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WHITE MOUNTAINS to NEW YORK CITY American Masterpieces at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum
CLASSIC COMBINATION Folk Art & Federal furniture in a contemporary home
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: The Yacht America and Fitz Henry Lane Revealing and Reevaluating Andrew Wyeth Discoveries from the Field: Furniture and Folk Art Chasing Mermaids: The Paintings of Ralph Cahoon
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R ANDALL DAVEY (1887–1964), Untitled (Race Track Scene). Pastel on paper, 28 x 24 in.
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A Federal Masterpiece
Outstanding Federal Inlaid Mahogany “D” Shaped Five-Legged Card Table having a hinged veneered top with ovolo corners and inset triple line inlay opening to a veneered stationary top, each with inlaid edging, above a beautifully inlaid apron with six oval panels of mahogany with double line tracers each set in a field of satinwood. The apron is centered by a pictorial inlay of an urn with flowers and the stationary tapered legs each display an inlaid die of a flower-head above three bellflowers connected by loops and hedged by line inlays continuing down to cuff inlays. New York, circa 1790–1805. Width 35", depth 17", height 29". Reference: A closely related table is illustrated and discussed in American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, item 108, pages 210–213. 930 Stony Hill Road, Yardley, (Bucks Co.), PA 19067 Telephone: (215) 493-4284 Website: www.clprickett.com Email: info@clprickett.com
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William and Mary Walnut Inlaid Marquetry Chest with Ball Feet English, circa 1690 H. 37", W. 35½", D. 23"
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A selection of 17th and 18th century German stoneware krugs and bellamine bottles from the Tillou Gallery collections.
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Andrew Stevovich Alternate Universe
Donuts (detail), 2009 Oil on linen, 19 x 24 inches
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Table of Contents Summer/Autumn 2010 Volume X, Issue 4
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Chasing Mermaids: The Paintings of Ralph Cahoon n A Centennial Retrospective
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By Deborah M. Child
By Cindy Nickerson lifestyle
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A Contemporary Home for a Classic Collection By Joan Brownstein and Peter Eaton Photography by Kevin Allen
“Thank Goodness for Granny Notes”: Rufus Porter and His New England Sitters
“A View of a Private in the First Regt. of N.H. Light-Horse on Duty” By Donna-Belle Garvin and Wesley G. Balla
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Reevaluating Andrew Wyeth
Refreshed and Reloaded: Reinstalled Galleries at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
By David F. Setford
By Anna O. Marley and Robert Cozzolino
Fitz Henry Lane’s Yacht America from Three Views: Vessel Portrait or Artist’s Concept?
206 Furniture Collecting in Louisiana
By Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr.
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By Cybèle Gontar
The Columbia and Washington Medal
“A Land of Liberty and Plenty” Georgia Decorative Arts at MESDA By Daniel Kurt Ackermann
By Peter Drummey and Anne E. Bentley winterthur[primer
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Private Collection Complements the American Holdings at the Hood Museum of Art By Barbara J. MacAdam on[the[cover
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Revealed: A Lost Illustration by N. C. Wyeth by Jennifer Mass and Christina Bisulca discoveries[from[the[field
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Mr. Luscomb’s Desk: A Welcome Surprise By Clark Pearce and Kemble Widmer II
Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865), Yacht America from Three Views (detail), circa 1850. Oil on canvas, 18½ x 27½ inches. Unsigned and undated. Private collection. Full image illustrated in Fitz Henry Lane’s Yacht America from Three Views: Vessel Portrait or Artist’s Concept, page 174. Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN:1535-5500), Vol. X, Issue 4, is published six times a year (Spring, Early Summer, Summer, Summer/Autumn, Autumn/Winter, and Anniversary) 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 ©2010 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 is pending at Boston, MA, and additional offices. Postmaster, send address changes to Antiques & Fine Art, P.O. Box 9723, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310-9922. Subscription price is $24.95 for 1 year or $39.95 for 2 years. Printed in the USA.
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William Bradford (1823–1892)
Sailboat in the Sunset Oil on canvas, 7 G x 11 I (18.4 x 29.8 cm)
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Stanley Weiss Collection 34, 107
Brown Corbin Fine Art . . . . . . . . 59 Brownstein American Folk Paintings, Joan R. . . . . . . . . . . 93 CARA Antiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Chait Gallery/ Auctioneers, I. M. . . . . . 122-123 Chalfant Antiques, H.L. . . . . . . . 63 Chatellier Fine Art, Jay . . . . . . . 100 Childs Gallery . . . . . . . . . . 103–105 Colville Fine Art, Thomas . . . . . . 10 The Cooley Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . 80 David & Company . . . . . . . . . . 114 Dianni Antique Marine . . . . . . . . . Art, Louis J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Dowling Walsh Gallery . . . . 56, 101 Eaton Antiques, Inc., Peter H.. . . 93 Evans & Associates, Jeffrey S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Finer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Finkel & Daughter, M. . . . . . . . . 94 Fisher Antique Quilts & Americana, Laura . . . . . . . 112 Flather & Perkins, Inc. . . . . . . . . 90 Garth’s Auctions, Inc. . . . . . . . . 132 Gecker American Folk Art, Sidney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Godel & Co. Fine Art, Inc. . . . . . 19 8
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Newman, Ronnie . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Newsom & Berdan . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Olde Hope Antiques, Inc. . . . . . . 27 Oriental Rugs, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Outsider Folk Art Gallery . . . . . 111 Overseas Adventure Travel 146–147 Pantry & Hearth at the 1775 Barn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Pollack, Frank & Barbara . . . . . . 45 Preservation Society of Newport County . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Prickett, C.L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Priddy III, Inc., Sumpter . . . . . . . 14 Quester Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Questroyal Fine Art, LLC . . . . . . 21 Rago Arts & Auction Center . . . 127 Sallea Antiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Sawyer Antiques, Peter . . . . . . . . 16 Schorsch, David A. – Eileen M. Smiles American Antiques . . . . 15
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Haughton International Fine Art & Antiques Dealers Show . . . 137 The Louisiana State Museum Winter Arts & Antiques Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Manchester Pickers Mart Antiques Show / Mid-Week in Manchester Antiques Show . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair . . 138 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Design & Antiques Fair. . . . . 145 Nantucket Historical Association’s August Antiques Show. . . . . . . 82 The Newport Antiques Show . . . 82 Peabody Essex Museum 38th Annual Antiques Show . . . . . 141 Princeton Fall Antiques & Fine Arts Show . . . . . . . . . . . 140 San Francisco 20th Century Modernism Show and Sale . . 144 USArtists: American Fine Art Show & Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Summer/Autumn
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) Fresh Sky, 1911 Oil on panel, 11¼ x 15¼ inches Signed & inscribed Geo Bellows/ E.S.B. lower left
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contributors Daniel Kurt Ackermann, Associate curator, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem Museum & Gardens, WinstonSalem, North Carolina. Page 214.
Jennifer Mass, Senior scientist, Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Winterthur, Del. Page 222.
Wesley G. Balla, Director of Collections, New Hampshire Historical Society. Page 196.
Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Page 198.
Anne E. Bentley, Curator of art, Massachusetts Historical Society. Page 180. Joan Brownstein, Joan R. Brownstein American Folk Paintings, Newbury, Mass. Page 154. Christina Bisulca, PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona. Page 222. Deborah M. Child, Independent museum consultant, Portsmouth, N.H. Page 190.
Barbara J. MacAdam, The Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Page 182. A. Bruce MacLeish, Director of collections, Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, R.I. Page 50. Cindy Nickerson, Former director/curator, Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Mass. Page 148.
Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art, Clark Pearce, Independent scholar and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. consultant, Essex, Mass. Page 224. Page 198. Marcelle Polednik, Chief curator, Monterey Peter Drummey, The Stephen T. Riley Museum of Art, Monterey, Calif. Page 40. Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society. Erik A. R. Ronnberg Jr., Model maker Page 180. and nautical historian. Page 174. Peter Eaton, Peter Eaton Antiques, David F. Setford, Executive director, The Newbury, Mass. Page 154. Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, N.Y. Page 170. Donna-Belle Garvin, Director of publicaRuth S. Taylor, Executive director, tions, New Hampshire Historical Society, Newport Historical Society, Newport, R.I. Concord, N.H. Page 196. Page 84. Cybèle Gontar, Independent scholar, New Kemble Widmer II, Independent scholar Orleans, Louisiana. Page 206. and collector, Newburyport, Mass. Page 224.
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A FRENCH MODEL ARMOUR FOR MAN AND HORSE IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY STYLE BY E. GRANGER, PARIS, circa 1850.
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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A glorious selection of rare maps & atlases, color-plate books, natural history engravings & watercolors as well as the majestic double-elephant folio aquatints from John James Audubon’s Birds of America.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851) Engraved by Robert Havell (1793-1878). “Roseate Spoonbill” from Birds of America London, 1836. Hand-colored aquatint, etching and line engraving. Please direct inquiries to Lori Cohen at 215-735-8811 or loricohen@aradergalleries.com.
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11½ INCH DIAMETER BRISTOL DELFT PLATE Attributed To William Pottery England, Circa 1750
RARE TAMBOUR DESK Made and labeled by Elisha Tucker (1785–1827) 40 Middle Street, Boston Circa 1810 Primary Wood: Mahogany, Bird’s Eye Maple, Birch, Rosewood Secondary Wood: Pine Height: 58¼ inches Width: 41¼ inches Depth: 21½ inches
noteworthy sales MME Fine Art, Inc. Jasper Cropsey (1823–1900) View of Greenwood Lake, 1875 Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Signed and dated lower left Sold to a private collector
Jasper Cropsey’s (1823–1900) quintessential Greenwood Lake, painted in 1875, retains its exquisite original frame. Sold to a private collector, this fine painting once belonged to Llewellyn Powers (1836–1908), the 44th governor of Maine, in office from 1897 to 1901, and representative to the US Congress. The painting and frame are in pristine condition.
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highlights Happenings: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Painting Portsmouth Rowland Gallery, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, N.H. Through October 31, 2010 For information call 603.433.1100 or visit www.strawberybanke.org
Painting Portsmouth presents a look at the diversity of life in Portsmouth as envisioned by a generous sampling of prominent mid-nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century artists. From large-scale paintings by John Blunt and Emil Gruppe to gems by Edmund Tarbell and Charles Goodhue, among many others, the works will conjure memories of shoreline summers, impressions of hard working fishermen or workers at the Naval Shipyard, and visions of nature’s elemental force. Among the many public offerings will be “learning to look” and painting programs for families, plein air painting workshops for adults, and lectures for collectors, as well as gallery talks and tours of sites represented in the paintings. A catalog is available in conjunction with the exhibition.
Cover, Painting Portsmouth by Kimberley Alexander and Jamie Lafleur. One of the highlights of the show was Strawbery Banke’s purchase of Margaret Jordan Paterson’s (1867–1950) Portsmouth Waterfront, ca. 1910s, on the cover, from Spanierman Gallery in New York City.
The Treasures of Historic Portsmouth The Decorative Arts Trust Fall Symposium September 30–October 3, 2010 For information and to register call 215.627.2859 or visit www.decorativeartstrust.org
Rare and Early Tall Case Clock by Samuel Mulliken of Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1760. Overall in a fine state of preservation with a beautifully engraved brass dial. Height: 85”
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One of the most culturally rich communities in America, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, offers a captivating blend of beauty, history, museums, cultural events, and a lively downtown. Participants in the Trust’s fall symposium will visit a number of extraordinary house museums, hear nationally renowned speakers on a variety of topics, and explore the historic town. Summer/Autumn
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Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875), Dandelions, 1867–68. Pastel on tan wove paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Millet and Rural France September 4, 2010–May 30, 2011 Museum of Fine Art, Boston 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. For information call 617.267.9300 or visit www.mfa.org Will Barnet (American, born 1911), Ruth Bowman, 1967 Oil and graphite on canvas, 45 x 23¾ inches The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth and R. Wallace Bowman, 1998 (1998.135) © Will Barnet
Facing the Figure Selected Works from the Collection, 1962–2007 Through September 6, 2010 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY For information call 212.879.5500 or visit www.metmuseum.org
Featured in this installation are portraits and figurative works by eight prominent American artists of the past fifty years: Will Barnet, Richard Diebenkorn, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, George Segal, and Andrew Wyeth. The selected artists stood apart from prevailing trends of their day, developing their own individual styles. The artist and teacher Will Barnet (born 1911), who is still active in New York at the age of ninety-nine, and shown above in the gallery, shifted away from abstraction in the 1960s and began making portraits of friends, such as the picture on view here of the American art historian Ruth Bowman (born 1923), in which the summary forms and hard-edged silhouettes recall his years as an abstract painter. The most recent work on view is Katz’s arresting double portrait from 2007 of Rosamond Bernier, a legendary lecturer at The Metropolitan Museum for more than thirty years, and her late husband, the art critic John Russell. 18
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The common dandelion is the subject of one of the finest pastels in nineteenth-century art. As Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) depicts this flowering weed at various stages of growth, from bud to blossom to white puffs of seed, a modest plant becomes a vital presence in its lively and verdant setting. A remarkable sensitivity to the beauty of the most humble living things characterizes many of the works featured in the exhibition. The museum’s Millet collection is one of the richest in the world, in great part thanks to nineteenth-century Bostonians who were among the first supporters of the artist. This choice selection of some forty highlights from the collection includes rarely seen pastels, prints, and drawings as well as a few related paintings. Some of Millet’s most important and beloved scenes of agricultural laborers are shown, along with lesser known and equally compelling still lifes, portraits, and landscape sketches. Visitors will have an opportunity to rediscover Millet’s versatility in a range of media and techniques. His works on paper are among his most engaging. His drawings possess a “unique vigor and beauty,” in the words of scholar Robert Herbert, that is especially appealing to the modern eye. The exhibition features a number of everyday scenes infused with the quiet dignity of ageold rituals. — Helen Burnham, assistant curator of prints and drawings, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Summer/Autumn
John Carlin
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Sunday Afternoon, 1859 Oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches, signed and dated lower right This painting was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1860. It retains its original frame.
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uring his long and prolific career Ansel Adams (1902– 1984) created a wealth of timeless images of the western landscape that continue to inspire photographers and nature lovers. One of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, Adams combined masterful precision with powerful emotional impact, and his majestic images of American natural landmarks such as Yosemite revolutionized the field of land20
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BY MARCELLE POLEDNIK scape photography. Born in San Francisco, Ansel Adams spent the majority of his life in northern and central California. Growing up in the proximity of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park nurtured his early passion for nature. At the age of fourteen, Adams became interested in photography and the family’s frequent sojourns to the Sierra Nevada, particularly Yosemite, provided the inspiration for his unique approach to photography and nature.
Many of his best known photographs are from the 1940s when his landscapes changed from the intimacy of his earlier Ansel Adams, (1902–1984) Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1944 Gelatin silver print, 30 x 24 inches Courtesy the collection of Anne Adams Helms, collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © 2010 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
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Ansel Adams (1902–1984), Mount Williamson, The Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1945. Gelatin silver print, 30 x 24 inches Courtesy the collection of Anne Adams Helms, collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, © 2010 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
work to grand, sweeping visions for which he became most famous. Awestruck by the beauty of the landscape, Adams sought to create photographs that captured the majesty of the scenery as well as its emotional impact on the photographer. His dedication to his calling is apparent in a letter Adams wrote early in his career: “From now on, I will do only special work —that is, work of the highest quality that I am capable of. I want to establish a reputation for artistic work, and I have not the time to devote to less production. That means that the finest of my negatives will be used without exception; that the finest materials I can get will be put into my work; that I will use the utmost care in making of prints, and that my photography will always 1 be purely photographic.” Adams was an unremitting activist on behalf of the wilderness and the environment, and the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations frequently 22
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used his images in campaigns to provide testimony to the untainted beauty of the American landscape. Late in his career, Adams summed up his work by writing, “If I feel I have any niche at all in the photographic presentation of America, I think it would be chiefly to show the land and sky as the settings for human activity. And it would be showing also how man could be related to this magnificient setting, and how foolish it is that we have the disorga2 nization and the misery that we have.” In 1978, Adams selected seventy-two of his most iconic images, ones that he wished to make available to museums and arts institutions. He planned to then create a master set of 2,500 prints. This set was to be divided up into portfolios and sold to collectors who would make a commitment to subsequently donate the works to a public collection. Although he was able to complete a substantial number of the prints, his death in 1984 curtailed the long-range plans
for the project. As a result, only a few complete “museum sets” were produced. The exhibition Ansel Adams: Portrait of America, offers visitors the opportunity to view one of Adams’ few complete Museum Set portfolios. Monterey Museum of Art is the sole West Coast institution participating in the international tour of this important Museum Set, which is presented in collaboration with Ansel Adams’ heirs. Ansel Adams: Portrait of America, is on view through October 3, 2010. The Monterey Museum of Art-La Mirada is located at 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, California 93940. For more information visit www.montereyart.org or call 831.372.5477. Marcelle Polednik is chief curator, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California. 1.
See Nancy Newhall, The Eloquent Light (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963).
2.
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AMERICA Triumphs by Tim Thompson. Painted 2010. Dimensions: 30 x 48 inches.
Extremely rare and important hand-painted Liverpool jug , it’s mate illustrated on pages 198 and 199 in the book: Success to America: Creamware for the American Market Dimension: Height 9 inches.
New York Yacht Club Race 1874 by Antonio Jacobsen (1850–1921). Signed and dated lower right: Antonio Jacobsen 1907. Dimensions: 22 x 36 inches.
8½ inch Chelsea Mariner
8½ inch Chelsea Desk Set
2¾ inch Chelsea Desk Set
HYLAND GRANBY ANTIQUES A large inventory of museum quality 18th & 19th century marine antiques.
Ship Models Scrimshaw Paintings Navigational Instruments
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Canvas-work picture of original design worked by a member of the Chandler Family of Woodstock, Conn., in 1758. Wool and silk on linen. 15 x 23 inches. Worked primarily in Roumanian couching. Private Collection, photograph courtesy of Stephen & Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Conn.
With Needle and Brush THOMAS PARR II, LONDON 1754 P.O. Box 7106, Portsmouth, NH 03802 By appointment 603.431.1197 jontrace@myfairpoint.net
Polly Latham Asian Art
Very fine Chinese export cup and saucer in the Tobacco Leaf Pattern. Circa 1770 133 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114 Tel: 617-723-7009 • Fax: 617-723-7188
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Exhibiting at the Delaware Antiques Show, The New York Ceramics Fair, and The Philadelphia Antiques Show 26
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Schoolgirl Embroidery From the Connecticut River Valley October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011 Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Conn. For information call 860.434.5542 or visit www.FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org
The Connecticut River Valley was one of the most important centers in America for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by girls and young women in private academies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As the first exhibition to examine the subject of Connecticut River Valley needlework in depth, With Needle and Brush contributes to the understanding of the traditions of needlework and provides insight into the nature of women's schooling before the advent of widespread public education. Guest-curated by needlework experts Carol and Stephen Huber of Old Saybrook, Connecticut, this exhibition of approximately sixty embroideries, watercolor sketches, and portraits will draw extensively on works from private collections, many never before shown publicly. The exhibition illuminates the evolution of needleworking techniques and traces the distinctive styles and subjects associated with the mistresses of various girls’ schools throughout the Connecticut River Valley, which drew inspiration from the magnificent examples produced in Boston, where many of the teachers in more provincial areas had trained. Each piece of needlework unifies the combined talents and aspirations of the girl, her family, her instructress, and the visual artists often called upon to add painted portrait heads that would complete each piece. The exhibition will be followed by a fully-illustrated book with essays and entries by the Hubers, an essay by independent scholar Susan Schoelwer, and an introduction by Amy Kurtz Lansing. The book will be published in 2011 in conjunction with Wesleyan University Press.
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Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849 ‒ 1921)
Who Said Rats?, 1870 Oil on canvas 16½ x 12¼ inches Signed and dated at lower right: A. H. Thayer / 1870 Watts style frame Exhibited: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1922, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Abbott Handerson Thayer, no. 6
Exhibiting at the 53nd Annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association Show Booth 19 • Manchester, New Hampshire, August 12–14
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