Gifts from the Biggs

Biggs Museum of American Art



Gifts for Special Occasions
For the art lover on your gift list, the Biggs Museum offers a variety of items!
Books
Note Cards
Gift Memberships
Posters
Purchase of our items may be made at the Museum or by mailing us your
purchase request (pdf form -  Adobe Acrobat Reader required).
Biggs Museum
P.O. Box 711
Dover, DE 19903.

Books
"This magisterial pair of groundbreaking volumes adds a new dimension to our understanding of American decorative arts in rich, informing detail."
Wendell D. Garrett
Vice President, Americana, Sotheby’s 
and Editor-at-Large, The Magazine Antiques

Over 400 color illustrations Featured authors:
William H. Gerdts, Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough,
Roxanne M. Stanulis, Philip D. Zimmerman

The Sewell C. Biggs 
Collection of American Art:
A Catalogue

Whether your interest is American or regional history, decorative or fine arts, this beautifully illustrated and authoritative compendium of important American art is a necessary addition to your library. Some fifty-two authors engagingly bring to light an extraordinary collection assembled over the last sixty years by Delaware’s visionary collector Sewell C. Biggs. Not only is it a landmark look at American art from its colonial roots through the mid-twentieth-century, but also it surveys 125 years of remarkable contributions by Delaware artists to the national arts scene.

Hard bound, two volumes
$125, plus $12 postage and handling

Soft bound, two volumes
regularly $75, plus $12 postage and handling

purchase request
(pdf form -  Adobe Acrobat)

Send your check and order form to the Biggs Museum.


Also available are:
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Charles Allmond Exhibition Catalogue with color illustrations and an essay by Roberta K. Tarbell, art history professor at Rutgers University. 

( $15 public / $13.50 for Museum members)
 

purchase request


Ptarmigan, 1996
Charles Allmond (b. 1931)
Allabaster, h. 11"

From left to right - Olive Rush, Sarah Katherine Smith, and Ethel Pennewill Brown on the steps of the Howard Pyle Studios, ca. 1901, courtesy Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach Papers.
Almost Forgotten:
Delaware Women Artists and Arts Patrons
1900-1950

A new book by Jann Haynes Gilmore, PH.D
in conjunction with the
The Biggs Museum of American Art

($15.00 public / $13.50 Museum members)
purchase request

John W. McCoy: 
American Painter
written by his daughter, artist Anna B. McCoy, and featuring over 70 illustrations
($30.00 public / $27.00 Museum members)
purchase request
Delaware
with photographs by Kevin Fleming and text by Nancy E. Lynch, featuring over 150 pictures.
($45.00 public / $41.50 Museum members)
purchase request
The Colors of Kent
by Kevin Fleming and Nancy E. Lynch
($40 public / $36.00 Museum members)
purchase request
Picture Delaware: 
Landmarks of a New Generation
($40.00 public / $36.00 Museum members)
purchase request
The Bucks County 
Framemaking Tradition
($13.00 public / $11.50 Museum members)
purchase request
The Finishing Touch:
The Art of Bucks County and Delaware Frame Makers
($2.00 public / $1.75 Museum members)
purchase request

Note Cards
Our regular line of excellent notecards with pictures of Walter Launt Palmer's Winter Landscape and Frank E. Schoonover's Height of Land make wonderful holiday greetings!
($9.00 for a package of ten / $8.00 for Museum members).
purchase request
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Frank E. Schoonover's Height of Land


Poster
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Our Summer Girl poster is always
a popular gift item!
($16.50 public/$15 Museum members)
purchase request


Museum membership
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We also offer the gift of Museum membership,
starting at $30 for individuals and $50 for a household.This entitles the Member to regular updates on Museum exhibitions and programs through our quarterly Museletter newsletter and bi-monthly Calendar,discounts on programs and products, invitations to events and group travel, and the knowledge that you are supporting the arts in Delaware and the region.
You can purchase a 
gift membership through the Membership Page.
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