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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Philadelphia”

Announcing Calder Gardens

Editorial Staff September 7, 2022 Art

A new sculpture park is coming to city center Philadelphia

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Art and industry (From our Archives)

Laura Beach July 30, 2020 Living with Antiques

In suburban Philadelphia, art and industry are joined in a residence commissioned in 1901

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Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor (From our Archives)

ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY June 30, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

By the middle of the eighteenth century the “greene Country Towne” founded by William Penn in 1682 was bustling with commercial and social activity

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Taking Inventory: A Scholarly Appetizer of Scallops

Alexandra A. Kirtley May 22, 2020 Furniture & Decorative Arts

A taste of the research to be found in the author’s forthcoming catalogue of early American furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Maker’s Mark

Glenn Adamson June 12, 2019 Opinion

Downtown Philadelphia is organized around a Calder family retrospective. It was my Uncle Fred, who has lived in the city for more than fifty years, who first pointed this out to me.

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At the Library Company, the city views of William Birch

Editorial Staff August 21, 2018 Exhibitions

We have an idea of life in Philadelphia during the early years of independence thanks, not to an American, but to the English artist William Birch.

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Celebrating Benjamin West at the Pennsylvania Academy

Nicole Anderson April 26, 2018 Exhibitions

Pennsylvania-born artist Benjamin West began his career stateside, but it was across the Atlantic, in England, where he found fame, as a court painter to George III

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Trim and ends

Editorial Staff March 6, 2018 Exhibitions

An exhibition at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia showcases the lost art of hair work

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A Philadelphia flaneur

Editorial Staff April 17, 2017 Living with Antiques

Our former editor in chief takes us on a stroll to some of her favorite places in the city.

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Presidential Appointments

Editorial Staff March 21, 2017 Furniture & Decorative Arts

Andrew Jackson and three Philadelphia cabinetmakers.

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