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A private collection of Americana.(Current and coming)(A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts)
Reminiscing in an essay entitled "A Passion for Art, A Partnership in Collecting," Dr. Henry C. Landon III confesses that over the course of four decades of collecting beginning in the 1960s he and his wife, Barbara, made some mistakes, among them "buying Americanized English pieces, married pieces, and some outright fakes." But they continued to refine and improve their collection, sometimes replacing an object as many as three times until they had acquired what they considered the best example. There are also objects that have been in their house since it was featured in our pages in May 1975.
The couple cultivated their interest in American paintings, which evolved into a passion that swept through the whole household. For example, on the day that Gilbert Stuart's portrait Mrs. Edward Tuckerman was to be delivered to the house, the maid set a place for her at the dining room table. This admission is followed by Dr. Landon's sanguine diagnosis that "collecting is a serious disease."
A selection from this collection of paintings and furniture is on view in an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville, from August 27 to November 23. The show is entitled A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts. Dr. Landon received his bachelor's and medical degrees from the University ...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques October 1, 2005 700+ words
A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts By Vicki Fama and others MA-323 Our price $40.00 Assembled over four decades...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 12, 2003 700+ words
...life by reengineering agriculture toward smallness. To some, these solutions can revive a semblance of the old Jeffersonian ideal, where rural communities - indeed, the nation - supposedly thrive because family farmers own their land and...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Alter, Jonathan July 31, 1995 700+ words
...for that apartness with scholarships and good works but never fully bridge the gap from what America, in its Jeffersonian ideal, is supposed to be. I heard recently that at the tony St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.--alma mater...
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life McClay, Wilfred M. March 1, 2004 700+ words
...both championed by a political party that looked to Jefferson as its progenitor--brought an end to the Jeffersonian ideal of a minimal state. Jefferson would not have approved of the nation assuming the burden of world leadership in...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News January 19, 2004 700+ words
...few buyers. "Farmers here are going to be nothing but serfs soon," said Ginter, 53. "What happened to the Jeffersonian ideal of a republic made up of small farms? Hogs are completely controlled by a few cartels." In contrast, specialized...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 22, 1997 700+ words
...may be more prosaic than either Wired or Merrill suspected. The digital citizen is neither acquisitive nerd nor Jeffersonian ideal. He-or, increasingly, she-is cautious about using the Internet for much more than e-mails and information...
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- Magazine article from: National Review MILLER, JOHN J. May 19, 2003 700+ words
...to build a "true republic." In other words, they read like excerpts from Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st Century America -- Hart's book based on his Oxford dissertation. Two of his other books are on the...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 16, 1986 700+ words
...further to make the analogy that preserving historical documents is democracy in action - the embodiment of the Jeffersonian ideal that democracy is based on information shared. A negative footnote in America's history, slavery, coincided...
