January 2000. Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing 75 th Anniversary
Cover: Charles Engelhard Court, looking north toward the façade of the United States Branch Bank, built
1822-1824, with the gilt-bronze sculpture Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1928 (modeled 1892-1893)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; photograph by Bruce Schwartz
Introduction
JOHN K. HOWAT
The Hudson-Fulton exhibition and H. Eugene Bolles
FRANCES GRUBER SAFFORD
Robert de Forest and the founding of the American Wing
AMELIA PECK
Natalie K. Blair’s “museum rooms" and the American Wing
MORRISON H. HECKSCHER
R.T. H. Halsey: American Wing founder and champion of Duncan Phyfe
PETER M. KENNY
Emily Johnston de Forest
ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN
Collecting the nineteenth century for the American Wing
CATHERINE HOOVER VOORSANGER
Founding friends
JOHN K. HOWAT
The Reverend E. L. Magoon and the American drawings collection
KEVIN J. AVERY AND CLAIRE A. CONWAY
George A. Hearn: “Good American pictures can hold their own”
CARRIE REBORA BARRATT
Daniel Chester French and the sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
THAYER TOLLES
The Ormond gift and the Metropolitan Museum’s Sargents
H. BARBARA WEINBERG AND STEPHANIE L. HERDRICH
February 2000

Cover: Detail of a watercolor of the green drawing room in the mansion of Count Paul Sergeivich Stroganoff by Jules Mayblum, 1863-1865
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
298 The Stroganoff collections
PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL
The Tile Club, 1877-1887
RONALD G. PISANO
314 Venetian art nouveau glass
SHELDON BARR
The substance of childhood
TRACEY RAE BECK
March 2000.
Cover: Detail of Moon Crystal and stand, Chinese, Qianlong period (1736-1795). Rock crystal and wood
Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Major General and Mrs. William Crozier
The Musée du Nouveau Monde in La Rochelle, France
THIERRY LEFRANCOIS
The carved rock crystals of Emperor Qianlong
ADRIANA PROSER
Living with antiques: Cane Garden great house on Saint Croix, Virgin Islands
MICHAEL CONNORS
Chinese export porcelain with Arabic inscriptions
DANIEL NADLER
The metalwork of J. W. Fiske and Company
BARBARA ISRAEL
April 2000
Cover: Detail of the mosaic top of a table made for Stanislaw II Augustus Poniatowski by Pompeo Savini, 1788, after a design by Wenceslas Peter
Muzeum w Lazienkach, Warsaw
The splendor of eighteenth-century Rome
MATTHEW F. SINGER
Thomas Jefferson and the art of living out of doors
WILLIAM L. BEISWANGER

Roxbury eight-day movements and the English connection, 1785-1825
ROBERT C. CHENEY
Art nouveau, 1890-1914
PAUL GREENHALGH
Paul Revere silver at the Worcester Art Museum
DAVID R. BRIGHAM
May 2000. American furniture
Cover: Left: Detail of an eight-day clock inscribed by Joseph Mulliken, Concord, Massachusetts, 1790-1802
Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts; photograph by David Bohl. Right: Detail of an eight-day clock inscribed by Mulliken in a case attributed to Ammi White, Concord, 1790-1802
Private collection; photograph by John Kennarcl.
Concord, Massachusetts, clockmakers, 1789-1817
DAVID F. WOOD
An important rosewood and cast-iron gueridon attributed to Duncan Phyfe and Sons
CARSWELL RUSH BERLIN
The painted furniture of Maine
EDWIN A. CHURCHILL AND THOMAS B. JOHNSON
Topping off Thomas Dawes's desk-and-bookcase
MICHAEL K. BROWN
Dating Dunlap-style side chairs
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
Furniture patronage in antebellum Natchez
JASON T. BUSCH
June 2000. England
Cover: Detail of The Graham Children, by William Hogarth, 1742
National Gallery, London.
The Heritage Lottery Fund and London’s museums
MIRIAM KRAMER
The watercolors of Samuel Austin
DEREK GOULD
Georgian campaign furniture
NICHOLAS A. BRAWER

From bouquets to baskets
MARK LAIRD
English silver baskets
PETER KAELLGREN
Living with antiques: A collection Of Victorian decorative arts
MARTIN LEVY
July 2000
Cover: Detail of The Nursery, by William Merritt Chase, c. 1890
Manoogian Collection
William Merritt Chase and the French connection
BARBARA DAYER GALLATI
Theodore Deck, French potter
BERNARD BUMPUS
Drawings in the Adirondack Museum
BRUCIA WITTHOFT
Living with Antiques: Rosemary Lodge in Water Mill, New York
MARY ANNE HUNTING
August 2000
Cover: Flowers in a Chinese vase by Maria Sibylla Merian, 1690-1695
Private collection; photograph by courtesy of the Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
Maria Sibylla Merian, artist-naturalist
CHARLOTTE JACOB-HANSON
Tiffanys Japanesque flatware
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR. WITH ROSLYN BERLIN AND EDWARD WAWRYNEK
Modernism and the 1925 Paris exposition
JUDITH B. GURA
Lucy Cleveland, folk artist
PAULA BRADSTREET RICHTER
September 2000
Cover: Detail of a panel of a twelve-panel Coromandel screen, Chinese, second half of the seventeenth century

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
A Worcester dessert service by Chamberlain
MAVIS A. CLEGGETT
Floral drawings at Waddesdon Manor
RACHEL AKPABIO
Japan and design in early Chinese export
KEE IL CHOI JR.
Victorian campaign furniture
NICHOLAS A. BRAWER
Thomas and Blanch Sully in London
CARR1E REBORA BARRATT
A Chinese collection in the Netherlands
JAN VAN CAMPEN
October 2000. International style
Cover: Detail of a necklace by René Lalique, French, c. 1900-1903
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Jones Jr. Fund.
Jewelry at the Toledo Museum of Art
JANET ZAPATA
The age of the American country place
ROBIN KARSON
Charles Nicolas Dodin, miniature painter at Vincennes-Sevres
MARIE LAURE DE ROCHEBRUNE
Our evolving understanding of untouched furniture surfaces
JOHN T. KIRK
Marie Antoinette’s dairy at Rambouillet
CAROLIN C. YOUNG
Faberge bell pushes
JAMES HURTT
November 2000. American art
Cover: Detail of Still Life with Fruit, Flowers, and Bird’s Nest, by George Forster (1817-c. 1896), c. 1870
Private collection; photograph by Ed Watkins.

George Inness and the San Francisco art world in the 1890s
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
Henry Benbridge, Charleston portrait painter
ANGELA D. MACK
Living with antiques: American art in a New York City town house
RONALD G. PISANO
Audubon, Bachman, and the quadrupeds of North America
ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK
Boston's nineteenth-century ship carvers
JANE L. PORT
A vision for the West: Judge Crocker's art gallery and California paintings collection
JANICE DRIESBACH
December 2000
Cover: Detail of a desk lamp designed by Jacques Le Chevallier, French, c. 1927-1930
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; photograph copyright 2000 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York/ADAGP, Paris.
Walter and Matilda Gay in Paris and the country
WILLIAM RIEDER
Jewelry to jets: Aluminum design since the 1850s
SARAH NICHOLS
Colonial imagery on Christmas cards
KENNETH L. AMES
The ceramlcs of Alcora
MARGARET E. CONNORS MCQUADE
Early Connecucut tavern signs in the Connectlcut Hlstoncal Society
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
January 2001. Colonial Williamsburg 75 th Anniversary
Cover: A Williamsburg sampler
Photographs by courtesy of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
The Peyton Randolph House restored

RONALD L. HURST
A revolution in taste: Furniture design in the American backcountry
PHILIP ZEA
Likenesses and cultural identity in the colonies and early Republic
BARBARA R. LUCK
Setting a stylish table
JANINE E. SKERRY
Maps as objects of material culture
MARGARET BECK PRITCHARD
Metals for the fashion-conscious consumer
JOHN D. DAVIS
Textiles: Trade and fashion
LINDA BAUMGARTEN AND KIMBERLY SMITH IVEY
Tools for gentlemen
JAMES M. GAYNOR
February 2001
Cover: Detail of Scuola di San Rocco, by John Singer Sargent, c. 1907
Private collection; photograph by courtesy of Adelson Galleries
Possessions and props: The collection of John Singer Sargent
TREVOR FAIRBROTHER
Living with antiques: The Gilmour-Christovich house in New Orleans
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Needlework education in antebellum Alexandria, Virginia
GLORIA SEAMAN ALLEN
Ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture of Vizagapatam, India, 1700-1825
AMIN JAFEER
March 2001
Cover. Detail of an uncut outer coat for a noblewoman, Chinese, c. 1860
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, gift of Mallory and Dorothy Cheney; photograph by David Stansbury
Collecting Qing dynasty textiles

CAROL DEAN KRUTE
Japanism in the Cos Cob art colony
SUSAN G. LARKIN
Hirado porcelain of Japan
ROBERT T. SINGER
Chateau de Coppet near Geneva, Switzerland
PAULA DEITZ
Hairwork of the nineteenth century
IRENE GUGGENHEIM NAVARRO
April 2001
Cover: Detail of a pictorial quilt by Harriet Powers, c. 1895-1898
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, bequest of Maxim Karolik
Maxim Karolik and folk art
CAROL TROYEN
Coliseum Square: A New Orleans renaissance
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Watch chatelaines in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
JANET ZAPATA
Group portraits in American art
HOLLY PYNE CONNOR
Frank Lloyd Wright’s light screens: The influence of Japan
JULIE L. SLOAN
May 2001. American furniture
Cover: Details of patent timepieces made in Concord, Massachusetts
Photographs by David Bohl
Veneered furniture of Cumston and Buckminster, Saco, Maine
THOMAS HARDIMAN JR.
Concord, Massachusetts, clockmakers, 1811-1831
DAVID F. WOOD
Quervelle furniture at Rosedown, in Louisiana
THOMAS GORDON SMITH

Decorated chairs of the lower Susquehanna River valley
PETER S. SEIBERT
Delaware River valley chests of drawers, 1725-1800
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
Living with antiques: San Francisco Shaker
KARLA KLEIN ALBERTSON
Furniture makers and allied craftsmen in Plymouth and Bristol Counties, Massachusetts, 1760-1810
MARGARET K. HOFER
June 2001. England
Cover: Detail of la Place des Victiores, Paris, by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1783
Kile Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, Paul Mellon Collection; photograph by Richard Caspole
Eighteenth-century British draftsmen abroad
SCOTT WILCOX
Cottier and Company, art furniture makers
MAX DONNELLY
The Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857
SUZANNE FAGENCE COOPER
W. A. S. Benson, a pioneer of modern design rediscovered
PETER ROSE
Rodmarton Manor, the English arts and crafts movement at its best
MARY GREENSTED
North Country quilts: An English tradition
DOROTHY OSLER
July 2001
Cover: A vignette in the Richard H. Mandel house in Bedford Hills, New York. The Russian lithograph is by
Gustav
Gustavovich Klutsis, and the design of the electric clock is attributed to Donald Deskey
Photograph by Paul Rocheleau.
Living with antiques: The Richard H. Mandel house in Bedford Hills, New York
MARY ANNE HUNTING
Edward Lycett and the Faience Manufacturing Company
BARBARA VEITH

The Pennsylvania-German foursquare garden
IRWIN RICHMAN
H. F. du Pont’s Chestertown House, Southampton, New York
JOSHUA RUFF AND WILLIAM AYRES
Reverie on a pair of Japanese screens
MICHAEL R. CUNNINGHAM
August 2001
Cover: Detail of Eagle Head, Manchester Massachusetts (also entitled High Tide), by Winslow Homer, 1870
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of Mrs. William E Milton
Winslow Homer and the critics in the 1870s
MARGARET C. CONRADS
Fore! Early golf clubs and balls
ROBERT G. GOWLAND
Anatomy of an acquisition: Treasures from the Ann and Philip Holzer Collection
MORRISON H. HECKSCHER, WITH AMELIA PECK AND CARRIE REBORA BARRATT
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City
DIANA L. LINDEN
The photograph collection of the Larchmont Yacht Club
A. J. PELUSO JR.
September 2001. International style
Cover: Detail of a still life with roemer and place setting, by Pieter Claesz, 1644
Private collection; photograph by courtesy of Johnny Van Haeften
Careswell, the Historic Winslow House in Marshfield, Massachusetts
JOHN B. HERMANSON
The fine art of Sarah Choate Sears
ERICA E. HIRSHLER
Queen Anne and Chippendale chairs in Delaware
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
Seventeenth-century English cutlery for the rich man’s table
PETER BROWN
Treasures from Sichuan
MARY HIRSCH

Christopher Dresser, the Centennial Exhibition and the Anglo-American dialogue
WIDAR HALEN
October 2001. American art
Cover: Detail of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, by Gustav Klimt, 1907
Osteweichzsche Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Viennese glass design, 1895-l925
JOAN T. ROSASCO
Worn with pride: Native American textiles and garments from the Northwest Coast
BILL MERCER
The Mario Praz Museum in Rome
JOHN CORNFORTH
Gifts to the czars: Seventeenth-century European silver from the Kremlin Armory in Moscow
BARRY SHIFMAN
The restoration of Joseph Steward’s Hartford Museum
WILSON H. FAUDE
Fanny Kemble’s New York
GLORIA DEAK
November 2001
Cover: Flags on the Waldorf by Childe Hassam, 1916
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Family pictures: The impressionist art of Edmund C. Tarbell
LINDA J. DOCHERTY, ERICA E. HIRSHLER, AND SUSAN STRICKLER
Luminist paintings in California
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
Living with antiques: A collection where East meets West
MICHAEL QUICK
Twentieth-century paintings and sculpture in the new Amon Carter Museum
PATRICIA JUNKER
Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, Nantucket artist
MARGARET MOORE BOOKER
The circus in twentieth-century American art

DONNA GUSTAFSON
December 2001
Cover: The Holy Family, by James Collinson, 1878
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York City.
London furniture, 1666-1714
ADAM BOWETT
Images of Christ in nineteenth-century British paintings in the Forbes Magazine Collection
CHRISTOPHER FORBES
Living with antiques: A collection on the Chesapeake Bay
DEANNE D. LEVISON
Teaching success through play: American board and table games, 1840-1900
JENNIFER JENSEN
The portal of Saint Bartholomew’s Church in New York City
PERCY PRESTON JR.
January 2002. Winterthur Museum
Cover: Details of side chairs made in Philadelphia or Salem, Massachusetts, 1795-1805
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Introduction
LESLIE GREENE BOWMAN
H. F. du Pont's fondness for furniture: A collecting odyssey
WENDY A. COOPER
A case study: The Cecil and Lancaster Rooms at Winterthur
BROOK JOBE
Winterthur’s hand-painted Indian export cottons
LINDA EATON
“Drink Fair Dont Swear": Winterthur’s punch bowls and punch drinking in America
LESLIE B. GRIGSBY
Henry Francis du Pont and iron
DONALD L. FENNIMORE
The Georgia Dining Room revisited

TARA L. GLEASON
Vernacular art at Winterthur
BETTY FISKE AND ANNE A. VERPLANCK
Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur
RON FUCHS
Trade catalogues in the Winterthur Library
NEVILLE THOMPSON
American painted furniture: A new perspective on its decoration and use
WENDY A. COOPER
February 2002
Cover. Detail of Waiting for an Answer, by Winslow Homer, 1872
Peabody Art Collection, Baltimore; photograph by courtesy of Maryland State Archives, Baltimore
The manufacture of Argand lamps in Philadelphia
R. CURT CHINNICI
The courtship of Winslow Homer
SARAH BURNS
Wriggle work decoration on British and European pewter, 1600-1800
KENNETH BARKIN
Portraits in miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky
ANNE SUE HIRSHORN
The Weitsman stoneware collection at the New York State Museum
JOHN L. SCHERER
March 2002
Cover: Detail of The Straw Manikin, by Francisco de Goya, 1791-1792
Photograph by courtesy of Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Spanish colonial furniture of the West Indies
MICHAEL CONNORS
Francisco Goya, tapestry painter
JANIS ANGELA TOMLINSON
The Centennial Exhibition, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Hector Tyndale
FELICE FISCHER

Two Philadelphia shadow-box grottoes
LAURA KEIM STUTMAN
The Pennsylvania Railroad photographs of William H. Rau
JOHN C. VAN HORNE
Reading the wallpaper of the Chinese Parlor at the Winterthur Museum
DIANA P. ROWAN
April 2002
Cover: Detail of a portrait of a lady by Miguel de Herrera, 1782
Photograph by courtesy of the Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City
Elizabeth Eaton Burton
VICTORIA RODRIGUEZ THIESSEN
Three historic houses at the Shelburne Museum reinterpreted
HENRY JOYCE AND JULIE ELDRIDGE EDWARDS
Masterpieces of navigation in the Mariners’ Museum
JEANNE WILLOZ-EGNOR
The arts of viceregal Mexico, 1521-1821: A confluence of cultures
DAVID B. WARREN
The Fales collection of jewelry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
JANET ZAPATA AND BETH CARVER WEES
San Simeon’S collection of ceremonial objects
VICTORIA KASTNER AND JANA SEELY
May 2002. American furniture
Cover: Detail of a cabinet attributed to Pottier and Stymus, New York City, c.1860
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Eighteenth-century Philadelphia case furniture at Stenton
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
The Meeks cabinetmaking firm in New York City: Part I, 1797-1835
JODI POLLACK
Living with antiques: A Saint Louis couple collects
PATRICIA E. KANE

Continuity and innovation: Recliners, sofa beds, rocking chairs, and folding chairs
PAGE TALBOTT
Hugh Easley, Alabama cabinetmaker
CHRISTOPHER LANG
The furniture mounts of P. E. Guerin
BARBARA LAUX
A Herter Brothers library rediscovered
BARRY R. HARWOOD
June 2002. England
Cover: Detail of a pair of sauceboats marked by Paul Storr, London, 1819-1820
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Ernest Gimson as a designer
MARY GREENSTED
Silver in the Portland Art Museum
CHRISTOPHER HARTOP
The artificial grotto in Britain
TIM KNOX
A new chronology for English walnut-veneered furniture, 1670-1740
ADAM BOWETT
The Ashmolean, a collection of collections
MAUREEN MELLOR
July 2002
Cover: Detail of a dragonfly and dandelion hair ornament, designed by Louis C. Tiffany, c. 1904
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, promised gift of Linden Havemeyer Wise
John Brown’s grave and other Civil War themes in William T. Richards’s Adirondack landscapes
LINDA S. FERBER
Emblems of honor: Congressional medals of war and peace
RODERIC H. BLACKBURN
The early artistic jewelry of Louis C. Tiffany
ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN
Living with antiques: Temple Heights, Columbus, Mississippi
H. PARROTT BACOT

August 2002
Cover: Detail of The Soda Fountain, by William Glackens, 1935
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Joseph E. Temple and Henry D. Gilpin funds
Jean Baptiste Huet and the decorative arts
LAURE HUG
Edna Greenwood and everyday life in early New England
ELIZABETH STILLINGER
The French national collection of ship models
DANIEL FINAMORE
The Renoir Americans loved
STEVEN KERN AND ANNE E. DAWSON
History in houses: The Butler-McCook House and Garden in Hartford, Connecticut
BEVERLY JOHNSON LUCAS
September 2002
Cover: Detail of Chateau de Malmaison, by Pierre Joseph Petit
Chateaux de Malmaison et Bois-Pre’au; Arnaudet photograph by courtesy of the Réunion des musées nationaux/Art Resource, New York City
The toilette in the eighteenth century
ULRICH LEBEN
Masterpieces of natura1ism: Gorhams Narragansett flatware
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR., JOHN R. OLSON, CHARLES S. CURB, AND WILLIS H. THOMPSON III
The English Victorian nude in the United States
BARBARA DAYER GALLATI
Venetian glass at Stanford University
SHELDON BARR
History in towns: Hancock, New Hampshire
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Josephine as patroness of the arts
ELEANOR P. DELORME
October 2002
Cover: Schrank, or cabinet, designed by Dagobert Peche, 1920

Private collection.
Metamorphoses: The interiors and furniture of Dagobert Peche
ANNE-KATRlN ROSSBERG
Stanford White's house for Payne Whitney in New York City
JENI L. SANDBERG
Point Breeze: Joseph Bonaparte’s American retreat
PATRICIA TYSON STROUD
Napoleon’s fauteuil: From Paris to Point Breeze
MARGARET K. HOFER AND ROBERTA J. M. OLSON
Lacquer and japanning in seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch paintings
DANIELLE KISLUK-GROSHEIDE
Mahantongo blanket chests
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
November 2002. American art
Cover: Detail of Roses on a Tray, by John La Farge, c. 1861
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Katherine M. McKenna Fund
The making of Audubon’s The Birds of America
JOSEPH GODDU
Charles Sheeler and film
KAREN E. HAAS
Charles Codman: From limner to landscape painter
JESSICA NICOLL
Impressionism versus the aesthetic movement
DAVID PARK CURRY
Launt Thompson, New York sculptor
ELIZABETH K. ALLEN
Moses B. Russell: Yankee miniaturist
RANDALL L. HOLTON AND CHARLES A. GILDAY
Edwin Lord Weeks, painter and explorer
ULRICH W. HIESINGER
December 2002

Cover: Detail of Angel Gabriel Weather Vane, rendering by Lucille Chabot, 1939
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, Index of American Design.
Gothamtide: Christmas words and images in nineteenth-century New York
SIBYL MCCORMAC GROFF
The Index of American Design: Picturing a national identity
VIRGINIA TUTTLE CLAYTON
Napoleon III: The other Napoleon and his empire
CHRISTOPHER FORBES
German toys in antebellum America
MARY AUDREY APPLE
January 2003
Cover: The Aero, by Marsden Hartley, c. 1914
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
History in houses: Woodlawn in Ellsworth, Maine
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Marsden Hartley and folk art
ELIZABETH MANKIN KORNHAUSER
Porcelain in Dresden
ULRICH PIETSCH
John Drayton’s watercolors
MARGARET B. PRITCHARD
Perfection: Jean E. Puiforcat’s designs for silver
GAIL S. DAVIDSON
Electra Havemeyer Webb and Edith Gregor Halpert: A collaboration in folk art collecting
HENRY JOYCE
The Brick House, the Vermont country house of Electra Havemeyer Webb
JULIE ELDRIDGE EDWARDS
February 2003
Cover: Detail of Ann Ford, later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1760
Cincinnati Art Museum, bequest of Mary M. Emery
The lure of likeness in Gainsborough’s portraits

NADIA TSCHERNY
Robert Walker, Charleston cabinetmaker
BRADFORD L. RAUSCHENBERG AND JOHN BIIVINS JR.
Stenciled bedcovers
LYNNE ZACEK BASSETT
Modern flatware design: the Viande/Grille/Vogue style
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR.
March 2003. Hillwood Museum and Gardens
Cover: Detail of a commode by Jean Henri Riesener, Paris, c. 1775-178O
Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D. C.; photograph by Edward Owen
Marjorie Merriweather Post
FREDERICK J. FISHER
Furnishing Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s passion for French style
LIANA PARADES AREND
The northern Palmyra: Saint Petersburg at three hundred
KAREN L. KETTERING
Russkii stil’: The Russian style for export
ANNE ODOM
Gold boxes at Hillwood
LIANA PARADES AREND
The Russian porcelain figure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
KAREN L. KETTERING
Russian icons at Hillwood
WENDY SALMOND
Pietre dure for an American palace: A dining table for Mar-A-Lago
RACHEL LAYTON ELWES
Paintings on porcelain vases
ANNE ODOM
The Japanese style garden at Hillwood and its context
KENDALL H. BROWN
April 2003

Cover: Detail of Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander by James McNeill Whistler, 1872-1874
Tate Britain, London, bequest of W C. Alexander
William Merritt Chase and the American taste for Spanish painting
H. BARBARA WEINBERG
Beyond omament: Indian trade silver in Maine and eastern Canada
LAUREEN A. LABAR
Living with antiques: The Vira Hladun-Goldmann house in New York City
REMI SPRIGGS
Levi L. Hill
MARION RINHART
Sicilian maiolica in Maltese collections
LARA BUGEJA
History in towns: Chestertown, Maryland
GLORIA SEAMAN ALLEN
May 2003. American furniture
Cover: Detail of a fully elastic side chair made by Samuel Gragg, Boston, c. 1808-1812
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Furniture from Marblehead Massachusetts
KEMBLE WIDMER II AND JUDY ANDERSON
Fumiture designed at the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony
ROBERT EDWARDS
New Haven’s six-board chests
ERIK K. GRONNING
Eighteenth-century chairs at Stenton
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
Wallace Nutting and the invention of Old America
THOMAS ANDREW DENENBERG AND TRINA EVARTS BOWMAN
The incredible elastic chairs of Samuel Gragg
MICHAEL PODMANICZY
June 2003
Cover: Amen glass, English, c. 1745

Drambuie Liqueur Company Collection, Edinburgh
English furniture at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
GEOFFREY BEARD
Engraved Jacobite glasses
ROBIN NICHOLSON
William Bradford and the royal touch
RICHARD C. KUGLER
English pewter at Colonial Williamsburg
JOHN D. DAVIS
Derby porcelain: The work of floral and botanical artists, 1790-1805
PETER BROWN
July 2003
Cover: Detail of Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, by Gilbert Munger, c. 1876
Private collection.
History in towns: Stonington Borough, Connecticut
MARY MCGRATH THACHER
Sarah Bixler’s plates and flowerpots
CYNTHIA G. FALK
Gilbert Munger’s quest for distinction
MICHAEL D. SCHROEDER AND J. GRAY SWEENEY
Decorative architectural elements on a Chinese house
NANCY BERLINER
August 2003
Cover: The Temple of the Four Winds on the grounds of Castle Howard, Yorkshire
Photograph by Jeremy Phillips
The waterways of Castle Howard
PAULA DEITZ
Revolutionary acts: Selections from the SPNEA collection
NANCY CARLISLE
Living with antiques: The Jesse Van Slyke house in Schenectady, New York
RODERIC H. BLACKBURN

Victorian garden edging tiles
JIM COTHRAN
Shaker village views: Joshua Bussell's unexpected return to the drawing board
ROBERT P. EMLEN
September 2003
Cover: Detail of View of Washington, drawn, lithographed, printed, and published by Edward Sachse, 1852
New York Public Library, New York City, I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints
Silver from the First Church of Deerfield, Massachusetts
DONALD R. FRIARY
Living with antiques: The Coke-Garrett House, Williamsburg, Virginia
ROBERT A. LEATH
Pacific Coast waterfowl decoys
MICHAEL INDELICATO
The decorative hardware of Enoch Robinson
PREUIT HIRSCH
Charles Dickens’s first visit to the New World
GLORIA DEAK
A short history of the Tennessee sugar chest
ROBERT HICKS AND BENJAMIN HUBBARD CALDWELL JR.
October 2003
Cover: Detail of Barn Owl, by Robert Havell Jr. after John James Audubon, 1833; Pl. 171 in Audubon’s The
Birds of America
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Ewell Sale Stewart Library.
Cutting up Audubon for science and art
ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK
The Waddesdon Manor nautilus shell and triton: A masterpiece from the William Beckford Collection
ULRICH LEBEN
Picturing ancient Greek childhood
J ENIFER NEILS AND KATHERINE W. HART
Living with antiques: French furnishings in a New York City apartment
WILLIAM G. STOUT

James Gi1es’s decorations on glass
ANDY MCCONNELL
Fabled beasts: Augustus the Strong’s Meissen menagerie
MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER
November 2003. American art
Cover: Detail of Madame Gautreau (Madame X), by John Singer Sargent, c. 1883
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
George Inness and the unfinished painting
ADRIENNE BAXTER BELL
Madame X speaks
DEBORAH DAVIS AND ELIZABETH OUSTINOFF
American paintings in the Schenectady County Historical Society
ONA CURRAN
Two American artists: Amos Bad Heart Bull and N. C. Wyeth
VIRGINIA JARVIS WHELAN
Mr. Whistler’s gallery: The art of displaying art
KENNETH JOHN MYERS
John Wood Dodge and the portrait miniature
RAYMOND D. WHITE
Thaddeus Welch, California landscape painter
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
December 2003
Cover: Detail of The Old Plantation, artist unknown, possibly South Carolina, c. 1790-1800
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
A first look at arts and crafts greeting cards
ANNE STEWART O’DONNELL
Rookwood art pottery
NANCY E. OWEN
The early banjo
ROBERT SHAW AND PETER SZEGO

Brighton buns: Ingenious folding candlesticks for travelers
NICHOLAS A. BRAWER
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century multi-colored linen from southeastern Pennsylvania
DORIS HOAG
January 2004
Cover: A selection of nineteenth-century dining implements with Japanese kozuka and kozuka style handles
Western dining implements with Japanese kozuka and kozuka style handles
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR.
Maria Oakey Dewing’s flowers and figures
SUSAN A. HOBBS
Living with antiques: The rescue and restoration of a New York City landmark
CHARLES LOCKWOOD
Glass and glamour: Steuben’s modern moment, 1930-1960
DONALD ALBRECHT
An introduction to the Biedermeier period
LAURIE WINTERS
American Indian baskets made in New England
NAN WOLVERTON
Louis Victor Gerverot in a new light: His early years and bird painting, 1766 -1773
CHARLOTTE JACOB-HANSON
February 2004
Cover: Eighteenth-century Cuban sacristy chest in the Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis, Havana
Photograph by Bruce Buck Photography
Painted tea caddies and the Tunbridge connection
NOEL RILEY
The eighteenth-century Cuban sacristy chest of drawers
MICHAEL CONNORS
Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer’s Chinese enameled plaques. Part I: The porcelain plaques
JAN VAN CAMPEN
Portrait engravings by William Edgar Marshall
GREGORY E. MESCHA

March 2004
Cover: Detail of a decorative enameled copper plaque, Chinese, c. 1770
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer’s Chinese enameled plaques. Part II: The copper plaques
JAN VAN CAMPEN
John Ross Key’s world’s fair paintings
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
Reappraising an upsidedown Shaker masterpiece
JOHN T. KIRK
London ormolu lighting from George II to George IV
TESSA MURDOCH
Western themes in Chinese design
PATRICK CONNER
April 2004
Cover: A selection of fire hats made in Philadelphia in the nineteenth century
Private collection; photographs by Don Roman
Parade hats of America’s early volunteer firemen
COURTNEY E. BOOTH AND ROBERT E. BOOTH JR.
Living with antiques: A collection in Baton Rouge
H. PARROTT BACOT
New York’s favorite pictures in the 1870s
DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH
The jewelry and silver of F. Walter Lawrence
JANET ZAPATA
African American samplers from antebellum Baltimore
GLORIA SEAMAN ALLEN
May 2004. American furniture
Cover: Detail of a group of miniature boxes. Oval pantry box, New England, c. 1840. Dome-topped box, New
York or New England, c. 1820. Chest, New York, c. 1825
Private collection; photograph by Gavin Ashworth

American fancy: Exuberance in the arts, 1790-1840
SUMPTER PRIDDY III
Early American tables and other furniture at Stenton
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
From craft to industry: Furniture designed by Edward Durell Stone for Senator Fulbright
MARY ANNE HUNTING
Rhode Island gateleg tables
ERIK K. GRONNING AND DENNIS CARR
Maine cabinetmakers of the Federal period and the influence of coastal Massachusetts design
THOMAS HARDIMAN JR., THOMAS B. JOHNSON, AND LAURA FECYCH SPRAGUE
The fashionable frontier: Thomas Ramsey, windsor-chair maker in Marietta, Ohio
ANDREW RICHMOND
June 2004. England
Cover: Details taken from botanical gouaches painted in China, c. 1823
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, gift of H. A. Crosby Forbes and Grace B. Forbes; photographs are by Jeffrey Dykes and Mark Sexton
Wood carvers in England, c. 1660-1800
GEOFFREY BEARD
Early English blue-and-white porcelain
JOHN SANDON
Chinese botanical paintings for the export market
KARINA H. CORRIGAN
Silver for drinking and dining in the Oxford colleges
PHILIPPA GLANVLLLE
Gillow and the furnishing of the Midland Grand Hotel, London
LAURA MICROULIS
July 2004
Cover: Detail of Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, by Childe Hassam, 1890
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Emile Jacques Ruhlmann, art deco designer
JARED GOSS

Ceramics from University City, Missouri
DAVID CONRADSEN
Childe Hassam: Patterns of appreciation
H. BARBARA WEINBERG
History in towns: Deadwood, South Dakota
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
August 2004
Cover: Detail of a candelabrum base attributed to the Jacob Petit porcelain manufactory, Paris, c. 1850
New Orleans Museum of Art, bequest by exchange of Isaac Delgado; photograph by Dan Dennehy
The Westervelt Warner Museum of Young America
FRANKLIN KELLY
European glass in the Venetian style, 1500 -1750
DAVID WHITEHOUSE
Southern bottle cases
ANNE S. MCPHERSON
The French rococo revival along the Mississippi River
JASON T. BUSCH
September 2004
Cover: Irish dip-molded glass decanters made c. 1790-l815
Photograph by courtesy of Bonhams, Edinburgh
The John Wilmerding Collection: A scholar’s gift to the National Gallery of Art
NANCY K. ANDERSON
Irish glass
ANDY MCCONNELL
An introduction to Neopolitan and Sicilian furniture
HELEN COSTANTINO FIORATTI
The Birds Nest flatware pattern by Gorham, 1869
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR., JOHN R. OLSON, AND CHARLES S. CURB
English penwork and the Indian connection
NOEL RILEY
Merchandising America: American views published by the Maison Goupil
DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH

October 2004. International style
Cover: Details of two Fiestaware pitchers designed by Frederick H. Rhead, c. 1936, and made by the Homer
Laughlin China Company, East Liverpool, Ohio
Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection; photograph by Denis Farky
Adolescence in the art of John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries
BARBARA DAYER GALLATI
Streamlining and art deco in American industrial design
DAVID A. HANKS AND ANNE HOY
Dresden’s princely splendor at home and abroad
DANIEL KLETKE
Swedish mirrors, 1650-1850
ELSEBETH WELANDER-BERGGREN
Patronage and the Burgundian court (1364-1419)
STEPHEN N. FLIEGEL
The Regency style's debt to Napoleon
PAULA A. BAXTER
November 2004. American art
Cover: Detail of Corn and Peaches, by Charles Demuth, 1929
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Gilbert Stuart in England and Ireland
CARRIE REBORA BARRATT
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Patron of the modern
WENDY JEFFERS
The diary of Theodore Robinson, an American impressionist
SONA JOHNSTON
The art of John Henry Brown
ANNE VERPLANCK
Art in a mirror: The counterproofs of Mary Cassatt
PAMELA A. IVINSKI
Thomas Cole’s View of Fort Putnam
ELISE EFFMANN

John Singer Sargent and Robert Louis Stevenson
LESLIE FURTH
December 2004
Cover: Detail of The Prince of Wales’s Phaeton, with the Coachman Samuel Thomas and a Tiger-Boy, by
George Stubbs, 1793
Royal Collection, Windsor Castle © Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
George Stubbs: His patrons and collectors
MALCOLM WARNER
History in Towns: Haverhill Corner, New Hampshire
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Oriental carpets in Italian Renaissance paintings: Art objects and status symbols
ROSAMOND E. MACK
Childe Hassam en plein air
MARGARET E. BULLOCK
The Explorers Club
ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK
January 2005. New York Historical Society 200 years
Cover: Detail of New York-Brooklyn Bridge, by Tavik Frantisek Simon, 1927
New-York Historical Society, New York City, purchase, James B. Wilbur fund
A history of the New-York Historical Society
JAN SEIDLER RAMIREZ
Nineteenth-century American paintings
LEE A. VEDDER
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century family silver
MARGARET K. HOFER
Witness to history: Furniture and historic relics
DEBRA SCHMIDT BACH
Prints, photographs, and architectural records
SANDRA MARKHAM
Collectors’ legacies
ELLEN PAUL DENKER

A selection of European paintings and objects
ROBERTA J. M. OLSON
Children's toys
AMY A. WEINSTEIN
The work of Tiffany Studios
NINA GRAY
February 2005
Cover: Details of case furniture illustrated on pp. 58-65 of this issue
Collections of (top to bottom): Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, Hartford,
Connecticut; Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts; and Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Case furniture of the Chapin school, 1775-1800
THOMAS P. KUGELMAN AND ALICE K. KUGELMAN
Smalt at the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
JOYCE GEARY VOLK
The luxury glass of Bakewell, Page and Bakewell
ARLENE PALMER
Biblical samplers from New York City
AMELIA PECK
March 2005
Cover: Charleston Parlor at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Photograph by Wes Stewart
Georges de Feure
IAN MILLMAN
Discovered: An unknown painting by John Trumbull
IRMA B. JAFFE
American Indian beaded bags of the Columbia River region
BILL MERCER
MESDA and the study of early southern decorative arts
JOHANNA METZGAR BROWN
Eighteenth-century Chinese export porcelain for the French market
ANTOINE LEBEL

April 2005
Cover: View of the dining room in a private house in New Jersey
Photograph by Bruce Buck
Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey
REMI SPRIGGS
Lorenzo Palmer Latimer, California watercolor painter
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
A Pre-Raphaelite gem in New York City
SHELDON BARR AND PAUL TABOR
Stoneware of eastern Virginia
ROBERT HUNTER, KURT C. RUSS, AND MARSHALL GOODMAN
Absinthe and its artifacts
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR.
May 2005. American furniture
Cover Detail of a painted and gilded fancy armchair, probably New England, c 1800
Private collection; photograph by Paul Rocheleau
Newport and the Townsend inheritance
MORRISON H. HECKSCHER
Living with antiques: A Federal collection
CLARK PEARCE
Moorish fretwork furniture
PAUL TUCKER
Edward Holmes and Simeon Haines, cabinetmakers in Empire New York City
ERIK RINI
Early American furniture in the New Castle Historical Society in Delaware
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
The 1772 Philadelphia furniture price book rediscovered
ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY
June 2005. England
Cover: Mary Magdalene, by Frederick Sandys, c. 1859. Oil on wood, 13 1/4 by 11 inches
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Samuel and Mary R Bancroft Memorial; photograph by courtesy of the museum

The Homewood
SOPHIE CHESSUM
Royal goldsmiths: The art of Rundell and Bridge and its successors
CHRISTOPHER HARTOP
Samuel Bancroft and collecting English art
MARGARETTA S. FREDERICK
Slipups: Mocha ware at the Shelburne Museum
KORY W. ROGERS
The Home House carpet
JAMES A. FRENCH
English furniture at Colonial Williamsburg
GEOFFREY BEARD
July 2005
Cover: Detail of Maid and Bird, by Rockwell Kent, 1918
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, gift of Ferdinand Howald
Pleasant Days: “A millionaire’s dream castle
JUDITH B. TANKARD
Rockwell Kent’s reverse paintings on glass
JAKE MILGRAM WIEN
Sister act: The Overbeck Pottery, 1911-1955
ELLEN PAUL DENKER
Willard Metcalf in the Southwest
AMY ELLIS MCDANIEL
Living with antiques: New England and European antiques at home in Connecticut
August 2005
Cover: Detail of Lake George and the Village of Caldwell, by Thomas Chambers, 1850s
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
The architecture of Summer Street, Kennebunk, Maine
KEVIN D. MURPHY
A glass engraver’s design book, 1860-1880
JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN

Painting Lake George: Nineteenth-century views of the "Queen of American Lakes"
ERIN BUDIS COE
Living with antiques: The Brune-Reutlinger house, San Francisco
HANK DUNLOP
Stephen Parrish, a remarkable etcher
RONA SCHNEIDER
September 2005
Cover: Room 16 of the Brick Dwelling at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, built 1830
Photograph by Michael Fredericks
Coloring the past: Shaker painted interiors
CHRISTIAN GOODWILLIE
Digging for trash and finding treasure at Mount Vernon
DENNIS J. POGUE, ESTHER C. WHITE, AND ELEANOR E. BREEN
Furniture in the Colchester, Connecticut, style
THOMAS P. KUGELMAN AND ALICE K. KUGELMAN
The Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten Island, New York City
PERCY PRESTON JR.
Living with antiques: The Marc and Tracy Whitehead collection
LAURA BEACH
Inspired fantasy: Design sources for New England's whole-cloth wool quilts
LYNNE ZACEK BASSETT
Materials of the Pennsylvania German fraktur artist
JENNIFER L. MASS, CATHERINE R. MATSEN, AND JANICE H. CARLSON
October 2005. International style
Cover: A selection of bronze hardware, American, c. 1879-1889
Collection of Robert Tuggle and Paul Jeromack; photographs by John Bigelow Taylor
American art brass
ANNA TOBIN D’AMBROSIO
The grand salon from the Hotel Ga1llard de Bouexiere
JASON T. BUSCH
Company paintings of the Ta] Mahal and Agra
KARINA H. CORRIGAN

Living with antiques: The Mary and Robert Raley collection
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Private devotional altars of the baroque
MICHAEL K. KOMANECKY
Mayer Carl von Rothschild of Frankfurt: collector and patriot
PHILIPPA GLANVILLE
The English overmantel looking glass
JEREMY GARFIELD-DAVIES
November 2005. American art
Cover: Detail of Midsummer Moon, by Oscar Bluemner, 1927
Private collection; photograph by courtesy of Guggenheim, Asher Associates, New York and Los Angeles
The New York Water Color Club
DAVID A. CLEVELAND
Oscar Bluemner: Suns and Moons
BARBARA HASKELL AND STEPHANIE LYNN SCHUMANN
The Archives of American Art at 50
LIZA KIRWIN
Francis Martin Drexel (1792-1863): His life and work
JACQUELINE M. DEGROFF
Charles Caryl Coleman on Capri
ADRIENNE BAXTER BELL
William Rush and the American figurehead
RALPH SESSIONS
Before the Art Institute of Chicago: Katharine Kuh’s early career and American art
AVIS BERMAN
In pursuit of a higher truth: The landscape paintings of Charles Morris Young
CHARLES TEAZE CLARK
December 2005
Cover Detail of a late from a Marsaux et Cie trade catalogue, Paris,1800-1849
Winterthur Library, Winterthur, Delaware

Franklin’s legacy: Documented furnishings
PAGE TALBOTT
Coaching prints: Winter perils on the road
JOE MORAN
Restoring the stained glass in Saint Michael’s Church, Charleston
NIGEL DAVID JOHNSON
Successful innovations in domestic oil lighting, 1784-1859
VINCENT P. PLESCIA
January 2006
Cover: Portrait of Adam Winne, attributed to Pieter Vanderlyn, 1730
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware
Revisiting Mount Vernon
GRETCHEN M. GOODELL
Tiffany’s buffalo hunt loving cup
AMY DEHAN
The dream of a golden age-Danish Empire furniture
MIRIAM GELFER-JORGENSEN
Fidelle Duvivier in France and the Netherlands
CHARLOTTE JACOB-HANSON
A New York Dutch interior for the American Wing
PETER M. KENNY
The jeweled watches of
Henry Blank and Company of Newark
LESLIE SYKES-O’NEILL
Living with antiques: The Watson house and collection
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
February 2006
Cover: Detail of a painting showing Ulric Celsing in a ceremonial audience with the sultan in Constantinople, artist unknown, late eighteenth century. Oil on canvas
Private collection; photograph by Per Magnus Persson.
Living with antiques: Revivalism revived in a New York City apartment
BELINDA RATHBONE

Fair and square in the 1860s: A meditation on the worth of an American icon
DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH
Gustavian divan rooms
HELENA KABERG
Dining with the ancients: Shiebler’s Etruscan flatware
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR., JOHN R. OLSON, AND CHARLES S. CURB
March 2006
Cover: Detail of Mrs. Charles Thursby, by John Singer Sargent, c. 1897-1898. Oil on canvas
Newark Museum, New Jersey, purchase by exchange, 1985-gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Duncan Pitney, Emilie
Coles (from the J. Ackerman Coles Collection), Mrs. Lewis B. Ballantyne, Mrs. Owen Winston, and the bequest of Louis Bamberger
Tiffany’s tiger hunt loving cup
AMY MILLER DEHAN
John Singer Sargent and modern womanhood
MARY-KATE O’HARE
Samplers from Charleston, South Carolina
KATHLEEN STAPLES
Living with antiques: In the form of a story: A collection of nineteenth-century American and European decorative arts
MARTIN LEVY
Willam Faris’s silver and his shop designs
MARK B. LETZER
April 2006
Cover: Detail of Summer, by Frank W. Benson, 1909. Oil on canvas
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; bequest of Isaac C. Bates
Traveling flatware
SARAH COFFIN
Samuel Colt's porcelain transparencies
HERBERT G. HOUZE
Benson in bloom: A new look at Summer
TREVOR FAIRBROTHER
Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum

JEAN M. BURKS
Viennese enamels in the Renaissance revival style
ERIKA SPEEL
May 2006. American furniture
COV€I': Detail of a side chair, central Pennsylvania, 1850-1870. Painted yellow poplar; height 34 1/8, width
18 1/4, depth 15 1/8 inches overall
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Charles; photograph by courtesy of Winterthur Museum, Winterthur,
Delaware
Paint and ornament on Federal period vernacular chairs
NANCY GOYNE EVANS
Living with antiques: New England begins at home
ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT
The Peleg and Lucy Arnold chest of drawers
PATRICIA E. KANE
A bill of sale from John Goddard to John Brown and the furniture it documents
AMY COES
The painted furniture of Philadelphia: A reappraisal
ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY
A Grecian card table by William Fisk and Thomas Wightman of Boston
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN WITH DAVID JORGENSEN
June 2006. England
Cover: Wall light attributed to Thomas Johnson, English, c. 1758
Philadelphia Museum of Art; photograph by courtesy of the museum
English furniture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
GEOFFREY BEARD
Tudor and early Stuart banqueting houses
PAULA HENDERSON
Durr Freedley: An American master in an English art
MARIANNA GARTHWAITE KLAIMAN AND MARY KENNEDY WAGNER
Wedgwood, Boulton, and Henry Hoare II: Patronage of the antique taste at Stourhead
PATRICIA F. FERGUSON

English glass furnishings for Eastern palaces
JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN
“Fables and fruit trenchers teach as much”: English banqueting trenchers, c. 1585-1662
MARY ANNE CATON
July 2006
Cover: Detail of Achelous and Hercules, by Thomas Hart Benton, 1947
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. C., gift of Allied Stores Corporation and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
The Texas Governor's Mansion
DAVID B. WARREN
Rediscovering Fitz Henry Lane’s View of Coffin’s Beach on Cape Ann
KAREN E. QUINN WITH SANDRA KELBERLAU AND JEAN WOODWARD
Salt-glazed stoneware at Temple Newsam House, Leeds
DIANA EDWARDS
The new Smithsonian American Art Museum
ELEANOR JONES HARVEY
Wardian cases: Adornments for homes of taste
RICHARD R. IVERSEN
The Kellogg menagerie of Civil War cartoons
CHRISTOPHER W. LANE
August 2006. The Library Company of Philadelphia
Cover: Detail of Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, by Samuel Jennings, 1792
Library Company of Philadelphia, photograph by Will Brown.
The history and collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia
JOHN C. VAN HORNE
The presentable book: Publishers’ bindings
CORNELLA S. KING AND ANDREA KRUPP
Colorplate books in the collection
JAMES N. GREEN
Highlights from the collection of paintings and sculpture
CAROL EATON SOLTIS
The clocks in the collection

JAY ROBERT STIEFEL
Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints
JENNIFER AMBROSE
John A. McAllister collects the Civil War
SANDRA MARKHAM
American leisure in books and printed ephemera
WENDY A. WOLOSON
The Lewis albums
SARAH J. WEATHERWAX
September 2006
Cover: Detail of Tree of Life embroidery worked by Mary King, 1754
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware.
The sailor’s eye
SAMUEL SCOTT
When a collection matures: Silver at Colonial Williamsburg
JOHN A. HYMAN
Discoveries in Philadelphia needlework: The Tree of Life embroideries
VIRGINIA JARVIS WHELAN
Architectural japanning in an early Newport house
CAROLINE FRANK
Everything old is new again: Grandma Moses and the colonial revival
KARAL ANN MARLING
Bow first patent porcelain: New discoveries in science and art
E. G. RAMSAY AND W. R. H. RAMSAY
French colonial West Indian armoires
MICHAEL CONNORS
October 2006. International style
Cover: Details of three vases by René Lalique, French, 1929-1951
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Rene Lalique and French modernism in Canada
CAROLYN HATCH

New Mexico from a car window: Stuart Davis and the search for a modern American art
EMILY BALLEW NEFF
The Palais Beauharnais, Paris
ULRICH LEBEN AND JORG EBELING
Speculative carving: An undocumented practice of seventeenth-century workshops
JOHN FISKE
The fancy paperweights of the New England Glass Company
LAURA A. COTTON
A monument to Antoine Louis Barye
WILLLAM R. JOHNSTON
A Ludwigsburg breakfast service with a puzzle
HANS DIETER FLACH
November 2006. American art
Cover: A Virgin, by Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1893. Signed “Abbott H. Thayer" at lower right. Oil on canvas,
90 5/8 by 70 7/8 inches
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., gift of Charles Lang Freer
American painters in Paris, 1860-1900: Urban encounters and rural retreats
H. BARBARA WEINBERG
“Art is long and...Time is short": Benjamin Franklin’s views on the visual arts
MELISSA CLEMMER
John Singer Sargent’s Venice: On the canals
WARREN ADELSON AND ELIZABETH OUSTINOFF
Pretty women: Charles Lang Freer and the ideal of feminine beauty
SUSAN A. HOBBS
Lawrence Mazzanovich in Connecticut
CHARLES TEAZE CLARK
Double take: A closer look at American bronze sculpture
JANIS CONNOR AND THAYER TOLLES
José Campeche and Francisco Oller: Painting Puerto Rico
CHRISTINE TEMIN
December 2006
Cover: Detail of a glass pane from the Daffodil Terrace at Louis Comfort Tiffany's Laurelton Hall

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida; photograph by Joseph Coscia Jr.
History in towns: Royalston, Massachusetts
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
In harmony with nature: Louis Comfort Tiffany's Daffodil Terrace for Laurelton Hall
ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN AND MONICA OBNISKI
Suitable for framing: Landscape prints and city views by the Kelloggs of Hartford, 1830-1886
NANCY FINLAY
An introduction to Spanish baroque frames in the golden age
PHILIPPE AVILA
January 2007. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem
Cover: Objects from the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salern, North Carolina
Photographs by Wes Stewart.
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts: An introduction
GARY ALBERT
Many hands, many voices: Southern furniture at MESDA
ROBERT A. LEATH
Earth transformed: Early southern pottery at MESDA and Old Salem
LUKE BECKERDITE AND ROBERT HUNTER
Architecture as artifact: Period rooms at MESDA
LOUIS P. NELSON
Transatlantic currents: Paintings at MESDA
MAURIE D. MCINNIS
“A laudable example of industry”: North Carolina Moravian furniture
JOHANNA METZGAR BROWN
Of the latest style: Silver at MESDA
CATHERINE B. HOLLAN
Tangible displays of refinements: Southern needlework at MESDA
KATHLEEN STAPLES
Useful devices: The prints and maps at MESDA
MARGARET BECK PRITCHARD
February 2007

Cover: Detail of Consulat-France, unnumbered plate in Auguste Racinet (1825-1893), Le Costume historique
(Paris, 1888)
New York Public Library, New York City. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
The new classical galleries in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
PETER M. KENNY
When rakes ruled: French masculine dress of the revolutionary era
PAULA A. BAXTER
Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington for the Maryland State House: “Something better than a mere coppy”
ELAINE RICE BACHMANN
Icy embellishments: Arctic imagery and the decorative arts
ROBERT MCCRACKEN PECK
March 2007
Cover: The Beeches, by Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), 1845. Oil on canvas, 60 3/8 by 48 inches
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup
New additions to the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ELLENOR ALCORN
Folk furniture of Canada’s Doukhobors
JOHN FLEMING AND MICHAEL ROWAN
The emperor looks west
NANCY BERLINER
The women mosaicists at Tiffany Studios
NINA GRAY, MARGARET K. HOFER, AND MARTIN EIDELBERG
Asher B. Durand and the old masters
BARBARA DAYER GALLATI
April 2007
Cover: Chop Suey, by Edward Hopper (1882-1967), 1929. Oil on canvas
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth; photograph by courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edward Hopper’s stories
CAROL TROYEN
Philadelphia furniture in the Empire style
ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY

American genre prints in the service of French commerce, 1848-1860
DECOURCY E. MCINTOSH
Architectural samplers from Frederick County, Maryland
GLORIA SEAMAN ALLEN
Rediscovering James Madison’s Montpelier
CYBELE TRIONE GONTAR
May 2007. American furniture
Cover: Detail of a desk-and-bookcase, by Ichabod Cole (1748-1841), Warren Rhode Island, 1790
Photograph by Freeman Productions, by courtesy of Bernard and S. Dean Levy
Living with antiques: A Kentucky couple collects
SCOTT ERBES
A recently discovered Rhode Island furniture maker, Ichabod Cole
PATRICIA E. KANE
Mystery solved: Identifying an early Philadelphia Federal side chair
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
New York furniture for the Stirlings of Wakefield, Saint Francisville, Louisiana
PAUL M. HAYGOOD AND MATTHEW A. THURLOW
Attributing a vernacular six-board chest
GERALD C. MINGIN AND JOHN B. VANDER SANDE
A New Bedford masterpiece
JACK O’BRIEN
New Orleans’s freemen of color: A forgotten generation of cabinetmakers rediscovered
MARGO PRESTON MOSCOU
June 2007. England
Cover: Detail of Lichfield Cathedral, by Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), c. 1794
Yale Center for British Ant, New Haven, Connecticut, Paul Mellon Collection
Tracking James Giles on Worcester porcelain
PAUL CRANE
“The greatest genius that ever touched landscape”: John Robert Cozens and English watercolor
MATTHEW HARGRAVES

The Robert Adam rooms in Philadelphia and New York City
GEOFFREY BEARD
English pictorial enamels: Battersea and Bilston enamels and their successors
ERIKA SPEEL
Furniture by Gillows of Lancaster for Thomas English of Boston
SUSAN STUART
An English way with tea: Silver containers of the eighteenth century
JOHN A. HYMAN
July 2007. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Cover: Detail of The Stoddert Children, by Charles Willson Peale, 1789
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, Dumbarton House, Washington, D. C.
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: The first 116 years
NANCY DOUTHAT GOSS AND ALEXANDRA WEST ROLLINS
Pioneers in historic preservation
TANIA JUNE SAAMMONS
Treasure houses of the Colonial Dames
JANE C. NYLANDER
Vernacular architecture
ANNE CROFOOT KUCKRO
A precious legacy of furniture
WILLIAM HOSLEY
Extraordinary furniture discoveries
WILLIAM HOSLEY
A gracious way of life
ELLEN PAUL DENKER
“Mementos of bygone days": Portraits
CHARLOTTE EMANS MOORE
“Healthful and intelligent information": Paintings and drawings
CHARLOTTE EMANS MOORE
August 2007

Cover: Details of two Shaker painted storage boxes. Possibly by James Johnson (1776-1861), probably
Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1835-1845 (top), and probably Alfred or Sabbathday Lake, Maine, 1840-1860
(bottom)
Collection of Jane and Gerald Katcher; photograph by Alden Pellett
Out of this world: Shaker designs, past, present and future
JEAN M. BURKS
The legacy of Herman Marcus and Marcus and Company: Part I, The early years, 1850 -1892
JANET ZAPATA
Visions of summer: Ehrick Rossiter in Washington, Connecticut
SCOTT J. TILDEN
Four Ohio nineteenth-century folk artists
ARTHUR AND SYBIL KERN AND PETER AND LESLIE WARWICK
September 2007
Cover: View in the dining room of the David Berry Gamble House, Pasadena, California, with stained glass made by the Sturdy-Lange company of Los Angeles and Aurene glass vases by the Steuben Glass Works,
Corning, New York, early 1900s
Photograph by Larry Underhill Photography.
Painted boxes and miniature chests from Shenandoah County, Virginia: The Stirewalt group
J. RODERICK MOORE AND MARSHALL GOODMAN
The legacy of Herman Marcus and Marcus and Company: Part II, The Marcus and Company years, 1892-1 941
JANET ZAPATA
Living with antiques: Channing Forge Mansion near Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania
PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN
Gorham’s Japanese flatware pattern
WILLIAM P. HOOD JR., JOHN R. OLSON, AND CHARLES S. CURB
Two arts and crafts houses: Paradigms in Pasadena and Boston
MAUREEN MEISTER
After Augustus Saint-Gaudens: His memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
THAYER TOLLES
October 2007. International style
Cover: The tribune at Moggerhanger House, Bedfordshire, England, with the staircase beyond
Photograph by courtesy of Country Life.
Making an uncollectible collectible: American silver, 1810-1840

STUART P. FELD
New light on Henry Roderick Newman as an oil painter: Recent rediscoveries
ROYAL W. LEITH
Sir John Soane’s Moggerhanger: A very personal work
PETER INSKIP
An Italian idyll: Meissen porcelain gifts and gift-giving
MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER
Piranesi: The aesthetic of eclecticism and his Egyptian style
SARAH E. LAWRENCE
Gilt bronze in French decorative arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
MARIE-LAURE DE ROCHEBRUNE
Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner's military and civil silver and gold
DONALD L. FENNIMORE AND ANN K. WAGNER
November 2007. American art
Cover: Detail of Wasp and Pear; by Gerald Murphy, 1929
Museum of Modem Art, New York City, gift of Archibald MacLeish; photograph by courtesy of SCALA/Art
Resource, New York City. © Estate of Honoria Mmphy Donnelly licensed by VAGA, New York
The American career of Charles Robert Leslie
BARBARA DAYER GALLATI
The making of Making It New
DEBORAH ROTHSCHILD AND KATHRYN PRICE
Three rediscovered paintings of currency by John Haberle
GERTRUDE GRACE SILL
Building on Dartmouth’s historic American collections: Hood Museum of Art acquisitions since 1985
BARBARA J. MACADAM
A brilliant formula: Ammi Phillips’s women in white
JOAN R. BROWNSTEIN AND BOBBI TERKOWITZ
Sears Gallagher, Boston watercolorist, 1865-1955
BRUCE W. CHAMBERS
"Like a needle to the Pole": The French adventures of Cecilia Beaux
SYLVIA YOUNT
December 2007

Cover: Detail of Portrait of Lady Diana Cecil, Countess of Oxford, attributed to William Larkin, 1614 -1618
Suffolk Collection, on view at Kenwood House, London; photograph by courtesy of English Heritage Photo
Library
Rings on their fingers: Ring wearing from ancient times to the Renaissance
SANDRA HINDMAN
An English way with tea: Silver containers of the eighteenth century, continued
JOHN A. HYMAN
A Mclntire restoration: The east parlor in the Peirce-Nichols House, Salem, Massachusetts
DEAN T. LAHIKAINEN
The Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones mosaics in Saint Paul's Within the Walls in Rome
SHELDON BARR
The making of the almost perfect flute
RICARDO ZAPATA
January 2008
Cover: Assorted buckets and other containers made at the Shaker communities of Mount Lebanon, New York, and Canterbury and Enfield, New Hampshire, mid-19th century
Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham, New York; photograph by Jane Feldman
New light on Frederic Church’s “late” work
GERALD L. CARR
Paul T. Frankl's Skyscraper furniture
CHRISTOPHER LONG
Living with antiques. A lakeside retreat
ELIZABETH DONAGHY GARRETT
Tea, pith, and monkey business
IFAN WILLIAMS
The Shaker aesthetic reconsidered
ROBERT W. WILKINS
Cornelius Kierstede, colonial silversmith
KATHERINE A. WAHLBERG
February 2008
Cover: Openwork fruit baskets, American China Manufactory, Philadelphia, 1770-1772
Top to bottom: Detroit Institute of Arts; Collection of Mrs. George M. Kaufman, on long-term loan to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Winterthur Museum, Delaware. Photographs by Gavin Ashworth

History in towns: Key West, Florida
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS
Fancy samplers of New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 1805-1835
KATHLEEN STAPLES
Recent scholarship on the American China Manufactory of Bonnin and Morris
ROBERT HUNTER AND ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY
The wings of a butterfly: Pastels by Thomas Wilmer Dewing
SUSAN A. HOBBS
March 2008
Cover: Detail of Red Cart, by Stuart Davis, 1932. Oil on canvas
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Massachusetts
Chaste and pure: Maine’s eighteenth-century meeting houses
MARIUS B. PELADEAU
Musical machines and living dolls: The Murtogh D. Guinness Collection
ELLEN M. SNYDER-GRENIER
The artistic hearth: The fireplace in the American aesthetic movement
KAREN ZUKOWSKI
“Savage and deliberate”: Alexander Calder’s wearable art
JESSICA HOLMES
American modernism and the Addison Gallery of American Art
BRIAN T. ALLEN
April 2008
Cover: Detail of Peasant Mother and Child, by Mary Cassatt, c. 1894. Final state. Drypoint and aquatint
Photograph by courtesy of Adelson Galleries and Marc Rosen Fine Art, New York City
Celebrating 275 years of brotherhood: The Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
AIMEE E. NEWELL
A notable collection of prints and drawings by Mary Cassatt
BARBARA STERN SHAPIRO
Vanity of vanities: A Tiffany and Company rediscovery
DALE CYRUS WHEARY

A baroque Virginia treasure house: Landon Carter's Sabine Hall
RALPH HARVARD
Douglas Volk and the arts and crafts in Maine
ARLENE M. PALMER
Victorian crystal table fountains
JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN
May 2008. American furniture
Cover: Cabinet designed by Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905-1976), c. 1938. Oak, rosewood inlay, and brass
Photograph by Brian Franczyk by courtesy of Wright, Chicago
A rare Kem Weber chair shows the European side of American modernism
MARTIN FILLER
Servitude and splendor: The craftsmen and the carved furniture of the Rappahannock River valley, 1740-
1780
ROBERT A. LEATH
“First Rate & Fashionable": The Furniture of John Erhart Rose
MICHAEL W. BELL, BETSY K. WHITE, AND SUMPTER PRIDDY III
What modern was: Mid-century masters of luxury
GREGORY CERIO
Conversations in western New York Charles Rohlfs and Gustav Stickley
JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM
Litchfield County cross-braced furniture
ANN Y. SMITH
The Butterfly Man of New Orleans: A rare group of Creole style armoires identified
CYBELE T. GONTAR AND JACK D. HOLDEN
June 2008. England
Cover: Detail of a table with painted plaques designed by W. S. Coleman, English, c. 1875
Private collection, photograph by Richard Holttum
The collector’s eye: Paul Walter moves his W. A. S. Benson chandelier
MARTIN FILLER
Pugin’s “perfect” church: Saint Giles’ in Cheadle
GEOFFREY BEARD

Bold, bright, and underappreciated: British furniture at mid-century
GREGORY CERIO
An eclectic taste for ormolu: Mounted ceramics at Tatton Park, Cheshire
PATRICIA F. FERGUSON
Savoring the past: Ivan Day’s collection of culinary antiques
SHAX RIEGLER
The Duke of Newcastle’s lacquer side tables
JEREMY GARFIELD-DAVIES AND TESSA MURDOCH
Living with antiques: A collection of British art pottery and fin de siècle decorative arts
MAX DONNELLY
July 2008
Cover: Branch brooch with cherry blossoms, made by René Lalique, 1900-1902; dragonfly brooch, made by
Louis Aucoc, 1900; dragonfly pendant-brooch, made by Philippe Wolfers, 1904
Private collection, photographs are by Greg Heins, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The innovative techniques and unusual materials of art nouveau jewelry
YVONNE J. MARKOWITZ AND SUSAN WARD
Hope springs eternal, again
MARTIN FILLER
Thomas Hope’s Costume of the Ancients and the painters George Cooke and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
FRANCES VAN KEUREN
Showmanship and fantasy: The designs of James Mont
GREGORY CERIO
Early folk art collecting in Maine: Its contributions to modernism
KEVIN D. MURPHY
Ingenuity and imitation: Pierre dure and its colorful progeny
FLORIAN KNOTHE
August 2008
Cover: Details of Bust of a Young Man, c. 1847, and Head of a Boy, 1847, by Asa Ames
Huntington Museum of An, West Virginia (left), and Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York (right); photographs by Matt Flynn.
Asa Ames: New discoveries
STACY C. HOLLANDER

Windows on the past: Watercolors of long-vanished houses and gardens
SHAX RIEGLER
Millers tale: The Indianapolis Museum of Art gets a modem design collection
MARTIN FILLER
Frank Lloyd Wright's Zimmerman House
HOWARD MANSFIELD
John Hewson and the French connection
KIMBERLY WULFERT
September 2008
Cover: Details of flatware by the Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1882-1895
Private collections; photographs by Thomas R. DuBrock
Gorham’s “white gold” flatware
WILLIAM P. HOOD, JR., DALE E. BENNETT, AND RICHARD A. KURTZMAN
The real Menil
MARTIN FILLER
Sara De Hart: Early American silhouettist
LESLIE AND PETER WARWICK
The lost generation of Danish design
GREGORY CERIO
Royal porcelain from the Twinight Collection
CLAUDIA LEHNER-JOBST
Living with antiques: Stephen Gray’s collection of arts and crafts furnishings
NANCY E. GREEN
An Americana odyssey
ALBERT SACK
October 2008. International issue
Cover: Chinar leaf bowl, Kashmir, c.1885. Silver, height 7 1/4 inches
Collection of Paul F. Waller," photograph by Richard Goodbody
The scene: San Francisco’s Jackson Square
GREGORY CERIO
Indian silver for the Raj

SHAX RIEGLER
Timeless stones and bronzes: The collection of Philip Hewat-Jaboor
DAVID WATKIN
The purists Paul Follot and Maurice Dufrene
GREGORY CERIO
George Harvey’s Anglo-American atmospheric landscapes
ROBERTA J. M. OLSON
The global eye of Sherman Lee
MARTIN FILLER
Artistic luxury at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris
STEPHEN HARRISON
A newly discovered signature on a piece of Irish furniture
DESMOND FITZGERALD, KNIGHT OF GLIN, AND JAMES PEILL
November 2008. American painting
Cover: Detail of Star Road and White Sun by Ernest L. Blumenschein, 1920
Albuquerque Museum
Ernest Blumenschein and the Indians
PETER H. HASSRICK
Seattle goes boom: The Seattle Art Museum becomes a mecca for American art
TIM APPELO
A sense of place: American art and the Seattle Art Museum
PATRICIA JUNKER
Reflections: Charles Demuth and Georgia O’Keeffe
MARK D. MITCHELL
Founding mother: Barbara Novak and the resurrection of nineteenth-century American painting
MARTIN FILLER
The devil went down to Brooklyn: William Moore Davis and the “Legend of Martense’s Lane”
SARAH KATE GILLESPIE
Poetry of the air: Thomas Moran’s Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey
ELIZABETH JOHNS

Seymour Joseph Guy: “Little Master” of American genre painting
BRUCE WEBER
Frederic Edwin Church’s Our Banner in the Sky: An update on an American icon
ALFRED C. HARRISON JR.
December 2008
Cover: Hall chair and desk chair probably designed by Charles Rohlfs and Anna Katharine Green
Metropolitan Museum of Art (left) and Milwaukee Art Museum (right), both gifts of the American Decorative
Art 1900 Foundation; photographs by Gavin Ashworth
The treasures of Citizen Hearst
SHAX RIEGLER
Lalique’s glass church
MARCUS BINNEY
Anna Katharine Green and Charles Rohlfs: Artistic collaborators
JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM
Gilbert Rohde: The man who saved Herman Miller
GREGORY CERIO
Olbrich overlooked
MARTIN FILLER
Palladio minimus: A Georgian dollhouse and the eighteenth-century miniature world
DANIEL KURT ACKERMANN
Not for sale: An exquisitely made collection of miniature furniture
KEVIN TULIMIERI
January 2009. The American Antiques Season
COVER: Detail of a gilded glass pitcher designed by Jean Cocteau for Cristallerie Daum, Nancy, France, 1957; and of a mold-blown and enameled glass vase made by Vladimir Kopecky, Prague, I959
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; photograph by Nick Williams and Andrew Fortune
Dealer profile: Clinton Howell
PAUL O’DONNELL
Window, mirror, and prism: The Corning Museum of Glass
MARTIN FILLER

Seeing through modernism at Corning
GREGORY CERIO
The baptism of Pocahontas
FAITH ANDREWS BEDFORD
The “it” chair
SHAX RIEGLER
A tankard by Myer Myers
DAVID L. BARQUIST
Living with antiques: A collection in Providence, Rhode Island
LAURA BEACH
Micah Williams: Some recent discoveries
BERNADETTE M. ROGOFF
Adam Hodam’s cipher hook discovered
STEVEN S. POWERS
A “Woman could paint a likeness?"
MICHAEL R. PAYNE AND SUZANNE RUDNICK PAYNE
February 2009
COVER: Woolworth and Municipal Buildings from Brooklyn Bridge, New York, postcard, artist unknown,
1910s. Photomechanical reproduction
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Evans Archive, New York
Dealer profile: Peter Pap
PAUL O’DONNELL
Dealer interview: Ben Janssens
BROOK S. MASON
America in 3 by 5
THOMAS HINE
French furniture? Foreign artisans in Paris during the ancien régime
FLORIAN KNOTHE
Master drawings from the collection of Horace Wood Brock
CLIFFORD S. ACKLEY
His own private Wolfsonian
MARTIN FILLER

Late Gothic coffers
MAUREEN MULLARKEY
The lure of provenance
MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH
March 2009
COVER: A selection of American studio ceramics from the collection of Philip E. Aarons.
Photographs are by Gavin Ashworth
Dealer profile: James Elkind
PAUL O’DONNELL
American studio ceramics at mid-century
GREGORY CERIO
Harbor and home: Furniture of south-eastern Massachusetts, 1710- 1850
LAURA BEACH
Red, White, and Tiffany blue
MARTIN FILLER
The spirit of innovation: Wedgwood in the nineteenth century
ANNE FORSCHLER-TARRASCH
Timepieces of timeless beauty from the Horace Wood Brock Collection
REBECCA TILLES
April 2009
COVER: PoRTRAIT OF A Gentleman by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), c. 1807. Watercolor on ivory Private collection
Curator profile: Philip Zea
How America found its face: Portrait miniatures in the New Republic
ELLE SHUSHAN
Living with antiques: Shaker
TOM CHRISTOPHER
John Hardman and Company: Pugin’s glasspainters
MICHAEL FISHER
History in towns: Madison, Goorgia
WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS

American domestic
THOMAS HINE
Indiana modern
MARTIN FILLER
May 2009. American furniture
COVER: Reopened Charles Engelhard Court of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth
Dealer profile: Sumpter Priddy III
ELEANOR H. GUSTAFSON
The American Wing gets ready to soar: Renovation and refinement
MARTIN FILLER
The American Wing at one hundred
MORRISON H. HECKSCHER
The American Campeche chair
CYBELE T. GONTAR
Kem Weber and the rise of modern design in Southern California
CHRISTOPHER LONG
Furniture making in Massachusetts: Two Plymouth County discoveries
BROCK JOBE AND GARY R. SULLIVAN
Thomas Hartland’s tea party
KEVIN L. TULIMIERI
Japanned furniture: Global objects in provincial America
PHYLLIS WHITMAN HUNTER
The best “blew”: A rare American blue-japanned tall-case clock
ALYCE L. PERRY
June 2009. 2009 AnnualGuide
New European Museums and Permanent Displays
CAROLIN C. YOUNG
Exhibition Highlights of the Coming Year
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration One Hundred Years Later

MEGAN HOLLOWAY FORT
American Museums Grow
KATHLEEN LUHRS
INDEX to listings by category
INDEX to services
INDEX to specialties
INDEX to artists and
July 2009
COVER: Detail of the Calumet cowgirl mural, originally painted for the set of the 1984 film Red Dawn, on
Grand Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico
Photograph by Jack Parsons
Dealer profile: Jeff Bridgman
KATRINE AMES
Creating the West in art
PATER H. HASSRICK
History in towns: Another Las Vegas, this one in New Mexico
FREDERICK TURNER
Santo Domingo Pueblo jewelry
SALLY AND J. RODERICK MOORE
Living with antiques: The Juan José Prada house, residence of Nedra and Richard Matteucci in Santa Fe
LAURA BEACH
The art of the missions of northern New Spain
MICHAEL K. KOMANECKY
August 2009. Folk art
COVER: Interior of Allan and Penny Katz’s house. Among the objects pictured is a carved and painted wood store mannequin of c. 1890-1910 once owned by Andy Warhol. Beyond is a Japanese fireman‘s uniform complete with helmet and gloves, c. 1870, and, on the far wall, a cupboard filled with German and Czech art deco pottery
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth
Living with antiques: Utility, artistry, and soul: The collection of Allan and Penny Katz
TOM CHRISTOPHER

Folk art: Modern design’s secret pleasure
GREGORY CERIO
Papers of record: Four stylistically related watercolor genealogies from the first half of the nineteenth century
J. E. JELINEK
Living with antiques: Low key, high impact: The collection of Tim and Pam Hill
MICHAEL D. HALL
Trench art of the Great War
JANE A. KIMBALL
September 2009
COVER: Detail of the parlor at Eyre Hall
Photograph by Langdon Clay
The Scene: Hudson, New York
GREGORY CERIO
Eyre Hall on Virginia's Eastern Shore
J. THOMAS SAVAGE
The present learns from the past: Eight contemporary artists and the Shelburne Museum
ELEANOR H. GUSTAFSON
Margrieta van Varick's “East Indian" goods: A possible influence on colonial American silver
MARYBETH DE FILIPPIS
Making the whole world kin: Religion, painting, and the transcendence of race: An appreciation of Henry
Ossawa Tanner
MAUREEN MULLARKEY
October 2009
COVER: Teapot designed by Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), 1924, manufactured by the Bauhaus Metal
Workshop. Nickel silver and ebony
Museum of Modern Art, Phyllis B. Lambert Fund
Dealer profile: David Lavender
MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH
Timeless Tudor: Bradley Court in Gloucestershire
MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH
Design and reform: the making of the Bauhaus
CHRISTOPHER LONG

Gauguin rising
JAMES GARDNER
Chicago and the arts and crafts movement
MONICA OBNISKI AND BRANDON K. RUUD
Seventeenth century design prints of Louis XIV's silver furniture at Versailles
FLORIAN KNOTHE
Living with antiques: Malmaison in the sky
ELEANOR P. DELORME AND CHARLES P DELORME
November 2009. American painting
COVER: Detail of The Painter’s Triumph by William Sidney Mount, 1838
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, bequest of Henry C. Carey (The Carey Collection)
Dealer profile: John H. Surovek
PAUL O’DONNELL
The pursuit of authenticity: American artists as they saw themselves
CARRIE REBORA BARRATT
Charles Melville Dewey: A forgotten master of classic tonalism
DAVID ADAMS CLEVELAND
Ragged grace and picturesque naturalness: James E. Freeman and the painting of sentiment
MARY K. MCGUIGAN AND JOHN F. MCGUIGAN, JR.
Eliza Greatorex and old New York, 1869
KATHERINE E. MANTHORNE
Finding beauty, creating harmony: The art of William F. Jackson
ALFRED C. HARRISON
Ralph D. Curtis: A nineteenth-century folk artist identified
J. E. JELINEK
Cezanne and American modernism
GAIL STAVITSKY
December 2009
COVER: French toleware in the Octagon Room at Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester,
Massachusetts
Photograph by David Bohl.

Lost in a dream: Beauport in Gloucester, Massachusetts
The hidden magic of Henry Davis Sleepers Beauport
HOWARD MANSFIELD
The legacy of Henry Davis Sleeper
SHAX RIEGLER
Contriving the Madisons’ drawing room: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the furniture of John and Hugh Finlay
ALEXANDRA ALEVIZATOS KIRTLEY
Living with antiques: At home with Christopher Dresser
MAX DONNELLY
The Church of the Atonement, Quogue, New York
CYNTHIA A. DRAYTON