The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.
Thomas Jefferson’s Letter Rack
David Esterly carves our past.
“Pleasure in the beautiful ‘thing as such’ “
Fashion and the Wiener Werkstätte
Polished Performances
Classic and contemporary silver in dialogue at the Museum of the City of New York
A stitch in wartime
The American Folk Art Museum presents a fascinating collection of quilts made by men at arms.
Acquisitions & mergers
A new exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles is the latest showcase for the powerful work of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Thoroughly Modern Moses
What did Grandma Moses have in common with the likes of Jackson Pollock? Arguably, plenty.
Of troughs and trophies
A collection of silver prizes sheds light on America’s proud agrarian past.
The bouillabaisse of design influences on an early American silver soup tureen
A few years ago, one of two silver soup tureens ordered by Thomas Gibbons in 1810 came on the market, after remaining for nearly two centuries in the possession of his descendants.
Lone star
How Ima Hogg brought modern art to Texas.