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Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style
	Author: Dean T. Lahikainen Publisher: Peabody Essex Category: Book List Price: ~~$75.00~~ Buy New: $47.25 You Save: $27.75 (37%) New (18) Used (5) from $47.24 Sales Rank: 182595 Media: Hardcover Pages: 304 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1 Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 9.1 x 1.2 ISBN: 0875772099 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780875772097 ASIN: 0875772099 Publication Date: October 31, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


Editorial Reviews: Product Description For more than a century, historians have been searching for the true Samuel McIntire (1757-1811) and have been trying to define his role in shaping the cultural heritage of Salem, Massachusetts. Trained as a carpenter by his father, McIntire taught himself the art of architectural drawing and went on to design scores of public and private buildings in Salem, long celebrated for their elegance and beauty. After 1790, however, he made his living primarily as a wood carver, providing ornamental decoration for many of the buildings he designed as well as for furniture and more than two dozen sailing vessels. McIntire was also called upon to carve portrait busts and even a model of a historic pear, commissions that brought him into the realm of academic sculpture. Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style is the first book to examine the full range of his carving career and to put it into a broader perspective in terms of the work of his contemporaries and other decorative traditions of the Federal period. The book draws on the remarkable collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts, which owns most of McIntire's architectural drawings and several of his most important buildings, as well as furniture in public and private collections from around the country. 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. Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style accompanies a major exhibition of McIntire's work, curated by Lahikainen, which will open at the Peabody Essex Museum in October 2007. This book is not an exhibition catalogue; rather, it is an in-depth examination of the works by this master carver that will be required reading for anyone interested in Federal-era design, decorative art, and architecture.