The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2008

Folk art portrait sculpture.(Current and coming)(American folk art exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum)
April 1, 2008... Because of their originality, rarity and great visual interest, the group of twelve three-dimensional polychromed wood portraits the sculptor Asa Ames carved between 1847 and 1851 are among the most important examples of American folk art. They...

Brilliant cut glass.(Current and coming)(cut glass exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art)
April 1, 2008... American cut glass from the so-called brilliant period (1876-1906) is the subject of a gorgeous exhibition organized by Brian Gallagher open now through the summer at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. From the last quarter of...

Wiener Werkstatte jewelry.(Current and coming)(jewelry exhibition)
April 1, 2008... More than forty fabulous pieces of jewelry created between 1903 and 1920 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Dagobert Peche, and other members of the Wiener Werkstatte are the focus of an exhibition now open at the Neue Galerie in New York City....

Meissen porcelain.(Current and coming)(porcelain collections at the Frick Collection, New York City)
April 1, 2008... The rich collection of early Meissen porcelain assembled by Henry Arnhold and his parents, Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold, is well known to ceramics specialists as one of the greatest private holdings of this material formed in the twentieth...

Philadelphia.(Current and coming)(American art and antiques exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
April 1, 2008... This year's Philadelphia Antiques Show a major annual event for collectors that brings together more than fifty top American art and antiques dealers, will take place from April 12 to 15 at a new venue--the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In honor of...

American glass at Corning.(Museum accessions)(Boston and Sandwich Glass Company)(Corning Museum of Glass)
April 1, 2008... In the history of American glass, the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, holds an important place. It was hardly the earliest glass manufactory, beginning only in 1825, nor the most expensive, nor the most highly...

Marie Antoinette.(Report from Europe)(an exhibition centered on Marie Antoinette at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris)
April 1, 2008... The Austrian-born ill-fated queen of France has been subject to a number of interpretations. Was she just a flighty and extravagant princess used as a political pawn or was she a scheming agent of her country of origin? On her arrival in France...

Thomas Hope.(Report from Europe)(Thomas Hope's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum)
April 1, 2008... Thomas Hope, born in Amsterdam in 1769, was of Scottish descent and the eldest son in a wealthy Anglo-Dutch banking family. From his mother he inherited a love of the arts; from his father he inherited a fortune. His life's work (he died in...

Cranach.(Report from Europe)(Lucas Cranach's works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London)
April 1, 2008... Little is known about the early life of Lucas Cranach the Elder, who adopted his surname from Kronach, the town in Franconia where he was born. He is first mentioned in Vienna about 1500 and he quickly made his mark. Five years later he moved...

Calendar.(exhibitions)(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse, and More"; to May 4.* [??] "Passport to Europe: Six Centuries of Treasures from...

Antiques.
April 1, 2008... Williamsburg is now incorporated and made a Market Town.... Here dwell several very good Families.... They live in the same neat Manner, dress after the same Modes, and behave themselves exactly as the Gentry in London; most Families of any...

Celebrating 275 years of brotherhood: the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts.(Grand Lodge of Massachusetts collection at the National Heritage Museum)
April 1, 2008... On July 30, 1733, in Boston, Henry Price (1697-1780) established the first Masonic organizations in the Western Hemisphere, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and the First Lodge, now known as Saint John's Lodge. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts...

A notable collection of prints and drawings by Mary Cassatt.
April 1, 2008... An exhibition opening this month at Adelson Galleries in New York City entitled Mary Cassatt: Prints and Drawings from the Collection of Ambroise Vollard features more than one hundred works on paper by Mary Cassatt assembled from the estates...

Vanity of vanities: a Tiffany and Company rediscovery.(set of accessories discovered at Tiffany and Company)
April 1, 2008... Among the many original furnishings at Maymont, a restored Gilded Age mansion in Richmond, Virginia, the most fantastic are surely the dressing table and chair illustrated in Figure 1. Made by Tiffany and Company, they are constructed of...

A baroque Virginia treasure house: Landon Carter's Sabine Hall.
April 1, 2008... Sabine Hall is one of a small handful of large baroque houses constructed in Virginia before 1740. Situated on the Rappahannock River in Richmond County, it was built in 1738 and finished and furnished in a grand style by Landon Carter (Fig....

Douglas Volk and the arts and crafts in Maine.(Biography)
April 1, 2008... Renowned in his day as an artist and teacher, Douglas Volk has received little attention in recent years, and his role in the arts and crafts movement has been all but forgotten. From 1898 until about 1908, Hewn Oaks, the summer house he and...

Victorian crystal table fountains.
April 1, 2008... Elaborate table decorations of blown and cut glass were popular in the mid-eighteenth century in England but then seem to have fallen from favor, perhaps because of their fragility or perhaps because silver objects were more obviously luxurious...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
April 1, 2008... April 11-13. Atlanta, GA. SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET. Held the second weekend of every month. Hours: Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $5, good for the whole weekend. Location: Atlanta Expo Centers....

Vintage wallpaper.(Design notes)(Vintage Glamour collection of Cole and Son Wallpapers Ltd.)
April 1, 2008... Cole and Son in North London has been at the forefront of the wallpaper revival in the twenty-first century. Founded in 1873, this manufacturer has a growing and valuable archive of over four thousand hand-carved wooden blocks that its...