The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2004

Maple sugar as metaphor.(Current and Coming)
February 1, 2004... Over the course of several years the American artist Eastman Johnson produced about twenty-five oil sketches that were stepping stones to a masterwork he never completed. The subject was the production of maple sugar in New England, a seasonal...

Tiffany pottery.(Current and Coming)
February 1, 2004... Louis Comfort Tiffany and members of his studio worked in nearly every conceivable medium of the decorative arts. Thus, it is not surprising that some of the objects they produced were more commercially successful than others and that their...

Architecture in the Pine Tree State.(Current and Coming)
February 1, 2004... Before it became a state in 1820, Maine was a part of Massachusetts, and while much of the northern part of the region was sparsely settled frontier, the southern and coastal parts of Maine were dotted with large towns full of architecturally...

Museum accessions.
February 1, 2004... The objects illustrated here attest to the extraordinary quality of additions made to the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in the past year. The paintings are from a gift of eleven seventeenth-century Dutch examples...

Report from Europe.
February 1, 2004... The empress and her painters The patronage of artists and the formation of collections of art were among the obligations of royalty. Some monarchs took these duties more seriously than others did, but in one case it was also the...

Gentleman woodworkers.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Peter the Great of Russia, Christian V and Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway, Louis XV and XVI of France, and Frederick William I, Frederick III, and Frederick IV of Prussia had at least one thing in common besides their crowns--they all...

Calendar.(Arts events.)(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Figuring the Feminine: Selected Works by African-American Women Artists"; to April 4. * "An Impressionist...

The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour By Robert D. Mussey Jr. MA-216 Our price $60.00 Mussey's comprehensive study, drawing on eight years of research, makes inroads into the thorny problem of attributing...

Gustav Stickley.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Gustav Stickley By David Cathers MA-217 Our price $70.00 Gustav Stickley was one of the most important figures in the arts and crafts movement in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Cathers treats all the...

Italy and the Grand Tour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Italy and the Grand Tour By Jeremy Black MA-218 Our price $35.00 Many other books about the grand tour have relied on guidebooks that outlined what one should see while visiting ruins, shopping for art and antiquities, and...

Neither Plain nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Neither Plain nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers By David R. Starbuck MA-219, paper covers Our price $29.95 Starbuck began excavating several dump sites at the Shaker community in Canterbury. New...

Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Signs of the Artist: Signatures and Self-Expression in American Paintings By John Wilmerding MA-220 Our price $40.00 This provocative book investigates how and where American artists signed their paintings and watercolors....

Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Row House 1783-1929.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Row House 1783-1929 By Charles Lockwood MA-221 Our price $75.00 Long out of print, Lockwood's study of this building type has been substantially revised and newly illustrated with...

Rookwood Pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Gerald and Virginia Gordon Collection.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Rookwood Pottery at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Gerald and Virginia Gordon Collection By Nancy E. Owen MA-222 Our price $45.00 The Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati was one of the best-known experimental art potteries of...

American Furniture 2003.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... American Furniture 2003 Edited by Luke Beckerdite MA-223 paper covers Our price $55.00 Now in its tenth year, the annual American Furniture is highly regarded for its breadth of subject matter, scholarly approach, and...

Ceramics in America 2003.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Ceramics in America 2003 Edited by Robert Hunter MA-224 paper covers Our price $55.00 Besides American Furniture the Chipstone Foundation has produced Ceramics in America annually since 2001. The series is devoted to ceramics...

After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting By Linda Merrill, Robyn Asleson, Lee Glazer et al. MA-225 Our price $60.00 This groundbreaking publication accompanies an exhibition in which fourteen works by...

Godden's Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Godden's Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain By Geoffrey A. Godden MA-226 Our price $89.50 This is the first book about these popular and beautiful ceramics to be published in thirty years. Godden treats twenty makers...

The Compendium of Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 1570 to 1962.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... The Compendium of Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 1570 to 1962 By Maurice Ridgway and Philip Priestley MA-227 Our price $125.00 This is the first compendium of all of the known marks used by silver- and goldsmiths in this...

Furniture for the Dream King: Ludwig II and the Munich Court Cabinet-Maker Anton Possenbacher.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Furniture for the Dream King: Ludwig II and the Munich Court Cabinet-Maker Anton Possenbacher By Afra Schick MA-228 Our price $95.00 This is a definitive study (in English and German) of the late nineteenth-century...

Maria Sibylla Merian: The St. Petersburg Watercolours.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Maria Sibylla Merian: The St. Petersburg Watercolours Edited and with an introduction by Eckhard Hollmann MA-229 Our price $85.00 Merian is one of Germany's most famous women artists, painting exact and astonishingly beautiful...

Francois Linke 1855-1946: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Francois Linke 1855-1946: The Belle Epoque of French Furniture By Christopher Payne MA-230 Our price $150.00 Linke's idiosyncratic furniture blended the flamboyance of the French rococo with the sinuous lines of the art...

Antiques.
February 1, 2004... Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we...

Painted tea caddies and the tunbridge connection.
February 1, 2004... The Commutation Act of 1784 was probably the single most important stimulus in the development of the tea caddy in eighteenth-century Britain. Up to this time, tea had been so expensive that it could be enjoyed only in small quantities and...

The eighteenth-century Cuban sacristy chest of drawers.(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... With more than five hundred years of written history, the island of Cuba has the oldest colonial heritage in the Western Hemisphere. One facet of this heritage is furniture. Thousands of examples of colonial furniture survive, but the one form...

Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer's Chinese enameled plaques.(Collection from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.)(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2004... Part I: The porcelain plaques In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a group of eighteen very unusual eighteenth-century Chinese painted plaques. This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully...

Portrait engravings by William Edgar Marshall.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
February 1, 2004... Quite possibly the most widely distributed and best known original work of art in the United States following the Civil War was the engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Fig. 3) executed by William Edgar Marshall (Pl. I). "Found... in a vast...

English and Irish glass.(Design Notes)(William Yeoward Crystal makes glass reproductions from the 18th and 19th centuries.)
February 1, 2004... The pioneering and prolific glass scholar Robert J. Charleston distilled his chosen subject to its essence when he wrote: "To take sand and ashes and, by submitting them to the transmuting agency of fire, to produce an infinity of forms,...