Books
Soldier, Engraver, Forger, Richard Brunton’s Life on the Fringe in America’s New Republic. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. 136 pages, paperback with fold-out flaps. Available at American Ancestors.org.
The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt. Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Athenæum, 2007. 120 pages softcover. See review.
Book Chapters
“Thomas Earl Part III: Artist Extraordinaire” Americana Insights, 2022. View
“Thomas Earl Part II: Who Was Thomas Earl?” Americana Insights, 2021. View
“Thomas Earl, Schoolmaster, America.” Americana Insights, 2021. View
“Tributes in Paper from the City of Brotherly Love.” Americana Insights, 2021. View
“Rufus Porter’s Miniature Portraits: Practices and Patrons” Rufus Porter’s Curious World, Art and Invention in American, 1815-1860, Published by Bowdoin College Museum of Art in association with Pennsylvania University Press, 2019. 55-79.
“Unlocking the Mysteries of the Wilkinson Limner” Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence. Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II. Published by Marquand Books, Seattle, in association with Yale University Book Press, 2011, 141-153.
Select Articles
“In Search of New Horizons: Surfing the Records of American Folk Art Gallery” Incollect, 2021. View
“Mr. Willson of NH” and His Remarkable Watercolors.” Courtesy, the Autumn 2017 issue (Volume 16, issue 3) of Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, 110-115. View
“Richard Brunton, Folk Artist/Counterfeiter.” Courtesy, the Autumn 2015 issue (vol. 14, issue 3) of Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, 118-123. View
“Richard Brunton: An Artist of No Ordinary Character,” blog post at Journal of American Revolution, allthingsliberty.com, May 17, 2015.
“Cherished Mementos: Engravings by Richard Brunton from the Earliest Years of the American Republic”.Summer 2014 issue (vol.15, no.3) of American Ancestors, 45-48.
“A Portrait to Be Treasured Once Again. A Copley Pastel of a Boston Maiden.” Courtesy, the Spring 2012 issue (vol.xi, issue 6) of Antiques and Fine Art Magazine, 180-184. Copley PDF
“Edwin Plummer and his Portrait Likenesses.” Courtesy, the Summer/Autumn 2011 issue (vol. XI, issue 3) of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine. View PDF file
“Samuel Jordan: Artist, Thief, Villain.” Courtesy, the Summer/Autumn 2009 issue (vol. IX, issue 5) of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine.View PDF file
“Coming of Age on the Piscataqua. The Marine Paintings of John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835).” Courtesy, the Summer/Autumn 2006 issue (vol. VII, issue 3) of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine. View Blunt PDF file
“An Unbroken Chain of Custody: Pendant Portraits of Enoch and Susan Parker Parrott of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.” Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society.Volume II, 2004-2006 Lecture Series, 104-113. View PDF file
Second author to Prof. Ian Hodkinson, “Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797): An Unusual Example of An Artist-Lined Painting.” Journal of the American Institute of Conservation. May 1995, 33-47.