Currents

Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Currents Fancy That! “Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining, 1790-1930,” an exhibition tracing the history of design sources for draping and curtaining American and European interiors during the span of nearly one hundred and fifty years, will open at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia on Monday, December 6 [1993]. On view will be a selection of rare books, prints, and trade catalogues drawn...
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Talented, Tragic and Triumphant: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

Posted by Barbara Smith on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Talented, Tragic and Triumphant: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones It was a time in the American art world when young women artists rarely sold their work for what equaled a small fortune. It was a time when women were sepa­rated from men during their artistic training. It was a time when women seldom shared the limelight with men when winning awards. But in the opening years of the twentieth centu­ry, while the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean still hushed...
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