Get to know a pair of winsome pieces of Pennsylvania pottery at the Met
On Books: Sam Kramer: Jeweler on the Edge
This first retrospective assessment of the bohemian jeweler and self-promoter extraordinaire is late in coming
Stories You Can Wear
All About the Genre of Narrative Jewelry
Video: Re-creating a Colonial-era Pickle Stand
Michelle Erickson shows how in a production of the Museum of the American Revolution
The Work of Lucy M. Lewis, Acoma Pueblo Potter
We found the pot near the bottom of a box at the back of our second storage unit in an industrial area of Kingston, New York
Who was the Burpee-Conant Limner?
America is filled with local history museums, town libraries, and regional art museums containing some of the finest examples of early American portraiture
New light: More squares from Mrs. Miner’s carpet (From our Archives)
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