Becoming America : highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding collection of folk art /

"Becoming America offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant painted decoration, techniques of sewing and q...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Glisson, James (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Marino, California : The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, [2020]
Subjects:	Fielding, Jonathan E. > Art collections > Exhibitions. Fielding, Karin > Art collections > Exhibitions. Folk art > United States > Exhibitions. Art > Private collections > United States > Exhibitions. ART / Folk & Outsider Art. DESIGN / Decorative Arts. ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections. Art > Private collections. Folk art. United States. Exhibition catalogs.

Table of Contents:

Director's foreword / Christina Nielsen
Origins / Jonathan and Karin Fielding
The old, forever-new things : an introduction to Becoming America / James Glisson
Forty years in folk art : a conversation with David Wheatcroft / James Glisson
Early American furniture : its making, its meaning, its pleasures / John Demos
The kaleidoscope and the fancy style of the early republic, 1790-1840 / Sumpter Priddy
"Husband every hour" : early American textiles in the Fielding collection / Elizabeth V. Warren
In imitation of nature : landscape and still-life painting in early America / Stacy C. Hollander
"The human heart by which we live" : family portraits from cradle to grave / Robin Jaffee Frank.