The collection itself includes Shaker boxes, a beaded Iroquois hat, embroidered samplers, metalwork, scrimshaw, handwoven rugs, ceramics, and a weather vane. The majority of these works have never before been published.
Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today.
In this collection of interviews spanning his richly productive career, Wolfe is seen as a writer imitating no one and riding the crest of each latest wave in contemporary America.
A compelling story that deepens our knowledge of the pre–Civil War New York art world and women’s positions within it, Restless Enterprise enriches the fields of visual and cultural studies."—Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman ...