Heritage Collection

From The Heritage Collection It is easy to forget how much we rely on arbitrary social signifiers in navigating our world.  When we come up against the unfamiliar conventions of other places and other times, they can seem strange or amusing or just plain wrong to our way [...]

Waves of Beauty, Tides of Light “Speed, whipping wind and the crying of gulls—flying spray and salt on the lips.  It was good to be alive and on the water again!” American marine artist Frank Vining Smith (1879-1967) wrote this about a fishing [...]

From The Heritage Collection In these days of video and camera phones, images are ubiquitous.  It may be difficult to imagine a time when painted portraits were the only visual remembrances of family and loved ones possible. Portraits were expensive, and even those who could afford them might [...]