The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2002

Current and coming.(exhibition at the Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... Winterthur at home and in New York In this issue we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, Delaware. The articles in this issue make clear that the driving force behind the formation...

Museum accessions.(Winterthur Museum)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In this issue we have presented a group of articles that give some idea of just how far the Winterthur Museum has furthered scholarship in the field of American decorative arts and material culture since it opened in 1951. Part of that process...

Report from Europe.
January 1, 2002... Brazilian culture The year 2000 marked the five hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Brazil of Pedro Alvares Cabral (c. 1467-1520), a Portuguese explorer. Among the exhibitions in Britain to celebrate various aspects of Brazilian...

Chippendale at Harewood House. (Books about Antiques).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Hollywood stars, guided through the firmament by their studios, roosted in grand houses that they bought and sold seasonally. They simply had their maids pack their extensive wardrobes and moved out, ashtrays in place, waiting for the next...

Calendar.(art shows)
January 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Ideas of Beauty: Traditions of the Chinese Court"; to April 21. * "Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors...

The true character of Americans is mirrored in their homes. (Antiques).
January 1, 2002... Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery, Voyage aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, 1793-1798 Such insights about Americans as this have come most often from outsiders. Half a century after Moreau de Saint-Mery's visit, the Swedish author...

Introduction. (Winterthur).
January 1, 2002... The Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, Delaware (see Pl. II), has enthralled collectors and delighted the public for fifty years. In honor of our founding in October 1951, our anniversary festivities continue through the...

H. F. du Pont's fondness for furniture: A collecting odyssey. (Winterthur).(art collectors)
January 1, 2002... Like many collectors, Henry Francis du Pont (p. 154, P1. I) had a fascination with American arts, which started in the early 1920s when he and his wife, Ruth Wales du Pont, built a large weekend residence, Chestertown House, Southampton, New...

A case study: The Cecil and Lancaster Rooms at Winterthur. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... The period rooms at Winterthur offer visitors two perspectives on the past. In their decoration, many reflect the taste of henry Francis du Pont (see p. 154, Pl. I) when the house served as his home from 1931 to 1951. Others, however,...

Winterthur's hand-painted Indian export cottons. (Winterthur).
January 1, 2002... Henry Francis du Pont's (see p. 154, Pl. I) interests in both horticulture and colorful furnishing textiles are combined in Winterthur's collection of Indian hand-painted cottons (see frontispiece and Pls. I, LID. Never before considered as a...

"Drink Fair Dont Swear": Winterthur's punch bowls and punch drinking in America. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... The vast majority of Winterthur's Sixteen thousand or so ceramics and nearly thirty-five hundred pieces of glass are on display in the museum's many period rooms and in the newly unveiled Ceramics and Glass Gallery. Many of these objects were...

Henry Francis du Pont and iron. (Winterthur).(collection of iron decorative arts at Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... It would be easy to spend a full day viewing the period rooms at the Winterthur Museum and come away not remembering having seen a single piece of iron. This is not because there is no iron in the collection, but rather because Henry Francis du...

The Georgia Dining Room revisited. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... The Georgia Dining Room opened its doors at Winterthur in 1972 (see Pls. II, V) as a memorial to Henry Francis du Pont (see p. 154, Pl. I) and his legacy of perfection and scholarship. The museum had acquired the architectural elements for the...

Vernacular art at Winterthur. (Winterthur).(folk art collection at Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... When one thinks of the Winterthur Museum, many things come to mind--Philadelphia rococo chairs, tankards by Paul Revere, and portraits by John Singleton Copley among them. One generally does not associate Winterthur with vernacular--or...

Chinese export porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... According to Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731), Mary II of England (r. 1689-1694) was one of the first collectors of Chinese export porcelain in that country. He credited, or blamed, her for beginning the custom or bumour of furnishing houses with...

Trade catalogues in the Winterthur Library. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum)
January 1, 2002... The Winterthur Library will be fifty years old in 2002. Founded to serve the staff of the muse-urn and the students in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, it has attracted an increasing number of visiting researchers. It has also...

American painted furniture: A new perspective on its decoration and use. (Winterthur).(Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum's collection)
January 1, 2002... Although late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American painted furniture has been studied and written about by numerous scholars over the last quarter century, most have explored its makers, patrons, and regional origins. Few have...

Calendar of Shows.(antique shows and events)
January 1, 2002... The Magazine ANTIQUES, Calendar of Shows for January 2 January 4-6. White Plains, NY. WHITE PLANS ANTIQUES SHOW. Westchester County Center; Bronx River Parkway. W1 Plains. Contact Wendy Management 914-698-3442 or www.wantiquesshows.com ...

Winterthur and your home. (Design Notes).(licensing programmes for furnishings manufacturers offered by Winterthur Museum)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... It seems only fitting that this, the last editorial page in this special issue devoted to the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, Delaware, should also be dedicated to this venerable institution. It seems particularly...