A revolution in taste: Furniture design in the American backcountry

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2001 by Philip Zea

(8.) For example, see The Great River: Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820, ed. Gerald W. R. Ward and William N. Hosley Jr. (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1985), pp. 185-444; Wallace B. Gusler, "The Arts of Shenandoah County, Virginia 1770-1825," Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol. 5, no. 2 (November 1979), pp. 6-35.

(9.) I would like to thank Sumpter Priddy III and Martha Vick for their research on the Cabell family and the cabinetmakers in the Staunton area.

(10.) Philip Zea, "Diversity and Regionalism in Rural New England Furniture," pp. 69-111.

(11.) Hurst and Prown, Southern Furniture, pp. 441-448; John J. Snyder Jr., "John Shearer, Joiner of Martinsburgh," Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol. 5, no. 1 (May 1979), pp. 1-25.

(12.) Hurst and Prown, Southern Furniture, pp. 496-499; Claudia Kinmonth, Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950 (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1993), pp. 99, 105, 107, 197.

(13.) Scott T. Swank et al., Arts of the Pennsylvania Gennans (Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, and W. W. Norton, New York, 1983), pp. 3-76.

(14.) Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725-1865: The Mable Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973), pp. 114-117, 130-133; Swank et al., Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans, pp. 146-155.

(15.) Hurst and Prown, Southern Furniture, pp. 337-343; Donald Walters, "Johannes Spitler, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Furniture Decorator," The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol. 108, no. 5 (October 1975), pp. 730-735; Chris Shelton, "Johannes Spitler, A Virginia Furniture Decorator at the Turn of the 19th Century," (paper presented at the Wooden Artifacts Group: Specialty Session, American Institute for Conservation Meeting, Buffalo, New York, June 7, 1992).

(16.) Kenneth Joel Zogry, The Best the Country Affords: Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850 (Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont, 1995), pp. 53-57; History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont..., ed. Lewis Cass Aldrich (Syracuse, New York, 1891), p. 334.

(17.) Zogry, The Best the Country Affords, pp. 60-61.

(18.) Hurst and Prown, Southern Furniture, pp. 474-479.