The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2006

Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC.(Ben Shahn)(Italy)(Advertisement)
February 1, 2006... IN THE FIFTEEN YEARS following World War II, the Italian labor movement was characterized by instability, with radical shifts in power throughout the working classes. One of the salient results from this period was a marked rupture of the...

Roycroft.(Current and coming)
February 1, 2006... Elbert Hubbard--entrepreneur, writer, philosopher, publisher, utopian visionary, manufacturer, promoter, and above all, showman--was born under the right star. As one contemporary self-help manual advised: "Remember that great motto of...

Chinese ceramics for the Japanese market.(Current and coming)
February 1, 2006... The Wanli emperor's death in 1620 had more than a political impact, for so great was his patronage of the blue-and-white porcelains made at Jingdezhen, that the imperial kilns there were obliged to close, and work in other manufactories slowed...

Museum accessions.(Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)(Memphis Brooks Museum)
February 1, 2006... Two exciting additions have been made to the renowned collections of art nouveau, art deco, and early modernist works at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; both are screens and are archetypal examples by their makers. The copper and...

I am an American ... quadruped.(John Woodhouse Audubon)(Brief Article)(Advertisement)
February 1, 2006... I was born in the late 1840's in the San Francisco Mountains of Arizona. In 1851, an expedition led by Lorenzo Sitgreaves down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers crossed my path. In an effort to record, map and illustrate unchartered land and unknown...

Report from Europe.(Dutch museum exhibitions)(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... This year is the four hundredth anniversary of Rembrandt's birth, which has prompted a number of celebratory exhibitions. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which has large holdings of Rembrandt's works, is devoting five separate exhibitions to...

Black Victorians.(Books about antiques)(Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900)(Book Review)
February 1, 2006... During the nineteenth century certain blacks stood out against the monochromatic melancholy of slavery: Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Nat Turner, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ira Aldridge, Henry O. Tanner,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "A la derniere mode: Eighteenth-Century French Ceramics from the Permanent Collection"; to February 26.* [??]...

Antiques.(Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin)(Biography)
February 1, 2006... The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential...

Living with antiques: revivalism revived in a New York City apartment.
February 1, 2006... As a medieval scholar and curator, the owner of the New York City collection featured here has had a long and dedicated relationship with the decorative arts. His personal collection began nearly thirty years ago with pieces of metalwork,...

Fair and square in the 1860s: a meditation on the worth of an American icon.(George Washington portrait)
February 1, 2006... On March 9, 1864, less than three weeks before the grand opening of the New York Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, the city's contribution to the movement for the care of the health of Union soldiers, and on the day General Ulysses S. Grant assumed...

Gustavian divan rooms.(King Gustav III)
February 1, 2006... Divan is today the name of a type of luxurious sofa covered by fine fabrics and lavishly filled with splendid cushions. (1) In late eighteenth-century Swedish architectural drawings, however, a divan is a room furnished, with a long, wide...

Dining with the ancients: Shiebler's Etruscan flatware; When these goods were first placed on the market, friends of Mr. Shiebler almost questioned the stability of his mind. But soon they swerved about, for his factory could not accommodate the demand. (1).(George W. Shiebler)
February 1, 2006... The gentleman referred to in this trade journal comment of 1892 was George W. Shiebler, silver maker of New York City, and the goods were the medallion-decorated sterling wares that he introduced between about 1880 and 1882. Although silver...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... February 10-12. Atlanta, Ga. SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET. Held the second weekend of every month. Show hours are Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $3, good for the whole weekend. Location: Atlanta Expo...

More Frank Lloyd Wright.(Design notes)(Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust)
February 1, 2006... The restoration of a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is an expensive undertaking. This is particularly true of the many buildings he designed in and around Chicago, where harsh winters take an immense toll on the bricks, cement,...