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Miniature discoveries

By Robert A. Leath — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

The recent appearance of two portrait miniatures leads to new information about backcountry South Carolina artist Isaac Brownfield Alexander.

The Bixby House

By Christopher Long — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Largely unheralded, this Kansas City masterwork of modernism deserves its place in the pantheon of great American houses.

On Southern Turf

By Sarah Campbell Drury — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100

For Mary and Hank Brockman the proper preservation of the South's material culture includes art, architecture, artifacts and the landscape.

Hudson River Classics: Edgewater and Richard Hampton Jenrette

By Photography by Gavin Ashworth, Laura Beach — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Jenrette-who in 1993 established the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to promote six historic properties between New York and Saint Croix that he restored and opened to the public-even h

The Real Story of Sleepy Hollow

By Katrine Ames — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

Inspired by the archaeological discoveries of the early twentieth century, Marie Zimmermann created extraordinary, and previously unstudied, jewelry in Egyptian and other revival styles.

Rose Fever: The paintings of George Cochran Lambdin

By Mark D. Mitchell — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

After his death in 1896 George Cochran Lambdin was remembered by friends and memorialists alike for his paintings of roses.

Struggles many and great: James P. Ball, Robert Duncanson, and other artists of color in ...

By Joseph D. Ketner II — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

In 1854 Gleason's Pictorial, the popular, nationally circulated magazine out of Boston, published an article promoting the lavish "Daguerrian Gallery" established in Cincinnati by James P. Ball (Fig. 6), lauding his images as "unsurpassed by any in the Union."1 In fact, Ball's Gallery (see Figs. 2, 4) was not so unusual.<

Duncan Phyfe: A New York Story

By Peter Kenny and Michael Brown — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The powerful legacy of Duncan Phyfe comes with as many myths as mysteries. Peter Kenny and Michael Brown talk about the discoveries that bring the celebrated cabinetmaker into foucs at the metropolitan's new exhibit&a

Master of delight: William J. Glackens at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale

By Avis Berman — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Master of delight:

William J. Glackens at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale

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In a felicitous though surprising conclusion to the career and reputation of William J. Glackens, a huge repository of his work is permanently housed in one place, the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale

American genre painting and the rise of 'average taste'

By Barbara Dayer Gallati — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

American genre painting and the rise of "average taste"

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Rodin and America: The artist's influence in the United States

By Bernard Barryte — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Rodin and America:The artist's influence in the United States

Rodin's powerful influence swept through the ranks of American artists, drawing in such sculptors as Jo Davidson and Harriet Frishmuth as well as the photographers Berenice Abbott and Edward Steichen

By Bernard Barryte

Living with antiques: Elective affinities- the Ashcan school in Birmingham, Alabama

By Photography by Sylvia Martin, Reagan Upshaw — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Living with antiques: Elective affinities- the Ashcan school in Birmingham, Alabama

For Nan and David Skier the appeal of the Ashcan school is both aesthetic and personal

By Reagan Upshaw

Photography by Sylvia Martin

In the American Grain: Art and Capital at Crystal Bridges

By Laura Beach — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The small town of Bentonville, Arkansas, home to some 35,301 souls in the most recent census, is about to be transformed beyond recognition. Already it enjoys some

In praise of ornament

By Rebecca Tilles — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

It is an unusually exciting time at the MFA. The new Art of the Americas Wing was inaugurated in November 2010, and with it came many other museum transformations. In addition to the recent opening of the Rabb Gallery dedicated to twentieth-century European painting and sculpture and the Italian Renaissance Gallery highlighting maio

The Japanesque silver of the Whiting Manufacturing Company

By Abigail Nova — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The 1870s and 1880s were some of the most innovative and exciting decades in the history of the American silver industry. Postwar prosperity, the discovery of silver in the American West, and innovations in manufacturing created an ideal environment for the design and fashioning of original objects.

The comeback: The National Academy reopens with six new exhibitions

By Barrymore Laurence Scherer — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The National Academy reopens with six exhibitions designed to reclaim its pivotal role in American art and architecture.

Living with antiques: No velvet ropes–a collection in New Jersey

By Laura Beach, Photography by Gavin Ashworth — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Called the last of the Georgians by the architect Robert A. M. Stern, Mott B. Schmidt dared to be unfashionable, stubbornly designing traditional houses for town and country long after they were in favor.* Schmidt's houses in the American Georgian manner usually relied on a restrained combination of red brick, dark shutters, and white

The Man Who Could Do Everything

By Barrymore Laurence Scherer — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, who decreed the building of a stately pleasure dome on "twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers...

Fortunate Son: Reading the memoirs of Albert Sack

By Elizabeth Pochoda — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100

"I was a good student up through 6th grade but then my priorities became play, friends, and girls. Mother kept a beautiful home. Dad was prosperous in carving out his career which interested me not at all."