In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830/Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition
NY: Knopf, 1980. Softcover. Color wraps. 280 pp. 52 color, 308 bw plates. Chapters by Wendy A. Cooper include the documented object; the art of the upholstered object; special commissions; economics in fashion and workmanship; regionalism: old and new approaches; production outside of major style centers; and the classical impulse..... More