NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
While the Iron is Hot
Glenn Adamson
Current and Coming
Built Environment
A Masterpiece Made by Graft: New York’s Tweed Courthouse
James Gardner
Shop Talk
Personal Space
Synapse Judgment: A neuroscientist ponders the
collecting impulse
Shirley M. Mueller
Object Lesson
Norton Pottery of Vermont
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
New Light
A Window on Mrs. Hackley and Her Greenwood Seminary
Jenny Garwood
On Books
Endnotes
And Then There’s Mauve
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
William Hodgson of London and Richmond
The Payne Limner Revealed
Robert A. Leath and Carolyn J. Weekley
“An unsuspected man of genius”
The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck
Thomas Connors
Bluegrass Treasures
A trio of short excerpts from a new book that celebrates the art of the early decades of the commonwealth of Kentucky
Mel Stewart Hankla
“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”
Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist,
Alethea Hill Platt
Eve M. Kahn and Hanna Wells
A Man of Parts
The house and collection built by the visionary director of the
Wadsworth Atheneum “Chick” Austin is as colorful and multifaceted as the man himself
Elizabeth Pochoda
The Exhibition That Never Was
John Leslie Breck’s paintings of Venice
Royal W. Leith