THE MAGAZINE


NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016

 
COVER: Woman with a Book by Jonas Holman, c. 1827–1830. Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Robert Allerton.
 

Editor’s letter

Critical thinking / Difficult issues

How we see refugees, yesterday and today
Glenn Adamson

Current and coming

Farther afield

Carolin C. Young

Collector profile

Make Americana great again: The Wunsch family has a plan
Glenn Adamson

New light

A gem of a discovery
Beth Carver Wees

On books

Elizabeth Pochoda

Market news

Around and about at the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris
Marisa Bartolucci

Events

Sammy Dalati

Endnotes

Eleanor H. Gustafson


Features


 

From specimens to souls

The evolution of early portrait photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Barbara Tannenbaum
 

Glass act

A new show at the Jewish Museum examines the life and work of art deco master Pierre Chareau
Gregory Cerio
 

The pulpit and the paintbrush

An introduction to Jonas Holman, early American preacher and portrait artist
Caroline M. Riley
 

The ancien régime’s master of precious metals

Celebrating Pierre Gouthière at the Frick
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
 

Artistic affinities

On the edge of something new at the Shelburne Museum
Carolyn Bauer
 

Dealers’ choice

The art collection of Boston gallerists Abbot and Marcia Vose
James Gardner
 

What Picasso inspired in Prague

The bold flourishing of Czech cubist architecture and design
Rosalind Pepall
 

An old master, newly arrived

Valentin de Boulogne at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
James Gardner
 

Finding beauty in decay

The documentary photography of Sherman Cahal
Sammy Dalati