An exquisitely made collection of miniature furniture that was bought, sold, and bought again by Connecticut antiques dealers takes up permanent residence
The ‘It’ chair
The legendary decorator Frances Elkins made it popular in the 1930s, but her so-called loop chair goes back to the eighteenth century as a surviving set of examples attests
The baptism of Pocahontas
A complex set of national attitudes and assumptions come to light in John Gadsby Chapman’s 1840 mural