MAY/JUNE 2020
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Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
Into the Void
Glenn Adamson
Current and Coming
Byrdcliffe arts and crafts colony, African art at the
Brooklyn Museum, and needlework at the Museum
of International Folk Art
Farther Afield
Object Lesson
All About the Windsor Chair
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Museum Visit
Parlor Room Talk: In New Orleans, an intact antebellum
decor tells the tales of many lives, free and enslaved
Chris Waddington
Looking Forward
Taking Inventory
A Scholarly Appetizer of Scallops: A taste of the research
to be found in the author’s forthcoming catalogue of early
American furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Alexandra A. Kirtley
New Light
Blyth Spirits: More Benjamin Blyth portraits in oilsBettina A. Norton
Endnotes
At Auction: A Lotta Buatta
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
Cosmopolitan Craftsman
The story of Tiffany’s erudite and imaginative silver designer of the late nineteenth century, Edward C. Moore
Medill Higgins Harvey and Moira Gallagher
Disruption, Sixteenth-Century Style
How the art of El Greco bent every technical rule of Old Masters painting
James Gardner
Artistic Offices
A photo excerpt from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s new book on the homes of artists takes us into the studios where they worked
Fjord and Function
The influence of Scandinavian design in America will be examined in a forthcoming exhibition making stops in Milwaukee and Los Angeles
Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski
Paper Tiger
Pablo Picasso had unparalleled virtuosity working with the most mundane of artistic mediums
James Gardner
Ceramics Dynamic
Delightful, delirious, and often downright strange, majolica gets a thorough examination in a forthcoming exhibition and its catalogue
Eve M. Kahn