The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2004

Turner and Venice.(Current and Coming)
April 1, 2004... So many exhibitions and books have been devoted to the art of Joseph Mallord William Turner that it would seem every facet of his career has been investigated. Among the titles devoted to the various locations in which he painted are Turner in...

Streamlined books.(Current and Coming)(The Art of Bookbinding)
April 1, 2004... The art deco style in France permeated every aspect of the decorative arts, but it was particularly appealing to graphic designers. Posters, books, and other printed materials provided the perfect vehicles for bold two- and sometimes even...

Arts and letters united.
April 1, 2004... Great works of literature have inspired artists for centuries. These collaborations, beginning with the anonymous manuscript illuminators of the Middle Ages, embody the merging of two creative minds. A case in point is the pairing of Sinclair...

Museum accessions.
April 1, 2004... Several years ago the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh acquired the Flemish ebony cabinet adorned with paintings on copper illustrated below. From this modest beginning (at the time it was the only piece of seventeenth-century northern...

The arts in France around 1400.
April 1, 2004... The French king Charles VI was born in Paris in 1368. At the age of twelve, in 1380, he succeeded to the throne under the regency of his uncles, including Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who drained the royal treasury. When Charles VI began...

Watteau and the fete galante.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... The fete galante (and the more rural version known as the fete champetre), was a particularly popular subject in early eighteenth-century France. It took up the medieval theme of the garden of courtly love, and translated it into contemporary...

Briefly noted.(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... An exhibition entitled Discovering Brazil with Albert Eckhout (1610-1666) is on view at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, until June 27. Eckhout was a Dutch painter who visited Brazil on scientific expeditions and who made a series of...

Hokusai.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Polonius touts the traveling troupe to Hamlet: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; to April 11. [??] "Degas in Bronze"; to May 30.* California...

Antiques.
April 1, 2004... In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? Mark Twain, "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us," North American Review, January 1895 By 1900 the city of New York...

Parade hats of America's early volunteer firemen.(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... Unquestionably, the most decorative artifacts remaining from America's early firefighting history are the so-called parade hats. Produced more or less continuously from colonial through Victorian times, these hats have become the emblem of the...

Living with antiques: a collection in Baton Rouge.
April 1, 2004... Among the collectors of American fine and decorative arts, it is fascinating to recall that a number of the most prominent and passionate were naturalized citizens. Israel Sack (1883-1959) comes immediately to mind. A Lithuanian-born...

New York's favorite pictures in the 1870s.
April 1, 2004... By 1870 American art, swamped by an aesthetic tidal wave from Paris, had surrendered its position as the dominant commodity in the New York City art market. An Atlantic crossing was no longer required to become familiar with contemporary...

The Jewelry and Silver of F. Walter Lawrence.
April 1, 2004... Although known to astute jewelry buyers at the turn of the twentieth century, Frank Walter Lawrence (Fig. 1) is relatively unknown today, Perhaps this stems from the fact that he conducted his business in an upstairs salon, where he offered...

African American samplers from antebellum Baltimore.
April 1, 2004... A middle ground between the free commercial North and the agrarian slaveholding South, Baltimore became a magnet for free people of color in the years leading up to the Civil War. Early church-connected efforts by African Americans gave girls...

Historic houses, landmarks & museums of New England & the Mid-Atlantic.(Directory)
April 1, 2004... CONNECTICUT COS COB/GREENWICH: Bush-Holley Historic Site, 39 Strickland Road, 06807. Circa 1730 National Historic Landmark, home of the first art colony in Connecticut, cradle of American Impressionism. Guided tours feature the Holley...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... April 2-4. Chicago, IL. CHICAGO MODERNISM EXPOSITION & SALE. 1418 N. Kingsbury, Chicago, IL 60622. First annual event will feature 60 noted national and international decorative and fine arts dealers presenting all design movements of the 20th...

A hooked rug resource.
April 1, 2004... Creating a hooked rug by hand is a laborious process, but the finished product is exceptionally durable and, if well designed, exceedingly pleasing. There is an ongoing debate about whether these rugs originated in England or in the United...