The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2002

From Paris to Portland. (Current and Coming).(collections from Musee des Arts Decoratifs on tour)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Founded in the nineteenth century, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world and ranks among the foremost private museums in France. The collections encompass more than 250,000 objects...

Cosme Tura, Renaissance artist and designer. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Enigmatic artists who are not easily categorized tend to fall between the cracks of art history. One such figure is Cosme Turn, a fifteenth-century native of Ferrara whose expressive and agonizing paintings reflect the influence of northern...

Art nouveau in Florida. (Current and Coming).(Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida, is well-known as the largest repository of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany The museum's holdings were assembled by the collectors Hugh F. and Jeannette Genius McKean,...

Boxes for everything. (Current and Coming).(box exhibit, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... In the course of time, boxes have been made for almost every imaginable purpose in every conceivable size. An exhibition on view at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, surveys boxes made and used in New England from the late...

Inventions. (Books about Antiques).('Inventing the 19th Century: 100 Inventions that Shaped the Victorian Age: From Aspirin to the Zeppelin')
February 1, 2002... Axiomatically, necessity is the mother of invention, unless you work in a patent office, where a huge number of orphaned inventions seek mothers. A delightful wallow in eccentricities, and many useful timesavers, is contained in Inventing the...

Museum Accessions.(Westmoreland Museum acquires Tiffany window)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... About 1905 Thomas Lynch (1854-1914), the general manager since 1891 of the Henry C. Frick Coke Company in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, decided to build a grand new residence on West Pittsburgh Street in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. To light the...

George Romney in Liverpool. (Report from Europe).(portrait exhibit)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The latter part of the eighteenth century in England was rich in fashionable portrait painters. It was the age of Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, and Romney Of this quartet George Romney is arguably the least known. He was born in 1734 in...

Photographic archive in Rome. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The American Academy in Rome assumed its present status in 1913 by a merger of the American School of Architecture and the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, both founded in the 1890s. It activities include residential fellowships...

Paris in the twentieth century. (Report from Europe).(Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The importance of Paris as the creative center of Western art began with the Exposition Universelle in 1900 and ended with the riots of 1968. This period is explored in depth in a traveling exhibition entitled Paris: Capital of the Arts...

Klee retrospective. (Report from Europe).(Paul Klee, Hayward Gallery, London)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Paul Klee was born in Switzerland in 1879 and after visiting Italy and Paris, he settled in 1906 in Munich (where he had studied earlier). His early output was devoted to printmaking, and ten of his etchings were included in the 1906 Munich...

From France to London via Saint Petersburg. (Report from Europe).(Catherine the Great's collection of French art)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Empress Catherine II (the Great), when she occupied the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, was an avaricious collector determined to bring the best of European culture to her northern capital. As French was the language of the Russian court,...

European fairs in March. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Two fairs in Europe attract visitors from around the world. One of the highlights of the art calendar in Europe is TEFAF (the European Fine Art Fair), known to most as the Maastricht Fair, which takes place this year between March 8 and March...

Antiques.(American Revolution and today's antiques)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe, when there is a change from Era to Era. Thomas Carlyle, "Thoughts on History," Fraser's Magazine, November 1830...

The manufacture of Argand lamps in Philadelphia.
February 1, 2002... The Argand lamp initiated a chain of events that has led to our present method of lighting rooms, In the l780s Ami Argand (1750-1803) of Switzerland invented an oil lamp burner with a tubular wick that allowed air to flow up through the hollow...

The Courtship of Winslow Homer.(letters reveal relationship with Helena de Kay)
February 1, 2002... Despite past attempts to decode Winslow Homer's Portrait of Helena [partial]e Kay (P1. I), there are puzzles left to solve. Some have speculated that deKay was the woman whose rejection don confirmed Homer's status as an inveterate bachelor....

Wriggle work decoration on British and European pewter, 1600-1800.
February 1, 2002... In the English-speaking world, pewter over the past three or four centuries has been considered primarily a utilitarian metal associated with the implements used to fulfill the basic needs of everyday life. Since it is overwhelmingly...

Portraits in miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky.
February 1, 2002... A small number of important eighteenth-century drawings and portrait miniatures by American women contribute to our understanding of colonial portraiture, but it was not until the early nineteenth century that such artists as Anna Claypoole...

The Weitsman Stoneware Collection at the New York State Museum.
February 1, 2002... In 1996 the New York State Museum in Albany received an extraordinary gift of 105 pieces of decorated New York State stoneware from Adam Joel Weitsman, who is one of the premier collectors of New York stoneware, having begun in 1980 at the age...

Arts and Crafts Tiles. (Design Notes).(Henry Chapman Mercer collection)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A passionate collector, archaeologist, and builder, Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) was among the early pioneers who discovered and appreciated colonial American artifacts in the late nineteenth century. He was raised during the height of the...