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
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