Background
Warren, David Boardman was born on March 11, 1937 in Baltimore. Son of Robert Otey Yancey Warren and Florence Elizabeth Prickett Hershey.
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The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas Furniture and its makers. They spent more than a decade working with museums and private collectors throughout the state to examine and photograph representative examples. They also combed census records, newspapers, and archives for information about cabinetmakers. These efforts resulted in the 1975 publication of Texas Furniture, which quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. Now updated with an expanded Index of Texas Cabinetmakers that includes information that has come to light since the original publication and corrects errors, Texas Furniture presents a catalog of more than two hundred pieces of furniture, each superbly photographed and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece’s maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. The book also includes chapters on the material culture of nineteenth-century Texas and on the tools and techniques of nineteenth-century Texas cabinetmakers, with a special emphasis on the German immigrant cabinetmakers of the Hill Country and Central Texas. The index of Texas cabinetmakers contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, and appendices list information on the state’s largest cabinet shops taken from the United States census records.
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( The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during ...)
The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, Texas Furniture, Volume One, was issued in the spring of 2012. Texas Furniture, Volume Two presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the piece's maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans' desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers, which contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, completes the volume.
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Warren, David Boardman was born on March 11, 1937 in Baltimore. Son of Robert Otey Yancey Warren and Florence Elizabeth Prickett Hershey.
AB cum laude, Princeton University, 1959. Master of Arts, University Delaware, 1965.
July 1978); 1 son, Robert WilsonFraser. Married Janie Currie Lee, January 2, 1980. Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Princeton University, 1959.
Master of Arts, U. Delaware, 1965.
Curator Bayou Bend Collection, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, 1965-1986, associate director collection, 1974-1986, director, 1986, associate director, senior curator, 1986. Consultant Friends of Governor"s Mansion, Austin.
Member board Winterthur Museum. Director Winterthur Corporation.
Member of advisory com.Tex. area project Archives of America Art, Houston, 1979-1983, Mount Vernon Ladies Association of Union, 1989.
Author: Bayou Bend: American FurniturePaintings and Silver in the Bayou Bend Collection, 1975. (with others) Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work 1940-1880, 1975,Marks of Achievement: Four Centuries of American Presentation Silver, 1986, (with Katherine South. Howe) exhibition catalogue The Gothic Revival style in America, 1830-1870, 1976. Author, co-author other exhibition catalogs.
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Member board Winterthur Museum. Member of advisory com.Tex. area project Archives of America Art, Houston, 1979-1983, Mount Vernon Ladies Association of Union, 1989. Served to Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1960-1963.
Member Philosophical Society Texas.
Married Gabrielle Lavielle Fraser, April 24, 1971 (divorced July 1978). Married Janie Currie Lee, January 2, 1980.