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Europe in March
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Summer 2002
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During one week in March, a visitor can cover just about every major style period and type of art at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht...
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Furniture Facts: The Loudon Connection
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Summer 2002
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When the Bachelder family possessions were auctioned off in a series of sales in 1988 and 1993, dealers, collectors, and scholars gathered in droves...
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George Jensen Hollowware: An Enduring Standard of 20th-Century Design
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Summer 2002
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Nearly a century after he opened his shop, few question why, in 1935, The New York Herald Tribune called Danish crafstman Georg Arthur Jensen...
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Know Your Antiques: Artists with an Eye Toward the Sea
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Summer 2002
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Dramatic naval engagements, bustling ports, and successful sea captains are maritime art subjects that have captivated collectors for centuries...
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Mantelpieces in New England: An Introduction
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Summer 2002
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Until the widespread introduction in the 1830s of airtight cast-iron parlor stoves and kitchen cook stoves, fireplaces were essential for heating and...
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Museum Focus: The Fuller Bequest to the Currier Gallery of Art
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Summer 2002
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On October 9, 1929, a few weeks before the stock market crash that sent a prosperous America plummeting into the Great Depression, the Currier...
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Pennsylvania's Mystery Preceptress
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Summer 2002
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In 1998, we purchased an eighteenth-century sampler wrought by a young girl identified as Phebe Harvey. We were impressed with the needlework's...
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Portraiture in Early Connecticut
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Summer 2002
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Although native and foreign-born artists had been working as portraitists in New England since about 1670, Connecticut hosted no professional artist...
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Reading the Evidence: The Challenge of Furniture Documentation
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Summer 2002
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Unlike buildings or gravestones, which for the most part remain fixed in position as their makers originally intended, furniture is by definition...
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The Art, Life and Legacy of Maria Martinez
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Summer 2002
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In the American Southwest, only arbitrary criteria separate
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