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"American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Century Silversmiths" Concord; Joslin Hall:1990. |
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"American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Century Silversmiths" Concord; Joslin Hall:1990. |
| This 1906 exhibition radically changed the way collectors and scholars viewed American silver. The work of American silversmiths, which had previously been dismissed as unimportant when compared to English and European silver, was showcased here in the first exhibition ever devoted strictly to American work. The scholarship involved in the preparation of the exhibition and its catalog was only matched by the resolve and vision of the organizers, including Francis Hill Bigelow, John H. Buck, and R.T.H. Halsey, who were determined to prove the beauty and importance of American colonial silver to a skeptical world. |
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Bigelow, Buck and Halsey succeeded in their quest. The exhibition excited popular interest and refocused the attention of some of America’s most influential collectors, as well as laying the groundwork for many other important exhibitions which would follow. The catalog provided a standard in composition, content and scholarship for other catalogs to equal.
But this was the first. It all began here…
7"x10", 100 pages, plus 30 b&w plates.
Hardcover edition $40.00
Softcover edition $19.95
