.2001- 2006 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American 19-20th Century Decorative Arts"

 

(above: Bennington Potters, Ring Decanter, mid-19th century, earthenware (Bennington Ware), 8 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Elizabeth Pratt Bequest, M.78.104.41. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

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We recommend that readers search within the TFAO website to find detailed information for any topic. Please see our page How to research topics not listed for more information.

 

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages (9/30/06)

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall - An Artist's Country Estate (9/18/06)

Electric Tiffany (8/23/06)

Laying the Foundation: American Art Tile (9/6/05)

Tiffany By Design (8/3/05)

 

American Art Pottery: Selections from the Charles Hosmer Morse Collection; article by Valerie Ann Leeds (7/29/05)

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World (2/8/05)

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory (1/25/05)

Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (9/15/04)

Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918 (1/17/04)

 

The Norma K. and Edwin J. Seiferle Collection of Native American Art (1/17/04)

New Louis Comfort Tiffany Permanent Collection Display at University of Kentucky Art Museum (10/31/03)

American Quilt Classics 1800 ­ 1980: The Charles and Fleur Bresler Collection (6/3/03)

California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism (5/31/03)

Glorious Treasures: 100 Years of Collecting by the Southwest Museum (5/31/03)

 

Quilts: A Window to the Past (4/22/02)

The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition (4/15/01)

 

(above: Bennington Potters, Spitoon, mid-19th century, earthenware (Bennington Ware), 3 7/16 x 7 6/16 inches, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Elizabeth Pratt Bequest, M.78.104.42. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

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(above: William Ellis Tucker (United States, active 1826-1832), William Ellis Tucker Factory (United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1826-1838), Sugarbox, c. 1828-1834, porcelain, painted, c) Sugarbox base: 3 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (8.26 x 14.61 x 9.53 cm); d) Sugarbox lid: 2 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (5.72 x 12.07 x 10.48 cm); c-d) Sugarbox: 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.97 x 14.61 x 9.53 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Grim, M.2000.101.1c-d. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)


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