The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2001

Frederick Carl Frieseke.(Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In the pantheon of American impressionists, only a few have escaped being the subject of at least one large-scale exhibition. Such was the case with Frederick Carl Frieseke, who is only now the subject of a traveling show that recently opened...

Art and the industrial revolution.(Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Today's minute-by-minute advances in science and technology, overwhelming though they may seem, have their antecedent in the industrial revolution, when inventions also changed the way people lived with astonishing rapidity. A fascinating...

American needlework.(Painted with Thread: The Art of American Embroidery exhibition, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has its origins in the East India Marine Society, founded in 1799. At that time, Salem enjoyed economic prosperity as one of the leading ports of New England and maintained commercial ties with...

Indian arts.(George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian , New York, NY)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Two exhibitions at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian in Lower Manhattan celebrate the extraordinary decoration lavished on objects used by American Indians in the nineteenth and early twentieth...

Mapping the West.(Heading West: Mapping the Territory exhibition at New York Public Library, New York, NY)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The history of the discovery, charting, and settlement of the American West can be told in many ways, but certainly one of the most visually fascinating is to be found in maps. Until the nineteenth century the West was largely unexplored...

Museum accessions.(Shelburne Museum in Vermont acquires items collected by Electra Havemeyer Webb)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Electra Havemeyer Webb often told the story of her acquisition of a cigar store Indian in Connecticut when she was just eighteen years old, a purchase that horrified her proper mother, Louisine Havemeyer, the great pioneer collector of...

Whistler's prints of Venice.(Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice exhibition, Fine Art Society, London, England)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In 1876 a group of collectors formed the Fine Art Society, a gallery to promote contemporary artists through one-man shows, which was then a radical notion. The 125th anniversary of the society is being celebrated with a series of exhibitions...

The Victorian Vision.(Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Queen Victoria is one of the few people whose names have become shorthand for an em, an outlook, and a style. The adjective Victorian conjures up many images, from the dour middle-aged queen in deepest mourning for her beloved Prince Albert to...

The London art world on the move.(Creative Quarters: The Art World in London 1700 to 2000 exhibition, Museum of London, London, England)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Neighborhoods move in and out of favor with urban artists. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in London, for example, given the overwhelming importance of the guilds, it was advantageous to be a member of the Painter-Stainer's...

Cleopatra.(Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth exhibition, British Museum, London, England)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... It could be argued that Cleopatra invented the technique for creating headlines when, for example, she presented herself to Julius Caesar rolled up in a carpet, and when she successfully challenged Mark Antony in lavishness at a banquet It was...

American picture frames.(Review)
April 1, 2001... A quarter of a century ago a picture frame was inseparable from its picture. Today, among the purists, the picture frame demarcates a section of wall. The elevation of the frame to an art form has resulted from a spate of scholarly...

ANTIQUES.(death as influence in 17th-century family life in America)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... O Woman, if thy Husband be not so young, beautiful, healthy, so well temper'd and qualified as thee couldst wish; if he has not such abilities, riches, honours, as some others have; if he does not carry it so well as he should; yet he's thy...

Maxim Karolik folk art.
April 1, 2001... Maxim Karolik (Fig. 1) had no particular passion for folk art. In fact, he rejected it as a category, writing: "one wonders whether, from the artistic point of view, the question of Folk Art versus Academic Art has any meaning." [1] Yet within...

Coliseum Square: A New Orleans renaissance.
April 1, 2001... [It] is carpeted with close smooth grass, and planted with luxuriant trees. It is more than one fourth mile long, and four or five hundred feet wide, surrounded with beautiful houses, and gardens filled with the choicest flowers, roses blooming...

WATCH CHATELAINES IN THE MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR.(Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY)
April 1, 2001... The precursor of the modern handbag was a device with a hook that was fastened to the belt or waistband and from which were suspended a variety of useful items, often including a watch. The form has existed in various configurations since the...

Group portraits in Picturing America at the Newark Museum.(Newark, NJ)
April 1, 2001... On May 6, the Newark Museum will open its newly installed American Art Galleries with a groundbreaking exhibition entitled Picturing America. For the first time this collection, which is one of the richest and most comprehensive in the nation,...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S LIGHT SCREENS: The influence of Japan.
April 1, 2001... Scholars have long identified a Japanese influence on the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, [1] even though he is well known for his insistence that his architecture and design were completely his own, without precedent. Yet examples of...

A vast wallpaper archive.(Cooper-Hewit National Design Museum, New York, NY)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London have the largest collections of wallpapers in the world. On April 24, the Cooper-Hewitt is opening...