The Magazine Antiques articles from August 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from August 2002

American folk art, part II. (Current and Coming).(American Folk Art Museum exhibit)
August 1, 2002... In December of last year the American Folk Art Museum opened its new building in midtown Manhattan. To mark the occasion the museum's curators organized an exhibition featuring objects from the permanent collection, almost all of which were...

Nantucket silver. (Current and Coming).(Nantucket Antiques Show)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... August is a wonderful month to be on Nantucket, but for aficionados of the fine and decorative arts, the weekend of August 2 through 4 is a highlight. Nearly forty antiques dealers converge at the Nantucket High School for the annual Nantucket...

American clocks. (Current and Coming).(The Willard House and Clock Museum exhibit)(Willard brothers' clocks)
August 1, 2002... Among the most ingenious men in New England in the early nineteenth century were the clockmaking Willard brothers-- Benjamin Jr., Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron. Simon is credited with inventing several types of clocks, and today his timepieces are...

The International Quilt Study Center. (Museum Accessions).(Robert and Ardis James donate quilts)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has a pair of guardian angels in the collectors Robert and Ardis James. Not only did they donate more than 900 quilts and an endowment to establish the center, but they...

Art Institute of Chicago. (Museum Accessions).(crib quilt acquired)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The extremely elegant nineteenth-century crib quilt (illustrated below left) is one of twenty-one American quilts acquired through gift and purchase by the Art Institute of Chicago from Shelly Zegart, a Kentucky private collector and authority...

Shelburne Museum. (Museum Accessions).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The strong folk art holdings of the Shelburne Museum, in Shelburne, Vermont, have also been enhanced recently by the addition of a spectacular quilt (illustrated at right). Like the Reconciliation quilt discussed above, it was made in the...

Rubens: drawing on Italy. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most learned, inventive, and prolific artists of the baroque period in northern Europe. His work encompassed portraiture, allegory, religious painting, landscapes, and designs for ornament, tapestry, books, and...

Gardens sacred allegorical, and real. (Report from Europe).(gardens, Musee national du Moyen Age-Thermes de Cluny, Paris, France)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Gardens played an important role, both allegorical and actual, in medieval life. This is the subject of a major exhibition on view until September 16 at the Musee national du Moyen Age-Thermes de Cluny in Paris. Entitled Sur la terre comme au...

American Indians in Britain. (Report from Europe).
August 1, 2002... T he American Museum in Britain, which was founded in 1961 and occupies a Regency country house outside Bath, is dedicated to showing art and artifacts from the United States. This summer's exhibition, on view until November 3, is entitled The...

The Royal Academy at Somerset House. (Books about Antiques).
August 1, 2002... The English Royal Academy of Arts held its annual exhibition in rented premises on Pall Mall in London from its founding in 1768 until 1780, when it moved to the newly rebuilt Somerset House on the Strand. There it remained until it moved again...

Calendar.
August 1, 2002... Kathleen Luhrs The arts here and abroad-a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "From Tavern to Tabernacle: Decorated British and European Pewter, 1600-1800"; to...

Antiques.
August 1, 2002... ANTIQUES There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' men And casts them over the sea. And some are drowned in deep water, And some in sight o' shore, And word goes back...

Jean Baptists Huet and the decorative arts.
August 1, 2002... The last detailed monograph about the French painter Jean Baptiste Huet was published in 1892. (1) Now, more than a century later, after much research in the Archives nationales in Paris and the compilation of a catalogue of his drawings and...

Edna Greenwood and everyday life in early New England.
August 1, 2002... Although she is scarcely remembered today, Edna Greenwood (1888-1972) was a pioneer in the study of American material culture. At a remarkably early date she collected objects in an effort to understand their original purposes and the people...

The French national collection of ship models.
August 1, 2002... The ship model is often consigned to the realm of static decor, an expression of nostalgia for a more technologically intelligible world that is long gone. Some ship models, however, act as manifestations of cultural identity, such as those...

The Renoir Americans loved.
August 1, 2002... In 1909 Pierre Auguste Renoir wrote in a letter to his dealer Georges Durand-Ruel (1866-1933), "I am pleased that collectors are more forthcoming. Better late than never." (1) Indeed, by that time, Renoir's paintings were not only entering...

History in houses: the Butler-McCook house and garden in Hartford, Connecticut.
August 1, 2002... Hartford was settled by the Reverend Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) and his followers in 1636. Laid out along the Connecticut River and incorporating the Little River (now the Park River), it became a busy port and an economic, cultural, and...

Calendar of shows.
August 1, 2002... Calendar of Shows August 2002 August 17 & 18. Somerset, NJ. ANTIQUES WEEK END IN SOMERSET. 200 exhibitors will offer fine silver, glass, paintings and prints, formal, country & Victorian furniture, antique and costume jewelry, ceramics,...

Historic houses, landmarks & museums of the West.
August 1, 2002... CALIFORNIA BAKERSFIELD: Kern County Museum, 3801 Chester Ave., 93301. Explore the Kern County Museum, where thousands of historical and cultural artifacts are displayed in over 56 historic buildings on 16 beautifully landscaped acres....

Woodblock-printed wallpaper. (Design Notes).
August 1, 2002... Before the invention of the roller printer, which revolutionized both the wallpaper and textile industries in the mid-nineteenth century, making wallpapers was a laborious task achieved by painting the background color onto the paper, and then...