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Discoveries from the Field: Edwin Lord Weeks' The Golden Temple at Amristar
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Spring 2009
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Considered a major work when painted in circa 1890, Edwin Lord Weeks’ (1849–1903) The Golden Temple at Amritsar had faded from public awareness as interest in Orientalist-themed paintings declined in twentieth-century America. Increasingly overlooked as
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Discoveries from the Field: Lydia's Drawers -- A Case for Localism in Chester County Furniture
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Spring 2009
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Rarely does one find a piece of furniture not only signed by the maker, but also noting where he was from and the date of construction. Even rarer is any inscription on the piece providing the name of the recipient. Might a client have
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Discoveries from the Field: New Bedford Rising -- Two Eighteenth-Century Furniture Finds
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Spring 2009
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A recently discovered table and chest-on-chest add to a small, but growing group of furniture that we can tie to eighteenth century New Bedford, Massachusetts. Together with the other documented examples, they testify to a sophisticated regional
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Historic Hotel: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort
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Spring 2009
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The 3,000-acre Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and sculpture garden is cloistered in the woods of Laurel Highlands, about sixty miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Museum Focus: Drayton Hall
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Spring 2009
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Drayton Hall is foremost an architectural wonder. It is the oldest and one of the most important examples of Georgian-Palladian architecture in America. The structure of the house follows many of the rules of architecture found in Andrea Palladio's
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Philadelphia Portrait Miniatures 1760-1860
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Spring 2009
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William Dunlap's comments on miniature painting evoke the values and ideals that made it a prized genre for Philadelphians during the period of profound changes that transformed America
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The Craft of Conservation: Recreating a Philadelphia Cartouche
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Spring 2009
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In the spring of 2007, when a bedroom in Mount Pleasant, the historic house in Fairmount Park administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, was being reinstalled, curators at the museum were given the opportunity to exhibit objects in the
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The Jacob Sass Desk and Bookcase: Documenting a Provenance, Preserving a History
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Spring 2009
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This desk and bookcase (Fig. 1) is one of the few examples of eighteenth-century Charleston furniture with an indisputable attribution: written on the interior of a desk drawer is the inscription "Made by Jacob Sass—Charleston/ Octr.
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Winterthur Primer: American Portraits in Pastel
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Spring 2009
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Portraits created using pastel crayons were a popular alternative to oil portraits in Europe and America from the mid 1700s to the early 1800s. Available in nearly all the same colors as oil paints, when drawn across paper the crayons left a smooth
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Cézanne and Beyond
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Winter/Spring
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A year after Paul Cézanne's death in 1906, the Paris Salon d'Automne staged a large retrospective of the artist's work.
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