Fig. 1. The chest of drawers by John Shearer (active c. 1798–at least 1818) that earned Linda Quynn Ross the nickname “Miss Shearer Energy” is now in the living room of her house, Carter Hill, in Winchester, Virginia. On top is a late eighteenth-century box from Frederick County, Virginia. The table at the left is by Shearer, the one on …
The present learns from the past
September 2009 | The Shelburne Museum and The Magazine ANTIQUES have a long history together. Within a year of the museum fully opening in 1953, Alice Winchester, the magazine’s editor, introduced it to her readers as “one of the…most unusual museums” in the country, its “collection of collections” assembled over a lifetime by Electra Havemeyer Webb, whom she described, with …
Servitude and Splendor
The craftsmen and carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740 to 1780
Harbor & Home
Furniture of southeastern Massachusetts, 1710 1850
Gorham’s ‘white gold’ flatware
The early ivory pieces in the Gorham archives
Seymour Joseph Guy: ‘Little Master’ of American genre painting
Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation as one of the finest genre painters of children