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MINIATURES NEWS AND EVENTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Photo: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
Aoseueati foNitoe OK Etkitait A new exhibition, Virginia Furniture, 1680-1820, at Colonial Williarnshurg's DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery, located on Francis Street near Merchants Square in- Williamsburg, VA will remain on view through the end of 1993. Furniture and paintings in the exhibition offer evidence that superior style and craftsmanship were available in rural eighteenth-century Virginia despite the lack of major population centers. For more information Tel. 804/220-7724.
American Kasten: The Dutchstyle Cupboards of New York and New Jersey 1650-1800 will be exhibited through April 7, 1993 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. This is the first study of 18 examples of this imposing furniture form, which was made exclusively in the New YorkNew Jersey area. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. For further information Tel. 212/879-5500.
Desk and bookcase, attributed to Anthony Hay shop in Williamsburg, is representative ofthe city's best eighteenth century case fiirniture.
13talts Cocusty us Vietaials Come discover the charm of the Victorian Era at the Mercer Museum's new exhibit,Pic Nic and Promenades: Victorian Social Life in Bucks County — an age of romantic sentimentality, prosperity, comfort, and technological change that affected
every aspect of life from sewing machines to railroads. This exhibit runs through May, 1991 in the Changing Exhibit Gallery located on the fifth level of the Mercer Museum, Doylestown, PA. For further information, Tel. 215/345-0210. Oak kast with early and possibly original marbleized surface; New York;1650-1710; The Metropolitan Museum ofArt, Gift ofMillia Davenport, 1988.
A Cekttay of Coftectisil The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington, D.C. is celebrating its centennial by presenting A Century of Collection: The DAR Museum at 100 years, through April 22, 1991. Highlighting representative examples of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century textiles, ceramics, furniture, glass metals, paintings, dolls and toys the exhibition will focus on the objects in the context ofthe time in which they were collected. For public inquiries Tel. 202/879-3254. 12
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Pieced quilt with glazed wool star, surrounded by glazed wool border; Possibly Pennsylvania;1775-1825.
Sleds and Sleighs through January 27, 1991. Nineteenth-century prints, paintings, sleighs, and sleds show winter transportation and sport in New England before the automobile. Fraternally Yours: Selections from the Collection through June 1991. Major pieces from the permanent collections — many with fraternal symbols — represent 15 years of collecting ob-
jects as documents of American culture. A Penny Saved: Toy Banks From the Withington Collection through April 1991. American life reflected in whimsical toy banks taught children how to save, while providing entertainment. For information call Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, MA,Tel. 617/861-6559.
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