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Article: Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Interest in Quebec decorative arts has grown rapidly over the last half century. In the 1950s, there was very little information about the furniture made by our neighbors to the north. The notable New York City dealer C. W. Lyon clearly appreciated the so-called salamander armchairs he advertised in The Magazine ANTIQUES in 1955 (Fig 5), although he mistakenly attributed them to New England. However, it was published images such as these that captured the imagination of Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960), the founder of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. With a strong aesthetic sense, Webb was drawn to furniture with striking shapes and painted surfaces, which she ...
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