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Colonial Interior Scene, Girl at Table,
ca. 1900–1905
Wallace Nutting, American, 1861–1941
2014-122
In addition to being an author and a photographer, Nutting was a leading authority on early American furniture. He played an important role in the development of the Colonial Revival aesthetic and ideology, which began in the late nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century. Reproductions of early American furniture—both physical and in photographic representations like this one—were central to his evocation of an "Old America" that was as nostalgic as it was antimodern.
Information
Title
Colonial Interior Scene, Girl at Table
Dates
ca. 1900–1905
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print with applied color
Dimensions
15.9 × 11.9 cm (6 1/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
mount: 30.2 × 25.2 cm (11 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David B. Long in honor of Henry Chapman Mercer
Object Number
2014-122
Place Made
North America, United States
Signatures
Signed in mat below print, lower right: [W-over-N]
Culture
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