America is filled with local history museums, town libraries, and regional art museums containing some of the finest examples of early American portraiture
A Charmed Life (From our Archives)
English inspiration, American creativity, and a bit of historical luck are joined in the author’s house and gardens
New light: More squares from Mrs. Miner’s carpet (From our Archives)
Discoveries come in such unexpected ways
Critical Thinking, Difficult Issues: Jeepers Creepers
It all started with a hair bun
New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery
Vermont? Especially rural, north-central Vermont? Vermont hardly figures in the standard literature on schoolgirl needlework
Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)
By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity
Curious Objects: An Armchair’s Astonishing Provenance, with Tiffany Momon
This month, Ben speaks with Tiffany Momon, visiting assistant professor at Sewanee in Tennessee, where she assists with the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, and founder of the Black Craftspeople Digital Archive
Melting pot modern (From our Archives)
The 1920s was a creatively explosive period in the realm of design
A portrait takes shape (From our Archives)
In late October 1916 the American impressionist artist William Merritt Chase lay dying at his town house on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan
At Auction: A Lotta Buatta
Stair Galleries hosted two sales from the legendary holdings of collector and interior designer extraordinaire Mario Buatta, who passed away in 2018