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A History of Jenny Lind by J. Revell Carr, Director Emeritus, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut (courtesy Sotheby’s.) Very rarely, a 19th century figurehead emerges from obscurity and is recognized as the work of art it truly is. It is even more rare that such a figurehead is identified and reconnected to the history of the ship it once symbolized. In the Jenny Lind figurehead, we have such a rare find and the story [...] Click here to continue reading. Robert Henry Logan (1874 to 1942) American Impressionist Robert Logan was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on June 24, 1874, and as a young man, enrolled in Brown and Nichols School in Cambridge. Soon after, he studied with Frank Benson and Edmund Tarbell at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After winning the school’s top drawing prize in the early 1890s, Logan left to study in Paris at the Sorbonne and the [...] Click here to continue reading. Derriere le Miroir Derriere le Miroir was an art magazine published between 1946 and 1982 (253 issues) by the French publisher and gallery owner Aime Maeght. The Galerie Maeght, in Paris since 1945, exhibited and promoted names, such as Bonnard, Matisse, Braque, Leger, Steinberg, Chagall, Bram Van Velde, Miro, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Ubac, Bazaine, Calder, Derain, Chillida, Tapies, among so many other artists. The publication Derriere le Miroir, was the outcome of the gallery owner’s [...] Click here to continue reading. Rookwood decorators active between 1880 to 1919 Decorator, years and mark obtained from The Book of Rookwood Pottery and Barber’s Marks of American Potters. Decorator: Active years at Rookwood*: Mark or initials: Abel, Edward 1890-1892 E.A. Altman, Howard 1900-1904 H joined with A Asbury, Leonore 1894-1931 L.A. Aukland, Fannie Louise 1881-1884 FA in script or “puffy” Baker, Constance A. 1892-1904 C.A.B. Bishop, Irene 1903-1907 I.B. Bookprinter, A.M. (see Valentien) 1884-1905 A.M.B. with curved [...] Click here to continue reading. Mary Bradish Titcomb (American, 1858 to 1927) Mary Bradish Titcomb was one of leading women painters of the Boston School. She was born in Windham, New Hampshire in 1858, and moved to Boston at age twenty-eight to join the swelling ranks of women training to be art instructors in the state’s public schools.[1] After completing her studies at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, she was employed as the director of drawing for the town [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Earle and Yvonne Henderson, Charming Forge Mansion, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania CHARMING FORGE MANSION¦AT A GLANCE Charming Forge Mansion, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is nestled atop a hill overlooking a site that once buzzed with industrial activity and the clanking of a forge hammer. The forge is closed now and many of the buildings are gone but the mansion still looks out over the Tulpehocken Creek that once powered this magnificent [...] Click here to continue reading. Glass Target Balls Modern day skeet target shooting, in which the shooter uses a shotgun to attempt to hit a clay disk (a pigeon) launched into the air at some distance, has its origins in the late nineteenth century. Prior to that time these events used thousands and thousands of live birds, usually pigeons, for their targets. Beginning in about 1876 a scarcity of birds and a growing social sense that this type of [...] Click here to continue reading. Major General Oliver Otis Howard, US Army, Civil War Veteran and Indian Treaty Negotiator (Courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions) Oliver Otis Howard (1830 to 1909) was born in Maine. He graduated 4th in his class at USMA in 1854 and became a 2nd Lieut. in the ordnance department. Howard got his first experience fighting Indians in Florida as chief ordnance officer under Gen. Harney in the Seminole Wars. He then taught mathematics at West Point, [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Bill Sheka, Texas William A. (Bill) Sheka Jr.: Bill, a U.S. Army Veteran, has been a professional hunting and fishing guide for 30 years. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and after his military service, college, and working on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, he returned to Corpus Christi and worked for Baroid Logging Systems, quickly advancing to Operations Manager and then Senior Sales Rep. Sheka realized that he wanted to guide full [...] Click here to continue reading. Fairbanks Morse Scales “While sitting up watching for the time to call him, the principle upon which we now build our scales suddenly came into my mind. I told the agent that he must wait a few days until I could make plans and patterns in accordance with my new discovery, and said to my wife that I had just discovered a principle that would be worth more than a thousand dollars.” Thaddeus [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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