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Autumn 4 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com departments 8 Advertiser Index 10 Contributors 12 Editor’s Letter 14 Happenings 46 Tributes Contents Autumn 2020 Volume XIX, Issue 3 Antiques & Fine Art (ISSN: 2162-4607), vol. XIX, issue 3, is published four times a year (Anniversary/Spring (January–March), Summer (April–June), Autumn (July–September), Winter (October–December)) by Pure Imaging, Inc., 9 Fowle Street, Woburn, MA 01801. Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Contents copyright ©2020 Pure Imaging, Inc. All rights reserved. The advertiser seeking the services of Antiques & Fine Art and/or Pure Imaging, Inc., will indemnify and save harmless Antiques & Fine Art and/or Pure Imaging, Inc., and its agents from any liabilities, claims, lawsuits, damages, or expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs that may arise out of publication of the advertiser’s/agency ads or materials. Every e ort has been made to ensure thatall informationpresented in this issue isaccurateandneither Antiques&FineArt, Pure Imaging, Inc.,noranyof itssta is responsible foromissionsor information thathasbeenmisrepresented to themagazine.PeriodicalpostagepaidatWoburn,MA,andadditional mailing o ces. Postmaster, send address changes to Antiques & Fine Art, P.O. Box 3000, Denville, NJ 07834-3000. Subscription price is $15 for 1 year and $25 for 2 years (800.783.4903). Printed in the USA. 56 Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent By Nathaniel Silver 62 John James Audubon, Portraitist By Robert McCracken Peck 70 American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection By Stacy C. Hollander 84 The Mysterious Art of Elihu Vedder By Miranda Hofelt 92 Ansel Adams, In Our Time By Alejo Benedetti 98 Discovery of a New Needlework School in New Jersey By Leslie and Peter Warwick 104 Dietrich American Foundation A John Brocas High Chest By Christopher Storb 110 Ironworkers Framed in Florals By Carrie Grief features on[the[cover (detail) Ruth Whittier Shute (1803–1882) and Dr. Samuel Addison Shute (1803–1836), Eliza Gordon, Peterborough, N.H., ca. 1833. Watercolor and gouache on paper with applied gold paper, 24⅝ x 19 inches. Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York. Museum purchase (1981.12.24). Photo by Gavin Ashworth. From American Perspectives: Stories From the American Folk Art Museum Collection, pages 70–83. 110 104 56 84 62