Nantucket, in cultural memory, will always be the island of whaling. But in spite of Herman Melville’s panegyrics, it was the center of the whaling world for only a brief historical moment.
Elizabeth Hubbart’s Gold Thimble
Inside the world of a female merchant in early Boston. ⬬
A Nation of Artists
A landmark semiquincentennial collaboration unites two Philadelphia museums and a storied private collection to explore American art, identity, tradition, and change. ⬬
In Depth: Childe Hassam
A project already nearly fifty years in the making, the Hassam catalogue raisonné, spearheaded by the president and director of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, is, we feel, sure to reset scholarly opinion of the American impressionist.
Tradewinds
Looking at scrimshaw from a Pacific perspective.
Current and coming: In Chicago, the ceramic art of Ruth Duckworth
The Smart Museum of Art honors the famed ceramist in the first major show of her work since 2005.
“Gracious and artful devices for the adornment of life”
An excerpt from the new book English Needlework, 1600–1740, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection charts the origins of the twentieth-century reappraisal of the embroiderer’s art.
THE ONTEORA CLUB
At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree
Toasts and Testimonials
A collection of tributes, memories, comments, and reflections in honor of our 100th anniversary
Face to Face
A regional museum in western Maryland revisits the work of the early American portraitist Joshua Johnson