The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2005

Current and coming.
February 1, 2005... A Philadelphia bicentennial While there is no evidence that he ever made good on his pledge, in June 1806 Thomas Jefferson replied to Charles Willson Peale's appeal for funds to establish the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, writing:...

Report from Europe.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... Fairs in March Two fairs next month have loan exhibitions. At the annual European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, which takes place from March 4 to 13, the loan show comprises thirty-five paintings and sculptures from...

Collectors' notes.
February 1, 2005... A glass globe reproduced at the Warner House Joyce Geary Volk, who wrote the fascinating article about the discovery and restoration of the unusual smalt wall treatment in the parlor bedchamber of the Warner House in Portsmouth, New...

Books about antiques.(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A mammoth book If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a huge picture worth two thousand? The question might well be asked about The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton, which is sold without a...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "In Monet's Light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny"; February 6 to May 8. * California BERKELEY Phoebe A. Hearst...

Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History Edited by John Salter MA-276 Our price $150.00 This is the first book published on this engaging subject since 1947. It covers the enormous range of materials used for wine...

New Hall Porcelains.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
February 1, 2005... New Hall Porcelains By Geoffrey A. Godden MA-277 Our price $125.00 What is today known as New Hall porcelain was manufactured in Staffordshire from about 1781 until the mid-1830s. This book records the various shapes and...

Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840 By Thomas R. J. Newbem and James R. Melchor MA-278 Our price $63.00 The authors investigate the large body of surviving furniture made in Norfolk, Virginia, in the first part of the...

Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America By Margaretta M. Lovell MA-279 Our price $39.95 Lovell concentrates on the colonial period, focusing on patrons and the artists they commissioned...

American Furniture 2004.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... American Furniture 2004 Edited by Luke Beckerdite MA-280 Paper covers Our price $55.00 This annual, now in its tenth year, presents the latest scholarship in American furniture studies by leading furniture historians....

Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry Edited by Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker MA-281 Our price $75.00 This dynasty of Italian jewelers, founded by Fortunato Pio Castellani in 1814, made fascinating jewelry...

American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors By John Wilmerding with an essay by Kathleen A. Foster MA-282 Our price $65.00 Princeton University has one of the most important...

A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings Edited by Alan Granby MA-283 Our price $75.00 The late Glen S. Foster, an avid Olympic-class sailor, assembled an excellent collection of American and...

Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris By Ulrich Leben MA-284 Our price $60.00 The Royal Free Drawing School, founded in Paris in 1766, trained a number of highly...

Impressions of New York: Prints from the New York Historical Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society By Marilyn Symmes MA-285 Our price $50.00 The print collection at the New-York Historical Society is highly regarded for the depth and breadth of its...

Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt By Jay E. Cantor and Pamela A. Ivinski MA-286 Paper covers Our price $38.00 In the years before and after the turn of the twentieth century the great pastel artist Mary...

Directory of European Porcelain.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
February 1, 2005... Directory of European Porcelain By Ludwig Danckert MA-287 Our price $75.00 This enormous compendium greatly expands and revises that first published in English more than twenty years ago and reprinted many times since. This...

Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life By Martha M. Evans MA-288 Our price $45.00 Hirst is notable not only for being one of a very few women artists to paint trompe l'oeil still lifes of exceedingly high...

The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
February 1, 2005... The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders By Luca Dosi Delfini et al. MA-289 Our price $110.00 This fine and decorative arts museum in the Netherlands has a...

Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925 General editor, David B. Dearinger MA-290 Our price $95.00 Founded in 1826 the National Academy of Design in New York City is...

ANTIQUES.
February 1, 2005... The state of Connecticut has always been governed by an aristocracy, more decisively than the empire of Great Britain is. Half a dozen, or, at most, a dozen families, have controlled that country when a colony, as well as since it has been a...

Case furniture of the Chapin school, 1775-1800.(Cover Story)
February 1, 2005... Eliphalet Chapin of East Windsor, Connecticut, has, since the 1920s, been the lower Connecticut River valley's best-known, and generally considered its most gifted, eighteenth-century cabinet-maker. Born in Somers (then in Massachusetts),...

Smalt at the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
February 1, 2005... If the word smalt is unfamiliar to you, you are not alone. Smalt is ground cobalt blue glass, an inexpensive way to obtain a dark blue pigment that goes back at least to ancient Egypt. The expensive way was to grind lapis lazuli imported from...

The luxury glass of Bakewell, Page and Bakewell.
February 1, 2005... In 1808, when several New York City merchants installed their bankrupt colleague Benjamin Bakewell (1767-1844) as managing partner of a foundering glasshouse in Pittsburgh, they could not have foreseen the future success of the enterprise....

Biblical samplers from New York City.
February 1, 2005... The pictorial samplers worked in New York City in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are unlike any other American samplers. While most examples of the period commonly show pastoral scenes of courting couples, fishing ladies, and...

Historic houses, Landmarks & Museums of the South.(Directory)
February 1, 2005... FLORIDA ORLANDO: The Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, 32803. The Museum's premier collection of paintings by Earl Cunning-ham are shown with works by other outstanding American artists including John...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... February 4-13, 2005. Palm Beach! AMERICA'S INTERNATIONAL FINE ART & ANTIQUE FAIR--The most exclusive and luxurious art & antique fair in the US is featuring approximately 100 of the very finest international dealers specializing in fine art and...

Design notes.
February 1, 2005... Historic paints The restoration of williamsburg, the capital of colonial Virginia, started in the early 1920s. It gained considerable momentum when John D. Rockefeller Jr. agreed to underwrite the endeavor in 1927, and seven years later...