The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2003

From Portland to Portland. (Current and Coming).
April 1, 2003... Clement E. Conger, for several decades the curator of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the United States Department of State in Washington, D. C., can be largely credited for gathering an important group of objects made or used in this country...

Nadelman at the Whitney. (Current and Coming).
April 1, 2003... The elegant and lyrical sculpture Tango, illustrated at right, is an icon of early twentieth-century American art. Its creator, the Polish-born Elie Nadelman, enjoyed enormous critical acclaim and reaped substantial financial rewards from the...

Portraiture in Pennsylvania. .
April 1, 2003... In 1959 the pioneering American art historian Edgar P. Richardson wrote: "Jacob Eichholtz is a problem which we must look to people in Pennsylvania to solve. His career and his works are there; and his life is part of the story of the arts in...

The China trade. .(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Collectors of objects in China for export who are looking for an excuse to travel to Hong Kong now have one. At the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, Tina Yee-wan Pang, the curator of art, has assembled more than...

Museum accessions.
April 1, 2003... In less than two decades the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas brought together a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century American silver Now by purchase and partial gift it has added the holdings of industrially produced twentieth-century...

Van Gogh's eye. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Like many artists, Vincent van Gogh had a keen interest in the work of other painters. He was influenced by the work of older masters, such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan van Goyen, and also very much by his contemporaries, including Jean...

The National Art Collections Fund at 100. .(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... One hundred years ago four people founded an organization called the National Art Collections Fund. Now known as the Art Fund, its creation came about as a reaction to the export, primarily to the United States, of major works from historic...

Elizabeth I at Greenwich. (Report from Europe).
April 1, 2003... Elizabeth I was born at Greenwich on September 7, 1533, and at the age of twenty-five became queen. She died at Richmond on March 24, 1603, one of the longest serving monarchs of England. During her reign she transformed a poor and...

England's loss, Russia's gain. (Books About Antiques).(A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage)(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermitage, ed. Larissa Dukelskaya and Andrew Moore (Yale University Press, 800-288-2129), $75.00 (hardcovers). Catherine the Great established the Hermitage picture gallery in Saint Petersburg in...

Queries.
April 1, 2003... THE GILLOWs were a well known family of English furniture makers and retailers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in London and Lancaster. Robert Gillow I became a freeman in Lancaster about 1728 or 1729, and his earliest...

Calendar.
April 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad -- a compendium of exhitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection"; to May 25. * #...

Antiques.
April 1, 2003... ANTIQUES. Trafique is Earth's great Atlas, that supports The pay of Armies, and the height of Courts, And makes Mechanicks live, that else would die Meer starving Martyrs to their penury: None but the Merchant of this thing can...

Sicilian Maiolica in Maltese collections.
April 1, 2003... In March 2002 a small collection of maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) left the island of Malta to travel to Sicily and the Netherlands. The selection included a number of pieces from Malta's national collection. The exhibition, entitled Antique...

History in towns: Chestertown Maryland.
April 1, 2003... On the eve of the American Revolution, Chestertown, a customs port and seat of Kent County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, retained much of its early charm and vitality. (1) When Philip Vickers Fithian (1747-1776) passed through Chestertown in...

Calendar of Shows.
April 1, 2003... Calendar of Shows for April 2003 April 5-9. Philadelphia, PA. PHILADELPHIA ANTIQUES SHOW, 33rd St. Armory, Philadelphia. Hours: Saturday 11-8, Sunday 11-6, Monday & Thesday 11-8, Wednesday 11-4. $12 admission, (215) 387-3500. April...

Desktop decorating. (Design Notes).
April 1, 2003... Finding a really useful Web site among the thousands that are not calls for a celebration. This month, with the aid of partial funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities...