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Historic Deerfield.(Current and coming)
Honor'e Lannuier, Samuel McIntire, Duncan Phyfe, John and Thomas Seymour, and John Townsend are among the cabinetmakers whose furniture is featured in a new semipermanent exhibition entitled Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts. As its title suggests, the installation considers not only the beauty of these objects, but also their materials and construction and the business of furniture making. The co-curators Joshua Lane and Philip Zea created the exhibition to explore the value of wood as both an artistic medium and as a commodity.
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Given the status Historic Deerfield enjoys today, it is easy to forget that the organization was a latecomer both as a museum and as a force for historic preservation in Deerfield. The first museum in the village was established when Deerfield Academy opened in 1799, and the first historic preservation effort there--and in the United States--was an unsuccessful attempt to save the Old Indian House on the Deerfield common in 1847 and 1848. It was not until 1952 that Henry Needham Flynt and Helen ...
- New England in New York. (Historic Deerfield collection exhibit in New York)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt January 1, 1998 700+ words
...Companies, is entitled Historic Deerfield: Collecting for...of objects from Historic Deerfield's splendid collection...outdoor museum. Historic Deerfield represents the fruitful...soon sought out early American autographs - initially...
- A textile trove from historic deerfield. (Design Notes).
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt February 1, 2003 700+ words
...Among textile aficionados Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts, is well...Textile Museum. Recently Historic Deerfield and the textile firm Brunschwig...and curator of textiles at Historic Deerfield, wrote an illuminating...
- New in Historic Deerfield
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 18, 1996 700+ words
...circa 1810, has been installed at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts. Painted red...Hinsdale and Anna Williams house. Historic Deerfield, founded in 1952, operates 14 historic...The Deefield Inn, maintained by Historic Deerfield, offers full dining and lodging...
- Museum accessions.(collection of colonial American powder horns to Historic...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Gustafson, Eleanor H. March 1, 2006 700+ words
...renowned collection of colonial American powder horns to Historic Deerfield, in Massachusetts--one of the few museums in the country...has come as a whole, part gift and part purchase, to Historic Deerfield. It will go on display at the museum's Flynt Center...
- New England and the China Trade.(Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Mayor, Alfred May 1, 2006 700+ words
...these objects have found their way into the collection of Historic Deerfield in the Massachusetts town of the same name on the Connecticut...been informatively catalogued in Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield by Amanda E. Lange, the museum's curator of historic...
- Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques November 1, 2005 700+ words
Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield By Amanda E. Lange MA-324 Our price $65.00 Lange's fascinating study of several towns of the Connecticut River valley reveals...
- AMERICAN RIVERS JOINS IN HISTORIC DEERFIELD RIVER CONSERVATION AGREEMENT
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 5, 1994 700+ words
Deerfield River Dams to Receive Fisheries, Recreation and Conservation Enhancements SOMERSET, Vt., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight dams on a 65-mile stretch of the Deerfield river in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont will receive fish passage facilities and other environmental improvements,
- Family trees go for big green in N.H.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Mascolo, Frances Mcq.-J. July 9, 2000 700+ words
...grandson to the 18th century Townsends of Newport, R.I., settled at $2,860. Historic Deerfield's summer lecture series focuses on "Early American Furniture: New England and the South" July 20 and 27 at the White Church Community...
Source: HighBeam Research, Historic Deerfield.(Current and coming)