The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2003

Antiques week in New York city. (Current and Coming).
January 1, 2003... At the fairs Mid-January brings enthusiasts for all kinds of fine and decorative arts to New York City for antiques shows, auctions, museum and gallery exhibitions, and lectures. The lodestone for these events is the Winter Antiques Show,...

Museum accessions.
January 1, 2003... In our fractious world, it is nice when cooperation makes for a happy ending. Such is the case with John Frederick Kensett's Niagara Falls (above), which has been formally acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford,...

Report from Europe.
January 1, 2003... Henry VIII was the second Tudor king of England and the first to understand the importance of the portrait as a propaganda tool. Although his wars with France and Scotland drained the British coffers, this was not depicted in portraits of the...

Books about antiques.
January 1, 2003... David Adler, architect David Adler (1882-1949) took on some two hundred architectural commissions over four decades. Most of them were private houses for the very rich in fifteen states and British Columbia. A goodly number were built...

Correction.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... In our December 2002 issue, we inadvertently printed these two portraits of Napoleon III in reverse. As Christopher Forbes, the author of "Napoleon III: The other Napoleon and his empire" (pp. 84-91), explained when informing us of the error:...

Omission.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... We unintentionally omitted the name of the photographer who took the pictures of the toys in the Toy Museum at Old Salem in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Mary Audrey Apple's article "German toys in antebellum America" in our December issue...

Calendar.
January 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona TUCSON Tucson Museum of Art: "Talking Birds, Plumed Serpents and Painted Women: Ceramics of Casas Grandes"; to February 16. * California ...

The magazine antiques: presents its Winter 2003 choice of books for the collector's library.
January 1, 2003... By Elizabeth Johns Regular price $44.95 SALE $41 WINSLOW HOMER: ARTIST AND ANGLER (MA-8902) By Patricia Junker with Sarah Burns and others Regular price $45 SALE $41 COMBINED SALE $80 (MA-8903) Johns studies...

Antiques.
January 1, 2003... The Meeting house, and Schoolhouse and Training Field are the Scoenes where New England men were formed....The Towns, Militia, Schools and Churches [are] the four Causes of the Grouth and Defence of N. England. The Virtues and Talents of the...

History in houses: Woodlawn in Ellsworth, Maine.
January 1, 2003... Woodlawn, a splendid house in the neoclassical style, was built in the 1820s on a commanding site on Bridge Hill, overlooking the town of Ellsworth, Maine, and the Union River. The elaborate furnishings reflect the tastes of two men--the...

Porcelain in Dresden.(influences of Far Eastern porcelain on European culture)
January 1, 2003... In-the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the whole of Europe was fascinated by chinoiseric (Chinsercy in German). It was more than just a fashion; it was almost a way of life. The trend began around 1650, helped by the expanding Dutch and...

John Drayton's watercolors.
January 1, 2003... Mark Catesby has long been revered for his monumental publication The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Babama Islands (1731-1743) (1), in which he illustrated the plants and animals he observed during two trips to the British...

Perfection: Jean E. Puiforcat's designs for silver.
January 1, 2003... The French silversmith Jean E. Puiforcat ranks among the greatest twentieth-century designers of silver tabletop objects. His mathematically pure, smoothly polished forms, ornamented with semiprecious stones or wood embellishments, appeal to...

Electra Havemeyer Webb and Edith Gregor Halpert: a collaboration in folk art collecting.
January 1, 2003... Research for the Shelburne Museum's newly reinterpreted folk art galleries, which opened in June 2002, revealed a significant collaboration between Electra Havemeyer Webb, the collector and founder of the museum, and the folk and contemporary...

The Brick House, the Vermont country house of Electra Havemeyer Webb.
January 1, 2003... "Happy is the home that shelters friends." are the first words inscribed, sometime between 1913 and 1914, by Electra Havemeyer Webb (see Figs. 2, 9) in a green leather-bound guest book of the Brick House, her country house in Shelburne,...

Calendar of shows.
January 1, 2003... January 2003 Calendar of Shows January 9-12. Washington, D.C. THE 48th WASHINGTON ANTIQUES SHOW will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Placido and Marta Domingo are the Honorary Chairmen of this event, a benefit for The Thrift Shop...

Historic paints and wallpapers. (Design Notes).
January 1, 2003... Some twenty years ago Tom Helme was working with the National Trust of Great Britain as a specialist in paint restoration. Finding that exact replicas of period colors were extremely difficult to obtain, the trust suggested in the mid-1980s...

Marsden Hartley and folk art.
January 1, 2003... Widely acknowledged as a great, if not the greatest, early American modernist, Marsden Hartley (Fig. 1) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by the photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz, that included Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur...