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Summer 16 www.afamag.com |  www.incollect.com contributors publisher and founder : editor - in - chief : editor - at - large : production director : creative director : marketing / communications : associate editor : director , new business development : advertising coordinator : senior account manager : account manager : color director : production supervisor : production assistant : is manager : controller : John S. Smiroldo Johanna McBrien Jonathan L. Fairbanks Marianne Litty Phil Lajoie Chris Hopkins Lauren Byrne A.J. Rossi Patrick Farley Roger Good Elsa McLaughlin Rick Marcouillier Curtis Harding Michael Pfister Steve Bendel Thayse Soares To Subscribe Call 800.783.4903 4 issues $19.95 (US) 8 issues $29.95 (US) Add $10 per year for Canadian and $40 per year for foreign subscriptions. www.AFAmag.com   www.InCollect.com advertising and customer service 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, Massachusetts 01801, USA 617.926.0004 / 888.922.0004 tillouantiques.com • Litchfield, CT • 860-567-9693 William G. Yorke (1817–1892) Lived/active: New York; New Brunswick, Canada; Liverpool, England Steam Tug Honeysuckle Signed, l.l.: Wm. G. Yorke, 99 Prospect St., Brooklyn Ca. 1875–1878 Oil on canvas, period gilt wood frame Condition: Lined in superb condition. A rare subject by the artist, Steam Tug Honeysuckle is a portrait of a tugboat built around 1876 for the United States government, which later became a New York harbor tug. Painted in Yorke’s typical American style, the painting has excellent detail and has a wonderful folky feeling. William G. Yorke worked from early life as a shipwright, painting in his spare time. In his thirties, his success as a painter allowed him to quit ship-building and paint full time. Ships, his natural subject, remained his fascination throughout his career. He and his son, William Howard Yorke, worked together in Canada and England, but when the two had a falling-out, the father came to America. He lived in America, often in boats and often in poverty, for the remainder of his career. Many of his paintings of ships are on display at the Mystic Seaport Museum of Connecticut. 22" x 34"; 27-1/8" x 39" framed. Hollis Brodrick, Member of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association. Page 123. Kelly A. Conway, Curator of American glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y. Page 106. Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief curator and curator of decorative arts, Newark Museum, Newark, N.J. Page 102. Kathleen A. Foster, Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art, and Director, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa. Page 114. Laura E. Johnson, Associate curator, Historic New England, Boston, Ma. Page 84. Lindsy R. Parrott, Director and curator, Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Queens, N.Y. Page 106. Kory Rogers, Head curator, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt. Page 136. Kristin Murphy Romanski, Fine Art Specialist at Suzanne Lovell Inc., Chicago, Il. Page 92. Matthew Skic, Assistant curator at the Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Pa. Page 130. Ann K. Wagner, Curator of decorative arts, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Del. Page 142. Gerald W.R. Ward, Consulting curator, Portsmouth Historical Society, and Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Page 123.