The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2002

Frederick J. Mulhaupt. (1871-1938).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Gloucester, Massachusetts has long been a magnet for artists, who are drawn to the light and activity found in this picturesque fishing village. Nineteenth century painter Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865) often used Gloucester as a backdrop for his...

Kenzan ceramics demystified. (Current and Coming).(Ogata Kenzan pottery)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... One of the most daunting puzzles in the world of Japanese ceramics revolves around work associated with the celebrated potter Ogata Shinsei, more commonly known as Ogata Kenzan. Even the basic fact that he was not just an individual artisan,...

Modernism in Europe. (Current and Coming).(Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Central European Avant-Gardes, Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930" exhibition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The decades between 1910 and 1930 were tumultuous not only politically but also in the worlds of art and design. However, before the reconfiguration of Europe in the 1980s documents and objects pertaining to artistic movements in many countries...

The banjo -- an American instrument. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The banjo is a descendant of gourd instruments made in Africa, and the techniques for making them came to America with African slaves. However, the banjo soon developed into a distinctively American instrument. An exhibition that examines the...

An exceptional print collection. (Current and Coming).(New York Public Library displays Samuel P. Avery print collection)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... When Samuel P. Avery, an artist, art dealer, collector, and philanthropist, presented his collection of nearly eighteen thousand prints to the New York Public library in 1900, he established in a single stroke the first public print collection...

Museum accessions.(Litchfield Female Academy and Charlotte Hopper Newcomb)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Much has been written about the Litchfield Female Academy, a school in Litchfield, Connecticut, started by Sarah Pierce in 1792, and a plethora of documents from the school survive in private and public collections around the country, most...

A rare pair. (Collector's Notes).(Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris pickle stands)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... It is not quite like finding the holy grail or the golden fleece, but to ceramics collectors any addition to the tiny surviving output of Bonnin and Morris is a cause for jubilation. Such a find has been imparted to us by Alice Cooney...

Seventeenth-century decorative arts. (Report from Europe).(Grand Palais' A Time of Exuberance: The Decorative Arts under Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, 1610-1660 exhibition)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Renaissance was in full flood in France in the seventeenth century. The foundations were laid during the regency of Louis XIII, who became king in 1610 at the age of eight following the assassination of his father, Henry IV. The regent was...

Nineteenth-century landscapes. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In art history the term "sublime" means something distinct from, and sometimes contrasted with, the beautiful. In regard to nature the word was often used to describe the wild, grand, and even terrifying, such as mountains and torrents of...

Baroque Painting in Genoa. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Genoa became rich through banking and maritime trade. To furnish their palaces the successful bankers and merchants in this city-state employed an impressive number of homegrown painters and sculptors in the seventeenth century, as well as some...

Dutch paintings. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... As a young boy in Amsterdam the Dutch collector Frits Lugt (1884-1970) often visited the Rijksmuseum, particularly the print room. At the age of fourteen he wrote a biography of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn to coincide with a Rembrandt...

Royal drawings at Waddesdon Manor. (Report from Europe).("Royalty: 18th Century French Drawings at Waddesdon Manor")(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the queen's accession to the throne, the drawings exhibition at Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire is devoted to a royal theme. It features eighteenth-century French designs for furniture,...

Mary Colter, architect and decorator. (Books About Antiques).(Mary Colter, Architect of the Southwest)
April 1, 2002... The American West was mythologized almost as soon as it was settled. Its exoticism was carefully tended by, among others, the Fred Harvey Company in conjunction with the Santa Fe Railway. The Santa Fe brought the people and Fred Harvey made...

Antiques.(differences between histories of Mexico and the US)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... What, then, must have been the emotions of the Spaniards, when, after working their toilsome way into the upper air, the cloudy tabernacle parted before their eyes, and they beheld these fair scenes in all their pristine magnificence and...

Elizabeth Eaton Burton.(artist)
April 1, 2002... Stickley, Roycroft, Grueby. These are the names typically associated with the arts and crafts movement. Few women are remembered and recognized for their contributions. Yet Elizabeth Eaton Burton (Fig. 1) typified the arts and crafts movement...

Three historic houses at the Shelburne Museum reinterpreted.
April 1, 2002... Three historic houses that were moved to the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, half a century ago by Electra Havemeyer Webb (Fig. 1), who founded the museum in 1947, have been extensively reinterpreted and were reopened to the public in...

Masterpieces of navigation the Mariners' Museum.
April 1, 2002... The Mariners Museum, one of the world's finest maritime museums, is situated in Newport News, Virginia, on the banks of the James River close to the important port of Hampton Roads. The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington...

Calendar.
April 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia"; to...

The arts of viceregal Mexico, 1521-1821: a confluence of cultures.
April 1, 2002... The arts of colonial America produced along the Atlantic seaboard were dominated by the taste and fashions of the British Isles, mainly England but also Scotland and Ireland, and to a lesser extent, also of Germany and Huguenot France. Today we...

The Fales collection of jewelry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
April 1, 2002... Is early as 1883 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City began acquiring American jewelry. (1) By the 1930s its holdings comprised necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, and knee buckles. A small display of American jewelry was mounted...

San Simeon's collection of ceremonial objects.
April 1, 2002... La Cuesta Encantada (the enchanted hill), William Randolph Hearst's Mediterranean style estate in San Simeon, California (see Pl. IV), provides a dramatic setting for a wide-ranging collection of architectural antiques and fine and decorative...

Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of New England & the Mid-Atlantic.(Directory)
April 1, 2002... CONNECTICUT BRISTOL: The American Clock & Watch Museum, 100 Maple Street, 06010. It's about time you visited the world's finest display of American manufactured clocks. Over 1500 clocks & watches are shown in the 1801-Miles Lewis House...

Calendar of Shows.
April 1, 2002... Calendar of Shows for The Magazine ANTIQUES April 2002 April 6 - 10. Philadelphia, PA. THE PHILADELPHIA ANTIQUES SHOW. 103rd Engineers Armory 33rd Street North of Market. Recognized as the finest American antiques and decorative arts show...

Resurrecting the hopeless. (Design Notes).(metalwork restorer Howard Newman)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Howard Newman started working in his family's machine shop when he was ten years old. By the age of sixteen he was making jewelry and his knowledge and love of metals of all kinds and metals in combination with other materials laid a solid...