The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2005

Gothic revival in Philadelphia.(Current and coming.)
April 1, 2005... For devotees of Americana, all roads lead to Philadelphia in early April to participate in an annual rite of spring--the antiques show held at the Thirty-third Street Armory that is now in its forty-fourth year. In the realm of loan...

A new museum in Virginia ...(Current and coming)
April 1, 2005... In a phenomenon that seems to be impervious to fluctuations in financial markets, new museums are being built and old ones are expanding with astonishing rapidity in the United States. One of the most recent additions is the Museum of the...

... and an expansion in North Carolina.(Reynolda House.)
April 1, 2005... In the era of great American country estates, Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, followed in the footsteps of such legendary larger North Carolina properties as the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The sixty-four-room house, designed...

Architecture in Maine.(Current and coming.)
April 1, 2005... Genteel poverty is one of the best friends of historic preservation. This is certainly a characteristic of Maine where port cities were thriving in the eighteenth century and then suffered a twofold economic downturn in the wake of the Embargo...

Museum accessions.
April 1, 2005... Two significant archival collections recently acquired by the Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library of the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, are of inestimable value in understanding aspects of the glass produced by...

H.G. Murphy, art deco silversmith.(Report from Europe.)
April 1, 2005... Henry George Murphy (known as H. G. or Harry) was born in Birchington in Kent, England, in 1884. His father was a groom, but by coincidence the cottage in which he grew up had belonged earlier to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. At the age of ten Murphy...

Romanesque France.(Report from Europe.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Carolingian dynasty ended when Hugh Capet ascended the throne of France in 987. The Capetian dynasty held power over an ever-larger France until 1328. The coming of the Capetian kings also coincided with the advent of Romanesque art and...

Object and painting reunited.(Report from Europe.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In 1657 Bartholomeus van der Helst painted a portrait of a boy wearing a red coat. He is shown against a plain dark background and is holding an embossed silver cup. The sitter's identity is unknown, but the cup is of particular interest, for...

Popular prints in the United States.(Report from Europe.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prints were one of the most important methods of communication on both sides of the Atlantic. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody had posters printed to promote his Wild West Show, Nathaniel...

Eli Wilner's job: putting the frame in the picture.(ART.)
April 1, 2005... YOU know that dour Victorian portrait your Aunt Tellie left you? Get it down from the attic. Even if the painting's not worth anything, the frame might fetch up to $200,000. And if it does, Eli Wilner will be the man to thank. In 1982, when...

Malmaison.(Books about antiques.)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... First mentioned in the fourteenth century, the chateau de Malmaison near Paris has had many ups and downs. Its finest hour was between 1799 and 1814 when it was owned by Josephine, who ceased to be the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809. She...

Early Georgian Interiors.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Early Georgian Interiors By John Cornforth MA-291 Our price $85.00 The late John Cornforth, long a highly regarded architectural editor for the British magazine Country Life, has provided a wide-ranging look at English houses...

Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur By Ronald W. Fuchs II and David S. Howard MA-292 Our price $50.00 This beautifully produced volume highlights more than one hundred...

Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture By Sarah Handler MA-293 Our price $50.00 This is the first book to treat the close relationship between Chinese buildings and the furniture created to appoint them. Handler...

East Anglian Silver 1550-1750.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... East Anglian Silver 1550-1750 Edited by Christopher Hartop MA-294 Paper covers Our price $24.95 East Anglia in England has a long history as a center for the making of silver of excellent quality. Between 1500 and 1750...

Antique Tools and Instruments: From the Nessi Collection.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection By Claudine Cartier, Alessandro Cesati, Marie-Veronique Clin, and others MA-295 Our price $75.00 The exquisitely produced volume with dramatic photographs treats tools...

International Arts and Crafts.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... International Arts and Crafts Edited by Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry MA-296 Our price $75.00 Following enormous exhibitions on the art nouveau and art deco styles, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London recently opened...

White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles By Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson MA-297 Our price $89.50 Salt-glazed stoneware was first made in the early sixteenth century in the Westerwald region of Germany. By the...

The British Stable.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The British Stable By Giles Worsley MA-298 Our price $75.00 Before the early twentieth century, horses were an essential element of life on the enormous working estates of the English gentry. Stables built to house them...

The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America By Ralph Sessions MA-299 Our price $75.00 Shipcarvers were highly skilled artisans who were responsible not only for the figureheads that...

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World By Wendy Kaplan with others MA-300 Our price $60.00 This beautiful volume, written in conjunction with a large traveling exhibition organized by...

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians By John Fleming and Michael Rowan MA-301 Our price $60.00 Between about 1870 and 1930 enormous numbers of Europeans emigrated to Canada, among them...

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art By Barbara J. MacAdam with others MA-302 Our price $60.00 The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence By Mark Hair, Michael Lewis, Stephen May, and others MA-303 Our price $80.00 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia is the oldest...

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory By Bill Mercer MA-304 Our price $49.95 This is the first publication to examine the artistic output of the Indians who lived along the lower Columbia River from the...

The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries By Paula Henderson MA-305 Our price $65.00 Henderson discusses English Tudor and early Stuart country houses within the...

Calendar.(Arts.)(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama TUSCALOOSA Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art: First Annual Jack Warner Symposium on American Art: "Fifty Years of Collecting"; April 7-8....

Antiques.
April 1, 2005... America is the most democratic country in the world, and it is at the same time... the country in which the Roman Catholic religion makes most progress.... These Catholics are faithful to the observances of this religion; they are fervent...

Living with antiques: an Americana collection in New Jersey.
April 1, 2005... Forty years ago this summer, a married couple began the long but satisfying journey of restoring and furnishing a nineteenth-century New Jersey farmhouse. Both drew much of their inspiration from childhood: his mother collected folk art; her...

Lorenzo Palmer Latimer, California watercolor painter.
April 1, 2005... Lorenzo Palmer Latimer was a landscape painter who flourished in California from the 1880s until his death in 1941. He became a leader of a significant group of watercolor artists working in Northern California in the early years of the...

A Pre-Raphaelite gem in New York City.(The Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola.)
April 1, 2005... Almost hidden in the tenebrous shadows of the Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola in New York City, there gleams a remarkable jewel of fin-de-siecle artistry. Born of the confluence of a group of the finest late nineteenth-century American,...

Stoneware of eastern Virginia.
April 1, 2005... The utilitarian salt-glazed stoneware of eastern Virginia has received little attention from ceramics scholars. In part this is because an over-whelming interest in the products from the Shenandoah Valley has overshadowed the significance of...

Absinthe and its artifacts.
April 1, 2005... The green fairy. The green goddess. The green muse. The parrot. Melted emeralds. Ambrosial poison. These are just some of the metaphors that have been used for absinthe--that green-colored, bitter-tasting, anise-flavored, high-alcohol liqueur...

Historic houses, landmarks & museums of New England & the Mid-Atlantic.(Directory)
April 1, 2005... CONNECTICUT [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MYSTIC: Mystic Seaport-The Museum of America and the Sea, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, P.O. Box 6000, 06355. Mystic Seaport-The Museum of America...

Calendar of shows.(Antiques.)(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... April 1-3, 2005. Boston, MA. THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON FINE ART & ANTIQUES SHOW, The Castle at Park Plaza Hotel, 130 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Ma. 40 Quality dealers from the US and UK featuring 18th & 19th century American, English,...

Hand-painted wallpapers.(Design notes.)
April 1, 2005... Among the most beautiful stands at the Palm Beach! America's International Fine Art and Antique Fair held at the beginning of February was that of Cohen and Cohen, London dealers in Chinese and Chinese export porcelains. Their eye-catching...