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Dr. Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane contracted rheumatic fever during his second year of university. This doubtless led him to the pursuit of medical studies (by age twenty-two, he had published a study of early pregnancy detection in the American Journal of Medical Sciences). Because of this training, he possessed a clear understanding of the clinical implications of the persistent endocarditis left by the disease. Without the benefit of antibiotics, it was the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Great International Railway Suspension Bridge Over the Niagara River
On March 8th in 1855, the first locomotive crossed John Roebling’s railway suspension bridge over the Niagara River at Niagara Falls.
Roebling was not the first to bridge the Niagara gorge, but his was the first Niagara bridge to carry rail traffic. It was also the first railway suspension bridge in North America. His critics protested that a suspension bridge could not possibly support the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, born 1927),
Alechinsky has worked most of his life in Paris. He studied at the National College of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Brussels. In 1949 he joined Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Christian Dotremont to form CoBrA, an art movement created as a reaction against the formalized style of painting then popular in Europe. The name was an acronym of the cities from which the artists hailed – Copenhagen, Brussels, [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Studebaker Collection of Quaker Hill
For over half a century, Richard and Sue Studebaker have stood as pillars of the Ohio antiques community. Thousands of collectors, scholars, and students have been welcomed to Quaker Hill, the couple’s eighteenth century home in Dayton, to enjoy the Studebaker’s hospitality and their passion for Americana.
Richard and Sue purchased their first antique on their honeymoon in New England in 1952, and within a few years, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the most important document in American History, some would say in World History. Passed by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 sitting in Philadelphia it officially severed the ties of allegiance between the thirteen colonies and King George III and his realm of Great Britain, and setting forth the case for the colonies right to be independent.
In the years since its approval, copies of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Maxfield Parrish’s “Daybreak”
This iconic Arcadian image was commissioned by the art publisher House of Art in 1922 specifically to be reproduced as an art print. It was the most popular of all of Parrish’s art prints and is one of the most reproduced paintings in American history. It has been estimated that in the 1920s and 1930s one in four American homes had a copy of this print on their walls.
Although [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank Redlinger
The life dates for the artist Frank Redlinger are sometimes confused with those of his father (for whom he was named). The artist’s dates are 1909 to 1936; the father’s dates are 1888 to 1951.
Reference note by p4A editorial staff: 2010.
Thomas A. Gray
Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 to 1940)
Paul Klee was born near Bern, Switzerland in 1879 to a family of musicians. Klee himself was a gifted violinist. Although music was important to him throughout his life he moved to Germany to study art. He studied in Munich from 1898 to 1901 with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck. Klee settled in Bern in 1902 and in 1906 exhibited a series of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community
After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading.
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