The Magazine Antiques articles from February 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2008

Color, light, and water.(Current and coming)
February 1, 2008... Until about 1860 watercolor painting in the United States was primarily the domain of amateurs and refined young ladies, for whom painting was a sign of accomplishment. With the founding of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor in...

Artist-designed book covers.(Current and coming)(The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse exhibit)
February 1, 2008... As we learned from the New-York Historical Society's 2007 exhibition A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, women artists played a crucial role at Tiffany Studios, working anonymously to design and produce many of the...

More Ohio faces.(Collectors' notes)
February 1, 2008... In our August 2007 issue, Peter and Leslie Warwick and Arthur and Sybil Kern introduced us to a group of folk artists working in Ohio in the nineteenth century. Several readers alerted the authors to related works, and they have kindly shared...

Money, money, money.(Collectors' notes)(Correction notice)
February 1, 2008... Two perspicacious readers have written to us about Gertrude Grace Sill's article "Three rediscovered paintings of currency by John Haberle," in our November 2007 issue (pp. 138-141). One offered a correction and both provided further details...

Fairs.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2008... This month a new fair makes its debut: Art and Antiques Dubai, organized by the Haughton family, takes place at the Madinat Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from February 21 to 24. Among the forty dealers exhibiting are galleries from the...

Matthias Grunewald.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
February 1, 2008... Little is known about the early life of the sixteenth-century German painter Matthias Grunewald. It is possible that he served his apprenticeship in Augsburg because his early works bear some resemblance to the style of Hans Holbein the Elder;...

Museum accessions.
February 1, 2008... The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, is presently completing a major two year renovation that will open to the public in May. One of the important elements in this project is increasing the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
February 1, 2008... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Illuminated Manuscripts"; to March 9. [??] "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse, and More"; to May 4.* [??] "When...

Antiques.(Obituary)
February 1, 2008... May gods confer on you your due rewards, If deities regard the good, if justice And mind aware of right count anywhere. What happy centuries gave birth to you? What splendid parents brought you into being? While rivers run into the sea...

History in towns: Key West Florida.
February 1, 2008... Approaching Key West aboard the United States revenue cutter Marion in May 1832, some ten years after Spain had ceded the territory of Florida to the United States, John James Audubon wrote: [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] With what delightful...

Fancy samplers of New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 1805-1835.
February 1, 2008... In 1801 the harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was lined with masts, its docks covered with enormous casks of whale oil, barrels, trunks, and bundles of assorted goods. It had taken time for the town and its industries to recover from the...

Recent scholarship on the American China Manufactory of Bonnin and Morris.(Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris )
February 1, 2008... In January 1771 Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris advertised for sale "their first emission of Porcelain" from their new factory, the American China Manufactory in the Southwark section of Philadelphia. (1) Although their pioneering...

The wings of a butterfly: pastels by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.
February 1, 2008... Asked by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the autumn of 1923 if he would agree to an exhibition of his pastels--placed adjacent to the museum's biennial paintings display--Thomas Wilmer Dewing flatly declined the invitation. "I seldom make [a...

The browser.(Website list)
February 1, 2008... ASSOCIATIONS www.bcaada.com Berkshire County Antiques and Art Dealers Associations--an "Antiques Mecca" of 56 stores and galleries offering a wide variety of American and European antiques and art. AUCTIONS ...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
February 1, 2008... February 8-10. Miami, FL. MIAMI NATIONAL ANTIQUES SHOW. One of South Florida's largest, high quality antiques shows, with over 300 exhibitors from across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America. The show features an outstanding selection of...

Tennessee samplers.(Design notes)
February 1, 2008... The state of Tennessee was formed from what was the western part of colonial North Carolina. Originally home to Cherokee Indians, the area was first settled by white people in the early 1750s. In 1789 North Carolina ceded the region to...