Wallace Nutting
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wallace Nutting 1861-1941, American clergyman, antiquarian, lecturer, and photographer; illustrator and writer of books on life in early America and also on the scenic beauties of the United States and Great Britain. His works include Windsor Handbook (1917), Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (1921-23), Photographic Art Secrets (1924), and Furniture Treasury (3 vol., 1928-33). A restorer of early American houses, an expert on all things American colonial (some of his interpretations and conclusions have been challenged by modern scholars), and a tireless marketer, Nutting was an important early 20th-century tastemaker.
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NUTTING CHAIR PRIZED REPRODUCTIONS FINELY MADE.(AT HOME)
; ...Congregational minister, and later wrote ''American Windsor'' and ''Furniture Treasury,'' highly respected and influential tomes on early American...on the subject (''American Windsor''), which led to ''Furniture Treasury'' in 1928. Finally, in the 1920s, Nutting started making...
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Captain America: Wallace Nutting championed the notion of American antiques and catalyzed a colonial revival in the process.
; ...created a demand for American antiques with his three-volume Furniture Treasury, in which he compiled nearly 5,000 images of furniture...childhood. We dragged our dog-eared and dirt-smudged copy of Furniture Treasury everywhere. Leigh: Although the book contains little text...
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Wallace Nutting and the intention of old America.
; ...in describing the virtues of the past. He wrote the landmark Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (1921), the three-volume Furniture Treasury (1928-1933), and many articles. His collection of seventeenth-century furniture was the largest in the country, and he...
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`Antiques Roadshow' specialists bring their story to audiotape.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
; ...treasures they found: old, hand-forged hinges and door latches. Then they'd spread out their loot, take up Wallace Nuttings' Furniture Treasury and figure out what was what and what it was worth. Now, they bring their passion to millions of television viewers as...
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Mystery solved: identifying an early Philadelphia Federal side chair.
; ...one example with a similar back: an undocumented and unidentified side chair published by Wallace Nutting in his 1928 Furniture Treasury (Fig. 3). Regrettably, Nutting offered no historical insights or other details about the chair, and because its whereabouts...
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A Boston tambour desk.
; ...over the next few months. In the year she bought the desk, it was illustrated in Wallace Nutting's landmark compendium Furniture Treasury..., apparently unbeknownst to her, for Nutting's illustration was credited to Israel Sack. This marked the first time...
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IT STARTS WITH ONE DOLL . . .
; ...Morgan Jr., who gifted the collection to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Among Nutting's many books is his three-volume "The Furniture Treasury," considered the bible of American furniture. "The Nutting Collection remains the single most important gathering of early...
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Decoy feathers seller's nest with $28,600
; ...riding lawn tractor, $1,000; a Beeman German 177-caliber pellet gun with Simmons scope, $425; and a 1968 Wallace Nutting "Furniture Treasury" book, $102. A one-story house with one-car garage at 6 Walnut St., Mount Joy, sold for $106,000 at a public auction held...
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HOW CURIOSITY REVEALED CRAFT
; ...written about Boston cabinetmakers, but it contained no information about the Seymours. Even when Wallace Nutting's "The Furniture Treasury" was published in 1928, little was known of their work. Nutting's three-volume book, considered the bible of American...
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Sideboard solves dining room storage problem
; ...He also made reproductions of 18th-century furniture and wrote many books, including the "States Beautiful" series and "Furniture Treasury." His company also made silhouettes that were sold plain, framed and later as greeting cards. A 1927 silhouette card called...
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