MA 02472. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Contents copyright ©2008 AFA. All rights reserved. The advertiser seeking the services of Antiques & Fine Art will indemnify and save harmless Antiques & Fine Art and its agents from any liabilities, claims, lawsuits, damages, or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs that may arise out of publication of the advertiser’s/agency ads or materials. Every effort has been made to ensure that all information presented in this issue is accurate, and neither Antiques & Fine Art, nor any of its staff, is responsible for omissions or information that has been misrepresented to the magazine. Application to mail at periodical postage rate pending at Andover, MA and additional offices. Change of address should be sent to 125 Walnut Street, Watertown, MA 02472. PRINTED IN THE USA. ON THE COVER: Lifestyle: “The Art of It”; The Stellar Folk Art Collection of Jerry and Susan Lauren, page 206. Photography by Ellen McDermott.

Winter Birches

jonas lie

(1880– 1940) Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, Signed lower left: Jonas Lie

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Adelson Galleries, Inc...................................4–5 Alazraki, Daphne ..........................................35 Alexander Ltd., John ....................................46 Allen, Mark & Marjorie ..............................158 American Garage..........................................124 American Primitive Gallery..........................159 Andersen & Stauffer Furniture Makers, LLC. ............................................118 Antiquario Villas & Cottages ......................135 Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, Inc. ........................................188 Arader Galleries ..............................................45 Archibald Portrait Miniatures, Christine......144 Arons at The Gilded Lion, Leo ......................98 Artemis Gallery ............................................172 Auctions Imperial ........................................147 Avery Galleries ..................................................9 Baker & Company Antiques........................198 Bassoff, Scott -Sandy Jacobs Antiques..........132 Bealey American Art, Francis /Gunn Gallery, Inc ........................144

Eaton Antiques, Inc., Peter H. ....................155 Eleish-Van Breems Antiques, LLC...............134 The Elemental Garden ................................135 Fine Art Dealers Association ..........................76 Finer, Peter ....................................................13 Finkel & Daughter, M. ................................163 Flather & Perkins, Inc. ..................................68 Fleisher/Ollman Gallery ..............................174 Force Fine Art, Inc., Debra ..........................19 Frankel, Ltd., E & J ......................................31 Franklin, Inc., Malcolm..................................64 Freitas, Roberto ............................................110 Garthoeffner Gallery Antiques ....................178 Gecker American Folk Art, Sidney ..............125 Gemini Antiques, Ltd. ................................164 Glazer, James & Nancy ..........................48–49 Godel & Co. Fine Art, Inc.............................29 Goldberg Fine Art, Ltd, Bernard ....Back Cover Goldberger - RJG Antiques, Russ & Karen ....................................156–157 Gordon Antiques, Leah................................165 Gordon, Elinor ..............................................50 Graham & Sons, James ................................16

Best of Persia at Ingham Springs ..................139 Bittel, Diana H.............................................160 Black Pearl Antiques & Fine Art LLC ................................133, 135 Blum, Mr. & Mrs. Jerome ............................40 Bradley Co. Antiques, Philip H. ..................30 Bradsher American Antiques, Charlton ......180 Bridgman American Antiques, Jeff R...........172 Brock & Co. ............................................22–25 Brownstein American Folk Paintings, Joan R. ......................................154 Burns American Indian Arts, Marcy ............161 Carnegie Hill Antiques ................................128 Chalfant Antiques, H.L. ................................91 Cherry Brook Woodworks ..........................146 Cherry Gallery..............................................180 Childs Gallery ..............................................111 Chinese Art Gallery........................................90 Clark, Charles & Rebekah ..........................174 Cohen & Cohen ............................................67 Constant, Inc., Douglas ..............................116 Cook Fine American Art, David..................162 The Cooley Gallery......................................182 Courcier & Wilkins........................................47 Creech Antiques & Fine Art, M. Ford ........130 Dail Fine Art, Catherine ................................43 Davishire ......................................................126 Dawson & Nye Auctioneers & Appraisers ....120 De Ru’s Fine Arts............................................71 Dorset Village Properties ..............................201 Dunton, David ..............................................38 East Dennis Antiques ..................................140 10

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Sallea Antiques................................................89 Schorsch American Antiques, David..............60 Schwenke, Inc., Thomas ..............................41 Score, Inc., Stephen......................................182 Shushan, Elle ..........................................11, 61 Slotin Folk Art Auctions ..............................137 Smith Antiques, Richard A. ........................138 Snyder Antiques, Elliott & Grace ..................62 Storey Antiques, Helen ................................141 Sullivan, Gary ..............................................114 Taggart Galleries, Hollis ................................12 Thirteenth Colony Arts................................122 Tillou Antiques, Jeffrey ..................................63 Tillou Works of Art, Peter............................2–3 Trotta-Bono American Indian Art ..............183 Tucker Fine Arts, John ........................108, 115 Vallejo Gallery ..........................................80–81 Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd., William ....................92 Veilleux Gallery, Tom ....................................75 Walker-Cunningham Fine Art ................94–95 Wallach, Clifford A.......................................186 West Antiques, Madeline ............................135

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Leonards New England................................113 Levy, Inc., Bernard & S. Dean ........................6 Liverant & Son Antiques, Nathan ..............173 Lloyd, Inc., Robert ......................................175 Lonergan, Gloria ..........................................136 Lowy ..............................................................55 Mackley Gallery, Brant ................................184 Magruder, Malcolm......................................123 Manko American Folk Art ..........................136 Melberg Gallery Inc., Jerald ..........................72 Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC ..............................................33 Mendelsohn, Michael ..................................187 Meyer Fine Art ............................................117 Mexico Real Estate ......................................200 Mill House Antiques ....................................134 Milne, Judith & James ................................176 MME Fine Art, LLC ..............................20–21 Moore House American Antiques..................34 Nassau, Lillian ..............................................17 Newman, Ronnie ................................104–105 Nichols American Antiques, Thurston............................................102–103

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Green River Gallery......................................130 Guarisco Gallery ............................................77 Hagan, John G. ......................................86, 88 Hammer Gallery, Carl..................................166 The Haneberg’s Antiques ............................142 Haradin Toys of Yesteryear, Ray ..................143 Harvey Art & Antiques................................178 Hawthorne Fine Art ......................................39 Heller Gallery, Julie ..............................106–107 Heller Washam Antiques..............................167 The Herrs ....................................................176 Herrup Antiques, Samuel ............................182 Hill Gallery ..................................................168 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. ..........................................Inside Front Cover House of Heydenryk ......................................93 Huber, Stephen & Carol ..............................51 Hyde Park Antiques, Ltd. ..............................52 Hyland Granby Antiques ..............................53 Ingham Springs Antiques, Inc. ....................139 Jalbert, Ned......................................82–83, 169 Jewett-Berdan Antiques................................170 Jorgensen Fine Period Antiques, R.................84 Kaplan Ltd., Leo ............................................69 Katz Americana, Allan ........................150–153 Kemble’s........................................................121 Keno American Antiques, Leigh ....................54 King Gallery of Fine Art, Roger ..................109 Kinzle Antiques, Kelly..................................180 Koman Fine Art ......................................96–97 Krainin Antiques, Bettina ............................132 Kramer & Co., Greg K. ..............................171

Northeast Auctions ........................................99 O’Brien Jr., Stephen B. ................................184 Odd Fellows Art & Antiques ......................184 OK Harris Works of Art ..............................129 Olde Hope Antiques, Inc. ..............................56 Oriental Rugs, Ltd. ........................................87 Outsider Folk Art Gallery ............................101 Pantry & Hearth at the 1775 Barn..............134 Pap Oriental Rugs, Inc., Peter ................15, 57 Peabody Essex Museum ..............................202 Penna Staffordshire, Elinor ............................68 Pollack, Frank & Barbara ..............................58 Pook & Pook, Inc.........................................100 Powers Antiques, S. Scott ............................184 Prickett, C.L. ....................................................1 Priddy III, Inc., Sumpter................................59 Profiles in History ........................................127 Purcell Inc., Francis J. ..................................108 Quester Gallery ..............................................85 Questroyal Fine Art, LLC ................................7 Raccoon Creek Antiques LLC at Oley Forge ..177 Rago Arts & Auction ..................................112 Rappaport, Eugene ......................................145 Redfern Gallery ..............................................73 Rehs Galleries, Inc. ........................................74 Ricco/Maresca Gallery..................................179 Riehlman Fine Art, Franklin ........................37 Rothstein & Company ................................131 Roughton Galleries, Inc. ..........................78–79 Rubin, Stella ................................................181 Russell Antiques, John Keith........................186 Sack, Albert ....................................................14

Wheatcroft Antiques, David ..................26–27 Whitlock Textiles & Interiors, Jan..................65 Whittington, Jerry........................................199 Wiggins, David Bradstreet ..........................132 Wilhoit Antiques, James..............................122 Willauer Antiques, Lynda ............................119 Williams Antiques, Taylor B...........................64 Woodard & Greenstein................................185 Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association ....134

UPCOMING SHOWS Antiques at the Armory................................192 Antiques in Alexandria ................................194 Armacost Antiques Shows, Ltd. ..................195 California Country Antique & Americana Show and Sale ....................198 Charleston International Antiques Show ....192 Chester County Antiques Show ..................196 Heart of Country Antiques Show ................197 Houston Antiques Dealers Association Antiques Show & Sale............144 Los Angeles Art Show ....................................70 New York Ceramics Fair ................................66 Outsider Art Fair ..........................................193 Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show ....................................304–Inside Back Cover Philadelphia Antiques Show ........................189 The American Antiques Show ............148–149 Wilton Historical Society ............................194 Winter Antiques Show ..................................44 Works on Paper ............................................191 8th Anniversary

from the publisher

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traveled to Italy in October to attend the Florence Biennale, a magnificent show filled with extraordinary works of art. I never miss an opportunity to visit Florence, which is home to several of my best-loved paintings. Among them is Filippo Lippi’s masterpiece Madonna col Bambino, con scene della vita della Vergine (circa 1450) at the Palazzo Pitti.

Peter Finer

SPECIALISTS IN ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR AND RELATED OBJECTS Our eighth catalogue of antique arms and armour is now available. All the items are illustrated in colour and described by acknowledged experts in their field.

Please contact us if you would like to order a copy.

Just prior to my visit to Florence, we had published the Autumn/Winter 2007 issue of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine, which featured an article on my favorite living artist and a true modern master, Will Barnet. Among the seven works for which Will provided his perspective was Mother and Child (1961), a modern Madonna. As I stood admiring the Lippi, Will’s words returned to me, “I’m not going against the grain of history, I’m going with it.

But I’m adding new dimensions by the way I abstract.”, and it was at that moment I fully came to appreciate what he had said. As I continued to study the Renaissance works on view, however, a new question arose: “What makes an artist a master?”

Back in this country, during multiple visits with Will Barnet at his Manhattan home and studio, I found answers to my question as well as a great new friend. My personal interactions with Will reinforced my understanding of the extent to which the combination of vision and substance form the cornerstone of artistic genius. I have always had a passion for the visual arts — from folk art to fine art, from old masters to modern masters — and that is why I founded this magazine.

As Will Barnet provided me with a new perspective, it is my hope that Antiques & Fine Art Magazine will continue to serve as a forum for new insights and as a source of inspiration to its readers.

Thank you, Will!

John S. Smiroldo Founder & Publisher jss@AntiqueAndFineArt.com

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Exhibiting at The Winter Antiques Show, New York, 18–27 January and The Palm Beach Fair, 1–10 February We are always interested in purchasing single items or complete collections of antique guns, pistols, swords, armour and cannon in any quantity.

We travel the world in our search for fine examples.

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Invest in Sack Provenance

Hepplewhite Mahogany and Gilt Mirror New York, circa 1800 –1815 Illustrated masterpiece The New Fine Points of Furniture, pp. 221 and 228.

Illustrated Sack Volume 10, page 2714.

One of the finest American mirrors in any private or public collection.

ALBERT M. SACK AMERICAN ANTIQUES

1614 Holly Hill Drive, Durham, NC 27713 • Phone: 919.544.7487 or 919.484.7495 E-mail: albertsackantiques@yahoo.com

from the editor

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here is an inner, driving force within people who collect; a passion to acquire material that enriches the soul, stimulates the intellect, and enhances one’s environment.

People are drawn to material for different reasons. Jerry and Susan Lauren, collectors featured in the first of two Lifestyle articles in our 8th Anniversary issue — and the first collectors to be featured on the cover of this magazine — are compelled, says Jerry, by “the art of it.” They are drawn to objects that, though often utilitarian in original purpose, were endowed with beauty, style, form, and personal expression (see pages 206–221). It is not unusual for the Laurens to hop on a plane or drive for hours to see an object. Their determination has led to the acquisition of remarkable examples, including the world record-breaking purchase of the J. L. Mott Indian weathervane at Sotheby’s New York in 2006. Exhibiting the true nature of collectors, they show no sign of slowing down, having acquired two major pieces since being interviewed for this article.

Peter Pap Oriental Rugs, Inc.

Readers often tell me that they look forward to our Lifestyle articles. They enjoy seeing what people have collected, their mindset behind their acquisitions, and how they have integrated the material into their homes. The second Lifestyle in this issue (see pages 222–235) offers a tour of a grand residence that is composed of four historic structures that range in date from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. The couple, with the assistance of interior designer John Cottrell, has filled their home with outstanding examples of Americana. Each portion of the house offers a different sensibility, providing distinct contexts for a range of objects from high style case pieces to vernacular chairs.

Collectors love to share their experiences. In his article …Seven Holes (see pages 260–261), collector and scholar John Herdeg takes us on a journey of persistence and discovery that results in uncovering the artist and subject of a painting nearly overlooked because of its condition. A keen interest in research drove Howard Fertig and Vincent DiCiccio to examine the work of miniature artist Abraham Parsell (1791–1856), about whom very little had previously been known (see pages 294–298).

I am delighted to present the many articles in this issue that reinforce why we collect. I am also pleased to introduce you to Melinda Narsodinov, who very recently accepted the position of assistant editor. Join us in celebrating a great start to a new year.

Karapinar, Anatolia. Mid 19th Century.

3' 10" x 13' 8"

Johanna McBrien johanna@AntiquesAndFineArt.com

Exhibiting: The Winter Antiques Show New York, NY January 18–27

470 Jackson Street San Francisco, CA 94111 415.956.3300 info@peterpap.com

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Wheeler Williams (American 1897–1972) Twilight and Dawn, 1928 Bronze on period marble base Twilight: 14 x 13 x 4 inches

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John S. Smiroldo Johanna McBrien Jonathan L. Fairbanks Marianne Litty Phil Lajoie Erik R. Brockett Heather Berlowitz Lauren Byrne Melinda Narsodinov David Ruggiero F. John Lapinski Jane Fitzwilliam Michelle Tillou Amanda Brodbeck Rick Marcouillier Mike Peters Curtis Harding Hubert Dalexis Steve Bendel A. J. Rossi J. David Bohl Ellen McDermott Joseph Neal

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Gretchen M. Bulova, Director, Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Alexandria, VA. Page 279.

Nancy N. Johnston, Private consultant and broker for antiques and art. Page 206.

Susan Breitner, Freelance writer specializing in art and antiques.

Page 282.

Sharon Duane Koomler, Director, Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham and New Lebanon, NY. Page 268.

Vincent DiCicco, Independent researcher. Page 294.

Howard P. Fertig, Independent researcher. Page 294.

Deborah E. Kraak, Private consultant specializing in historic textiles, costumes, and interiors. Page 254.

Amy Gale, Freelance writer specializing in antiques and collection, New York, NY. Page 288.

Gladys Montgomery, Freelance writer specializing in antiques, art, and travel. Page 222.

William H. Gerdts, Professor emeritus of art history, the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Page 236.

Frances Gruber Safford, Retired associate curator in the Department of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Page 248.

Lisa Bush Hankin, Director of research, specializing in 19th and 20 century American Art, Adelson gallery, New York, NY. Page 276.

John Herdeg, Collector and scholar. Page 260.

Joyce Hill Stoner, Professor, Winterthur/University of Delaware Art Conservation Department, Winterthur, DE. Page 299.

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Lillian Nassau LLC Announcing our Exhibition Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty

This comprehensive exhibition of Tiffany Favrile Glass contains over 150 spectacular examples and is on view at our Gallery until January 31, 2008.

A hardcover book by eminent Tiffany scholar Dr. Martin Eidelberg accompanies the exhibition. It contains over 100 new color photographs as well as archival photographs. Bringing together previously unpublished documents, Eidelberg has been able to establish a new and more exact chronology for the glass, and has analyzed why and how Tiffany's glass evolved as it did. This groundbreaking volume will become the definitive reference book on Tiffany Favrile Glass.

The book is available for purchase.

Contact us at our Gallery.

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10 to 5, Saturday 10:30 to 5 220 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 212-759-6062 Website: lilliannassau.com Email: lilnassau@aol.com

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A Forum that Highlights Important Finds, Significant Objects, New Research , and Museum Acquisitions

Timepiece of Daniel Munroe Jr. (1775 1859) Case attributed to William Munroe (1778–1861) Concord, ca. 1802 Mahogany, mahogany and other veneers, pine, steel, brass, painted glass.

Courtesy of the Concord Museum, Concord, MA Entry, May 6, 1818, from the daybook of William Munroe Gift of Mr. Charles P. Munroe and Mr. William M. Munroe.

Courtesy of the Concord Museum, Concord, MA The Concord Museum recently received account books, daybooks, receipt books, and a 20,000-word autobiography as a gift from direct descendants of Federal-era clockmaker William Munroe (1778–1861) of Concord, Massachusetts. Together the documents tell the story of Munroe’s training in three Boston-area cabinet shops (that of Stephen Badlam, John Paddleford, Nehemiah Munroe); his brief period as a journeyman; his relocation to Concord; his work for his clockmaking brothers (producing, among other things, 200 patent timepiece cases a year from 1816 to 1819); and his transition, beginning in 1812, into the more lucrative trade of pencil making. The risks and travails, even the motivations, of a craftsman weathering the trade disruptions of the Embargo of 1807 and War of 1812, the shifting winds of fashion, bad debt, and unfaithful employees, are captured in considerable detail. Many aspects of the growth and dissipation of the Concord clockmaking experience, a significant chapter in the early industrialization of New England, are also outlined in these records.

Sampler of Mariah Boil (1832 1863) Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1844 Dark blue silk on linen, 13 x 12 inches Courtesy of M. Finkel & Daughter, Philadelphia.

Mariah Boil was born in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1837, on her fifth birthday, she joined the Pleasant Hill Shaker community. where she lived for most of her life. During the three month period ending in March 1844 she worked this marking sampler, which has recently come to the attention of scholars. It joins the ranks of very few known Pleasant Hill samplers. Mariah practiced stitching alphabets, numerical progressions, and the initials of other Shakers, an important skill needed for tracking the inventory of linens within the Shaker communities.

At age twenty-one, Mariah signed the Covenant, but Pleasant Hill archives indicate that Mariah twice left the community to join the “wide world.” These attempts were unsuccessful and Mariah was at Pleasant Hill in 1860; she died there in 1863.

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Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937) Flight into Egypt, circa 1908 signed H. O. Tanner, lower left oil on canvas, 19¾ ⳯ 24 inches

Exhibiting at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art, & Antiques Show February 15–19, 2008

Debra Force

fine art, inc.

14 East 73rd Street Suite 4b New York 10021 Tel 212 734 3636 www.debraforce.com Mon.–Fri. 10–6, Sat. by appt.

George Cochran Lambdin (1830‒1896)

In the Ear, 1865 Oil on canvas, 22 x 27 inches Signed and dated at lower right (on fence rail): Geo. C. Lambdin. 1865.

Inscribed on reverse (on stretcher panel): “In the Ear” / Geo. C. Lambdin / 1865 Period frame

BROCK & CO. Specializing in 19th and 20th centur y Works of Ar t P.O. Box 593, Carlisle, Massachusetts 01741 Tel: 978.287.6004

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George Inness (1825‒1894)

River Landscape, c. 1878 Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches Signed at lower right: G. Inness Period frame

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Exhibiting at Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, FL — February 15–19, 2008

Augustus Koopman (1869‒1914)

Figures on the Beach, 1912 Oil on canvas, 26 x 32 inches Signed and dated at lower right: Augustus Koopman / 1912 Carrig-Rohane style frame

BROCK & CO. Specializing in 19th and 20th centur y Works of Ar t P.O. Box 593, Carlisle, Massachusetts 01741 Tel: 978.287.6004

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Childe Hassam (1859‒1935)

Maidstone Golf Course, East Hampton, 1926 Oil on canvas, 6½ x 13⅜ inches Signed and dated at lower left: Childe Hassam / 1926 Inscribed at lower center: Easthampton Artist’s device and date painted (in orange) on original support Arts & Crafts style frame This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside’s forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the artist’s work.

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GEORGE HARTWELL Portrait of David Lovejoy oil on board Boston, Massachusetts circa 1845 14 in. high x 10 in. wide

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Storie di Pittura dal Nuovo Mondo

Museo di Santa Giulia 81/bis Via Musei Brescia, Italy Through May 4, 2008 For information call 39-0422-309777 or visit www.lineadombra.it America! Storie di Pittura dal Nuovo Mondo is the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to nineteenth-century American art and one of the most important exhibitions of American art to ever be staged in Europe. The exhibition is being held at the Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia, a northern Italian city situated at the foot of the Alps in the country’s Lombard region. Curator Marco Goldin collaborated with every major American museum as well as with many European and British museums to assemble the over 400 objects on view.

In addition to approximately 250 paintings, many of them monumental in scale, original photographs, sculptures, and Native American objects round out the exhibition.

Works by artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent construct the history of art in America during a century marked by the Hudson River School painters’ paean to nature, American artists’ discovery of South America and Italy, and American artists’ response to the western territories. The exhibition also examines the influence of European Impressionism on American artists and the magnificent portraiture of the last part of the century.

The exhibition is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated 600-page catalogue in Italian featuring essays by leading American scholars. Nineteenthcentury American art will also be the theme of an international conference to be held at the Santa Giulia auditorium in Brescia on April 17–18, 2008.

THIS PAGE, TOP TO BOTTOM: Frederick Childe Hassam, Grand Prix Day, 1887. Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 78.7 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund. © 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains, about 1870. Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 152.7 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865. © 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Martin Johnson Heade, Approaching Storm: Beach near Newport, 1861–1862. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 148.3 cm.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865. © 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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