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Reed & Barton Finding Aid, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

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The Festive City, Evelyn Lincoln, Emily J. Peters

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In early modern Europe (1500-1800), festivals enlivened civic spaces with a frequency, scale, and magnificence unrecognizable to us today. Festivals marked ritual moments, praised political agendas, and provided public entertainment. Europe’s papal court, sovereign powers, civic governments, and high aristocracy sponsored festivals for all sorts of occasions, staging joyous entry processions when foreign dignitaries entered a city, celebrating coronations, marriages, royal births, and funerals, and honoring saint’s days and Carnival season. Festivals shaped the public spaces of European cities. Buildings, plazas, stairways, and roadways were constructed specifically with festivals in mind. Likewise, festivals put the social structure of the city …

The Brilliant Line, Emily Peters, Evelyn Lincoln, Andrew S. Raftery

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Renaissance engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy that are composed entirely of lines. Artists began using this intaglio process in Europe as early as 1430. This captivating catalogue focuses on the height of the medium, from 1480 to 1650, when engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to engraving technique as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks in other media. The Brilliant Line follows these visual transformations and offers new insight into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers. The three essays discuss how engraving’s restrictive materials and the …

Wunderground: Providence, 1995 To The Present, Judith Tannenbaum, Maya Allison

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For the past decade, Providence, RI, has been the site of a radical underground art scene, giving rise to a multi-faceted, unbridled aesthetic that is as distinct as it is influential. As a celebration of the movement, The Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design is presenting the exhibition Wunderground. The companion publication, Wunderground- Providence, 1995 to the Present features a foreword by celebrated artist and designer Gary Panter, 128 pages of full color illustrations and 4 fold-out gatefolds. Artists, musicians, writers and students who created and witnessed the rise of the movement offer shorter texts providing …

Edgar Degas: Six Friends At Dieppe, Maureen C. O'Brien, Linda Catano, Anna Gruetzner Robins

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The lives of the six men depicted in Edgar Degas' Six Friends at Dieppe - as well as Degas himself - are explored. The history of the painting's placement in the RISD Museum's collection is traced back to Degas' relationship with one of the men featured in the painting. The narrative is interspersed with paintings, photographs, and excerpts from various memoirs, autobiographies and correspondences.

On The Wall: Wallpaper By Contemporary Artists, Judith Tannenbaum, Marion Boulton Stroud

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Wallpaper was once ubiquitous and is still common in domestic settings, but it has rarely been given the same kind of attention bestowed on fine-art objects or other applied arts. Nonetheless, many artists– from Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) to William Morris (1834-96) and Andy Warhol (1928-87) — have created wallpaper and considered this activity to be a significant endeavor.

American Furniture In Pendleton House, Christopher P. Monkhouse, Thomas Michie

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Published as a catalog for the exhibition: Cabinetmakers and collectors: Colonial furniture and its revival in Rhode Island

Nancy Sayles Day Collection Of Modern Latin American Art, Daniel Robbins

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Since 1966, when its first acquisitions of modem Latin American art were exhibited and published, the Nancy Sayles Day Collection has continued to provide the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design with its greatest opportunity for participating in the adventure of the present.

The Silver Lining, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

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volumes : illustrations. Issue title from cover. Vol. 18, no. 3 (April 1960). Library has Volume XVIII, number 3, April 1960. Issue has illustrations of John Prip, a former RISD Faculty member, and his design, the "Diamond" coffee set designed at Reed & Barton. Reed & Barton Collection.

Reed And Barton Basic Ad-Maker, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

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36 pages : illustrations (one folded). Title from cover. "... designed to give you a complete up-to-the-minute mat service for your newspaper advertising throughout the coming year. The contains all the materials necessary for making up your ads."--page [2] of cover. All pages have perforations for easy tear-out. Green paper cover, in shape of a file folder. Reed & Barton Collection.

Trade Literature, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

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1 loose-leaf binder : illustrations. Title supplied by the cataloger. Blue three-ring binder. On cover of binder: Reed & Barton. At foot of binder cover: Reed & Barton Silversmiths; The Sheffield Silver Company; Miller Rogaska Crystal; Belleek Parian China; Aynsley English Fine Bone China; Reed & Barton Handcrafted Chests; W.J. Hagerty & Sons, Ltd., Inc. Binder includes price lists, photographs of the factory, advertisements, sales catalogs, office correspondence, etc. Reed & Barton Collection. Includes a two-sided typed page: "Report on Comparative Conditions" between Gorham and Reed & Barton.

The Whitesmiths Of Taunton : A History Of Reed & Barton Silversmiths 1824-1943, Reed & Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

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xxxiii, 419 pages : illustrations . Harvard studies in business history ; VIII Part I. The early struggle for existence, 1824-1836 -- pt. II. Growth and industrial leadership of the firm under Henry G. Reed, 1837-1860 -- pt. III. George Brabrook and the shift to a marketing emphasis, 1860-1900 -- pt. IV. Financial consolidation under William B.H. Dowse, 1901-1923 -- pt. V. The recent period, 1923-1943. "Notes and references": pages [383]-402. From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc. Dustjacket and newspaper clipping tipped-in. 2nd copy in Special Collections is Reed & Barton Collection. In original dust jacket. Gold …

The Pendleton Collection, Luke Vincent Lockwood

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This book has been published by the Rhode Island School of Design, at the request of the late Charles L. Pendleton, of Providence, Rhode Island, and as a fitting appreciation of his gift of this splendid collection, which is about to be placed in a fire-proof house especially designed for its housing, where it will be open to the public.

This book is essentially a catalogue of the collection, and takes up the description of the pieces in the order of their arrangement in the rooms. It has been the aim of the author, however, to make this volume something …