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12th Anniversary 4 www.antiquesandfineart.com Table of Contents 12th Anniversary 2012 Volume XI, Issue 5 Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN:2162-4607), Vol. XI, Issue 5 is published six times a year (Spring, Early Summer, Summer, Summer/Autumn, Autumn/Winter, and Anniversary) by Pure Imaging, Inc., 125 Walnut Street, Watertown, MA 02472. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Contents copyright ©2012 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 that all information presented in this issue is accurate and neither Antiques & Fine Art, Pure Imaging, Inc., nor any of its staff is responsible for omissions or information that has been misrepresented to the magazine. Periodical postage paid at Boston, MA, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster, send address changes to Antiques & Fine Art, P.O. Box 9723, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33310-9922. Subscription price is $24.95 for 1 year or $39.95 for 2 years. Printed in the USA. features 98 Resale Royalties Roiling the Contemporary Art World By Daniel Grant historic[hotel 192 Historic Hotel 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky lefestyle 194 A New Arrangement: A Design Team Makes a Stellar Collection Shine By Nancy A. Ruhling museum[focus 208 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum By Brittany Good 211 The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art 212 The American Wing Redone By Morrison Heckscher 214 Colonial Furniture in a New Light By Morrison Heckscher and Nicholas C. Vincent departments 6 Advertiser Index 8 Contributors 10 Editor’s Letter 12 Discoveries/Noteworthy Sales 18 Highlights 62 Contemporary Calendar 64 Events! 315 Back Room SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 28 Winter Antiques Show 76 Palm Beach Show Group 82 Americana Week in New York 102 Charleston Intl. Antiques Show on[the[cover (Detail) Edgar Alwin Payne (1883–1947), Sunset, Canyon de Chelly, 1916. Oil on canvas, 28 x 34 inches. Mark C. Pigott Collection. Full image illustrated in Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey, page 254. 262 The Arts and Crafts Movement and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston By Nonie Gadsden 270 The Eyes Have It by Graham C. Boettcher 276 American Blues Printed Pottery Celebrating a New Nation by Pat Halfpenny and Laura Johnson 284 Ruby Devol Finch: Recent Discoveries By Donald R. Walters discoveries[from[the[field 292 Furniture in the South: Makers and Consumers By Wendy A. Cooper winter[antiques[show loan[exhibit 296 Early American Portraits in Historic Hudson Valley’s Collection By Waddell W. Stillman winter[antiques[show loan[exhibit 302 Historic Hudson Valley by Rob Schweitzer 307 The “Key” to an Old Master Painting Pieter Breughel’s Flemish Proverbs 310 Courtship in New Amsterdam Rediscovered By James L. Kochan winterthur[primer 312 Engraving the Character of Artisans Abraham Godwin’s Certificate for the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen by Matthew A. Thurlow 217 A New Gallery for Early American Silver By Beth Carver Wees and Medill Higgins Harvey 219 A New Look at the Met’s Hudson River School Collection By Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser 222 The Met Goes West American Western Sculpture in the American Wing by Thayer Tolles 224 Portraiture in the Grand Manner by H. Barbara Weinberg 228 Duncan Phyfe at the Metropolitan Museum Changing Perspectives on an Iconic American Craftsman: By Peter M. Kenny 238 The Art of Golf by Catherine Lewis 246 Top 20: Curators Pick Their Favorite Acquisitions of 2011 254 Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey by Scott A. Shields 194