BACK ISSUES – WINTER 2007/2006

Subscribe Now! WINTER 2006/2007 VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 1 IN THIS ISSUE: ART HISTORY II  Revolutionary Painter John Trumbull  Top 10 Outdoor Sculptures  Art Uplifts in the Depression  Where is it Now? The Lost Sunworshippers On the cover: “View of Norwich Harbor” (detail), John Denison Crocker, 1849. Slater Museum. Contents pg 9 From the Publisher: pg 10 Letters, etc. pg 12 Connecticut’s Top 10 Public Sculptures. By Ann Harrison and Mary M. Donohue pg 18 Picturing the Birth of a Nation. By Barnet Schecter pg 26 The Federal Art Project in New Haven. By Amy L. Trout pg 32 Norwich’s Renaissance Man. By Vivian Zoë pg 38 From Atheneum to Art Museum. By Elizabeth J. Normen pg 44 Re: Collections The “Genius of Connecticut.” By Walter Woodward pg 46 Shoebox Archives Theodate Pope reveals her first impressions of the Impressionists. By Cynthia Cormier pg 48 Destinations Two Loius Kahn masterpieces to visit, one newly restored. By Patrick Pinnell pg 50 Soapbox A massive piece of pottery has gone missing. Can you help? By Elizabeth Pratt Fox pg 52 Afterword A compendium of the season’s events and exhibitions.

WINTER 2006/2007

• Federal Art Project in New Haven

• Norwich’s Renaissance Man

• Impressions of the Impressionists

FALL 2006

• The Great San Francisco Earthquake

• Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

• The Kent Iron Furnace

SUMMER 2006

• Escape from New-Gate Prison

• Written in Stone

• Hammonasset Beach State Park Summers

SPRING 2006

• Hebrew Tillers of the Soil

• The First American Cookbook

• What We Loved to Eat

WINTER 2005/2006

• A Valley Flooded

• Making a Success of Coltsville

• In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World

FALL 2005

• The “Conference” State

• Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance

• Stamping Out the Reds

SUMMER 2005

• Making Their Presence Known

• What’s a Puritan?

• Enfield’s Shaker Legacy

• Faith Congregational Church

SPRING 2005

• The Horseless Era Arrives

• Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

• The Sky’s the Limit

• A Century of Connecticut Inventions

 

2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

• Lunch with Monet

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

• The Education of Ella Grasso

• Ancient Burying Ground

• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

• Miracle on Capital Avenue

• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life

FEB/MAR/APR 2004

• Hospital Rock

• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback

2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004

• A War Contested

• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”

• Manufacturing for the War Effort

• Fighting for Freedom

SUMMER 2003

• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

• Audacious Alliances

• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets

SPRING 2003

• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces

• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

• The Hartford Dark Blues

 

WINTER 2003

• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing

• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street

• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge

FALL 2002

• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

• A “Tomitude”