SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
Current and Coming
Homage Anew for Doris Lee at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Gran Elegancia in Dallas, and more
Digital Doings
A New Arrow in Our Quiver
Sammy Dalati
Connoisseur's Eye
“Cloud at sunrise . . . iridescent vapor.” The very best of Van Briggle pottery (Part One)
Joseph Cunningham
Built Environment
The Central Park Bandshell Fine-Tuned
James Gardner
Object Lesson
The Revisionist Prints of William Baillie
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
In Memoriam
A Man of Style and Substance: Richard H. Driehaus
Thomas Connors
Events
Elizabeth Lanza
Endnotes
After the Fire: Notes on Notre-Dame
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features

The Woman Who was Victory
. . . and Liberty, Grief, and the Spirit of Life: Meet Hettie Anderson, a woman of color who was one of the most sought-after artists’ models of the turn of the twentieth century
Eve M. Kahn

Dressed for Success
The evolution of artistic recognition and appreciation for early American miniaturists Mary Way and Betsey Way Champlain
Brian Ehrlich

Echoes of the Dance
A monumental nineteenth-century painting of a Native American ceremony is the centerpiece for an examination of a still-resonant cross-cultural encounter in California
Elizabeth Kornhauser and Shannon Vittoria

Faces of the Medici
The Met examines court portraiture in a time of strife for a powerful Italian Renaissance dynasty
James Gardner

Frost and Friends: “A Coincidence of Taste”
The Bennington Museum explores the artistic circle surrounding poet Robert Frost during his years in southern Vermont
Jamie Franklin

Civilizing the Goths
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the artful modern Gothic furniture of the nineteenth-century New York firm Kimbel and Cabus
Barrymore Laurence Scherer




