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Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Kaufman Collection, 1700 – 1830
offers visitors to the nation’s capital an unprecedented opportunity to view
some of the finest furniture made by colonial and post-revolutionary American
artisans. This presentation includes more than one hundred objects from the
promised gift, announced in 2010, of the collection formed by Linda H. Kaufman
and the late George M. Kaufman. From a rare Massachusetts William and Mary
japanned dressing table to Philadelphia’s outstanding rococo expressions and
the early and later classical styles of the new federal republic, the Kaufman
Collection presents a compendium of American artistic talent over more than
a century of history. This promised gift marks the Gallery’s first acquisition
of American decorative arts and dramatically transforms the collection,
complementing the existing holdings of European decorative arts.
The interior of the Kaufmans’ house in Norfolk, Virginia (pages 2 – 3, 5)
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