American Furniture With Related Decorative Arts, 1660-1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection

by Brock W. Jobe, Gerald W.R. Ward, Thomas S. Michie, Jayne H. Stokes

This authoritative reference book covers by chapter: The Seventeenth Century: Furniture in the New World - The Seventeenth Century (catalog entries 1-18); The William and Mary Style: The Early Baroque in Colonial America – The William and Mary Style (catalog entries 19-41); The Queen Anne Style: The Late Baroque in Colonial America – The Queen Anne style (catalog entries 42-58); American Chippendale: Change and Persistence in Revolutionary America – American Chippendale (catalog entries 59-77); The Federal Style: Neoclassicism in the New Nation – The Federal Style (catalog entries 78-113); Appendix A: Identification of Woods in the Furniture Collection; Appendix B: Ethafoam Treatment for a Boston Easy Chair; Bibliography; Index; Photograph Credits; and Notes on the Authors. Major authorities in the filed have provided the general essays on the various periods, as well as detailed entries on each example of furniture; additional specialists have written about the related metal, ceramic, and textile objects of the kind used in American homes of the period.

Eye for Excellence: Masterworks from Winterthur (Paperback - 1994)

By Donald L Fennimore (Author), Robert F Trent (Author), E Mc Sherry Fowble (Author)