Bayou Bend - Education - Books & Articles

*Decorative Arts*
Surveys Mannerist, Early and Late Baroque, Rococo Neoclassic, Grecian, Rococo Revival Later Nineteenth-Century Ceramics			Glass Metals Painted Furniture Pennsylvania German Texas Textiles Windsor Chairs

*Glass*
L			Landman, Hedy B. Glass From the Museum Collections--Museum of Fine Arts, Rhode Island. Providence, RI: Publications Office, Rhode Island School of Design, 1974. (NK 5101 .P76 R477)
M			McKearin, Helen and George S. Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. (NK 5112 M28 1950)
			McKearin, Helen and Kenneth Wilson. American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry. New York: Crown Publishers, 1978. (NK 5440 B6 M29 1978)
N			Noël Hume, Ivor. Glass in Colonial Williamsburg's Archaological Collections. Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Press, 1969. (NK 5112 .N56)
P			Palmer, Arlene. Glass in Early America: Selections From the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. New York: Norton Publishers, 1993. (NK 5112 .H46 1993)
W			Wilson, Kenneth M. American Glass 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art. New York: Hudson Hills Press for the Toledo Museum of Art, 1994. 2 vols. (NK5112 .W557 1994)

*Metals*
F			Fales, Martha Gandy. Early American Silver. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1973 (NK 7112 .F3 1970) [Good introduction]
			Federehen, Deborah Anne. "From Artisan to Entrepreneur: Paul Revere's Silver Shop Operation." In Paul Revere -- Artisan, Businessman, and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth, pp. 65-93. Boston: The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1988. (F 69 R43 P38 1988)
			Fennimore, Donald L. "Metalwork." American Art Journal 7 (1975): 93-106.
H			Hood, Graham. American Silver: A History of Style, 1650-1900. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. (NK 7112 .H65) [Classic stylistic analysis]
M			Montgomery, Charles F. A History of American Pewter. New York: Dutton, 1978. (NK 8412 M66 1978) [Classic introduction to pewter]
P			Paul Revere -- Artisan, Businessman, and Patriot: The Man Behind the Myth. Boston: The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1988. (F 69 R43 P38 1988)
Q			Quimby, Ian M.G. American Silver at Winterthur. Winterthur, Delaware: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1995. (NK 7112 .Q56 1995)
V			Venable, Charles L. Silver in America 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor. New York: Harry N. Abrams for the Dallas Museum of Art, 1994. (NK 7112 .V46 1994)
W			Waters, Deborah Dependahl. "From Pure Coin: The Manufacture of American Silver Flatware, 1800-1860." In Winterthur Portfolio 12, ed. Ian M.G. Quimby, pp. 19-33. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1977. [Demystifies coin silver]
			Ward, Barbara McLean and Gerald W.R. Ward, eds. Silver in American Life. New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1979. (NK 7112 .S45 1979)

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