Our September issue includes an article written by the folk art collectors and researchers Peter and Leslie Warwick about Sarah De Hart, who may have been the first person born in the United States to make silhouettes that still survive today. Born into a wealthy and well connected Huguenot family in New Jersey in 1759, she made hollow-cut silhouettes of friends, family, and acquaintances, including the Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington. Collectors with other examples of De Hart’s work are invited to communicate with the authors at
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Current and Coming: American Indian dresses, The Venetian hoax, …and in Cambridge , Porcelain and propaganda
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Editorial by Wendell Garrett
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