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November 7, 2006
Wayne Craven Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.120

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As the field of American art emerged from second-class status in the 1960s, Wayne Craven’s wonderful volume on American sculpture helped define the field. Now, in this new book on Stanford White’s role as a decorator and antique dealer, Craven calls attention to a significant aspect of the American Gilded Age. Craven has produced a neat, careful volume documenting a half-dozen of White’s most opulent houses, those designed for William Collins Whitney, Colonel Oliver Hazard...