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22-A Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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involved in whale fisheries. He
married Elizabeth Barney, also
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Patricia Kane to Receive ADA Award of Merit
T he Antiques Dealers’ Association
of America (ADA) has announced
that the 2017 Award of Merit will
go to Yale University Art Gallery Friends
of AmericanArt Curator Patricia E. Kane.
She will receive the flame finial prize at
a dinner on Friday, April 21, at the Phil-
adelphia Antiques Show at the Marine
Parade Grounds of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard.
“I have never had the pleasure of meet-
ing Pat Kane, but in the last twenty-five
years I don’t think a month has gone by
that I have not heard her name mentioned
by one of my colleagues,” said James
Kilvington, president of the ADA. “I do
know her from her writings.”
Kane has published on a wide variety
of subjects and is probably best known
for books and articles on Colonial silver
and American furniture, especially sil-
ver made in Massachusetts and furniture
made in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island. Art and Industry in Early
America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-
1830, a book that accompanies an exhi-
bition of the same name that focuses on
the highlights of the online Rhode Island
Furniture Archive, which is a useful tool
for scholars, collectors, and the trade, has
received much of Kane’s attention in the
last decade.
Dealers often see Kane with her stu-
dents and colleagues, black light in hand,
examining furniture at auction previews
and antiques shows, where she has been
known to discover signatures and make
attributions. Moreover, she has welcomed
dealers to Yale University’s Garvan col-
lection and storage and urged members of
the trade to share their knowledge.
“Early in my career I enjoyed listen-
ing to dealers talk about the objects they
owned and found them great fonts of
knowledge,” said Kane, when congratu-
lated on her latest honor.
Details and information about the
award dinner will be posted on the ADA
website ).
Patricia Kane in 2013.
Solis-Cohen photo.
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