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Wallace Nutting and the intention of old America.
"Whatever is new," wrote Wallace Nutting (Pl. III), "is bad." (1) A well-known Congregational minister turned photographer, antiquarian, and entrepreneur, Nutting was a man of few words when it came to the vices of his time, but many in describing the virtues of the past. He wrote the landmark Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (1921), the three-volume Furniture Treasury (1928-1933), and many articles. His collection of seventeenth-century furniture was the largest in the country, and he was one of the foremost authorities on early American life in the years before World War II. Often obscured by his carefully constructed public image as a Yankee sage are the very modern ...
- Collector's guide to Wallace Nutting furniture; identification and value...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2005 700+ words
...57432-401-2 Collector's guide to Wallace Nutting furniture; identification and value...Hampshire, Ivankovich has been collecting Wallace Nutting pictures and furniture for some three...thorough background and history on Wallace Nutting bench-made reproduction furniture...
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- Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine Simpson, Richard V September 1, 1996 700+ words
...ring over more than a half century. Wallace Nutting wrote and published these words several...There were several editions of the Wallace Nutting furniture catalog, dating from 1918...good periods." True to his word, Wallace Nutting furniture holds together and holds...
- Captain America: Wallace Nutting championed the notion of American antiques and...
- Magazine article from: House Beautiful Keno, Leigh Keno, Leslie June 1, 2003 700+ words
...Leigh Keno: Born in 1861, Wallace Nutting was a minister-turned-antiquarian...When Leigh and I think of Wallace Nutting, it takes us back to our childhood...decorative arts world. For more on Wallace Nutting and his influence on colonial...
- Preserving our past: first came nostalgic photographs of a vanishing America,...
- Magazine article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider Viator, Jane August 1, 2009 700+ words
Wallace Nutting, a Massachusetts-born Congregational...in these historic settings. The Wallace Nutting Chain of Colonial Picture Houses...000. Still, a fair amount of Wallace Nutting furniture survives, and there are...
- Cultivating _ and curating _ kitsch: the Wallace Nutting exhibit.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) March 3, 2004 700+ words
...latest nostalgia merchant to follow in the footsteps of Wallace Nutting, a key player in the colonial revival early in the 20th...see in an exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum called "Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America," he began doing a century...
- Cultivating _ and curating _ kitsch: the Wallace Nutting exhibit.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Sozanski, Edward J. March 3, 2004 700+ words
...latest nostalgia merchant to follow in the footsteps of Wallace Nutting, a key player in the colonial revival early in the 20th...see in an exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum called "Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America," he began doing a century...
- Mr. "old America": Wallace Nutting: photographer, writer, historian, lecturer,...
- Magazine article from: Antiques Roadshow Insider Viator, Jane July 1, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Today's widespread interest in all things Early American is directly traceable to Wallace Nutting, a Massachusetts clergyman who, from around 1900 until he died in 1941, promoted and largely created many aspects of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel RALPH AND TERRY KOVEL March 31, 1996 700+ words
...photograph of a woman in an old-fashioned dress. Under the picture was the signature "Wallace Nutting." What is the card's value? A: Wallace Nutting was an author, photographer and furniture maker working from 1910 to 1941. He became...
