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<\/a>Gorham Manufacturing Company, \u201cFruit Stand (detail),\u201d 1871, silver with gilding. (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cGorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970,\u201d<\/a> RISD Museum, Providence, May 3 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nThis exhibit surveys 120 years of production by the Providence firm that rose to be the largest silver company in the world. Mary Todd Lincoln even bought one of their tea services for the White House. They impressed with pieces ranging from a modernist cubist coffee set to ornate designs that look like something out of a fairy tale palace or Neptune\u2019s undersea castle.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>William Steig, illustration for \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble\u201d (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). (Collection of Maggie Steig. \u00a9 1969 William Steig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWilliam Steig’s Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, May 4 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nThe late Boston writer and illustrator William Steig drafted fables of surpassing wonder and strangeness. For example, his 1969 book \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble,\u201d which won the Caldecott Medal. It\u2019s the story of a donkey who finds a magic pebble that he (accidentally) uses to transform himself into a boulder, much to his unhappiness. The exhibition offers preliminary sketches, storyboards, dummy books, Steig\u2019s paints and tools, personal family photographs and his prized Caldecott Medal.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>View of East Room, Peter Lynch Marblehead Neck House. (\u00a9 Peabody Essex Museum. Photo: Kathy Tarantola.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection,\u201d <\/a>Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, May 11 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nPaintings by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Martin Johnson Heade plus sculpture, furniture, decorative art and Native American art spanning three centuries. All from the collection of Marblehead couple Carolyn and Peter Lynch, a Fidelity Investments financier.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cGorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970,\u201d<\/a> RISD Museum, Providence, May 3 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nThis exhibit surveys 120 years of production by the Providence firm that rose to be the largest silver company in the world. Mary Todd Lincoln even bought one of their tea services for the White House. They impressed with pieces ranging from a modernist cubist coffee set to ornate designs that look like something out of a fairy tale palace or Neptune\u2019s undersea castle.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>William Steig, illustration for \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble\u201d (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). (Collection of Maggie Steig. \u00a9 1969 William Steig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWilliam Steig’s Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, May 4 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nThe late Boston writer and illustrator William Steig drafted fables of surpassing wonder and strangeness. For example, his 1969 book \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble,\u201d which won the Caldecott Medal. It\u2019s the story of a donkey who finds a magic pebble that he (accidentally) uses to transform himself into a boulder, much to his unhappiness. The exhibition offers preliminary sketches, storyboards, dummy books, Steig\u2019s paints and tools, personal family photographs and his prized Caldecott Medal.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>View of East Room, Peter Lynch Marblehead Neck House. (\u00a9 Peabody Essex Museum. Photo: Kathy Tarantola.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection,\u201d <\/a>Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, May 11 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nPaintings by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Martin Johnson Heade plus sculpture, furniture, decorative art and Native American art spanning three centuries. All from the collection of Marblehead couple Carolyn and Peter Lynch, a Fidelity Investments financier.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cWilliam Steig’s Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary,\u201d<\/a> Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, May 4 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nThe late Boston writer and illustrator William Steig drafted fables of surpassing wonder and strangeness. For example, his 1969 book \u201cSylvester and the Magic Pebble,\u201d which won the Caldecott Medal. It\u2019s the story of a donkey who finds a magic pebble that he (accidentally) uses to transform himself into a boulder, much to his unhappiness. The exhibition offers preliminary sketches, storyboards, dummy books, Steig\u2019s paints and tools, personal family photographs and his prized Caldecott Medal.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>View of East Room, Peter Lynch Marblehead Neck House. (\u00a9 Peabody Essex Museum. Photo: Kathy Tarantola.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cA Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Collection,\u201d <\/a>Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, May 11 to Dec. 1, 2019<\/h2>\nPaintings by Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Martin Johnson Heade plus sculpture, furniture, decorative art and Native American art spanning three centuries. All from the collection of Marblehead couple Carolyn and Peter Lynch, a Fidelity Investments financier.<\/p>\n
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