Queries

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2004 by Remi Spriggs

THE MOFFATT-LADD HOUSE in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is owned by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire. Among the early furnishings in this 1763 house is a suite of mahogany furniture made about 1760 in the Chinese taste either in the American colonies or in England. There is one stool in the suite (illustrated below), but it is possible that it was one of a pair or more. Anyone with information regarding stools of this type is encouraged to contact:

Alexandra W. Rollins

24 Goodrich Road

Jamaica Plain,

Massachusetts 02130

alexandra@rollinsupton.com

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THE NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of sixteen major cultural agencies, will offer at least nine awards in 2005 and 2006. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Applications are welcomed from anyone with a serious need to use the collections and facilities of the organizations. Each award will be for research at a minimum of three different institutions, with at least two weeks spent at each. Grants in this cycle are for the year June 1, 2005, to May 31, 2006. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2005. For further information or an application, please contact:

Cherylinne Pina

Administrative Assistant of Publications

Regional Fellowships

Massachusetts Historical Society

1154 Boylston Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02215

cpina@masshist.org

ESPERANZA GABAY (1874-1963) studied painting under Kenyon Cox and Walter Shirlaw at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1903 she took a class at the Art Students League of New York in New York City, and in 1913 and 1914 she painted at the Cragsmoor Art Colony in Cragsmoor, New York. She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (now the National Assocation of Women Artists) from 1917 to 1933, during which time she exhibited the painting The Hammock at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1922. She had two solo exhibitions in New York City, one at Mrs. Malcolm's Gallery in 1922 and another at the Holt Gallery in 1926. She taught art at the Barrington School for Girls in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, from 1923 to 1926. For a forthcoming monograph and exhibition, any information regarding the artist or the whereabouts of her works would be welcomed.

Nancy Thurston

7470 AR Highway 58

Williford, Arkansas 72482

ctn37270@centurytel.net

The Magazine ANTIQUES invites submissions for Queries from researchers and institutions seeking information pertinent to the decorative and fine arts and architecture.

Edited by Remi Spriggs