The Magazine Antiques articles from August 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from August 2005

Painting the colonial revival.(Current and coming)(Historical Fictions: Constructing the Past in Gilded-Age America)
August 1, 2005... Many of the interior scenes painted by Edward Lamson Henry between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century are the oil on canvas equivalents of Wallace Nutting photographs. However, since Nutting's photographs date to the early...

A new museum for Davenport, Iowa.(Current and coming)(The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935)
August 1, 2005... The Davenport Museum of Art in Iowa, was founded in 1925 when American regionalist painters were experimenting with a variety of styles. A leading proponent of American regionalism was Grant Wood, who was born in Iowa. Other noteworthy...

Children's dress and playthings.(Current and coming)(First Impressions: Objects from Native American Childhood)(Brief article)
August 1, 2005... Like all proud parents who have the means, American Indians bestowed special clothes and handmade playthings on their children from the time they were infants. Many of these items have a direct correlation to the economic and social standing of...

A private collection of Americana.(Current and coming)(A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts)
August 1, 2005... Reminiscing in an essay entitled "A Passion for Art, A Partnership in Collecting," Dr. Henry C. Landon III confesses that over the course of four decades of collecting beginning in the 1960s he and his wife, Barbara, made some mistakes, among...

Museum accessions.(High Museum of Art in Atlanta and Hillwood Museum and Gardens )
August 1, 2005... The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has acquired Architecture, a masterpiece of stained glass created by John La Farge about 1903 or 1904. Not only is it a major addition to the museums renowned Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection of American...

Venice in Amsterdam.(Report from Europe)( Venezia! Art from the 18th Century)
August 1, 2005... In the eighteenth century Venice was an important center of music, theater, literature, and art. The city is at a crossroads of western and eastern Europe, which made it irresistible to many travelers, particularly those on the grand tour. It...

Enchanting the eye.(Report from Europe)(Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age)(Brief article)
August 1, 2005... In the seventeenth century, Dutch painting was considered among the finest in Europe. The United Provinces of the Netherlands was formed in 1579 after independence had been won from Spain, creating a sense of national identity. It was the Dutch...

The turkey.(Books about antiques)
August 1, 2005... The turkey comes into its own only when it emerges from the oven, brown, stuffed, and silent. Alive, the turkey has inspired strong opinions, few of them positive and none of them justifying a Thanksgiving turkey in the United States. In 1564...

Calendar.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures. Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; to September 25.* California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "For Your Approval: Oil...

Antiques.
August 1, 2005... If he [Tom Sawyer] had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consits of whatever a body is not boliged to do....

The architecture of Summer Street, Kennebunk, Maine.
August 1, 2005... In a popular book about historically and architecturally outstanding residences on the East Coast, Elise Lathrop wrote in 1937 of Kennebunk, Maine, praising its "many old houses, some modernized, others almost as when built." (1) Several of...

A glass engraver's design book, 1860-1880.(Henry S. Fillebrown )
August 1, 2005... In the third quarter of the nineteenth century, engraved glass became very popular in the United States. While it was certainly produced in this country earlier in the century, it was expensive and probably not available at most tableware...

Painting Lake George: nineteenth-century views of the "Queen of American Lakes".(Cover story)
August 1, 2005... Hailed variously as "a beautiful sheet of water," the "holy lake," and "the Queen of American Lakes," (1) Lake George was, and still is, an idealized landscape site. Located in the southern Adirondack Mountains in New York State, this...

Living with antiques: the Brune-Reutlinger house, San Francisco.
August 1, 2005... The Brune-Reutlinger house, in San Francisco was designed by Henry Geilfuss and built in 1886 by C. H. Weiss for Henry Brune, a saloon owner and liquor wholesaler. (1) The three-story Italianate house (Pl. V) has a double parlor, formal dining...

Stephen Parrish, a remarkable etcher.
August 1, 2005... Stephen Parrish was born in Philadelphia in 1846 to a distinguished Quaker family. In 1867 at the age of twenty-one he spent two months in Europe. He was especially ecstatic about Paris, where he visited the Exposition Universelle. After his...

The browser.(antique shows)(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... ANTIQUE SHOWS www.grandhotel.com Mackinac Island, Michigan. September 30-October 2, 2005. Carleton Varney's Antique & Design Fall Festival at Grand Hotel. Get expert advice from designer Carleton Varney. View and purchase top pieces...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... August 4-6, 2005. Blue Hill, Maine. ACADEMY ANTIQUES SHOW. Maine's prestigious annual summer show features outstanding dealers with a wide range of quality antiques. Thursday and Friday, August 4th and 5th, 10-6; Saturday, August 6th, 10-5....

And so to bed, in an antique.(Design notes)(Savoir Beds)
August 1, 2005... When it comes to bespoke work in a wide variety of trades, the British have a tradition that goes back hundreds of years. One hundred years ago, the Savoy Hotel in London ordered box springs and mattresses from the company now known as Savoir...