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Patricia Gray Berman is Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Dawn R. Brean is chief curator and director of Collections, Frick Pittsburgh; Michelle Facos is professor of Art History, adjunct professor of Jewish Studies and adjunct professor of Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Charlotte Ashby is programme director and associate lecturer, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; Kjetil Fallan is professor, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway; Jan Kokkin is an independent historian, Oslo, Norway; Thor J. Mednick is professor of Art History, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; Tonje Haugland Sørensen is a postdoctoral fellow and researcher, University of Bergen, Norway; Sabine Wieber is senior lecturer, History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK.

• Foreword by Elizabeth Barker, Director; Acknowledgments by Dawn Brean, Patricia G. Berman, and Michelle Facos; Curator’s Introduction: Home as History by Michelle Facos and Patricia G. Berman; Interview with David and Sue Werner; Home by Michelle Facos; Vital Bodies by Patricia G. Berman; Art Nouveau and Nature by Sabine Wieber; A Natural Presence: Nordic Landscape in the Nineteenth Century by Thor Mednick; Dragon Tales: Glimpses of the Dragon Style in Nineteenth-Century Norway by Tonje Haugland Sorensen; Gerhard Munthe as the Creator of a New Style by Jan Kokkin; Artists’ Homes by Charlotte Ashby; Wood as Good: Precious Design and Cheap Nature by Kjetil Fallan; Nordic Ceramics in 1900 by Dawn Brean; Notes; Exhibition Checklist; Further Reading; Index; Photo Credits

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