American 19-20th Century Decorative Arts

• Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages (9/30/06)
• Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall - An Artist's Country Estate (9/18/06)
• Electric Tiffany (8/23/06)
• Laying the Foundation: American Art Tile (9/6/05)
• Tiffany By Design (8/3/05)
• American Art Pottery: Selections from the Charles Hosmer Morse Collection; article by Valerie Ann Leeds (7/29/05)
• The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World (2/8/05)
• People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory (1/25/05)
• Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (9/15/04)
• Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918 (1/17/04)
• The Norma K. and Edwin J. Seiferle Collection of Native American Art (1/17/04)
• New Louis Comfort Tiffany Permanent Collection Display at University of Kentucky Art Museum (10/31/03)
• American Quilt Classics 1800 ­ 1980: The Charles and Fleur Bresler Collection (6/3/03)
• California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism (5/31/03)
• Glorious Treasures: 100 Years of Collecting by the Southwest Museum (5/31/03)
• Quilts: A Window to the Past (4/22/02)
• The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition (4/15/01)
• Crafting Utopia, The Art of Shaker Women (10/22/00)
• The Frame in America: 1860-1960 (9/9/00)
• Punch's Progress (9/9/00)
• Power, Politics & Style: Art for the Presidents (8/30/00)
• Christmas in the Ballantine House: Feasting with Family and Friends (8/29/00)
• Fibers & Forms (7/21/00)
• Amish Quilts 1880 to 1940 from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown (7/20/00)
• The White House Collection of American Crafts (7/20/00)
• Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts (3/3/00)
• Kaleidoscopes: Symmetry in Motion (2./16/00)
• Hays "Spirit of the Cowboy" Collection (2/8/00)
• El Favor de los Santos: The Retablo Collection of New Mexico State University (11/10/99)
• Chairs of Choice and Vault Series IV: Chairs (8/7/99)
• Renwick Gallery Showcases Glass! Glorious Glass! (8/6/99)
• Cut from the Cloth of Life: The Fabric Collages of Elizabeth B. Noyce (7/26/99)
• The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection (7/12/99)
• Southwest Weaving: A Continuum (7/7/99)
• Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts (6/21/99)
• The Duke Energy Gallery: Tradition and Change (5/26/99)
• The Lamps of Tiffany Opens at Knoxville Museum of Art (4/13/99)
• Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast (5/13/99)
• Center for Native American Art at Portland Art Museum (5/13/99)
• Art for Everyday Living: The American Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1920 (4/10/99)
• "American Art on Display" at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (3/31/99)
• Worlds of Beauty and Enchantment: The Henry Melville Fuller Collection of Paperweights (3/16/99)
• Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson Williams Proctor Institute (3/12/99)
• OBJECTS: Five Master Craftsmen (2/26/99)
• Tiffany Windows Installed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2/26/99)
• Navajo Weavings from the Getzwiller Collection (1/29/99)
• American Glass: Masters of the Art (12/19/98)
• Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America (12/10/98)
• Pure Vision: American Bead Artists (12/8/98)
• Beads: A Cross-Cultural Medium (12/8/98)
• Family Ties: Needlework by Denise Allen (12/8/98)
• Drip, Blow, Burn: Forces of Nature in Contemporary Art (12/8/98)
• The White House Collection of American Crafts (11/18/98)
• Clearly Color: Frederick Carder's Transparent Glassware (10/12/98)
• Spinning Spheres and Whirling Wheels: The Art of Play (9/22/98)
• Let Your F.A.C.E. Make History (7/31/98)
• Stanford White on Long Island (7/24/98)
• The Presidents and Their Horses (5/24/98)
• Gifts of the Spirit: Works by 19th Century and Contemporary Native American Artists (5/24/98)
• Mason Collection Coming to Mint Museum of Craft and Design (4/7/98)
• M. Mellanay Delhom
• Chinese Snuff Bottles at the Norton (7/28/97)
• Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts 50th Anniversary Traveling Collection Exhibition

As of 6/12/12 Resource Library contained 371 pages containing the phrase "decorative arts."

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American Craft Council Library Digital Collections posted online as of 2013 an Exhibition Catalog Collection with links to online catalogues containing essays.

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, offered freely online as of 2013 over 25 titles highlighting the Museum's collections, published between 1978 and 1987 including Current Craft Perspectives: Third Annual Exhibition of Artist-Craftsmen of New York, Inc., Craftsmen Preview the 'Sixties: Second Annual Exhibition of Artist-Craftsmen of New York, Inc.

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