The Magazine Antiques articles from April 2009

The Magazine Antiques archives from April 2009

Editor's letter.
April 1, 2009... We have a new Web site here at The Magazine ANTIQUES and I am pleased to say that it is, in its webby way, almost as handsome as the print version. I have high hopes for themagazineantiques.com as the beginning of a genuine community for...

Sculpture or decorative art?(CURRENT and coming)(Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts)
April 1, 2009... Although they share common ground, sculpture and decorative arts are rarely considered together. Taking Shap: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts, a new exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, challenges our tendency to categorize...

Rembrandt Peale.(CURRENT and coming)(Rembrandt Peale's Portrait of John Meer: A New Addition to the American Art Collection)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... A portrait painted by Rembrandt Peale about 1795 is the focus of a small exhibition that recently opened at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The sitter is the Englishman John Meer, a silversmith and friend of the Peale family who arrived in...

Amish quilts.(CURRENT and coming)(Constructed Color: Amish Quilts)
April 1, 2009... When the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was founded in 1997, an important aspect of its mission was to promote scholarship by exhibiting its vast collection at institutions throughout the...

Philadelphia Antiques Show.(CURRENT and coming)(Pennsylvania)
April 1, 2009... More than thirty years ago, in 1976 and 1977, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Brooklyn Museum mounted a landmark retrospective exhibition of the works of Gustave Cailiebotte that introduced the French impressionist painter to a broad...

Philadelphia Antiques Show.(CURRENT and coming)(Pennsylvania)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... After its success there in 2008, the Philadelphia Antiques Show is returning to the Navy Yard for its fortyeighth annual show this April 18 to 21. This year there are two new exhibitors: Lillian Nassau of New York, who deals in Louis Comfort...

Unabashed opulence.(FARTHER / afield)(Charles the Bold: The Splendor of Burgundy, 1433--1477)
April 1, 2009... Medieval splendor at Belgium's Groeningemuseum in Bruges and baroque magnificence at London's Victoria and Albert Museum ebulliently controvert the recession raging outside their doors. Each exhibition exudes the sumptuous confidence of the era...

Baroque magnificence.(FARTHER / afield)(Baroque: 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence )
April 1, 2009... This spring the Victoria and Albert Museum examines the baroque as a style (not a period) that flourished, to varying degrees and at different moments, across Europe and her colonies between 1620 and 1800. Michael Snodin of the Victoria and...

Philadelphia.(THE SCENE)(antique galleries in Pennsylvania)(Directory)
April 1, 2009... Philadelphia is a city of great character and great contrasts: blue-blooded and blue collar; home of the beaux arts and the Broad Street Bullies; as steeped in history as it is in Tastee Cakes. In today's Philadelphia, au courant fashion shops...

Curator profile.(ANTIQUES)(Philip Zea )(Interview)
April 1, 2009... Although I have lived elsewhere," Philip Zea says, "it looks like I'm contained by the Connecticut Valley." More specifically, by the remarkable microcosm of Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he has served the unique living museum Historic...

The new collector.(silver products)
April 1, 2009... Arts and crafts silver Old silver is a classic collecting field, one chat combines the aesthetic pleasures of imaginative design, fine workmanship, and history. In the often hotly competitive field of American silver, the latest area to...

Editorial.(Editorial)
April 1, 2009... Our tools are kind and gentle words, Our shop is in the heart, And here we manufacture peace That we may such impart "Our Trade," Shaker song composed at Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts, 1872 During the first half of the...

Portrait miniatures in the New republic.(How. America found its face)
April 1, 2009... The stunning events of July 1804 were almost unfathomable for the citizens of the new American republic. One Founding Father had fatally wounded another. Alexander Hamilton was dead and Aaron Burr would be indicted for murder. The duel and its...

Living with antiques Shaker.
April 1, 2009... The family has eaten supper at the beautifully simple trestle table shown in Figure 4 for twenty-odd years, almost every night they have spent at their upstate New York farm. Except, of course, when the table is on the road, gracing some museum...

Pugin's glasspainters.(John Hardman and Company:)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... A human dynamo who burned himself out at the age of forty, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is generally acknowledged as the most influential architect, designer, and propagandist of the nineteenth-century Gothic revival in England. (1) Less well...

Madison, Georgia.(History in towns)
April 1, 2009... The town of Madison, in Morgan County, Georgia, was lauded in 1849 by the historian George White (1802-1887). "There are as many well educated gentlemen and ladies in Madison as in any portion of the State," he wrote. "Many of the citizens are...

American domestic: some observations on portraits of people and furniture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2009... Sometimes, when you look at a painting, what grabs you is a chair. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] That happens to me when I look at Cecilia Beaux's A Portrait of George Burnham at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Fig. 1). Burnham, in his dark...

Modern: the fate of the landmark Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, a legendary collaboration of three mid-century American masters--Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, and Dan Kiley--hangs in the balance as the Indianpolis Museum of Art campaigns to preserve this unsurpassed synthesis of high modernist design.(Indiana)
April 1, 2009... The cleverest exponents of modern architecture and design have furthered their cause by playing to a deep-seated human obsession: curiosity about how people live at home. Modernism's radical reformation of the built environment would never have...

Exhibitions symposiums lectures.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
April 1, 2009... ARIZONA Phoenix Phoenix Art Museum: "In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein"; to June 14.** "Medie-valism: Fashios's Romance with the Middle Ages"; to July 5. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Center:...

Landmarks & museums of New England & the mid-Atlantic.(HISTORIC HOUSES)(Directory)
April 1, 2009... CONNECTICUT MYSTIC MYSTIC SEAPORT--THE MUSEUM OF AMERICA AND THE SEA, 75 Greenmanville Avenue. P.O. Box 6000, 06355. Mystic Seaport-The Museum of America and the Sea is the nation's leading maritime museum. Climb aboard historic tall...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
April 1, 2009... April 2-5 Concord, NC. THE GREATER CHARLOTTE ANTIQUES SHOW at the Cabarrus Arena, Hwy 49, Concord, NC over 200 exhibitors. Americana, silver, jewelry, textiles, art, pottery, militaria, quilts, inside & outside displays. Free appraisals on...

April's fool.(END notes)(Cora Ginsburg's costume collection)
April 1, 2009... Life with Cora Ginsburg was a perpetual trunk show. Six years after the dealer's death in 2003, her protegee, Titi Halle, is still plumbing the depths of the inventory of rare costumes, textiles, and needlework she acquired when she purchased...