| American Folk Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Summer 2001
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In terms of American art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is generally recognized for its plentiful holdings of high-style works encompassing furniture, paintings, and......
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| Analysis of a Bible Box |
Summer 2001
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When learning about antiques, many people feel that some of the most useful lessons are gleaned from comparisons between two seemingly similar......
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| Antiques Week in Philadelphia |
Spring 2001
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For lovers of American antiques, Philadelphia is a springtime mecca. The City of Brotherly Love welcomed......
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| Armorial Plate: Okeover Quarterly Impaling Nichol |
Summer 2001
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We are pleased to report the sale of a plate from the celebrated Chinese export porcelain service made for Leake Okeover, Esquire, and his wife, Mary Nichol......
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| Artists of Old Lyme |
Summer 2001
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The place itself...positioned Lyme, Connecticut, as a perfect setting for an art colony. The town, now called Old Lyme, is a former ship-building center......
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| California Finery |
Spring 2001
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A superb collection of vintage California paintings, assembled by San Franciscan Dr. C. Albert Shumate, are featured in the exhibition A Legacy of......
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| Capen Perkins Chest of Drawers |
Summer 2001
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This historical chest was the gift of Mrs. William Goedecke, Mrs. William Lamborn, and Mrs. Edwin Hooker, direct......
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| Comments on the Practice of Connoisseurship |
Summer 2001
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A connoisseur is 'one aesthetically versed in any subject, esp., one who understands the details, technique, or principles of a fine art; one competent to act as a......
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| Cosway Bindings |
Summer 2001
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In the first decade of the twentieth century, the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran & company introduced a type of binding that was decorative......
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| Folk Art Frenzy |
Spring 2001
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Traditional American folk art—described as 'extraordinary objects made by ordinary people'—has reached......
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