Author: Rhea Mansfield KnittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Early American Stencils on Walls and Furniture
Author: Janet WaringPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486219062
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Uses photographs and text to illustrate the variety of stencils used as decorative art during the early nineteenth century
Antiques
Author: Catalogues- American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Montgomery WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Antiquarian
Author: Arts & Decoration
Author: Antiques
Author: Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860
Author: Rosemary Troy KrillPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119465
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materials developed at the museum, the revised and enhanced Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters is an indispensable guide for anyone involved with interpretation of decorative arts collections. Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860 elucidates the principles of public interpretation, explains how to analyze objects, and defines the concept of style. Eighteen chapters provide comprehensive descriptions of decorative arts including furniture, ceramics, textiles, paintings and prints, metalwork, glass, and other objects. Many museums and historic sites display such collections to thousands of visitors annually. Guides, interpreters, educators, and collection managers will find this book a helpful summary and a guide to further research. This enhanced edition includes now includes a CD featuring beautiful color images of the more than 170 black-and-white photographs in the book, bringing the Winterthur collections to life on your computer and in your classroom. Published in cooperation with Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
American Glass Review
Author: American Glass
Author: John Stuart GordonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300226691
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, American Glass illuminates the vital and often intimate roles that glass has played in the nation's art and culture. Spectacularly illustrated, the publication showcases eighteenth-century mold-blown vessels, nineteenth-century pressed glass, innovative studio work, and luminous stained-glass windows by John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, the latter reproduced as a lush gatefold. These are considered alongside beguiling objects that broaden our expectations of glass and speak to the centrality of the medium in American life, including one of the oldest complex microscopes in the United States, an early Edison light bulb, glass-plate photography, jewelry, and more. With an essay on the history of collecting American glass and discussions of each object that present new scholarship, this engaging book tells the long and rich history of glass in America--from prehistoric minerals to contemporary sculptures"--Dust jacket front flap.