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| A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings.
The Frick Collection in New York has established The Center for the History of Collecting in America, to encourage scholars to pursue an overlooked field of study—the history of art collecting and patronage. They examine who bought and sold works, and why. Their first $25,000 book prize, recognizing work in this area, went to Julia Meech and her book on Frank Lloyd Wright’s collecting of Japanese woodblock prints, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architects Other Passion.
Recommended Websites www.monticello.org – totally explore Jefferson’s Monticello—house, grounds, outbuildings, archaeology, interiors, collections, research, etc. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjabout.html – Martha Jefferson’s letters http://www.monticello.org/papers/aboutflp.html – Jefferson Family papers www.montpelier.org/blog – keep up with the fascinating finds and progress at James and Dolley Madison’s Montpelier http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu:8100/dmde/ – Dolley Madison papers http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ – access to papers on several projects www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/ – read more about the Academical Village exhibit www.Mesda.org – see selections of collections at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts http://vangoghletters.org/vg/ – view 902 letters from and to Van Gogh, richly annotated with new transcriptions and translations. Easy to use, amazing website. Visit “Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture”, then click on anything that interests you but be prepared to spend hours!
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