The life and work of Everet Howard, early American silhouette artist.
Curious Objects: Dealer Stuart Feld: An “Expert in Everything” and an early American linen press
Benjamin Miller caught up with Hirschl & Adler Galleries president Stuart Feld in this second episode of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects. In question was a Boston-made neoclassical linen press, which served as entry point into a discussion about provenance and the more general ins-and-outs of antiquing.
A portrait takes shape
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.