{"title":":Elusive Archives: Material Culture in Formation","authors":"A. Terry","doi":"10.1086/722077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722077","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44574888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Gropius-Breuer House Like Notable Others","authors":"Amy D. Finstein","doi":"10.1086/722305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722305","url":null,"abstract":"One of the last commissions of the brief American partnership between Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, the Virgil Abele House (Framingham, Massachusetts, 1940–41), has remained in the scholarly shadows until now. This placement stemmed from its heavy borrowing of design elements from other Gropius and Breuer projects, which led previous commentators to discount or overlook it. Using the lenses of consumerism and connoisseurship to reconstruct the Abele House’s design and stewardship repositions it as significant in understanding the Gropius-Breuer practice and important in illuminating the spread of modern architecture in the interwar period.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"56 1","pages":"3 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44843865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art","authors":"J. Codell","doi":"10.1086/722075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42131479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake","authors":"K. B. Golden","doi":"10.1086/722074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41536978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum","authors":"S. Tomc","doi":"10.1086/722306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722306","url":null,"abstract":"The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is typically understood as an unusual aesthetic structure specific to American fine art and collecting. Yet the Museum resembled various late nineteenth-century mass spectacles inspired by the city of Venice, including Imre Kiralfy’s “Venice in London” and the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Focusing on the Venetian theme in both the museum and spectacles allows us to see the museum as part of a late nineteenth-century retrofitting of European imperialist tropes for the specific context of United States empire in the Gilded Age.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"56 1","pages":"37 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45986785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors","authors":"Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds","doi":"10.1086/722076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47776026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Introduction","authors":"Catharine Dann Roeber","doi":"10.1086/723779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723779","url":null,"abstract":"ARCHITECTURE often sparks strong opinions. Who has not glanced at a residence or entered a museum and felt either admiration (“I love that house!”) or dislike (“That place is SO ugly!”)? The livelihood of architectural historians, journalists, and reviewers of the built environment has long rested on their ability to evaluate buildings for professional and avocational readers alike. One thing is certain, though, opinions about a building’s success vary widely and often relate to perceptions about whether it expresses an “original” idea in wood, stone, glass, metal, and other materials. But what is original? Can repurposed design elements or architectural fabric count as something new? Does critical acclaim or functional utility even matter if the built environment satisfies its patrons? Articles in this issue of Winterthur Portfolio discuss two buildings, a little-known private home and a well-known museum, and the varied responses to the structures’ mimetic attributes. Amy D. Finstein’s “A Gropius-Breuer House like Notable Others: Consumerism, Copying, and Connoisseurship in an Unsung Commission” and Sandra Tomc’s “The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: AVenice Spectacle” highlight buildings that were, in their own ways, intentionally not “original” but rather demonstrated international design conversations in American settings. We see individuals ranging from a wealthy socialite to an up-and-coming doctor incorporating European references into their American buildings. By taking a closer look at these two projects and their patrons, the contexts for their creation, rather than value judgments such as original or derivative, take center stage. By highlighting the Abele House in Framingham, Massachusetts (1941), as an important material expression of midcentury consumer culture, Finstein counters critics’ and scholars’ dismissal of it as a not altogether successful mashup of famed architects’ Walter Gropius’s and Marcel Breuer’s own houses nearby. She argues that, for Abele, selecting elements","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"56 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47581445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects","authors":"Rachel B. Gross","doi":"10.1086/722073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47738120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A More Perfect Atlantic World","authors":"E. Casey","doi":"10.1086/721083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721083","url":null,"abstract":"Samuel Jennings’s Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences has been celebrated as the first abolitionist painting in America. Presented to the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1792, the work employs allegory to link the representation of liberty with the making and unmaking of a revolutionary Atlantic world of slavery and freedom. Using new research and fresh analysis to unpack the history of the painting, and particularly the British context of its creation, I argue that the painting’s active role in propagating the conflicted racial politics of the period has been underrecognized as scholars focused only on its US reception.","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":"55 1","pages":"207 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47777843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deborah Willis. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship. NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis. New York: New York University Press, 2021. vii+243 pp.; 82 color and 19 black-and-white photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.","authors":"Cheryl Renée Gooch","doi":"10.1086/719804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719804","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43437,"journal":{"name":"WINTERTHUR PORTFOLIO-A JOURNAL OF AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44900545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}