American Furniture 2010

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Dedication: In Memory of Dudley J. Godfrey. Jr.
Luke Beckerdite

John Penniman and the Ornamental Painting Tradition in Federal-Era Boston
Robert Mussey and Chrostopher Shelton

The Seat of State: Thomas Jefferson and the Campeche Chair
Diane C. Ehrenpreis

The Cane Chair and Its Sitter
Ethan W. Lasser

Seating Furniture from the District of Columbia, 1795-1820
Sumpter Priddy and Ann Steuart

The Gaines Attributions and Baroque Seating in Northeastern New England
Robert F. Trent, Erik Gronning, and Alan Andersen

Reassessing the London-Style Joinery and Turning of Seventeenth-Century Boston
Peter Follansbee and Robert F. Trent

Book Reviews

Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England, Briann G. Greenfield; review by Kenneth L. Ames

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, Joseph Cunningham; review by Beverly K. Brandt

A New and Naive Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene, Edward R. Bosley and Anne E. Mallrk, eds.; review by Ellen E. Roberts

Discovering Dennis: The Search for Thomas Dennis among the Artisans of Exeter, Paul Fitzsimmons, Robert Tarule, and Donald P. White III; review by Peter Follansbee

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography
Gerald W. R. Ward