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Winter 2 www.antiquesandfineart.com Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN:2162-4607), Vol. XIII, Issue 3, is published four times a year (Anniversary/Spring (January–March), Summer (April–June), Autumn (July–September), Winter (October–December)) by Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Contents copyright ©2014 Pure Imaging, Inc. All rights reserved. The advertiser seeking the services of Antiques & Fine Art and/or Pure Imaging, Inc., will indemnify and save harmless Antiques & Fine Art and/or Pure Imaging, Inc., and its agents from any liabilities, claims, lawsuits, damages, or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs that may arise out of publication of the advertiser’s/agency ads or materials. Every effort has been made to ensure thatall informationpresented in this issue isaccurateandneither Antiques&FineArt, Pure Imaging, Inc.,noranyof itsstaff is responsible foromissionsor information thathasbeenmisrepresented to themagazine.PeriodicalpostagepaidatWoburn,MA,andadditional mailing offices. Postmaster, send address changes to Antiques & Fine Art, P.O. Box 9723, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310-9922. Subscription price is $19.95 for 1 year or $29.95 for 2 years. Printed in the USA. Until November 2014, please send mail for Antiques & Fine Art and Pure Imaging, Inc., to 570 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472. 94 Historic Dining in Delaware by Steve Trombetti lifestyle 96 Havana Modern By Michael Connors Photography by Néstor Martí 108 In Plain Sight: Discovering the Furniture of Nathaniel Gould By Dean Lahikainen on[the[cover (Detail) Grant Wood (1891–1942), American Gothic, 1930. Oil on beaver board, 30¾ x 25¾ in. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection (1930.934). The full image can be seen in Julie Aronson, Conversations Around American Gothic, pages 128–133. departments 4 Advertiser Index 6 Editor’s Letter 14 Highlights 16 Noteworthy Sales features 115 Researchers’ Delight: The Peabody Essex Museum’s Digitization Project By Sidney Berger 116 American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution By Stephanie Mayer Heydt 120 International Styles: Reconfiguring the American Wing at the Baltimore Museum of Art By David Park Curry 128 Conversations Around American Gothic By Julie Aronson Contents Winter Volume XIII, Issue 4 96 136 108 120 134 Benton in Black and White: Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton By Stephanie Fox Knappe 136 Folk Art & American Modernism By Elizabeth Stillinger and Ruth Wolfe 142 Picturing America: Signature Works from The Westmoreland Museum of American Art By Barbara L. Jones 150 Norton Simon and the House of Duveen By Carol Togneri 156 Boston’s Algonquin Club By Benjamin Bergenholtz