SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2023
Editor’s Letter
Gregory Cerio
Field Notes
A Matter of Respect
Elizabeth Pochoda
Current and Coming
Edvard Munch at the Clark Art Institute; Beatrix Potter and Southern photography at Atlanta’s High Museum; Modernist art of the American South at the Georgia Museum of Art; and Ruth Duckworth ceramics in Chicago
Object Lesson
Keeping Time with the Willards: Keynotes on a classic nineteenth-century American clock
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
On Books
Meeting of the Minds: A book series from the Frick Collection pairs scholarly analysis with artistic
interpretation
James Gardner
Facets And Settings
Art, affinities, and the designs of David Webb: Excerpts from a new book on the esteemed New York jeweler and his inspirations
Ruth Peltason
Events
Sierra Holt
Endnotes
Pyramid Schemes
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Tradition with a Twist
The Ford House in suburban Detroit features warm, Old World appointments, a rich collection of elegant antiques, and a surprise dash of sleek modern design
Lisa E. Worley
Fleeting Impressions
A current exhibition explores the art and milieu of the elusive American landscape painter Guy Wiggins
Thomas Connors
Leash Common Denominator
Some notes on art, design, and historical artifacts related to dogs
Robert McCracken Peck
Eye of the Beholder
In early eighteenth-century Italy, Giacomo Ceruti’s sensitive portraits of the down-and-out turned artistic orthodoxy on its head
James Gardner
From Gunpowder to Greenery
How the grounds of the du Pont family’s first estate—now the home of the Hagley Museum and Library—were transformed from a munitions mill to a romantic Italianate garden
Marta McDowell with photographs by Larry Lederman
Couture for Portraiture
A forthcoming exhibition examines the significance of fashion in the art of John Singer Sargent
Chris Waddington