The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2003

Venice through Whistler's eyes. (Current and Coming).
February 1, 2003... This year marks the centennial of James McNeil Whistler's death, and a number of exhibitions and related events have been organized to commemorate it. Since Whistler is claimed by more than one country (principally England and the United...

Sargent's Italy. (Current and Coming).
February 1, 2003... John Singer Sargent was born in Italy to expatriate American parents, and it was to Italy that he returned again and again to paint luscious landscapes, somber interiors, evocative genre scenes, and penetrating portraits. The various locales...

Colonial Williamsburg. (Current and Coming).
February 1, 2003... Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia, is a wonderful place to visit in the winter, for this season provides a rare opportunity to see this restored town without hoards of tourists, schoolchildren, and other special interest groups....

Museum accessions.
February 1, 2003... A staunch loyalist, States Dyckman entered the British service with the quartermaster's department in British held New York City during the American Revolution. He was sent to London on official business in 1779, returned to New York in 1781,...

Titian in London and Madrid. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... Alfonso d'Este (1486-1534), duke of Ferrara, had a private retreat called the Camerino d'Alabastro in his castle at Ferrara. This was his inner sanctum where Alfonso surrounded himself with the best of his collections. About 1511 he...

Sir John Soane's museum. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... This year marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Sir John Soane, the architect and collector who dominated much of Britain's artistic life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His style was essentially...

Lectures at Spencer House. (Report from Europe).
February 1, 2003... Spencer House, an eighteenth-century palace overlooking Green Park in central London, is the site of three lectures that examine aspects of salon life. They take place on February 11 (an evening of eighteenth-century music), February 18 (on...

Parsing the picture frame. (Books about Antiques).
February 1, 2003... The author of this cerebral consideration of picture frames, W H. Bailey, appropriately teaches display design at the Parsons School of Design in New York City. His seven chapter headings accurately foretell his approach: the frame as...

Redfield's letters. (Books about Antiques).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... In 1996 John M. Wilson Fletcher published a book gathering the known facts about the American impressionist painter Edward Willis Redfield (see The Magazine ANTIQUES, vol, 152, no.6 [December 1997], p. 788). Now the same author has issued two...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Sacred Treasure: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections"; to April 13. * Arizona PHOENIX...

Antiques.
February 1, 2003... This city [Charleston] is the oldest I have yet seen in America....The appearance of the city is highly picturesque, a word which can apply to none other of the American towns....It is in this respect a far more aristocratic...city than any I...

The lure of likeness in Gainsborough's portraits.
February 1, 2003... Thomas Gainsborough's artistic reputation has fluctuated widely in the more than two centuries since his death, and each of the genres he practiced--portrait, landscape, and fancy picture (1)--has at one time or another been favored. Even...

Robert Walker Charleston cabinetmaker.
February 1, 2003... The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) has published the much-anticipated three-volume The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820, written by Bradford L. Rauschenberg and the late John Bivins Jr. Robert Walker is one of 679 craftsmen...

Stenciled bedcovers.
February 1, 2003... Stenciled bedcovers are reputed to be rare, but a new search through several museum collections and quilt publications has uncovered fifty-nine examples, twenty-six of which are quilted. (1) The earliest dated stenciled coverlet found in this...

Modern flatware design: the viande/grille/vogue style.
February 1, 2003... Until about seventy years ago, the basic form of table knives had not changed for more than two centuries, although the materials used to make them and the ornamentation employed to decorate them had evolved over time. Except for folding types...

The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Florida).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... ORLANDO: The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, 900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, 32803. The Mennello Museum of American Folk Art is dedicated to collecting and preserving American folk art. The Museums core collection of paintings by Earl...

The Lightner Museum. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Florida).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... ST. AUGUSTINE: The Lightner Museum, City Hall Complex, King Street P.O. Box 334, 32084. Exhibits of diverse 19th Century decorative arts and fine arts are found in the Lightner Museum. Featured are collections of. glass, porcelain, toys,...

The High Museum of Art. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Georgia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... ATLANTA: The High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street NW, 30309. The High's unique architectural features enhance the exhibits, and make it one of Atlanta's best known landmarks. Inside, you'll see an extraordinary permanent collection ranging...

Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Georgia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... COLUMBUS: Historic Columbus Foundation, Inc., Heritage Corner, 700 Broadway P.O. Box 5312, 31906. Five adjacent historic house museums from Federal to Victorian (1828-1870). Featured is the home of Dr. John S. Pemberton, the originator of the...

Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Georgia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... MARIETTA: Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, 30 Atlanta St., 30060. The Marietta/ Cobb Museum of Art exhibits traditional and contemporary American art with tours and classes offered throughout the year. The historic Igog Greek Renaissance style...

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Kentucky).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... HARRODSBURG: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, 3501 Lexington Rd., 40330. This National Historic Landmark is America's largest restored Shaker community. Our living history museum, with its 34 original 19th century buildings, offers self-guided...

Shaker Museum at South Union. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Kentucky).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... SOUTH UNION: Shaker Museum at South Union, P.O. Box 30, US 68, 42283. Historic site of the last Western Shaker Village (1807-1922) exhibits unique "southern" Shaker material culture. Includes museum, museum gift shop and Shaker Tavern B&B all...

The Historic New Orleans Collection. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Louisiana).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 533 Royal Street, 70 130. Celebrate the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase with exhibitions, programs, and publications from The Historic New Orleans Collection. Also tour The Louisiana...

Columbus Historic Foundation. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Mississippi).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... COLUMBUS: Columbus Historic Foundation. P.O. Box 46, 39703. You are invited to one of the most authentic historic home tours in the south. The Columbus Mississippi Pilgrimage to homes, gardens and churches has been held each spring for more...

Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens of the Museum of Fine Arts. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Texas).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... HOUSTON: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 Westcott Street, 77007. One of the nation's finest collections of colonial and early American decorative arts, showcased in the former home of Miss Ima Hogg. The...

Rienzi. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Texas).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... HOUSTON: Rienzi, 1406 Kirby Drive, 77019. Rienzi the former home of Carroll Sterling Masterson and Harris Masterson III, is the center for European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The house-museum is furnished with elegant...

Belle Grove Plantation. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Virginia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... MIDDLETOWN: Belle Grove Plantation, 336 Belle Grove Road, 22645. The 1797 home of Major Isaac Hite and his wife, Nelly Madison Hite sister of President James Madison, Belle Grove features authentic Jeffersonian architecture, a fine period...

Moses Myers House. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Virginia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... NORFOLK: Moses Myers House: 331 Bank St. 23510. The Moses Myers House, built in 1792, is an early Federal Period townhouse. It is the only historic house in the US interpreting traditions of early Jewish immigrants. The furniture and decorative...

Willoughby-Baylor House. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Virginia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... NORFOLK: Willoughby-Baylor House: 601 E. Freemason St. 23510. Experience the grace and comfort of affluent life in post-revolutionary Norfolk by visiting the Willoughby-Baylor House. Built in 1794, this detached two-story townhouse stands on...

Maymont. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Virginia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... RICHMOND: Maymont, 2201 Shields Lake Dr., 23220. Picturesque 100-acre Gilded Age estate featuring the opulent 1893 Maymont House exhibiting richly carved furniture, European porcelain and other objets d'art and restored interiors boasting a...

1812 Wickham House & Valentine Richmond History Center. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Virginia).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... RICHMOND: 1812 Wickham House & Valentine Richmond History Center, 1015 E. Clay St., 23219. Home to Richmond's history since 1898, the History Center showcases its splendid collection through permanent and changing exhibits. The largest artifact...

Associations. (The Browser).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www.antiquescouncil.com Informative Focus Papers by specialists on furniture, paintings, prints, folk art, silver, textiles, ceramics, clocks, oriental rugs, hearthware, barometers and more. Membership directory. Show schedule.

Auctions. (The Browser).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www.alderferauction.com Thursday is auction day at Alderfer's located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four auctioneers selling fine antiques, artwork, decorative accessories, furniture, and many other items. Consignments welcome. ...

Decorative arts. (The Browser).
February 1, 2003... www.antiqueslighting.com www.joanbogart.com www.classical-america.com 19th century American Classical & Victorian furniture & lighting. Joan Bogart. PO Box 265, Rockville Centre, NY 11571, Telephone: (516) 764-5712 ...

Fine art. (The Browser).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www.baderfinearts.com Alfred Bader Fine Arts gallery specializing in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish paintings and European fine art from the 16th to 20th centuries. Please bother us! Telephone (414) 277-0730 as our entire...

Rare books. (The Browser).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www.19thcenturyshop.com Rare books and manuscripts of all ages, from Shakespeare to Whitman to Joyce, Jefferson to Lincoln to Roosevelt, Copernicus to Darwin to Einstein. One of the world's leading dealers of important books and...

Restoration. (The Browser).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... www.aludwigklein.com A. Ludwig Klein & Son, Inc. offers restoration and conservation of Porcelain, Glass, Ivory, Jade, Marble, Bronze, Pewter, and other objects. Inquiries invited. Telephone: (800) 379-2929

Calendar of shows.
February 1, 2003... February 2003 Calendar of Shows February 2-6. Atlanta, GA. 32nd ANNUAL CATHEDRAL ANTIQUES SHOW AND TOUR OF HOMES. The show will feature more than 30 dealers from the U.S. and Europe with offerings from fine 18th and 19th century antiques,...

A textile trove from historic deerfield. (Design Notes).
February 1, 2003... Among textile aficionados Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts, is well known for its large and important collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century costumes, quilts and other bedcovers, and upholstery and curtain fabrics. These textiles...

San Francisco Plantation. (Historic Houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South: Louisiana).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2003... NEW ORLEANS: San Francisco Plantation, a National Landmark, 2646 (Hwy 44) River Road, 70051. Authentically restored Mansion is a galleried house in the Creole open-suite style with famous hand painted ceilings, faux marbling and wood graining....