American Furniture 2011

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

From Millbach to Mahantongo: Fraktur and Furniture
of the Pennsylvania Germans
Lisa Minardi

The Nottingham School of Furniture
Wendy A. Cooper and Mark Anderson

Felix Huntington and the Furniture of Norwich, Connecticut, 1770–1800
Thomas P. Kugelman

Documentary Evidence of Painted Seating
Furniture: Late Colonial and Federal Periods
Nancy Goyne Evans

Book Reviews
Harmony in Wood: Furniture of the Harmony Society
Philip D. Zimmerman; review by Lee Ellen Griffith

Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850
Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O’Brien; review by Erik Gronning

Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll; review by Ted Landsmark

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
Kevin W. Tucker, with essays and contributions by Beverly K. Brandt, David Cathers, Joseph Cunningham, Beth Ann McPherson, Tommy McPherson, and with contributions by Sally-Anne Huxtable; review by Anne E. Mallek

Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850 Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa Minardi; review by Francis J. Puig

The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790–1820: “A True North Britain”
in the Southern Backcountry

Elizabeth A. Davison; review by Lita Solis-Cohen

Wharton Esherick: The Journey of a Creative Mind
Mansfield Bascom, Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern
Paul Eisenhauer and Lynne Farrington, eds., with an essay by Paul Eisenhauer, and Jon Brooks:

A Collaboration with Nature
Andrew Spahr, with an introduction by Wendell Castle;

review by Gerald W. R. Ward

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