According to family history, this sideboard - which embraces British Neoclassical design while also exhibiting Baltimore touches - was purchased in 1799 as part of the wedding furniture of William Norris (1774-1833), an entrepreneur from Lancaster, Penn., and his wife, Sarah Schaeffer Norris (1783-1852), of Baltimore. Gift of Virginia Dilkes Hart, 1964-112-1. Mahogany, mahogany veneer, tulip poplar, dark- and lightwood string inlay, satinwood, brass 39 by 105 by 26½ inches. Sideboard attributed to John Bankson (1754-1814) and Richard Lawson (1749-1803), Baltimore, circa 1799. Miller and Worley promptly offered funding for the project, additionally supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She writes, “While art formed the basis of our friendship, it was their humor, their yin and yang, and their engagement and knowledge that I found enamoring.” Over dinner one night in January 2014, Kirtley shared her desire to see the PMA’s American furniture collection published. She grew close to the couple while cataloging their collection, rich in Pennsylvania furniture and folk art. Kirtley dedicates her new book to Miller, chair of the PMA’s board of trustees since 2016, and her husband, Richard Worley. The delay was in some ways fortuitous, allowing for extensive archival research as well as for updated objects conservation and photography, the latter undertaken by Gavin Ashworth and the museum’s photography studio staff, of a collection both storied and deep. Her much anticipated book, American Furniture, 1650-1840: Highlights from The Philadelphia Museum of Art, arrives in December, heralding the spring 2021 debut of the PMA’s newly constructed and reinstalled galleries of American art and artifacts.Įxtraordinarily, Kirtley’s new book is the first catalog on the subject from an institution whose early history is rooted in the emerging antiquarian movement of the late Nineteenth Century. She assisted collector Leslie Anne Miller with her book Start With A House, Finish With A Collection, published in 2014, then proceeded to the 2016-17 exhibition “Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for A Grand Philadelphia House” and its accompanying catalog.
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A visible figure on the arts circuit and an energizing professional presence behind the scenes, Kirtley has been in high gear for much of the past six years. Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, the effervescent Montgomery-Garvan curator of American decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), has been busy. Similarly, the line of its descent from Georg Huber (1749-1785) in 1779 is not documented. Several different artisans have been proposed as the maker of this masterfully designed and executed Schrank, but none have been verified. Walnut, yellow pine, oak, sulfur inlay, iron, replacement brass 82¼ by 78 by 27½ inches. Clothes press (Kleiderschrank), Manheim, Lancaster County, Penn., 1779.
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