| Museum Focus: Beyeler Foundation |
Early Summer 2009
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The stylish and serene municipality of Riehen, situated on the right bank of the Rhine River at the northeastern edge of Basel, Switzerland, is home to the Beyeler Foundation, a remarkable small...
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| The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Early Summer 2009
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Art may be eternal, but what it means to people isn't, and that's why each generation displays it differently. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which first exhibited the arts of colonial America precisely one hundred years ago,...
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| The Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England |
Early Summer 2009
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The coast of New England has long attracted tourists drawn to the primal drama of wave on rock or the soothing play of glasslike ocean greeting sandy shore....
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| Winterthur Primer: Taste or Technology? Changing Silver Borders |
Early Summer 2009
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From the time America declared independence, silversmiths experimented with methods for achieving uniform and stylish ornament for their silver....
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| 1934: A New Deal for Artists |
Spring 2009
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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated President in March 1933, the United States of America was in crisis. The nation had fallen into a profound depression after the stock market crash of October 1929....
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| A Ceremonial Desk by Robert Walker, Virginia Cabinetmaker |
Spring 2009
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This commanding desk is among the most significant discoveries in Southern furniture to come to light in recent decades. The desk's remarkable iconography -- including hairy paw feet, knees carved with lions' heads, and the bust of a Roman statesman...
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| A Handful of Harts: The Cabinet Landscapes of William Hart (1823-1894) |
Spring 2009
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The nineteenth century critic George W. Sheldon spoke to the popularity of William Hart's (1823–1894) cabinet landscapes2 when he observed they "may be found in almost all the principal private collections in the Atlantic cities......
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| A Tale of Two Sisters: The Davies Collection of French Art from National Museum Wales |
Spring 2009
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Between 1908 and 1924, two sisters amassed the bulk of one of the earliest and most extensive collections of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century French paintings in Britain, at a time when such art was routinely ignored by individuals and...
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| ADA Forum: Philip Zea -- 2009 ADA Merit Award Recipient |
Spring 2009
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Philip Zea has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Antique Dealers’ Association of America Award of Merit. Currently the president of Historic Deerfield, Inc., in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Zea has dedicated his career to the...
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| Anthony Rasch: From Silversmith to Citizen |
Spring 2009
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Bavarian-born silversmith and merchant Anthony Rasch von Tauffkirchen (ca.1780-1858) belonged to a generation of silversmiths in the United States who endured its volatile economy during the first half of the nineteenth century. His career...
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