Discoveries come in such unexpected ways
New Light: Notes on a Vermont Schoolgirl Embroidery
Vermont? Especially rural, north-central Vermont? Vermont hardly figures in the standard literature on schoolgirl needlework
Melting pot modern (From our Archives)
The 1920s was a creatively explosive period in the realm of design
A portrait takes shape (From our Archives)
In late October 1916 the American impressionist artist William Merritt Chase lay dying at his town house on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan
The Virginia Dulcimer (From our Archives)
For generations of Virginia musicians, dulcimer (or dulcimore) has described a family of instruments with three characteristics
New Light: Blyth Spirits
More Benjamin Blyth portraits in oils
Disruption, Sixteenth-Century Style
How the art of El Greco bent every technical rule of Old Masters painting
In Memoriam: William H. Gerdts
Scholar, curator, writer, teacher, collector, and preeminent historian of American art
Looking back at Byrdcliffe
The idealism that sparked the arts and crafts movement born in the late nineteenth century prompted many utopian attempts at communal living and making.
Living with antiques: A California family gathers its history in a coast-to-coast collection of Americana (From our Archives)
You might say that this story begins with a canary-yellow jug.