Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

On the cover: Valerie Hegarty

Nostalgia in Motion: How immigrant craftsmen built America’s first amusement rides.
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Part II: In which the writer brandishes his polishing cloth.
Ralph Gardner Jr.

Mitch’s Musings: When old textiles meet new technology.
Mitchell Owens

A monumental acquisition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, a profile of Frederic Church’s remarkable estate, Olana, and a rare look at the watercolors of Winslow Homer in Boston.

Folk art trade signs at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Limoges Renaissance enamels in Paris, American photography in London, and more.

The captivating story of women in the Delftware industry and a review of Theodore Stebbins’s monumental new book on American art history.

Casey Monroe maps the desert destinations of Frederic Church and Arader Galleries reveals the work of naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian.

Dotted throughout the city of Memphis are neoclassical references to early twentieth-century class hierarchies.
Sharon Kong-Perring and Sarah Stafford Turner

A preview of the dazzling showcase of jewelry designer Neil Lane’s personal collection at the Toledo Museum of Art.
Urvashi Lele

Columnist Christine Hildebrand investigates the value of secondhand art found in unexpected places.
Christine Hildebrand

“Year of Meteors” by Walt Whitman
Universal Church by Will Nediger
Edited by Rick Sharp
Illustration by Sally Reid

A More Perfect Union: Museums around the United States prepare for the nation’s 250th birthday.
Eleanor H. Gustafson

How Ken Davies carried the torch of trompe-l’oeil art into the twentieth century by painting American material culture.
Kevin Murphy

The cross-continental influence of Turner and Ruskin on the landscapes of Frederic Church.
Tim Barringer

Emily Sargent and the divergence of two artist-siblings.
Stephanie L. Herdrich

A long-sought-after work by Cole prompts an art historian to retrace the artist’s early career.
J. Gray Sweeney

Jackson Pollock and the modernists on the “Expressionist rhythm” of Albert Pinkham Ryder.
Choghakate Kazarian

Frederic Church’s study of the Old World art of fresco began with his painting a wall in his studio in Rome.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

Part one: The magnificent woodwork of Edenton’s 1758 Cupola House comes home.
Robert A. Leath

An exploration of the imaginative animal forms in the master’s ironworks.
Joseph Cunningham