What is the Stanley Weiss Collection?
A Brief History for New Visitors.... The Stanley Weiss Collection is a renowned selection of fine antique furniture and decorative arts, primarily focused on American pieces from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Stanley Weiss, an avid collector and connoisseur,...
Boston Masterpieces: The Furniture of the Seymour School
Explore the masterworks of Boston father-and-son cabinetmakers John & Thomas Seymour, who brought exacting standards of English craftsmanship to market in Federal New England and produced work that was the envy of any maker to be found in America at the time. Each...
MESDA Acquires Baltimore Sideboard From Stanley Weiss Collection
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is the recipient of an exceptional inlaid sideboard made in Baltimore, Md., between 1800 and 1815. A gift of Beth and Stanley Weiss from the Stanley Weiss Collection, it fills an important gap...
The Paintings of George William Whitaker, (1841-1916)
From June 13, 2019 through October 14, 2019, selections from Stanley Weiss’s George William Whitaker collection were exhibited at the Gilbert Stuart Museum, along other other Whitaker works…
Stanley Weiss inducted in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
The man who placed his elegant mark on the city of Providence and beyond was born to a working-class family in Brooklyn, NY. His whirlwind journey to Rhode Island began when Stanley Weiss’ beloved mother placed a violin in his young hands. He didn’t disappoint. Weiss...
Q&A with Stanley Weiss
See the Q&A with Stanley Weiss in Antiques and the Arts Weekly.Stanley Weiss “Flip through the pages of this impressive volume, and you will discover a remarkable trove of treasures,” writes Brock Jobe, Winterthur’s professor of American decorative arts emeritus, in...
Read our Profile in Maine Antiques Digest
"Twenty years ago [Stanley Weiss] bought the landmark Tilden-Thurber building at the corner of Matthewson and Westminster Streets in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, and restored it to the way it was in 1895, when built as a shop filled with the latest in elegant...