AFA Winter 2017

96 Winter 6 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com on[the[cover (Detail) Ralph E. W. Earl (1785/88–1838), Portrait of Thomas Claiborne, Nashville, Tenn., ca. 1825. Oil on canvas, 29½ x 24½ inches. Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund (2017- 300). The full image can be seen in Artists on the Move: Portraits for a New Nation, pages 82–89. departments 10 Advertiser Index 12 Tribute 16 Highlights 42 Discoveries Contents Winter 2017 Volume XVI, Issue 4 70 112 118 70 At 25: Distinguishing the Biggs Museum of American Art By Ryan Grover 78 Diversity in a Small Arena: The Contemporary Craft Gallery at the Newark Museum By Ulysses Grant Dietz 82 Artists on the Move: Portraits for a New Nation By Laura Pass Barry 90 Augustus Fuller: Triumph over Disability A Deaf Folk Portrait Painter in Nineteenth-Century America By Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne 96 An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan By Heather Campbell Coyle features 106 John Gadsby Chapman and James Kirke Paulding: Painting and Interpreting George Washington’s Virginia in the 1830s By Lydia Mattice Brandt and Adam T. Erby 112 Ochre, Old Fustic, and Maple: Stenton’s Yellow Lodging Room Restored By Laura C. Keim 118 Joseph Pell Lombardi: Collector of Houses discoveries[from[the[field 122 An English Chair in Boston By Courtney Leigh Harris winterthur[primer 125 Freak Pictures?: The Needlework Paintings of Margaret Ansell By Lea C. Lane O J 90 78 Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN:2162-4607), Vol. XVI, Issue 4, 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 ©2017 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 e ort has been made to ensure thatall informationpresented in this issue isaccurateandneither Antiques&FineArt, Pure Imaging, Inc.,noranyof itssta is responsible foromissionsor information thathasbeenmisrepresented to themagazine.PeriodicalpostagepaidatWoburn,MA,andadditional mailing o ces. Postmaster, send address changes to Antiques & Fine Art, P.O. Box 3000, Denville, NJ 07834. Subscription price is $19.95 for 1 year or $29.95 for 2 years (800.783.4903). Printed in the USA.