Not long after art deco design received an international showcase at the famed Paris universal exposition of 1925, inspired responses to the new style emerged in virtually every field of the applied and visual arts…
Current and coming: In Stitches at Colonial Williamsburg
Stitched in Time: American Needlework features some sixty examples of bed rugs, samplers, quilted petticoats, embroidered hand towels, crewelwork, mourning and commemorative needlework, and more.
Living with antiques: A Labor of Love
Restoring the Daniel Hiester house, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania gem
Current and coming: Art of the WPA at the Crocker
Such was its success, the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration has been invoked any number of times since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s day…
End notes: Frill Seekers
Did you ever wonder how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s use of distinctive collars with her judicial robes ever came about?
Current and Coming: Hopper’s New York at the Whitney
Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Alfred Maurer was at the forefront of aesthetic developments throughout his prodigious thirty-five-year career.
Field trip: She Dwelt in Possibility (and This House)
Emily Dickinson’s butter-colored brick home in Amherst, Massachusetts, began drawing the curious long before her enigmatic poetry appeared in print.
Ozark Roadside Tourist Pottery: The Legend of Harold Horine
On a day in 1935, ceramist Harold Horine and his mother packed up their car in their hometown of Hollister, Missouri, and headed west.
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