Moorish fretwork furniture
Paul Tucker
Twist ornamentation on furniture has been in existence for centuries, but not until the nine…
Category: Magazine Antiques
Carpet cleaning and restoration
Allison Eckardt Ledes
More than a century ago, in 1884, S. Kent Costikyan left his native Turkey fo…
Georgian Campaign Furniture
Nicholas A. Brawer
During the Georgian period (1714-1830) it was commonly accepted among commissioned o…
The Heritage Lottery Fund and London’s Museums
Miriam Kramer
The Heritage Lottery Fund, benefiting from the British National Lotter…
Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, Nantucket artist
Margaret Moore Booker
The writer Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922) claimed in 1885…
Luminist paintings in California – landscape painters
Alfred C. Harrison Jr.
In the second half of the nineteenth century a number …
The circus in twentieth-century American art
Donna Gustafson
Henry Miller’s 1948 parable about the circus, The Smile at the Foot of…
European clocks at the Frick Collection – The Art of the Timekeeper. Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest, exhibition – Brief Article
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Martin Johnson Heade’s ‘Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay.’ – 1868; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Sarah Cash
In 1868 Martin…
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; for now hath time made me his numbering clock – historical views of clocks and time
Wendell Gar…