| Outsider and Self-Taught Art Focus: Thornton Dial |
11th Anniversary
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An important part of the story of art has been characterized by self-taught ingenuity and work ethic honed by struggle for survival and passionate appreciation for life....
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| Period Rooms in the New Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
11th Anniversary
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While the newly opened Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a hemispheric view of 3,000 years of North, Central, and South American art, the period rooms...
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| Preserving Historic Charleston's Architecture |
11th Anniversary
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Charleston, South Carolina, prides itself on numerous firsts. For instance, the first theater building in America was constructed in Charleston (in 1736), as was the first public golf course...
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| Recent Additions at Middleton Place |
11th Anniversary
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Middleton Place (Fig. 1), home of Arthur Middleton (1742–1787), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is a National Historic Landmark in Charleston, South Carolina. Now owned by the...
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| The American Impressionists in the Garden |
11th Anniversary
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At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists began to demonstrate not only a preference for gardens as an artistic motif but also a growing appreciation for the art of gardening itself....
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| The Material World of John Drayton: International Connections to Wealth, Intellect, and Taste |
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Born the youngest of three sons to Thomas and Anne Drayton at the family’s Magnolia Plantation in 1715, very little is known about John Drayton’s upbringing. In 1738, the twenty-three-year-old...
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| The New Delineating Pencil: Silhouettes by William Jennys |
11th Anniversary
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At a rural auction in Maine during the summer of 1979, a couple purchased an old handmade box containing a family group of eight silhouettes (Fig. 1). Three of the silhouettes were signed by the...
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| The Rivers Collection, Charleston, S.C. |
11th Anniversary
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Charleston, South Carolina, is fortunate to have many of its residents and institutions focused on preserving its history and architectural heritage. One of the wealthiest ports during the...
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| Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen |
11th Anniversary
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Queen Victoria’s sixty-three-year reign, from 20 June 1837 to 22 January 1901, was the longest in English history and spanned a period of dramatic technical advance in the art of portrait...
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| Winterthur Primer: A Metamorphosis: The Changing Nature of Fraktur Studies |
11th Anniversary
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In 2008, Winterthur Museum acquired a spectacular four-part fraktur metamorphosis series, prompting the collaboration of curators, conservators, and scientists to more fully understand the object....
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