| Americans "At Home" in Paris |
Summer 2006
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The astute observer and novelist Henry James noted in 1887 that, “it sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when to-day we look for American art, we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a great......
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| Art Focus: The Influence of Provincetown on American Art |
Summer 2006
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Formed by glacial deposits of rock and sand, Massachusetts’s Cape Cod extends nearly seventy miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Situated at its northern extreme, with water on three sides, is Provincetown, home to the oldest continuous artist colony......
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| Baltimore Stoneware |
Summer 2006
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The rarity of signed examples of Baltimore stoneware often results in the belief that production in this Maryland city was limited to the common, sometimes crude examples of late nineteenth-century manufacture. In fact, during the early to mid-nineteenth...
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| Bandbox Papers at the Shelburne Museum |
Summer 2006
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Over the course of two centuries, bandboxes evolved from repositories for delicate lace collar bands into the commodious chic carryalls of the nineteenth century. Akin to modern gift-wrapping, nineteenth-century bandbox papers—block-printed in chalky......
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| Discoveries from the Field: Epes Ellery -- A Rare Clockmaker's Label |
Summer 2006
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Last year I went to a home in the Back Bay of Boston, Massachusetts, to see an early nineteenth-century tall case clock (Fig. 1) that had been in the owner’s family for generations. She was considering donating it to our institution, Historic New England....
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| Fine Art as an Investment: Martha Walter (1875-1976) |
Summer 2006
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Following a retrospective exhibition in 2002 and a record-setting price at auction in 2004, activity has been brisk in the market for Martha Walter’s work. Walter, who worked in an impressionist and postimpressionist style over her long career, was one......
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| From Spain to California: The Life and Art of José Drudis-Biada |
Summer 2006
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History tends to run in cycles, and trends from the past often reemerge. Such is the case with the popularity of the California plein-air painters who were influenced by the principles of French Impressionism. Favoring strong color harmonies and the......
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| Historic Hotels: The Merrion, Dublin, Ireland |
Summer 2006
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From royalty to the Rolling Stones, everyone wants to make The Merrion their home when in Dublin nowadays. Its charms are obvious. Although situated in the heart of Dublin, the hotel exudes the quiet ease of a fine old Irish country house; its......
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| International TEFAF: Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 10-19, 2006 |
Summer 2006
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Walking the isles of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht the comment most frequently heard was “Mooi”—the Dutch word for “beautiful.” This year’s sleek gray-scale color scheme punctuated with banks of orange tulips was the perfect backdrop......
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| Investing in Antiques: For the Record |
Summer 2006
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Boston dealer Stephen Score set a world record in January at Christie’s, New York, when he purchased a goddess of liberty weathervane by William Henis for $1,050,000. With Stonington, Connecticut, dealer Marguerite Riordan as the underbidder, these two......
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