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The American craftsman and the European tradition, 1620-1820
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- Creator
- edited by Francis J. Puig and Michael Conforti
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis, Minn. : Minneapolis Institute of Arts ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by the University Press of New England, [1989]
- ©1989
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780912964386, 0912964383, 9780912964379, 0912964375
- OCLC
- ocm20793341
- Produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, September 23-December 31, 1989, and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 14-June 10, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction : the transfer and adaptation of European culture in North America / Michael Conforti -- A historical perspective on early American artisans / Gary B. Nash -- The European tradition and the shaping of the American artisan / Barbara McLean Ward -- The Symonds shops of Essex County, Massachusetts / Robert F. Trent -- The Anthony Hay shop and the English tradition / Wallace B. Gusler -- The Edwards family and the silversmithing trade in Boston, 1692-1762 / Barbara McLean Ward -- Philadelphia furniture, 1760-90 : native-born and London-trained craftsmen / Morrison H. Heckscher -- The Colchester School of Cabinetmaking, 1750-1800 / Robert F. Trent -- The Dutch and English traditions in American silver : Cornelius Kierstede / Gerald W.R. Ward -- The early furniture of the Mississippi River Valley, 1760-1820 / Francis J. Puig -- New Mexican furniture and its Spanish and Mexican prototypes / Donna L. Pierce
- "To the good of the province and country" : Henry William Stiegel and American Flint Glass / Arlene Palmer -- The American China / Graham Hood -- Baltimore Federal Furniture : in the English tradition / Gregory R. Weidman