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Winter 4 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com departments 8 Advertiser Index 10 Contributors 14 Editor’s Letter 18 Happenings 46 Tribute: Joan Brownstein Contents Winter 2020 Volume XIX, Issue 4 Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN: 2162-4607), vol. XIX, 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 ©2020 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 07834-3000. Subscription price is $15 for 1 year and $25 for 2 years (800.783.4903). Printed in the USA. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Requester Publication). 1: Antiques & Fine Art. 2: 2840. 3: 10/30/2020. 4: Quarterly. 5: 4. 6: $15. 7: Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801. 8: Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801. 9: John Smiroldo, Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801; Johanna McBrien, Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801. 10: Pure Imaging, Inc.; John Smiroldo. 11: None. 12: N/A. 13: Antiques & Fine Art. 14: August 5, 2020. 15: Requester. 15a: 9,750; 7,500 15b1: 6,833; 6,916. 15b2: 0; 0. 15b3: 83; 82. 15b4: 185; 173. 15c: 7,101; 7,171. 15d1: 78; 58. 15d2: 0; 0. 15d3: 12; 10. 15d4: 2,287; 200. 15e: 2,377; 258. 15f: 9,478; 7,429. 15g: 272; 71. 15h: 9,750; 7,500. 15i: 75%; 96%. 16: N/A. 17: Winter 2020. 18: John Smiroldo, 11/5/2020. 48 Wayne Thiebaud 100 Paintings, Prints, and Drawings By Scott A. Shields 56 From Where I Sit: Permanent Collection Seating at Fuller Craft Museum By Beth McLaughlin 64 Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture Smithsonian American Art Museum 74 Rembrandt and Printmaking in the Netherlands By Michael Brown features on[the[cover (detail) Wayne Thiebaud (1920–), Pies, Pies, Pies, 1961. Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. Crocker Art Museum, gift of Philip L. Ehlert in memory of Dorothy Evelyn Ehlert, 1974.12. © 2020 Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. From Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings, pages 48–55. 78 56 74 64 84 78 Becoming Vanderbilt Preservation Society of Newport County 84 Discovering Folk Art in the New England Countryside Christine Ermenc and William Hosley 90 Dietrich American Foundation A Philadelphia Easy Chair By Christopher Storb winterthur}primer 94 Fade to Black: Reflections on the Aging Process of Mirror Glass By Josh Lane and Rosie Grayburn