Article: A collection in Providence Rhode Island; a visit to Marguerite Riordan's shop in Stonington, Connecticut, was the beginning of a thirty year journey collecting American furniture and folk portraits.(Living with antiques)

A favorite Saturday Evening Post cover of 1947 illustrates two spellbound window-shoppers, noses pressed against the glass of an antiques shop in the tony coastal Connecticut town of Southport. The shop belonged to Mary Allis (1899-1987), the fierce, flame-haired authority on American folk art who advised the collectors Stephen C. Clark, Stewart Gregory, and Jean and Howard Lipman.

Flash forward forty years. The year is 1987; the town is Stonington, an unspoiled Connecticut fishing village on the Rhode Island border. (1) A couple, a young physician and his wife stalking antiques on a Saturday afternoon, peer through the window of another shop. It belongs to ...

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