Period Rooms and the New Art of the Americas Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2012/06/01 by Gerald W. R. Ward · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Art History and Market Analysis #Historical Art and Architecture Studies #Architecture, Design, and Social History

paper · doi:10.1086/668296

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Abstract

In 1928 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opened a Decorative Arts Wing featuring New England period rooms dating from the 1690s to circa 1800 and installed by Edwin J. Hipkiss. Although popular throughout the century, the rooms were subject to change, including a substantial revision of the Oak Hill rooms (1800–1801) under the direction of Jonathan L. Fairbanks. The museum’s period rooms were further reevaluated, reinstalled, and reinterpreted during the process of developing the Art of the Americas Wing, which opened in 2010 with the addition of two rooms from the Gleason House (ca. 1840) of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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