Acknowledgments
For assistance with this article the author thanks Gary Albert, Jennifer Bean Bower, Robert Leath, and Sally Gant.
1. The author had the privilege and pleasure of working with Frank Horton from 1979 until 1986. For more on Horton’s life and career, see Penelope Niven, “Frank L. Horton and the Roads to MESDA,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 22, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 1–150. Much of the information in this article is based on the author’s interviews with Frank Horton in preparation for a lecture at the 1998 Antiques Forum in Williamsburg, Virginia.
2. See Esther Singleton, The Furniture of Our Forefathers (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), p. 39 and passim. Joe Kindig Jr., “A Note on Early North Carolina Pottery,” Antiques 27, no. 1 (January 1935): 14–15. Advertisement by Joe Kindig Jr., Antiques 27, no. 4 (April 1935): 121.
3. Advertisement by J. K. Beard in Antiques 4, no. 4 (October 1923): 193.
4. Paul H. Burroughs, Southern Antiques (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1931).
5. Frank L. Horton, interview with William Friday, North Carolina People, University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, April 29, 1992.
6. Advertisement by Mrs. J. B. Taliferro and Frank Horton, Antiques 41, no. 3 (March 1942): 166.
7. John Bivins Jr. and Paula Welshimer, Moravian Decorative Arts in North Carolina: An Introduction to the Old Salem Collection (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Old Salem, 1981), n.p.
8. Antiques 61, no. 1 (January 1952): 38–101.
9. Tom Savage, “The Holmes-Edwards Library Bookcase and the Origins of the German School in Pre-Revolutionary Charleston,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1997), pp. 106–26. John Bivins, “The Convergence and Divergence of Three Stylistic Traditions in Charleston Neoclassical Furniture, 1785–1800,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1997), pp. 47–105.
10. Horton, interview with Friday. |