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Decorative Arts


Neoclassic, Grecian, Rococo Revival

C     Cooper, Wendy A. Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840. New York: Abbeville Press and the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993. (N 6510.5 .N4 C66 1993)
G Garvan, Beatrice. Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825: The Athens of the Western World. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1987. (NK 6535 .P5 G37 1987)
H Hepplewhite, George. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide. London, 1788-1794. Reprint. New York: Dover Publications, 1969. (TT 196 .H4 1969)
  Hewitt, Benjamin A., Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W.R. Ward. The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790-1820. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982. (NK 2740 .H48 1982)
M Michie, Thomas S. "Neoclassicism in the New Nation: The Federal Style." In American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts, 1660-1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection , ed. Gerald Ward, pp. 203-208. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991. (NK 2406 .L38 1991) [Good introduction]
  Montgomery, Charles F. American Furniture: The Federal Period. New York: Viking Press, 1966. (NK 2406 .H4) [Thirty years old, and still the best writing on the period]
  Montgomery, Charles F. and Patricia E. Kane, eds. American Art, 1750-1800: Towards Independence. Boston: New York Graphic Society for the Yale University Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1976. (N 6507 A54 1976)
N Nineteenth-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970. (NK 807 .N4 1970)
R Roth, Rodris. "Technique: Bending and Lamination." In Innovative Furniture in America, ed. David Hanks, pp. 31-40. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. (TS 805 .H3) [Useful for understanding Belter furniture]
S Schorsch, Anita. "Mourning Art: A Neoclassical Reflection in America." American Art Journal 8 (1976): 4-15.
  Schwartz, Marvin D., et.al. The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981. (NK 2439 .B4 S3 1981) [Best work on Belter]
  Sheraton, Thomas. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book. London, 1790, 1801. Reprint. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. (HK 2542 .S5 A354 1972)
T Trent, Robert F. "Mid-Atlantic Easy Chairs, 1770-1820: Old Questions and New Evidence." In American Furniture 1993, ed. Luke Beckerdite, pp. 201-11. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Chipstone Foundation, 1993. (NK 2405 A54)
Wainwright, Nicholas B. Colonial Grandeur in Philadelphia: The House and Furniture of General John Cadwalader. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1964. (F 158.37 .W34 1964)
W Weidman, Gregory R. and Jennifer F. Goldsborough. Classical Maryland 1815-1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1993. (N 7593.1 C73 1986) [Excellent essay on pp. 11-20]
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