Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2007. Hardcover. VG+/VG (light shelfwear to dust jacket. Pages are very clean.). Slate-gray cloth with silver spine lettering, color and glossy illustrated dust jacket. 300 pp., 565 images, many in color. This catalogue is divided into 5 chapters and 2 appendices, complete with full annotations for each of the works in the exhibition, followed by the wonderful, full-page reproductions. "Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style is the first book to examine the range of Samuel McIntire's carving career and to put it into a broader perspective in terms of the work of this contemporaries and other decorative traditions of the Federal period. Lahikainen presents a critical analysis of McIntire's carving style and questions some long-held attributions that shed new light on his role as a furniture maker and designer."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Foreword by Dan Monroe-- Acknowledgments-- Introduction--Discovering an American original -- Who was Samuel McIntire? -- The art of carving -- McIntire's carved ornaments -- Patrons and the coordinated interior-- Appendix A-- Appendix B-- McIntire Bibliography by Sarah N. Chasse-- Index.