The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2006

California paintings.(Current and coming)(Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907)
April 1, 2006... Around the turn of the twentieth century, artists, photographers, writers, and other creative types found remote, inexpensive, and beautiful places to live in each other's company, sharing ideas and good times. These were for the most part...

The Gothic revival.(Current and coming)(Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800-1860)
April 1, 2006... In 1858 the American painter Jasper Francis Cropsey, then residing in London, wrote in his journal that he had just purchased a copy of "'The merrie days of England' the last new illustrated book out, because of its use to me in suggestion of...

Country houses in the eighteenth century.(Current and coming)(Philadelphia )
April 1, 2006... To the north and to the west of Philadelphia along the Schuylkill River is an area known in the colonial period as Liberty Lands. In the eighteenth century, as an incentive for prospective settlers, William Penn offered tracts of eighty acres...

Museum accessions.(Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina)
April 1, 2006... The Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, began collecting southern art in the early 1980s, well before most museums and private collectors began to focus on paintings and other works of art created outside the major...

Modernism.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Modernism had its origins in the Bauhaus, which was founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius in 1919. There designers and architects worked separately and together to unite the creative arts and to apply the technology of mass production....

Reopening of Kew Palace.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... In 1631, a French-born Flemish merchant named Samuel Fortrey built a house in the village of Kew, about ten miles from the center of London. It was used intermittently as a royal residence for nearly one hundred years. George III and Queen...

Americans in London.(Report from Europe)(three exhibitions in London)
April 1, 2006... There is a noticeably American accent to three exhibitions currently in London. At the National Gallery two exhibitions explore the role of Paris as the center of the art world in the second half of the nineteenth century and its role as a...

The colonial revival.(Books about antiques)(Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Richard Guy Wilson, introducing this book of essays about the colonial revival movement in the United States, writes: "What does Colonial Revival mean? Although to some the apparent obtuseness of such a question may render it redundant, any...

Calendar.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas"; to May 14.* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Antiques.(Canada)
April 1, 2006... You know that these two nations are at war about a few acres of barren land in the neighborhood of Canada, and that they have expended much greater sums in the contest than all Canada is worth. Voltaire, Candide, 1759 The Treaty of...

Traveling flatware.
April 1, 2006... When the noted French essayist, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) set out on a trip to Rome, he almost certainly traveled with his own knife and spoon, but probably not a fork. He wrote a well-observed journal during his travels, which took him...

Samuel Colt's porcelain transparencies.(lithophanes)
April 1, 2006... The creation of realistic pictures by means of light passing through translucent panes of porcelain must have appealed to Samuel Colt, who purchased large quantities of what are called lithophanes. They depict fables, pastoral scenes, vedute...

Benson in bloom: a new look at Summer.(American impressionist Frank W. Benson )(Cover story)
April 1, 2006... Frank W. Benson was at the peak of his critical, financial, and popular success as an American impressionist when, in 1909, he painted Summer (Fig. 2). In the June issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine the prominent New York critic Charles H....

Quebec country furniture at the Shelburne Museum.
April 1, 2006... Interest in Quebec decorative arts has grown rapidly over the last half century. In the 1950s, there was very little information about the furniture made by our neighbors to the north. The notable New York City dealer C. W. Lyon clearly...

Viennese enamels in the Renaissance revival style.
April 1, 2006... Vienna was one of the European centers of an important regeneration of earlier styles of art and ornament during the nineteenth century. One manifestation of this was that some of the goldsmiths and ornamental painters in the city took up...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... March 31-April 2. Arlington Heights, Ill. ARLINGTON PARK SPRING ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. Dolphin Promotions presents its 3rd annual spring show filled with quality antiques offered by more than 150 dealers from across the United States and Canada....

Bespoke lighting devices and more.(Design notes)
April 1, 2006... In 1888 the firm of Louis Dernier and Company of London began making elegant lampshades of silk and other high-quality fabrics they imported from France and China. By 1903 the firm had formed a liaison with Kerswell Faulkner and Hamlyn, and...