The Magazine Antiques articles from August 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from August 2003

From rural houses to home plate. (Current and Coming).
August 1, 2003... Two exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City provide the perfect summer escape from the turmoil of city living. The first transports the visitor to the rural byways of upstate New York, and the second takes you out to the...

New York neoclassical furniture. (Current and Coming).
August 1, 2003... The civilizations of ancient Rome and Greece have long been venerated by the cultures that followed, including the humanists of the Renaissance and the founding fathers of the United States. When eighteenth-century archeologists discovered...

Thomas Jeckyll rediscovered. (Current and Coming).
August 1, 2003... Thomas Jeckyll, an architect who designed domestic and ecclesiastical buildings as well as impressive pieces of furniture and metalwork during the second half of the nineteenth century, faded into obscurity because many of his projects were...

Museum accessions.
August 1, 2003... A fine example of the arts and crafts pottery made by the Grueby Faience Company in Boston has been acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts. With its satiny matte glazes, particularly the rich dark green, simple shape, and decoration drawn...

Monet in Edinburgh. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... In 1878 Claude Monet moved to Vetheuil, a quiet town on the Seine near Vernon northwest of Paris. The move changed the range of his subject matter from modem industrial and suburban life to the landscapes and seascapes of his new environs and...

Holbein in the hague. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg in 1497 or 1498, the second son of the artist Hans Holbein the Elder He became an apprentice in Basel in 1515 and four years later joined the Basel artists' guild Zum Himmel as a master He received...

Shakespeare in art. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... There are only two likenesses of William Shakespeare--an engraving and a memorial bust--that are considered authentic, and they are very different from each other, so no one agrees which one truly resembles the man. When it came to depicting...

Italian divisionism. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2003... Less well known than French impressionism, the artistic movement known as divisionism was an Italian response to the impressionists and post-impressionists. Like their French counterparts, the Italians were fascinated with capturing the effects...

Chinese armorial porcelain. (Books about Antiques).(Bibliography)
August 1, 2003... Thirty years ago David Sanctuary Howard published what turned out to be volume 1 of a book about Chinese armorial porcelain commissioned by Western buyers. Until then the subject had been his hobby It then became his profession when he opened...

Calender.(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures. Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: The Thaddeus Crenshaw Collection"; to August 17. * California ...

Antiques.
August 1, 2003... National spirit is the natural result of national existence; and although some of the present generation may feel colonial oppositions of opinion, that generation will die away, and give place to a race of Americans. Gouverneur Morris to...

The waterways of Castle Howard.
August 1, 2003... As he looked out a window of Castle Howard onto the newly pristine surface of the North, or Great, Lake and its adjacent ponds (P1. II), the Honorable Simon Howard exclaimed: "We had one of the greatest views in England and couldn't even see...

Revolution acts: selections from the SPNEA collection.
August 1, 2003... Compared to traditional decorative arts collections, the holdings of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) in Boston are remarkable because they not only contain wonderful examples of furniture, ceramics,...

Living with antiques: the Jesse Van Slyke house in Schenectady, New York.
August 1, 2003... Nestled in a bend of the Mohawk River, Arent Van Curler (1619/20-1667) and others established a frontier trading post in 1662 called Schenectady (probably Iroquois for across the pine plains") some fifteen miles west of Beverwyck ("beaver...

Victorian garden edging tiles.
August 1, 2003... Among the many materials used to edge walks, parterres, and planting beds in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most popular was dwarf, or edging, box (Buxus sempervirens Suffruticosa). This dense, slow-growing, evergreen...

Shaker village views: Joshua Bussell's unexpected return to the drawing board.
August 1, 2003... Throughout much of the nineteenth century. Shaker brethren from Maine to Kentucky created illustrated maps and landscaps drawings picturing the communal villages where they worked and worshiped. Ranging from topographic maps to landscape...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
August 1, 2003... Calendar of Shows for August 2003 August 2 and September 13. East Hampton Village, Long Island, NY. 17th ANNUAL HISTORIC MULFORD FARM ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. James Lane at Montauk Highway (Main Street). 100% Admissions benefit: East Hampton...

A carpet resource. (Design Notes).
August 1, 2003... Over the course of his long and prolific career, Frank Lloyd Wright designed hundreds of buildings and their interior embellishments, from stained-glass windows to furniture, lighting fixtures, wall coverings, and textiles. The archives of the...