THE MAGAZINE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
COVER: Detail of View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains (Sunny Morning on the Hudson) by Thomas Cole, 1827. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik
Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865; photograph © 2018 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Editor’s letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
Bearing the weight: Sexist conventions in the decorative arts
Glenn Adamson
Current and coming
Talking Antiques
Exhibitors highlight their favorite offerings at the Winter Antiques Show
Farther afield
Opera: Passion, Power and Politics at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Frances Brent
Personal space
Coup de foudre: Why I’m restoring an ancestor’s Louisiana home
Peter M. Wolf
New light
Cass Gilbert’s revisions to the Woolworth Building
Kevin D. Murphy
On books
A new monograph on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass, plus notable museum catalogues from the past year
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Global exchange
How the craftsmanship of two cultures met in Gorham’s “Japanese Work” silver
Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh
Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh
Shadows and scissors
The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist
Suzanne Rudnick Payne, Michael R. Payne, and Peggy McClard
Suzanne Rudnick Payne, Michael R. Payne, and Peggy McClard
Karat and tick
Form watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Janet Zapata and Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio
Janet Zapata and Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio
Family portrait
Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons at the Frick Collection
James Gardner
James Gardner
Intelligent design
A look at the evolution of the decorative arts collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as it provides the loan exhibition for the 2018 edition of the Winter Antiques Show
Susan J. Rawles
Susan J. Rawles
Re-examining Thomas Cole
A new exhibition explores the global career of one of America’s leading landscape painters
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
A copious bounty
Works by and about women in the Fielding Collection of Early American Art at the Huntington
Chad Alligood
Chad Alligood
The irrefutable freshness of Thomas Jayne
In his new book the master decorator displays the many original improvisations he has rung from historic models and classical principles
Elizabeth Pochoda
Elizabeth Pochoda
Never Done
Depictions of women at work from the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition on American labor
Dorothy Moss
Dorothy Moss