AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Close
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
<a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5608496_ITM" title="Facts and information about A Passion Past for the.(art collectors Bertram and Nina Little )">A Passion Past for the.(art collectors Bertram and Nina Little )</a>
Close
Set up an RSS feed that alerts you when new articles from Smithsonian are available.
Frequently asked questions about RSS feeds
A Passion Past for the.(art collectors Bertram and Nina Little )
Bertram and Nina Little spent six decades amassing folk art that captures a corner of american history one of the small pleasures of Cogswell's Grant, a quietly spectacular museum of folk art that opened last month in Essex, Massachusetts, is a colorful portrait (left) of a finely dressed woman of the early 1830s. Painted in oil, with traces of gilding, on two wooden boards, it is by an obscure Maine artist named A. Ellis. The woman's image is as symmetrical and stylized as a queen of spades. Her hair and hat resemble broken crockery. The rather stiff pose and expression, bloodless and tight-lipped, apparently suited the woman, one Diantha Atwood Gordon of Salem, New ...
Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
For more facts and information, see all results
- The perfect blend: a Bradenton couple mixes family, fun and treasured antiques...
- Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine Fottler, Marsha May 1, 2005 700+ words
...to say we have a lot of stuff," says Nina. "But we decided to keep the things...treasure and that have meaning for us." Nina terms her decorating style "traditional New England eclectic." Nina collects miniature Limoges boxes, fancy...
- Mother's Day boosts slow New England spring. (Supplement: Eye on Fragrance)
- Magazine article from: WWD Brumback, Nancy June 5, 1992 700+ words
...sales, retailers around New England report their fragrance...its men's business in New England also booming. A new...fragrances, such as Nina Ricci and Jean Patou...tremendous business. New England is Raplh Lauren country...
- Edna Greenwood and everyday life in early New England.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Stillinger, Elizabeth August 1, 2002 700+ words
...two thousand colonial New England objects to the Smithsonian...1936), her protege Nina Fletcher Little (1903...This was the time when New England farm families were giving...great curiosity about New England's "old folks" and...
- Two-story White House, North.(Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and...
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Humez, Jean M. September 1, 2008 700+ words
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region...turned my understanding of New England on its head. --Henry Louis...s experience of northern New England racism authoritative? The...choice today. Drawing upon Nina Baym's important and influential...
- Public Comments Sought on Plans for Preventing Whale Deaths; NOAA Hearings in...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 24, 2005 700+ words
...deaths; NOAA hearings in various New England coastal communities to provide input...Director of Marine Wildlife Conservation Nina Young. "The good news is that there...Alaska, California, Florida, and New England and field offices in Santa Barbara...
- Incentive Systems Wins Gold Medal for Creative Excellence; Beta-Carrotene...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 22, 2002 700+ words
...business web sites at the 2002 New England Direct Marketing Awards (NEDMA...compensation management," said Nina McIntyre, executive vice president...shtml to register. About NEDMA The New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA...
- New England theaters meet mixed fortunes.(nonprofit resident theater Stage West...
- Magazine article from: Variety Taylor, Markland May 25, 1998 700+ words
...out, one on the up and up. That's the score for the two New England nonprofit resident theaters that have been facing increasing...the Studs Terkel musical adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso; the East Coast premiere of Chay Yew's "Red"; the...
- One week in August.(Children's Literature New England held its final institute)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Cooper, Susan September 1, 2006 700+ words
...that luminous lichen called foxfire. Children's Literature New England, which held its final institute this summer, was for twenty...speak, I found myself on a program with Lloyd Alexander, Nina Bawden, Alan Garner, Paul and Ethel Heins, Betty Levin...
- Nina's Next Steps.(Nina Footwear Inc.)
- Magazine article from: Footwear News Clack, Erin E. February 9, 2009 700+ words
...stronger emphasis on trends, drawing on the Nina and Nina Dolls women's divisions for direction...an independent Stride Rite dealer with four New England locations, has been carrying Nina Kids since its inception and said tweaks to...
- Country rugs.(collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt July 1, 1999 700+ words
...formed by Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little over the...for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA...in the farmhouse. As Nina Little reflected in her...who stocks the Historic New England line of reproductions...