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Pottery in the service of medicine
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries people suffering from ailments of all sorts sought relief with various elixirs prepared and sold by...
Magazine Antiques, 12/01/07 by Allison Eckardt Ledes · More from publication -
Demuth's industrial paintings
In 1927 the accomplished modernist painter Charles Demuth began a series of seven paintings of industrial sites in his native Lancaster,...
Magazine Antiques, 11/01/07 by Allison Eckardt Ledes · More from publication -
Storing sugar in Kentucky
Before steamboats began plying the Mississippi River in 1818, it could take a flatboat more than a year to make the journey from New Orleans to...
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Modern design in San Francisco
Many of those think-outside-the-box designers of the early modern period in Europe and the United States--Jean Dunand, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit...
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Silver conservation and restoration
In 1905 the Danish silversmith and jewelry designer Georg Jensen (1806-1935) began to revolutionize silver holloware design with the introduction...
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Early photography
No one really knows the exact date when photography was invented. But once the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre announced his discovery of...
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Tiffany stained-glass windows
One could not help but notice when walking through the important and beautiful exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's...
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Restoring and conserving stained-glass windows
In the Middle Ages noblemen, church dignitaries, and craft guilds all commissioned artisans to create stained-glass windows for churches. Then for...
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Ashcan artists depict leisure
Around the turn of the twentieth century a group of American artists (Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens,...
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American landscape painting
Among the most American expressions of all the various movements in American art, works by Hudson River school landscape painters truly stand...
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/07 by Allison Eckardt Ledes · More from publication
