I was immediately interested when I saw the auction listing and accompanying photograph. It was a fine example of the artist’s work and attracted my attention. Yes, very much so. That interest,...
I had been hoping to acquire a painting by Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842-1904) for the FRHS collection for some time, and when alerted by a long-time FRHS member and benefactor, just a few weeks...
Last Friday there was a delivery. The three medium-sized boxes contained material that had once belonged to Florence Cook Brigham – my dearest friend and mentor – and that after her death passed...
Of the countless miles of cloth woven or printed in Fall River’s mills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, surprisingly few samples have survived with documentation of their production...
It was sometime in the early 1980s that I first saw the painting, hanging on the east wall of the east room of a house within walking distance of the FRHS – it was a lovely house, built in the back...
In a previous post I mentioned that researching the history of material in the FRHS collections is a favorite aspect of my work – “the thrill of the hunt,” you know – and this is another...
It is surprising what can accumulate between the pages and along the inside spine of an old ledger over the decades – dust, soot from coal or wood fires, long-dead insects (ideally), and the like....
Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905), the founder of the so-called “Fall River School,” is a painter best known for his opulent still life paintings of fruit, often arranged in elaborate serving...
When the FRHS is closed for the season, we habitually get quite a bit of work done, without the day-to-day interruptions that come when the museum is open to the public. The past several weeks have...
One of the things I most enjoy about my work at the FRHS is the research – the thrill of the hunt, actually – that goes into bringing to fruition the desire to “put a face to the name.” Case...
