A Cumulative Table of Contents for THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES 1990 - 1999 January 1990 COVER: Detail of Post Office, by David Gilmour Blythe, 1859-1863 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FRONTISPIECE: Detail of The Winter Room m the Artist’s House at Patna, September 11, 1824, by Sir Charles D'Oyley, 1824 The Indian tradition in the West CHARLOTTE GERE What the cow saw, or, nineteenth-century art and the innocent eye BRYAN WOLF Pattern books in the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island THOMAS S. MICHIE AND CHRISTOPHER P. MONKHOUSE A second pinch of the snuff A. KENNETH SNOWMAN Chippendale’s patrons in Yorkshire CHRISTOPHER G. GILBERT Berks County redware pottery, 1767- 1909 JEANNETTE LASANSKY February 1990 COVER: Detail of an untitled Shaker gift drawing attributed to Sarah Bates (1792-1881), Mount Lebanon, New York. Philadelphia Museum of Art; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Zieget FRONTISPIECE: Saint George and the Dragon fountain made by Minton and Company, Stoke-on-Trent, 1862 Shaker visionary art DANIEL W. PATTERSON Victorian majolica MARILYN G. KARMASON The dolls’ house of Petronella de la Court SHIRLEY GLUBOK Tiffany's early glass vessels MARTIN EIDELBERG March 1990 COVER: Detail of the front portico of the Gardner-Pingree House, Salem, Massachusetts Photograph by Richard Bryant FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the Commanche Race Cup made by Tiffany and Company, 1873 The spirit of empty rooms: Walter Gay’s paintings of interiors GARY A. REYNOLDS E. J. Soligny, the chaser of the Bryant vase FRANCES GRUBER SAFFORD AND RUTH WILFORD CACCAVALE French rococo decorative arts DEBORAH GIMELSON The Dummer glass and ceramic factories in Jersey City, New Jersey JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN AND ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN The Gardner-Pingree House, Salem, Massachusetts DEAN LAHIKAINEN April 1990 COVER: Detail of The North Gallery at Night, by J. M. W. Turner, 1827 Tate Gallery, London FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a fabric by Francis Nixon, 1752 - 1757 Reminiscence and revival: The old-fashioned garden, 1890 – 1910 VIRGINIA TUTTLE CLAYTON Edwin Van Antwerp’s Jelliff furniture ULYSSES G. DIETZ J. M. W. Turner at Petworth House, West Sussex IAN WARRELL Neoclassical silver by Wilmington silversmiths in the Historical Society of Delaware THOMAS BECKMAN British copperplate-printed textiles GILLIAN MOSS May 1990 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a side chair attributed to Norfolk, Virginia, c. 1790 Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts on loan to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia; photograph by Hans Lorenz FRONTISPIECE: Wood box, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1800 -1850 The neoclassical furniture of Norfolk, Virginia, 1770-1820 RONALD L. HURST AND SUMPTER PRIDDY III The Robert William Roper House, Charleston, South Carolina KENNETH AND MARTHA SEVERENS Queen Anne and Chippendale armchairs in America HAROLD SACK AND DEANNE LEVISON The Shaker furniture of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky EDWARD E. NICKELS Egyptian influence in early nineteenth-century American furniture DONALD L. FENNIMORE Furniture of lower Cape Fear, North Carolina JOHN BIVINS JR. June 1990 COVER: View of the gardens at Newby Hall in North Yorkshire, England Photograph by Christopher Simon Sykes FRONTISPIECE: Detail of The Strong Family, by Charles Philips, 1732 The Beautiful and the Sublime: two neoclassical houses compared GERVASE JACKSON-STOPS Paul de Lamerie, London goldsmith TIMOTHY SCHRODER The gardens of Newby Hall, North Yorkshire PENELOPE HOBHOUSE Vile and Cobb, eighteenth-century London furniture makers GEOFFREY BEARD English window curtains in the eighteenth century ANNBELL WESTMAN July 1990 COVER: Detail of The Garden of Eden, by Thomas Cole, 1827 – 1828. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; photograph by Linda Lorenz FRONTISPIECE: Covered bowl made by Bing and Grondahl, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1924. Royal Copenhagen Museum Thomas Cole’s Garden of Eden DOREEN BOLGER AND KATHLEEN MOTES BENNEWITZ Porcelain in Denmark DAVID REVERE MCFADDEN John Singer Sargent’s Javanese dancers D. DODGE THOMPSON The Ebenezer Alden House, Union, Maine WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS George Celeb Bingham MICHAEL EDWARD SHAPIRO August 1990 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts COVER: Detail of Quince Blossoms, by Charles Caryl Coleman, 1878 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, museum purchase, J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art FRONTISPIECE: Still Life with Game, by Adolphe Braun, c. 1865 Introduction PAUL N. PERROT Ancient art MARGARET ELLEN MAYO AND PATRICIA A. GILKISON Asiatic art JOSEPH M. DYE III European drawings and paintings to 1900 PINKNEY NEAR Decorative arts from Byzantium to Edwardian Europe JOSEPH R. BLISS American art to 1900 WILLIAM M. S. RASMUSSEN Photographs GEORGE CRUGER Twentieth-century visions FREDERICK R. BRANDT September 1990 COVER: Detail of a fireplace surround made by George Washington Maher, Chicago, 1901 Los Angeles County Museum of Art; gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans FRONTISPIECE: Detail of A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery, in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby, c. 1766 Wright of Derby and effects of light JUDY EGERTON The American arts and crafts movement: Industry applied to art LESLIE GREENE BOWMAN Albert Pinkham Ryder: Last romantic, first modernist ELIZABETH BROUN A French platinum sugar bowl KATINA ARTS MEYER Furnishing the early American home ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT October 1990 Folk art issue COVER: Detail of a bottlecap lion, artist unknown, after 1966 National Museum of American Art, Washington, D. C., Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr. Collection; photograph by Edward Owen FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Burial of the First Born of Egypt, attributed to Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1860 The artisan painter between the Hudson and Connecticut rivers COLLEEN COWLES HESLIP Change and tradition in Lancaster County quilt making EVE WHEATCROFT GRANICK Living with antiques: A collection of American folk art in the Midwest DAVID A. SCHORSCH American hooked rugs HAPPY DIFRANZA AND BARBARA FRANCO The Hemphill folk art collection LYNDA ROSCOE HARTIGAN Pennsylvania pottery in Berks County collections JEANNETTE LASANSKY November 1990 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Still Life with Glass and Spoon, by Severin Roesen, 1850 Private collection; photograph by courtesy of Coe Kerr Gallery, Incorporated FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Phila or Richa Franks, artist unknown, c. 1735 The Levy-Franks family portraits ERICA E. HIRSHLER John F. Kensett at Newport: The making of a luminist painter MARK W. SULLIVAN The miniature in America ROBIN BOLTON-SMITH AND DALE T. JOHNSON Severin Roesen and John Adams JUDITH HANSEN O’TOOLE Visual poetry: The drawings of Joseph Stella JOANN MOSER Luman Reed, a New York patron of American art ELLA M. FOSHAY December 1990 COVER: Detail of A View of the Western Branch of the Falls of Niagara, taken from the Table Rock, looking up the River, over the Rapids, by John Vander Lyn, 1803 FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a gilded and walnut-veneered looking glass, New York City, c. 1770 Jewelry in Charleston MARTHA GANDY FALES Living with antiques: The American furniture collection of Joseph and June Hennage of Williamsburg, Virginia WENDELL AND ELISABETH GARRETT Cake boards LOUISE C. BELDEN John Vander Lyn’s prints of Niagara Falls JOHN DAVIS HATCH January 1991 COVER: Detail of the crest rail of a side chair designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe for William Waln, c. 1808 Philadelphia Museum of Art FRONTISPIECE: Photograph of Elphinstone Agnes Maude by Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, 1859-1861 From the interior: Photographs by Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden VIRGINIA DODIER An early Latrobe furniture commission JACK L. LINDSEY The European roots of Albert Bierstadt's views of the American West NANCY K. ANDERSON The Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston, South Carolina WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS Chinese export porcelain with arms of Rhode Island ELISABETH K. SHARPE Christopher Dresser and the aesthetic interior WIDAR HALEN February 1991 COVER: Detail of a needlework picture worked by Mary Flower, Philadelphia, 1768 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the wrought-iron gate at the front entrance to Evergreen House, Baltimore, Maryland Needlework patterns and their use in America DAVIDA TENENBAUM DEUTSCH Stuart and Sons’ cameo and English rock-crystal-cut glass JULIETTE K. RAKOW AND LEONARD S. RAKOW Evergreen House, Baltimore, Maryland SUSAN GERWE TRIPP The eighteenth-century American kast PETER M. KENNY, FRANCES GRUBER SAFFORD, AND GILBERT T. VINCENT March 1991 COVER: Detail of The Attack on an Emigrant Train, by Carl Wimar, 1856 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, bequest of Henry C. Lewis FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the Trade and Commerce Bedcover, Stockton, New Jersey, c. 1830 Reinterpreting images of westward expansion, 1820-1920 WILLIAM H. TRUETTNER The rediscovery of Paulding Farnham, Tiffany’s designer extraordinaire. Part I: Jewelry JANET ZAPATA “Art for the Nation”: The National Gallery collects NICOLAI CIKOVSKY JR. AND FRANKLIN KELLY American figurative quilts and bedcovers SANDI FOX The Wetmore parlor and eighteenth-century Middletown, Connecticut WILLIAM HOSLEY April 1991 COVER: Detail of the Adams Vase, designed by Paulding Farnham and made by Tiffany and Company, 1893-1895 Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Edward D. Adams FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Four Tulips, by Jacob Marrel (1614 - 1681) The rediscovery of Paulding Farnham, Tiffany’s designer extraordinaire. Part II: Silver JANET ZAPATA Living with antiques: The Sebastian Louis Kleinpeter House in Baton Rouge, Louisiana H. PARROTT BACOT Tulips in Dutch seventeenth-century decorative arts DANIELLE O. KISLUK-GROSHEIDE Museums designed by John Russell Pope STEVEN BEDFORD Porcelain boxes: Miniature masterpieces of the eighteenth century MEREDITH CHILTON May 1991 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a chaise longue, New York City, c.1826-1830 Photograph by Will Brown by courtesy of R. T. Trump and Company FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the principal bedroom in Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois American roundabout chairs HAROLD SACK AND DEANNE LEVISON Brass hardware on American furniture. Part I: Cast hardware, 1700 – 1850 DONALD L. FENNIMORE Seating furniture in Boston, 1810 – 1835 PAGE TALBOTT Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois CAROL J. CALLAHAN Philadelphia furniture makers, 1800-1815 DEBORAH DUCOFF-BARONE June 1991 England issue COVER: Detail of a chimney glass, probably English, 1750-1775 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund FRONTISPIECE: Detail of an embroidered cabinet worked by Hannah Smith (b. 1642), English, 1654-1655 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England Imported looking glasses in colonial America DAVID L. BARQUIST Painshill Park, Surrey PAULA DEITZ English embroidered cabinets of the seventeenth century SANTINA M. LEVEY The furniture of J. G. Crace and Son MEGAN ALDRICH A La Ronde, near Exmouth, Devon GERVASE JACKSON-STOPS July 1991 COVER: Detail of The White House, by Anthony St. John Baker (1775-1854), 1826 Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California FRONTISPIECE: L’Enfance. Childhood, engraved by Simon Francois Ravenet after a painting by Pierre Mercier Brass hardware on American furniture. Part II: Stamped hardware, 1750-1850 DONALD L. FENNIMORE Living with antiques: The Malford-Baker house in East Hampton, New York ROBERT E. KINNAMAN Dolls and doll clothing at Colonial Williamsburg LINDA R. BAUMGARTEN L’Enfant, Washington, and the plan of the capital ALLAN GREENBERG August 1991 COVER: Bonnet and bonnet box made by the Shakers at Groveland, New York, c. 1850 Private collection and New York Stare Museum, Albany FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the mantelpiece in the dining room of the Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Massachusetts Silver punch strainers in the John A. Hyman Collection at Colonial Williamsburg JOHN D. DAVIS The Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Massachusetts JOHN BRADFORD HERMANSON Paul Manship, archaism, and the dance SUSAN RATHER The Shakers of Groveland, New York FRAN KRAMER September 1991 International style issue COVER: Vue de la Grande Galerie au Louvre, by Patrick Allan Fraser, 1841 Musee du Louvre, Paris; photograph by courtesy of the Reunion des Musees Nationaux FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Small Birds and Flowers in the Four Seasons, a sixteenth-century Japanese screen The Grande Galerie of the Louvre PAULA DEITZ The triumph of Japanese style: Sixteenth-century art in Japan MICHAEL R. CUNNINGHAM Green grandeur: American estate gardening in the French style, 1890-1940 MAC GRISWOLD AND ELEANOR WELLER The carpet designs of C.F.A. Voysey MALCOLM HASLAM A Boston desk-and-bookcase at the Milwaukee Art Museum BROCK JOBE October 1991 Folk art issue COVER: Detail of The Garden Of Eden, by Erastus Salisbury Field, c. 1865 Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar W. Bostwick FRONTISPIECE: Painted panel on the front of a black-unicorn chest Frames used on American folk paintings and needlework, 1760-1880 DAVID A. SCHORSCH Garments of Brightness: The art and history of the Navajo eye dazzler JOSHUA BAER Black-unicorn chests of Berks County, Pennsylvania PATRICIA J. KELLER New Mexican tinwork, 1840-1915 LANE COULTER Decorated gravestones of Wythe County, Virginia J. RODERICK MOORE November 1991 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Militia Training, by James Goodwyn Clonney, 1841 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Carey Collection, bequest of Henry C. Carey FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Still Life, by Julian Alden Weir, 1902-1905 Impressionism and politics: The founding of The Ten ULRICH W. HIESINGER Ralph Earl: Art for the new nation ELIZABETH MANKIN KORNHAUSER Marie Adrien Persac, architect, artist, and engineer BARBARA SORELLE BACOT John Archibald Woodside Sr. LEE ELLEN GRIFFITH Mary Blood Mellen and Fitz Hugh Lane MICHAEL MOSES The Carey Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts SUSAN DANLY December 1991 COVER: Detail of the Annunciation, by Francesco di Simone da Santacroce, 1504 Accademia Carrara di Belle Art: Bergamo, Italy FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a page from an unidentified German toy wholesaler’s catalogue, c 1860 The Italian Renaissance interior PETER THORNTON New additions to a group of Federal furniture WILLIAM H. SHORT The Noah’s arks of the Erzgebirge region of Germany MARY AUDREY APPLE Early neoclassicism in America GRAHAM HOOD January 1992 COVER: Detail of a silver dish ring made by William Homer, Dublin, Ireland, 1770/1 Private collection; photograph by Hans Lorenz FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the dial of a chime clock made and engraved by Daniel Burnap, East Windsor, Connecticut, 1790-1794 American rococo: Lately from London LESLIE GREENE BOWMAN AND MORRISON H. HECKSCHER A porcelain menagerie: Chinese and Japanese figures from the Copeland Collection WILLIAM R. SARGENT Living with antiques: Quaker Hill near Dayton, Ohio ALLISON E. LEDES The genius of Irish silver JOHN D. DAVIS Dealers, drawings, and the decorative arts in eighteenth-century France FREDERICK C. SCHROEDER The evolution of American artists’ studios, 1740-1860 ANNETTE BLAUGRUND February 1992 COVER: Detail of Cascades of Columbia, by F. Jay Haynes, c. 1885 Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas FRONTISPIECE: Stair hall of the Metcalfe house as installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Rethinking western landscape photography MARTHA A. SANDWEISS A McKim, Mead and White stair hall of 1884 PETER M. KENNY American looking glasses in the neoclassical style, 1780-1815 DAVID L. BARQUIST China trade furniture CARL L. CROSSMAN March 1992 COVER: Detail of El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent, 1881-1882 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts FRONTISPIECE: Pennsylvania Excavation, by George Wesley Bellows, 1907 Wedgwood and Bentley’s Green Frog service outside Russia MICHAEL RAEBURN Sargent’s Spanish Dancer—a discovery WARREN ADELSON AND ELIZABETH OUSTINOFF The architecture of Philip Hooker in New York State WALTER RICHARD WHEELER The New York City of George Bellows MARIANNE DOEZEMA Images of politics and religion on silver engraved by Joseph Leddel JANINE E. SKERRY AND JEANNE SLOANE April 1992 COVER: Detail of The Old Violin, by William Michael Harnett, 1886 Photograph by courtesy of James H. Maroney Jr. FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the arms of Pickering with embroidery attributed to Elizabeth Pickering, Boston, 1758 The paintings of William M. Harnett: A “Wonder and a Puzzle” DOREEN BOLGER AND THAYER TOLLES MICKEL Parisian jewelry and American patrons, real and fictional SHIRLEY BURY Heraldic embroidery in eighteenth-century Boston BETTY RING Japanese lacquer and Dutch furniture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries REINIER BAARSEN John La Farge and the stained-glass windows in Memorial Hall at Harvard University JULIE L. SLOAN AND JAMES L. YARNALL May 1992 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of the top of a Massachusetts card table, 1760-1780 Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; photograph by Gavin Ashworth FRONTISPIECE: Detail of A Real Rubber!/at Whist, by George Hunt, 1827 Avarice and conviviality: Card playing in Federal America GERALD W. R. WARD Upholstery conservation in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the United States Department of State ELIZABETH LAHIKAINEN AND ALEXANDRA W. ROLLINS Identifying regionalism in sideboards: A study of documented tapered-leg examples DEANNE LEVISON AND HAROLD SACK Living with antiques: A collection of American furniture in Baltimore WILLIAM VOSS ELDER III The furniture trade in Boston, 1810-1835 PAGE TALBOTT June 1992 England issue COVER: Detail of Sir Joshua Vanneck and His Family of Rohampton House, Putney, by Arthur Devis, 1752 Collection at Clayton, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a side table designed by John Vardy Shell-decorated Worcester porcelain JOHN SANDON English landscape drawings and watercolors EVELYN J. PHIMISTER Roman taste and Greek gusto: The Society of Dilettanti and the building of Spencer House, London STEPHEN JONES Sitting in the garden PAULA DEITZ July 1992 Strawbery Banke Museum issue COVER: Entrance facade of the Chase House, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Photograph by Bruce Alexander Photography FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the fireplace in the east parlor of the Chase House Introduction JANE C. NYLANDER Three centuries of life along the Piscataqua River GERALD W. R. WARD The buildings GERALD W. R. WARD AND JOHN P. SCHNITZLER Furnished houses GERALD W. R. WARD The metals GERALD W. R. WARD AND RODNEY D. ROWLAND The furniture GERALD W. R. WARD AND KARIN E. CULLITY Ceramics and glass CAROLYN PARSONS ROY Textiles and clothing CAROLYN PARSONS ROY Landscape and gardens ANNE MANKIN MASURY August 1992 COVER: Detail of a divan made by the Wakefield Rattan Company, Wakefield, Massachusetts, 1896-1897 Collection of Mary Jean McLaughlin; photograph by Kit Latham FRONTISPIECE: Portico of the Rockwell mansion, built c. 1834 in Milledgeville, Georgia Photograph by Paul Rocheleau The sundial in America DONALD L. FENNIMORE The early coastal landscapes of William Stanley Haseltine MARC SIMPSON The Wakefield Rattan Company JEREMY ELWELL ADAMSON History in towns: Milledgeville, Georgia WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS September 1992 COVER: Head of Queen Tiy, wife of Amenhotep III, from a group statue, Egyptian, c. 1351 B.C. Private collection FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Vue perspective des jardins de Versailles sur le Tapis vert, lors de l’abbattage des arbres pendant l’hiver 1774-1775, by Hubert Robert, 1775-1777 Louis XIV’s glass table, a triumph of imagination and technology PAUL HOLLISTER Amenhotep III, the antiquarian pharaoh ARIELLE P. KOZLOFF Decorative elements on early maps of the Americas ALICE C. HUDSON Living with antiques: The Gail Oxford collection of American antiques in southern California DAVID A. SCHORSCH The Islamic influence in European and American jewelry JANET ZAPATA The gardens of Versailles PAULA DEITZ October 1992 Folk art issue COVER: Scrimshaw portrait of a Polynesian maiden attributed to George O. Hilliott, American, c. 1850 Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts; photograph by Mark Sexton FRONTISPIECE: Handmade American canes The origins of engraved pictorial scrimshaw STUART M. FRANK American handmade canes LYNDA ROSCOE HARTIGAN Living with antiques: The collection of Helaine and Burton Fendelman ELIZABETH V. WARREN Mary Way’s dressed miniatures WILLIAM LAMSON WARREN Early dress clothing of the Great Lakes Indians DAVID W. PENNEY November 1992 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Spring Turning, by Grant Wood, 1936 Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard, by John Singleton Copley, 1775 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts The paintings at Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina CHARLES C. ELDREDGE The artistic career of Alexander Jackson Davis CARRIE REBORA AND AMELIA PECK American painters on the grand tour: The lure of Italy, 1760-1870 ERICA E. HIRSHLER “Grandmother’s garden” MAY BRAWLEY HILL In pursuit of fame: The European travels of Rembrandt Peale LILLIAN B. MILLER The landscapes of George Beck DEBORAH THOMAS December 1992 COVER: Detail of a kosode with a scene of horse racing, Japanese, mid-eighteenth century Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a brass fireguard, Irish, c. 1907 A new aesthetic: Art and fashion in Japan during the Edo period DALE CAROLYN GLUCKMAN AND SHARON SADAKO TAKEDA The emergence of neoclassical furniture making in rural western Massachusetts PHILIP ZEA Looking backward: The presence of the past in Virginia’s architecture DAVID PARK CURRY The arts and crafts movement in Ireland NICOLA GORDON BOWE January 1993 COVER: Detail of Still Life with Silver, by Alexandre Francois Desportes, c. 1700 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, purchase bequest of Mary Wetmore Shively in memory of Henry L. Shively, M. D. FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Mrs. George von Lengerke Meyer The Trianon de Porcelaine at Versailles PAMELA COWEN Print sources for eighteenth-century European fans BIANCA M. DU MORTIER History in houses: Dumbarton House in Georgetown, District of Columbia WENDELL GARRETT Copley’s Watson and the Shark ELLEN G. MILES Johan Nieuhoff’s Embassy: An inspiration for relief decoration on English stoneware and earthenware LESLIE B. GRIGSBY Arthur Lasenby Liberty: artistic entrepreneur STEPHEN CALLOWAY February 1993 COVER: Detail of the carved doorway of the southeast parlor on the first floor of the Miles Brewton house, Charleston, South Carolina Photograph by Erik Kvalsvik FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a needleworked wreath and basket by Lisetta Margaret Hamm, Lititz, Pennsylvania Porcelain for emperors: Chinese court ceramics in the Ming and Qing dynasties JAN STUART A Frank Lloyd Wright room in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London CHRISTOPHER WILK Spanish colonial galleries in the Denver Art Museum CAROL O’BRIEN The Miles Brewton house, Charleston, South Carolina JOHN BIVINS AND J. THOMAS SAVAGE Moravian schoolgirl needlework from Lititz, Pennsylvania PATRICIA T. HERR March 1993 The American Museum in Britain issue COVER: Gilt-copper American Indian weather vane, American, c. 1850 American Museum in Britain, Bath, England; photograph by Norman Brand FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Cusco. from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, Civitates orbis terraram, 1575 Introduction WILLIAM MCNAUGHT Domestic Settings JOHN HUITSON Folk Art JAMES AYRES The Textile Collection SHIELA BETTERTON Visions of Heaven on Earth JOHN HUITSON The Furniture SARAH NICHOLS The Ceramics JUDITH ELSDON The Dallas Pratt Map Collection RODNEY W. SHIRLEY April 1993 COVER: Detail of a vase designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, 1893-1896 Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896 FRONTISPIECE: Classical Greek statues excavated on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in a photograph of c. 1865 John Dwight, “the master potter” of Fulham JONATHAN HORNE Malmaison: An imperial country house BERNARD CHEVALLIER Fabled lands freshly observed: Early travel photographs NORMAN KEYES JR Louis Comfort Tiffany and the H. O. Havemeyers ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN Lynford Lardner’s silver: Early rococo in Philadelphia JACK L. LINDSEY May 1993 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a Grecian couch attributed to Hugh Finlay, c. 1820 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of various donors FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a design for a sofa for the drawing room of the White House in Washington, D.C., by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1809 The painted furniture of John and Hugh Finlay GREGORY R. WEIDMAN A maker of New York card tables identified FRANK M. LEVY Classical taste in America, 1800-1840 WENDY A. COOPER Robert Harrold: Portsmouth cabinetmaker MYRNA KAYE AND BROCK JOBE Furniture makers and retailers in Worcester County, Massachusetts, working to 1850 DONNA KEITH BARON June 1993 England issue COVER: Detail of a Coade stone river god designed by John Bacon, 1784 Ham House, Surrey; photograph by Vera Collingwood FRONTISPIECE: Northwest corner of the Peacock Room, painted by James McNeill Whistler, 1876-1877 The king’s apartments reborn at Hampton Court PAULA DEITZ John Stalker and George Parker’s Treatise: An inspiration for relief decoration on English stoneware and earthenware LESLIE B. GRIGSBY Whistler’s Peacock Room revisited LINDA MERRILL English commodes in the French taste in the Lady Lever Art Gallery LUCY WOOD Coade stone in Georgian gardens ALISON KELLY July 1993 Monticello issue COVER: Thomas Jefferson’s cabinet at Monticello Photograph by Robert C. Lautman FRONTISPIECE: Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart, 1805 Monticello today DANIEL P. JORDAN Jefferson’s legacy MERRILL D. PETERSON Jefferson’s sources from antiquity in the design of Monticello WILLIAM L. BEISWANGER Furnishings at Monticello SUSAN R. STEIN Jefferson’s museum at Monticello SUSAN R. STEIN Jefferson’s print collection ANN M. LUCAS Jefferson and the amusements of science LUCIA C. STANTON Jefferson’s clothing LINDA R. BAUMGARTEN Poplar Forest, Jefferson’s hermitage S. ALLEN CHAMBERS JR. August 1993 COVER: A selection of nineteenth-century English mocha ware Photograph by Hans Lorenz FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a tall-case clock with movement made by Nichols Goddard, Rutland, Vermont, c. 1808 Mocha ware: Slip-decorated refined earthenware JONATHAN RICKARD Vermont furniture in the Bennington Museum, 1765-1840 KENNETH JOEL ZOGRY T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Bindery MARIANNE TIDCOMBE Living with antiques: The Clark-Haskell house, Lisbon, Connecticut WENDELL AND ELISABETH GARRETT September 1993 COVER: Detail of a tapestry entitled The Start of the Hunt, c. 1500 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a table made by Jean Francois Dénière, Paris, 1823 Canaletto’s legacy in England JANE FARRINGTON The opal: Louis Comfort Tiffany’s lens to a world of color JANET ZAPATA The reopening of Bayou Bend in Houston, Texas DAVID B. WARREN The outdoors in tapestry RONALD REES The duke of Hamilton’s porphyry tables RONALD FREYBERGER October 1993 Folk art issue COVER: Detail of Captain Samuel Chandler, by Winthrop Chandler, c. 1780 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch. FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a painted buffalo hide, Mandan Indian, c. 1835 New England heraldic needlework of the neoclassical period BETTY RING Powder horns carved in the provincial manner, 1744-1781. WILLIAM H. GUTHMAN Nina Fletcher Little: A connoisseur’s journey Antiques and I NINA FLETCHER LITTLE Nina Fletcher and Bertram Kimball Little WENDELL GARRETT Exploring early painting LAURA C. LUCKEY Discovering ceramics CHRISTINA H. NELSON Country rugs JANE C. NYLANDER Little treasures CARL CROSSMAN Early Plains Indian painted hides GARY GALANTE November 1993 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Cerulean Warbler, by John James Audubon, 1822. Watercolor, graphite, and glazing on paper, 18 7/8 by 11 3/4 inches over-all New-York Historical Society, New York City FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a drawing for a picture gallery for Peter Arrell Brown Widener, by George Herzog, 1887 Picturing history BARBARA J. MITNICK AND WILLIAM S. AYRES Audubon: Artist and entrepreneur ANNETTE BLAUGRUND AND REBA FISHMAN SNYDER Charles Sprague Pearce D. DODGE THOMPSON American presentation drawings in the Heinz Architectural Center in Pittsburgh CHRISTOPHER MONKHOUSE Fitz Hugh Lane and John Gadsby Chapman’s American Drawing Book ELLIOT BOSTWICK DAVIS Thomas Eakins and the nude JENNIFER HARDIN December 1993 COVER: Detail of a panel of tiles, Antwerp, 1558 Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal FRONTISPIECE: Samuel Clemens’s desk in the billiard room of the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut The nineteenth-century toy theater in England PETER BALDWIN Samuel Clemens’s family at Christmas MARIANNE J. CURLING New discoveries in American glass, 1760-1930 KENNETH M. WILSON Azulejos: The painted tiles of Portugal JAY A. LEVENSON January 1994 COVER: Detail of The Getaway, by Horace Pippin, 1939. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Décor de croisée de Salle à manger, from Désiré Guilmard, Le Garde-meuble, ancient et moderne, March 1852 The reinstallation of the Egyptian collection at the Brooklyn Museum RICHARD A. FAZZINI Capricious fancy: Curtains and drapery, 1790-1930 GAIL CASKEY WINKLER Ornamental Wedgwood ware in Philadelphia in 1793 HARWOOD A. JOHNSON AND DIANA EDWARDS Horace Pippin’s American universe LYNDA ROSCOE HARTIGAN A pair of distinctive chairs from Newport, Rhode Island NANCY GOYNE EVANS February 1994 COVER: Detail of a cameo carved by Tommaso Saulini, Rome, 1844-1854. Photograph by courtesy of Wartski FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a pietre dure cabinet, Italian, late seventeenth century Revisiting Ammi Phillips STACY C. HOLLANDER The jewelry of love GEOFFREY C. MUNN John Channon and English brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760 TESSA MURDOCH George Edwards and Matthew Darly’s Chinese Designs: An inspiration for relief decoration on English ceramics LESLIE B. GRIGSBY March 1994 COVER: Detail of a quilt, Baltimore, c. 1850-1917 Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, gift of Anne E. Bannon FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Approaching Thunder Storm, by Martin Johnson Heade, 1859 The Napoleon III rooms in the Musée du Louvre, Paris ANNE DION-TENENBAUM Thomas Eakins’s Swimming Hole DOREEN BOLGER AND CLAIRE M. BARRY Baltimore album quilts JENNIFER F. GOLDSBOROUGH Martin Johnson Heade’s Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay SARAH CASH English shell-edged earthenware ROBERT R. HUNTER JR. AND GEORGE L. MILLER April 1994 COVER: Detail of Papiers peints,/Impression et Satinage, a hard-paste porcelain plate painted by Jean Charles Develly, Sèvres, France, 1828 FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a secrétaire made by Gottlieb Iwersson, Stockholm, 1778 Impressionists, realists, and the American city H. BARBARA WEINBERG An exceptional Sèvres dessert service LOUISE NEWMAN Neoclassical furniture design in Sweden GORAN ALM The drawings of Robert Adam and his office A. A. TAIT Nineteenth-century French followers of Bernard Palissy MARSHALL P. KATZ May 1994 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of the lid of a tool chest, English, c. 1790 Private collection; photograph by Hans Lorenz and Craig McDougal FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a desk-and-bookcase, Connecticut, 1790-1810 The symbolism of floral inlay DEANNE LEVISON Woodworking tools in early America JAMES M. GAYNOR Two Massachusetts bombé desk-and-bookcases MICHAEL S. PODMANICZKY AND PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN The evolution of design in Shaker furniture JEAN M. BURKS Philadelphia furniture makers, 1816-1830 DEBORAH DUCOFF-BARONE June 1994 England issue COVER: Detail of a covered soup tureen made by Paul de Lamerie, London, 1750/51. Photograph by Barry A. Hyman and David Schlegel by courtesy of Christie"s (New York) FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the wall in the principal staircase of the Reform Club, London Some eighteenth-century English seats and covers re-examined GEOFFREY BEARD Admiral George Anson and his de Lamerie silver CHRISTOPHER HARTOP A. W. N. Pugin, an inspirational designer PAUL ATTERBURY Aesop’s fables on English ceramics LESLIE B. GRIGSBY The Reform Club in London: A nineteenth-century collaboration MARY ANNE HUNTING July 1994 COVER: Detail of Schooner “Resolute” Leading the Fleet Around Castle Garden, by James Edward Buttersworth Private collection; photograph by Joshua Nefsky FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a goblet, Bohemian, 1840-1860 The marine paintings of James Edward Buttersworth RICHARD B. GRASSBY Captain James Cary and Nantucket’s China Trade MICHAEL A. JEHLE Glasses engraved with American views JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN An eighteenth-Century Dutch dolls’ house VALERIE JACKSON DOUET August 1994 COVER: Detail of a folding fan, Canton, c. 1840 C FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the Marble Hall in Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany Rosenau, the birthplace of Prince Albert STEPHEN CALLOWAY Fans from China NEVILLE JOHN IRONS The Gothic Room in Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island PAUL F. MILLER Formal dining in Europe HOWARD COUTTS September 1994 International style issue COVER: Detail of a fusuma attributed to Kano Kotonobu, Japanese, 1606 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a lebes, Hellenistic, second half of the first century B.C. A royal gift: The 1826 porcelain jewel cabinet DAVID REVERE MCFADDEN AND DEBORAH SAMPSON SHINN The antiquities collection of Lawrence A. and Barbara Fleischman MAXWELL L. ANDERSON The photographs of Edouard Baldus MALCOLM DANIEL Gilded fusuma in Kyoto, Japan PAULA DEITZ Gustave and Christian Herter: The European connection KATHERINE S. HOWE October 1994 Folk art issue COVER: Detail of Harry Howard, Chief Engineer of the New York Volunteer Fire Department, American, c 1860. Painted wood, height 91 inches over-all. New-York Historical Society, New York City; photograph by Glenn Castellano FRONTISPIECE: Haida Raven rattle, British Columbia, Canada, nineteenth century Art of the Northwest Coast MARY JANE LENZ Horace Bundy, itinerant portraitist LAUREN B. HEWES Chalkware AMANDA E. LANGE AND JULIE A. REILLY Living with antiques: A folk art collection in Pennsylvania JEAN M. BURKS Elie and Viola Nadelman’s unprecedented Museum of Folk Arts ELIZABETH STILLINGER November 1994 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Evening on a Canadian Lake, by Frederic Remington, c. 1905. Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 by 40 inches over-all. Collection of William Koch FRONTISPIECE: The March of Silenus, by Willam Holbrook Beard, 1862 American landscape pairs of the 1850’s FRANKLIN KELLY The portrait miniatures of Eulabee Dix ANNE SUE HIRSHORN Frederic Remington’s studio: A reflection PETER H. HASSRICK The poster at the turn of the century FREDERICK R. BRANDT Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina MARTHA R. SEVERENS William Holbrook Beard (1824-1900) ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK December 1994 COVER: Detail of a wreath of gold Oak leaves, Greek, c. 350-300 B.C. British Museum, London FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a fish bowl, probably English, 1790-1820 Cedar Grove: A Quaker farmhouse near Philadelphia JACK L. LINDSEY The jewelry of classical Greece JOAN R. MERTENS Relics of pets past NANCY CARLISLE Silver in America, 1840-1940 CHARLES L. VENABLE January 1995 COVER: Detail of a centerpiece made by Bernard Heinrich Weyhe, Augsburg, Germany, c. 1761-1763. Silver; height over-all, 27 inches. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; photograph by Walter Haberland FRONTISPIECE: View from the saloon into the drawing room at Prestwould, near Clarksville, Virginia Rococo silver in Europe HENRY HAWLEY History in Houses: Prestwould, near Clarksville, Virginia Introduction JULIAN DAVIS HUDSON Architecture EDWARD CHAPPELL AND WILLIE GRAHAM Furnishings RONALD L. HURST Wallpapers RICHARD C. NYLANDER Gardens RUDY J. FAVRETTI Drawing instruction for Viennese cabinetmakers CHRISTIAN WITT-DORRING Dennis Miller Bunker and his circle of friends ERICA E. HIRSHLER The variety of decoration on Dutch Delft, 1625-1675 FRITS T. SCHOLTEN Orienting the wardrobe: Eastern influence on Western dress RICHARD MARTIN February 1995 COVER: Detail of a fraktur by the so-called Ehre Vater artist, probably southeastern Pennsylvania, c. 1800. Watercolor and pen and ink on paper, 6 1/4 by 6 inches over-all. Collection of H. Richard Dietrich Jr.; photograph by Will Brown FRONTISPIECE: Quarter- and half-pint liquid measures made by John W. Cluett, Albany, New York, 1830-1857 Tiny tokens: Small presentation frakturs FREDERICK S. WEISER Copper in early America DONALD L. FENNIMORE The furniture of New France DONALD BLAKE WEBSTER Peter Bentzon, silversmith RACHEL E. C. LAYTON March 1995 COVER: Detail of a mosaic wall panel designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by Tiffany Studios, c. 1906. Favrile glass, 38 3/16 by 15 15/16 inches, over-all. Louis C. Tiffany Museum, Nagoya, Japan; photograph by Ryoichi Oikawa FRONTISPIECE: Corner of the drawing room in the house of William Henry Vanderbilt at 640 Fifth Avenue, New York City Christian Herter’s decoration of the William H. Vanderbilt house in New York City ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN Ohio coverlets in the Stuck Collection CLARITA S. ANDERSON A Tiffany museum in Nagoya, Japan JANET ZAPATA An important block-front desk by Richard Walker of Boston PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN AND FRANK M. LEVY Gwinn: William G. Mather’s house and gardens in Bratenahl, Ohio KEITH N. MORGAN AND ROBIN KARSON April 1995 Preservation Society of Newport County issue COVER: Detail of one of a pair of vases made by J. Allard et ses Fils, Paris, c. 1900. The Elms. Photograph by David Bohl by courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island FRONTISPIECE: Entrance to Hunter House, Newport The Preservation Society of Newport County: An introduction CHRISTOPHER T. H. PELL Newport, a center of colonial cabinetmaking RALPH E. CARPENTER Newport and the Far East THOMAS MICHIE Newport in the nineteenth century CHARLES J. BURNS The aesthetic movement in Newport ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN Oriental carpets JULIA W. BAILEY A reverence for the Old World ARMIN BRAND ALLEN Tapestries DAVID ENDERS TRIPP Newport in the Gilded Age PAUL F. MILLER Society portraits ALEXIS GREGORY May 1995 American furniture issue COVER: Brass furniture mounts with mercury gilding, 1820-1830. Collection of a descendant of Henry Kellam Hancock; photograph by Gavin Ashworth FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a cabinet made by Gustave Herter, New York City, c. 1860 Classical furniture in Savannah, Georgia PAGE TALBOTT Furniture hardware from the Boston workshop of Henry K. Hancock JILLIAN EHNINGER Gustave Herter, cabinetmaker and decorator CATHERINE HOOVER VOORSANGER Saarinen House, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan GREGORY WITTKOPP Urban precedents for Vermont furniture KENNETH JOEL ZOGRY June 1995 England issue COVER: Detail of a canvas-work panel, English or Scottish, c. 1650 Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland FRONTISPIECE: Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, by James McNeill Whistler, 1875 Seventeenth-century embroideries in the Burrell Collection LIZ ARTHUR Whistler on exhibition MARGARET F. MACDONALD Some dated English drinking vessels with trailed-slip decoration, 1612-1752 LESLIE B. GRIGSBY Nineteenth-century English Gothic revival decorative arts in a private collection MARTIN LEVY English spa souvenirs: The Tunbridge ware industry to about 1830 BRIAN AUSTEN July 1995 COVER: Detail of a frontlet, British Columbia, Canada, c. l825-1850 New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York, Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection; photograph by John Bigelow Taylor FRONTISPIECE: Market Square in Newburyport, Massachusetts The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art GILBERT T. VINCENT Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1635-1835 WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS John Singleton Copley and the heroes of the American Revolution CAROL TROYEN Artistic wares of George W. Shiebler, silversmith JANET ZAPATA AND D. ALBERT SOEFFING August 1995 COVER: Detail of First Row Orchestra, by Edward Hopper, 1951 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation FRONTISPIECE: Armchair, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada, 1775-l800 Edward Hopper and the American imagination KATE RUBIN Nantucket lightship baskets: Origins and variations DAVID H. WOOD Fairsted: At home with Frederick Law Olmsted PAULA DEITZ The Anglo-American influence on French-Canadian furniture after 1760 JOHN A. FLEMING September 1995 COVER: Detail of Men in Trees, quarter-plate daguerreotype by an unidentified photographer Private collection FRONTISPIECE: Plan of the City of New York… (also known as the Ratzer Map), by Bernard Ratzer, 1770 British Library, London Bernard Molitor, cabinetmaker ULRICH LEBEN The art of the landscape daguerreotype JOHN WOOD Holger Cahill and American folk art WENDY JEFFERS Maps in the making of Manhattan ROBERT AUGUSTYN AND PAUL COHEN The shagreen work of John Paul Cooper N. NATASHA KUZMANOVIC October 1995 International style issue COVER: Detail of Landscape with Ruins, by Hubert Robert, 1772 J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California FRONTISPIECE: Small study in the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris The Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris STEPHEN JONES The inaugural exhibition at the Wolfsonian in Miami Beach, Florida WENDY KAPLAN Landscape fantasies and farm fictions in French drawings and prints during the ancien régime JENNIFER MILAM Beyond paper: Chinese calligraphy on objects JAN STUART Copley in England EMILY BALLEW NEFF November 1995 American painting issue COVER: Pattern of Leaves, by Georgia O’Keeffe, c. 1923 Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. FRONTISPIECE: Detail of The Gulf Stream, by Winslow Homer, 1899 Winslow Homer and the deflection of narrative FRANKLIN KELLY The symbiotic alliance of Duncan Phillips and Alfred Stieglitz STEPHEN BENNETT PHILLIPS Charles H. Davis: Painter of poetic moods THOMAS COLVILLE New York City and the Ashcan school VIRGINIA M. MECKLENBURG Paintings of Florida in the Vickers collection NICOLAI CIKOVSKY JR. Who was Henrietta Johnston? MARTHA R. SEVERENS December 1995 COVER: Detail of a kalyx krater by the Peleus Painter, Athens, Greece, c. 430 B.C. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a French patchwork bed curtain, c. 1830 Women on classical Greek vases CAROL BENSON Woven bead chains of the 1830s LYNNE ZACEK BASSETT Two commemorative bracelets MARTHA G. FALES Reflecting reality: The history of fire fighting through toys BARBARA HAYWARD An important discovery of French patchwork JANINE BENSASSON-JANNIERE January 1996 COVER: Detail of Young Woman with a Water Jug, by Johannes Vermeer, 1664-1665. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marquand Collection, gift of Henry G. Marquand FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a roller-printed cotton made by Hodge Printworks, Cheshire, England, 1824 American glass in the Bohemian style JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN Decorative objects in the paintings of Vermeer LORRAINE KARAFEL Rethinking two houses at Colonial Williamsburg MARGARET BECK PRITCHARD AND WILLIE GRAHAM Alma Pihl’s designs for Fabergé VIVIAN SWIFT Ingrain carpets DEBORAH E. KRAAK Oversized Staffordshire jugs SHARON D. GREENE February 1996 Cover: Detail of Flaming June, by Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton, c. 1895 Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico The frakturs of Susanna Heebner IRENE N. WALSH The porcelains of Paris, 1770-1870 JOHN W. KEEFE Frederic, Lord Leighton STEPHEN JONES The assimilation of German folk designs on Maryland quilts NANCY GIBSON TUCKHORN March 1996 Cover: Detail of Inauguration Portraits of Emperor Qianlong, the Empress, and the Eleven Imperial Consorts, by Giuseppe Castiglione (known as Lang Shining), 1736 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, John L. Severance Fund Thomas Wilmer Dewing, an artist against the grain SUSAN A. HOBBS AND BARBARA DAYER GALLATI The splendors of imperial China ANITA SIU Ladies’ pockets YOLANDA VAN DE KROL Fabergé in his own time GEZA VON HABSBURG April 1996 Cover: Christ Child with Passion Symbols, Peru, late 17th century Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, gift of Elizabeth Clare Damsgard, a Norwegian country mansion TROND INDAHL The "Short Biography” of the glass engraver Louis Vaupel KIRK J. NELSON The expatriate years of Henry Roderick Newman ROYAL W. LEITH Converging cultures in vice-regal Peru KEVIN STAYTON The orangery in England and America BILLIE SHERRILL BRITZ May 1996 American furniture issue Cover: Detail of an ebonized cabinet attributed to Allen and Brother, Philadelphia, c. 1875 Collection of Frederick W. Hughes Allen and Brother, Philadelphia furniture makers PAGE TALBOTT Living with antiques: A Houston collection DAVID B. WARREN Philadelphia Queen Anne chairs in Wright’s Ferry Mansion PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN Michael Stoner, cabinetmaker and chairmaker JOHN J. SNYDER JR. The role of glass knobs in glassmaking and furniture KENNETH M. WILSON, KIRK J. NELSON Boston cabinetmakers and allied craftsmen, 1780-1799: A new resource ANNE ROGERS HALEY June 1996 England issue Cover: Detail of a gift basket, English, 1668 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection Early Scottish silver teawares JOHN A. HYMAN The Needles Excellency: English needlework of the Tudor and Stuart periods in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NICOLA J. SHILLIAM An addition to Chippendale’s oeuvre ANTHONY COLERIDGE Beatrix Potter, scientific illustrator ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The architect as artist ALAN CRAWFORD July 1996 Cover: Detail of (LOCOMOTION.), by Seymour Shortshanks, published by Thomas McLean, London, c. 1830 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, gift of the Trier-Fodor Foundation Driftwood, Winslow Homer’s final painting THEODORE E. STEBBINS JR. Chinese porcelain in Old Mobile LINDA ROSENFELD SHULSKY An irreverent look at British landscape connoisseurship, 1770-1830 KATHERINE LOCHNAN William Bogert and his family D. ALBERT SOEFFING August 1996 Cover: Detail of The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake, by Thomas Eakins, 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection The rowing pictures of Thomas Eakins HELEN COOPER Furniture of the late Ming dynasty NANCY BERLINER The seafaring Dutch on tiles ELLA B. SCHAAP William Morris and the Green Dining Room LINDA PARRY September 1996 Cover: Detail of View of Ipswich (Sailboat), by Arthur Wesley Dow, color woodcut, c. 1893-1895 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, gift of Ethlyn H. Putnam Norwegian glass from Nostetangen: A crossroads of German and English styles JAN KOCK The arts of the Momoyama period in Japan BRUCE ARTHUR COATS American prints in the arts and crafts tradition LINDSAY LEARD Iron and steel furniture in France ULRICH LEBEN Sandpaper paintings of American scenes RANDALL AND TANYA HOLTON October 1996 International style issue Cover: Detail of a vessel mounted by Johannes I Lencker, Augsburg, Germany, c. 1630 Cabinet of King Gustavus II Adolph of Sweden, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Exotic and precious objects mounted by Augsburg goldsmiths LORENZ SEELIG Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s furniture ROGER BILLCLIFFE A treasury of Spanish lusterware in New York City MARGARET A. OPPENHEIMER Sir Robert Wa1pole’s pictures in Russia ANDREW MOORE Stands, coasters, wagons, and chariots for the table PETER BROWN November 1996 American painting issue Cover: Detail of Reading, by John Singer Sargent, 1911 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Hayden Collection, Charles Henry Hayden Fund Watercolors: Sargent’s pictorial diary CAROL TROYEN Benjamin West and the death of General Wolfe ALAN D. MCNAIRN Nineteenth-century Plains Indian drawings JANET CATHERINE BERLO Louis Rémy Mignot JOHN W. COFFEY Ben Shahn’s murals for the Bronx Central Post Office DIANA L. LINDEN Paintings in the Colonial Williamsburg collection LAUREN SUBER December 1996 Cover: Detail of The Angel's Offering, by Hugues Merle, c. 1865 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt The paisley prints of Alsace, France, 1800-1870 JEAN FRANCOIS KELLER AND DENIS ROLAND American plique-à-jour enameling JANET ZAPATA Elizabeth Hart Colt: Collector, art patron and civic leader WILLIAM HOSLEY Her effigy in wood: Figureheads with feminine subjects TONY LEWIS January 1997 Masterpieces in perspective Cover: Details of masterpieces illustrated in this issue. Seventy-five years of The Magazine ANTIQUES, 1922-1997 WENDELL GARRETT AND ALLISON ECHARDT LEDES A Portsmouth settee at Winterthur BROCK JOBE The Portland Vase DAVID WHITEHOUSE Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life in the National Gallery of Art EARL A. POWELL III The Chief Tammany weather vane GERARD C. WERTKIN Royal gravy: Governor Patrick Gordon’s silver sauceboats JACK LINDSEY Black Hawk's drawing of a vision GILBERT T. VINCENT AND JANET CATHERINE BERLO A Boston tambour desk MICHAEL K. BROWN A poem and a painting MICHAEL R. CUNNINGHAM Meissonnier’s Kingston tureen in Cleveland HENRY HAWLEY An eighteenth-century sideboard table FRANK L. HORTON AND SALLY GANT The beauty of needlework CHRISTA C. MAYER THURMAN The Wilbour Plaque at the Brooklyn Museum RICHARD A. FAZZINI The Jonathan Smith Jr. chest on chest on frame DONALD R. FRIARY The Chanin gates DIANNE H. PILGRIM A table for Madame de Pompadour WILLIAM RIEDER The Century Vase in the High Museum of Art DONALD C. PEIRCE Buzaglo’s “Master piece" in iron ELIZABETH PITZER GUSLER Duncan Phyfe, revisitus MORRISON H. HECKSCHER William Wetmore Story’s marble Sappho JONATHAN L. FAIRBANKS Tiffany's golden bowl DAVID PARK CURRY February 1997 Cover: Detail of The White Ram, by William Bagshaw, 1846 Peter Moores Foundation, London, British Folk Art Collection The vernacular art of the artisan in England JAMES AYRES Italian Renaissance designs for the decorative arts BETH L. HOLMAN Puzzling aspects of the most popular piece of American pottery ever made J. G. STRADLING Engraving on English silver, 1680-1760 CHRISTOPHER HARTOP March 1997 Cover: Representative selection of frames designed or inspired by Stanford White. Living with antiques: Chéne Vert in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana H. PARROTT BACOT Stanford White’s frames WILLIAM ADAIR Charles Burchfield's painted memories NANNETTE V. MACIEJUNES AND NORINE S. HENDRICKS Ship carvers and the New York City shop figure style RALPH SESSIONS April 1997 Cover: Detail of Fritillaria, Walberswick, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1915 Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland; photograph by Antonia Reeve Photography Charles Rennie Mackintosh-painter PAMELA ROBERTSON The style and development of ancient Egyptian furniture, Part I GEOFFREY KILLEN Emile Friant: A forgotten realist of the gilded age DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH Beaux-arts jewelry made in Newark, New Jersey ULYSSES GRANT DIETZ AND JANET ZAPATA The Galliers, New Orleans architects WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS May 1997 American furniture issue Cover: Detail of a 1ady’s cabinet dressing table attributed to William Camp, Baltimore, 1800-1810 Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Eleanor S. Cohen Collection The Livingstons’ best New York City Federal furniture PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN Shaker furniture from South Union, Kentucky TOMMY HINES Living with antiques: Millford Plantation in South Carolina THOMAS GORDON SMITH A group of Concord, Massachusetts, furniture DAVID F. WOOD The nineteenth-century furniture trade in New Orleans STEPHEN G. HARRISON June 1997 England issue Cover: View of the Punch Room of Cotehele, Cornwall, England The eighteenth-century mania for hyacinths PATRICIA F. FERGUSON The Hope-Weir cabinet ANTHONY COLERIDGE Cotehele, a property of the National Trust in Cornwall JOHN CORNFORTH Scottish drinking vessels JOHN A. HYMAN A barge for a prince GEOFFREY BEARD July 1997 Cover: Detail of a View of the Ausable River by Samuel Colman, c. 1869 Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York; gift of Harold K Hochschild Paintings of the Adirondack Mountains CAROLINE M. WELSH The Bunzlau pottery of Germany and Silesia CHARLES R. MACK AND ILONA S. MACK The art and science of furniture connoisseurship PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN Philadelphia diesinkers’ cameo stamps, 1850-1880 THOMAS BECKMAN August 1997 Cover: Detail of a plate by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, 1893 Museu Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal The Fred J. Johnston Museum RODERIC H. BLACKBURN Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, a Portuguese ceramist MARSHALL P. KATZ Rangeley, a romantic residential park in Winchester, Massachusetts MAUREEN MEISTER Schoolgirl samplers of Dover, New Hampshire RITA F. CONANT September 1997 Cover: Detail of The Garter by Jean Francois de Troy, 1724-1725 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts The intimate interior in eighteenth-century French genre painting RICHARD RAND The dragon style in Norwegian decoration WIDAR HALEN The painted enamels of Geneva, Switzerland FABIENNE XAVIERE STURM The style and development of ancient Egyptian furniture, Part II: Decoration and embellishment GEOFFREY KILLEN The Temple of Glory in Orsay, France ELEANOR DELORME Worcester’s fabulous birds JOHN SANDON October 1997 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute issue Cover: Detail of a silver teakettle on stand with lamp marked by Paul de Lamerie, London, 1745/46 (kettle and stand) and 1746/47 (lamp) An art institute in the Berkshires MICHAEL CONFORTI The Clarks as collectors DAVID S. BROOKE Old masters in the Clark collection. Part I: Paintings JULIUS S. HELD Old masters in the Clark collection. Part II: Prints and drawings JAMES A. GANZ Continental and English porcelain in the Clark collection BETH CARVER WEES Nineteenth-century painting and sculpture Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of Renoir PATRICIA R. IVINSKI Silver in the Clark Art Institute BETH CARVER WEES Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of Homer FRANKLIN KELLY The Herbert Michel Collection of prints JAMES A. GANZ Robert Sterling Clark as a collector of Sargent MARC SIMPSON November 1997 American painting issue Cover: In the Patio VIII, by Georgia O’Keeffe, 1950. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, gift of the Burnett Foundation and the Georgia O’Keefe Foundation. Georgia O’Keeffe’s West PETER H. HASSRICK Pairs of sculptures collected by James Ricau H. NICHOLS B. CLARK Living with antiques: Middleton House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina WENDELL D. GARRETT AND ELISABETH D. GARRETT Yosemite in nineteenth-century prints KATE NEARPASS OGDEN John Johnston, an artist for the needleworker DAVIDA TENENBAUM DEUTSCH Worcester's pioneering paintings shows DAVID R. BRIGHAM December 1997 Cover: Detail of an Indian carpet fragment, 1610-1620 Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris. The fine-weave carpets of India DANIEL WALKER The furniture of George Jacob Hunzinger BARRY R. HARWOOD T-shaped quilts: A New England phenomenon JEANNETTE LASANSKY Living with antiques: A house in the North Carolina Piedmont ELISABETH D. GARRETT Lacemaking in colonial Ipswich, Massachusetts MARTA M. COTTERELL January 1998 Cover: Vases made by the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Company (1902-1924), Queens, New York City Ceramics in daily life at the Qing court ROSEMARY E. SCOTT Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy, the marquis de Lafayette’s cartographer PAUL E. COHEN Gilt bronze by Caffiéri in the Wallace Collection PETER HUGHES Quezal art glass: Part I MALCOLM NEIL MAC NEIL Caricatures and fashion plates KATHARINE A. LOCHNAN Nineteenth-century Navajo and Pueblo silver jewelry PAULA A. BAXTER February 1998 Cover: Two Swans, a pendant made by René Lalique, 1897-1899 Private collection; photograph by David Behl Lalique and the artistic jewel JOAN T. ROSASCO Alcoholism and the temperance movement in early American folk art ARTHUR AND SYBIL KERN John La Farge and the Judson Memorial Church JULIE L. SLOAN AND JAMES L. YARNALL Edward F. Caldwell and Company JENI L. SANDBERG March 1998 Cover: Chinese watercolor of a Chinese artist at work, c. 1800 Photograph by courtesy of Martyn Gregory Gallery, London The enigma of Spoilum and the origins of China trade portraiture PATRICK CONNER Carl Gustav Ekeberg and the invention of Chinese export painting KEE IL CHOI JR. The Dutch connection: Asian export art in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries CHRISTIAAN J. A. JORG The American watercolor in the 1920s BARBARA DAYER GALLATI April 1998 Cover: Detail of a porcelain vase, Paris, 1831-1835 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Rogers Fund Paris porcelain in America ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN Nineteenth-century children’s costumes in Tasha Tudor's collection LINDA BAUMGARTEN AND JAN K. GILLIAM Living with antiques: The Johannes Decker Farm in Ulster County, New York MARY ANNE HUNTING Bucks County, Pennsylvania, fraktur CORY M. AMSLER Pairpoint lamps from New Bedford, Massachusetts JUDITH NAVAS LUND May 1998 American furniture issue Cover: Detail of one of a pair of card tables attributed to Honoré Lannuier, New York City, 1815-1819 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, funds from various donors Honoré Lannuier’s furniture and patrons: Recent discoveries PETER M. KENNY American furniture and the art of connoisseurship MORRISON H. HECKSCHER The Nicolai Fechin House in Taos, New Mexico MICHAEL KOSTER The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN Furniture making in Albemarle County, Virginia, 1750-1850 JANET STRAIN MCDONALD June 1998 England issue Cover: Detail of a silk panel, Spitalfields, London, c. 1734 Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Eighteenth-century English floral silks DEBORAH E. KRAAK Burne-Jones: Stained glass and laughter ALAN CRAWFORD Apsley House, London ALICIA ROBINSON The Bamard Castle carpet industry JOANNA HASHAGEN A service for wine PIPPA SHIRLEY July 1998 Cover: Detail of Victor Bicycles, designed by Will H. Bradley, 1896 Baltimore Museum of Art. Fashion, style, and cultural transition in turn- of-the- century American posters ALISON C. DINEEN Stanford White in Saint James, New York SAMUEL G. WHITE Quezal art glass: Part II MALCOLM NEIL MAC NEIL Partitioning the landscape: Fences in colonial Virginia VANESSA E. PATRICK August 1998 Cover: Detail of Farmers Nooning, by William Sidney Mount, 1836 Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, gift of Frederick Sturges Jr. The genre paintings of William Sidney Mount DEBORAH J. JOHNSON New England baskets ROBERT SHAW Making a virtue of necessity: Decorative American privies MAY BRAWLEY HILL Further reflections on Scottish silver JOHN A. HYMAN September 1998 Cover: Detail of The Chinese Emperor, Enthroned, modeled by Johann Peter Melchior, Höchst, Germany, c. 1766. Collection of Hoechst AG; photograph by Michael Tessmann Ancient Egyptian faience FLORENCE DUNN FRIEDMAN Australian and American landscape paintings of the nineteenth century AMY ELLIS Living with antiques: A New York City apartment RALPH HARVARD Johann Peter Melchior, master modeler CHARLOTTE JACOB-HANSON Drawings for the great fountains of Rome and Paris MARILYN SYMMES October 1998 Cover: Detail of In the Omnibus by Mary Cassatt, 1890-1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of Paul J. Sachs Mary Cassatt’s color prints ELLIOT BOSTWICK DAVIS Grinling Gibbons: Aspects of his style and technique MIRIAM KRAMER Heinrich Gottlieb Köhler: An enigmatic glass engraver RANDI GAUSTAD Tea and design in Chinese export painting KEE IL CHOI JR. Matthijs Horrix: Cabinetmaker in The Hague REINIER BAARSEN The painted photograph HEINZ K. HENISCH November 1998 American art issue Cover: Detail of Off the Coast of Grand Manan, by Alfred T. Bricher, 1880-1890 Brauer Museum ofArt, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana; gift of Phyllis Buehner Duesenberg and Richard Duesenberg in honor of their sons Mark and David American paintings, 1850-1930, in the Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University FRANKLIN KELLY Christian Friedrich Mayr HELENE M. RILEY The art of Forest Hills Cemetery JONATHAN L. FAIRBANKS AND REBECCA ANN GAY REYNOLDS The Charleston renaissance MARTHA R. SEVERENS Lewis Wickes Hine: The final years BARBARA HEAD MILLSTEIN John O’ Brien Inman CAROLYN B. WILKINSON December 1998 Cover: Detail of Cherry Blossoms at Night, by Katsushika Oi, c. 1850-1860 Menard Art Museum, Aichi, Japan History in towns: Wiscasset, Maine WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS The art of Edo Japan ROBERT T. SINGER The Jordan family of Georgia and their Belter parlor furniture DAVID B. WARREN The mystery of seventeenth-century quilts MARGARET RENNER LIDZ January 1999 Cover: Detail of a jewelry casket designed by Dagobert Peche and made by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1920 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City MARY ANNE HUNTING Indoor gardening in the eighteenth century PATRICIA F. FERGUSON The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection of American art NICOLAI CIKOVSKY JR. Dagobert Peche JANIS STAGGS-FLINCHUM Ainay-le-Vieil, the little Carcassonne DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH Chinese cloisonné BEATRICE QUETTE A newly discovered Hondius map PAUL E. COHEN AND ROBERT T. AUGUSTYN February 1999 Cover: Detail of The Peaceable Kingdom, by Edward Hicks, 1832-1834 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia The nature of Edward Hicks’s painting SCOTT W. NOLLEY AND CAROLYN J. WEEKLEY Francis W. Cooper, silversmith JENNIFER M. SWOPE An American-Alsatian quilt DENIS ROLAND AND JEAN FRANCOIS KELLER The Wickham House in Richmond: Neoclassical splendor restored JANE WEBB SMITH Methods of American printmaking, 1830s to 1930s TRUDIE GRACE March 1999 Cover: Detail of Garden Party at the Orchid Pavilion, by Nakabayashi Chikuto, Japanese, Edo period Private collection; photograph by John Bigelow Taylor Crosscurrents of East Asian art AMY G. POSTER More about Paulding Farnham, Tiffany’s designer extraordinaire JANET ZAPATA Images of Macao PATRICK CONNER The Skillin workshop SYLVIA LEISTYNA LAHVIS April 1999 Cover: Detail of The Swimmer, by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, c. 1924 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, gift of Ferdinand Howald The art colonies of old New England THOMAS ANDREW DENENBERG AND TRACIE FELKER Jewelry for mourning, love, and fancy, 1770-1830 DAVIDA TENENBAUM DEUTSCH Art and exploration in California, l79l-1827 CLAIRE PERRY Arkhangelskoye, a palace in search of salvation PRISCILLA ROOSEVELT The Erie Canal and New York State folk art PAUL S. D’AMBROSIO May 1999 American furniture issue Cover: Detail of a lyre-backed settee, Salem or Boston, Massachusetts, 1816 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem High-style, mass-produced American furniture ANNA TOBIN D’AMBROSIO Living with antiques: A Middle-Atlantic collection of collections JOHN C. NEWCOMER The American sofa table PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN Buffet or bowfat? The built-in cupboard in the eighteenth century BETTY CROWE LEVINER The modem Gothic furniture of Pottier and Stymus KRISTIN S. HERRON June 1999 England issue Cover: Detail of a slipware dish, probably Hanley, Staffordshire, England, 1676 Longridge Collection; photograph by Gavin Ashworth. Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth GILES WATERFIELD Gillows of Lancaster and London as a design source for American chairs SUSAN STUART Dated English delftware and slipware in the Longridge Collection LESLIE B. GRIGSBY Gardens in seventeenth-century British embroidery KATHLEEN EPSTEIN Transatlantic slavery ANTHONY TIBBLES July 1999 Cover: Detail of Orestes Pursued by the Furies, by John Singer Sargent, 1921-1925 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sargent’s murals for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston CAROL TROYEN Carlo Bugatti’s French furniture HENRY HAWLEY Marine paintings at the New York Yacht Club ROBERT B. MACKAY Instruments of intervention in early American medicine NAN WOLVERTON August 1999 Cover: Oil and mustard pots for a cruet dish made by the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Copenhagen, c. 1785 David Collection, Copenhagen; photograph by Ole Woldbye Royal Danish blue-decorated porcelain LAURITZ G. DORENFELDT Augsburg collectors’ cabinets MICHAEL K. KOMANECKY Quaker quilts from the Delaware River valley, 1760-1890 PATRICIA J. KELLER Miniature case art MARION RINHART September 1999 Cover: Detail of Haida mask representing Djilakons (a Haida clan ancestress), collected by Captain Daniel Cross on the west coast of British Columbia and brought to the museum in 1827. Height 8 11/16 inches overall Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. East India Marine Society Collection; photograph by Mark Sexton New England missionaries and American Indian art at the Peabody Essex Museum JOHN R. GRIMES Living with antiques: The Crane and Ware houses united RODERIC H. BLACKBURN A nineteenth-century American silver flatware service D. ALBERT SOEFFING Did inro come from the West? MASAKO WATANABE AND LINDA SHULSKY Danish West Indian furniture MICHAEL CONNORS October 1999 International style issue Cover: Detail of a clock by Lucien Falize, Paris, 1881 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman gift The simple life: The arts and crafts movement in Great Britain WENDY KAPLAN Falize in America KATHERINE PURCELL Art, science, and patronage in early Philadelphia JACK L. LINDSEY Hong bowls and the landscape of the China trade KEE IL CHOI JR. Richard and Erna Flagg’s Renaissance treasury LAURIE WINTERS The language of flowers in nineteenth-century American painting JUDITH WALSH November 1999 American art issue Cover: Detail of The New Novel by Winslow Homer, 1877 Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, Horace P. Wright Collection. Bierstadt paintings in the Haggin Museum ALFRED C. HARRISON JR. Childe Hassam and the French impressionists WARREN ADELSON Eastman Johnson’s portrait of aging New England TERESA A. CARBONE The language of flowers and other floral symbolism used by Winslow Homer JUDITH WALSH Edward Hopper’s houses VIRGINIA M. MECKLENBURG Carl Rungius in context LYLE C. GRAY AND ELEANOR JONES HARVEY December 1999 Cover: Baby with Rattle and Dog, attributed to Mrs. Moses B. Russell,1840-1850. Watercolor and gouache on ivory, 4 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, the Overbrook Foundation, Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund, and Lois and Arthur Stainman Philanthropic Fund gifts Mrs. Moses B. Russell, Boston miniaturist RANDALL L. HOLTON AND CHARLES A. GILDAY Talavera poblana, the renaissance of a Mexican ceramic tradition MARGARET CONNORS MCQUADE The Indian origins of the bandanna SUSAN S. BEAN Living with antiques: Villa San Maurizio in southem Califomia RICHARD P. WUNDER William Rush's Indian Trader SYLVIA LEISTYNA LAHVIS