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Welcome to Keehnan — A new voice for ATNY!

The history of documenting interiors goes back farther than one would think; before blogs, before glossy shelter magazines, even before the printed photograph, it became fashionable for the nineteenth century European aristocracy and well-to-do to commission professional interior portraits. Eugene and Clare Thaw have donated eighty-five of these watercolor drawings, the largest collection of it's kind in America, to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and they are presently on view...