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Autumn 2 www.antiquesandfineart.com Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN:2162-4607), Vol. XIV, 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 ©2015 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 3000, Denville, NJ 07834. Subscription price is $19.95 for 1 year or $29.95 for 2 years. Printed in the USA. incollect[designer[focus 72 InCollect Designer Focus: Dining Rooms By Brittany Good 110 Edwin and Mary Scheier: Mid-Century Modern New Hampshire Artists By Dale Valena and Richard M. Candee 118 Richard Brunton: Folk Artist /Counterfeiter By Deborah M. Child 124 Magna Carta and Massachusetts By Gerald W. R. Ward 129 Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends 136 Jewelers of New York in the Gilded Age By Jeannine Falino on[the[cover (Detail) Ira Chaffee Goodell (1800–1877), Angelo Newton Franklin Goodell, 1849. Oil on canvas, 43½ x 33 inches. Signed and dated on front and reverse. Private collection. Photography by the authors. The full image can be seen in Suzanne Rudnick Payne and Michael R. Payne, In His Own Words: The Discovered Writings of Ira Chaffee Goodell (1800–1877) A Nineteenth-Century American Folk Portrait Painter, pages 152–159. departments 4 Advertiser Index 8 Editor’s Letter 10 Discoveries / Noteworthy Sales 36 Highlights features Contents Autumn 2015 Volume XIV, Issue 3 129 72 168 110 136 168 Rich and Tasty: Vermont Furniture to 1850 By Jean M. Burks winterthur[primer 174 Let’s Vase It! Revisiting Some Once-Popular Flower Containers By Leslie B. Grigsby 144 50 Years of MESDA: A Colorful Past, A Bright Future By Robert A. Leath 152 In His Own Words: The Discovered Writings of Ira Chaffee Goodell (1800–1877), A Nineteenth-Century American Folk Art Portrait Painter By Suzanne Rudnick Payne and Michael R. Payne 160 Examining America’s Artistic Grassroots By Jamie Franklin

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