The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2004

A taste of the American Wing.
January 1, 2004... New York City in mid-January is surely the best place to be for the aficionado of Americana, and this year is no exception. All the events that have been organized will provide a visual feast for those who like to admire and ample opportunity...

Morris in California.
January 1, 2004... In 1965, while Sanford and Helen Berger were studying architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they stumbled upon a poorly printed facsimile of what is known as the Kelmscott Chaucer, originally issued...

Current and coming; needle arts in New York city.
January 1, 2004... The New-York Historical Society's extensive and diverse collections reveal much about how New Yorkers have lived and worked over the course of four centuries. The aspect of that history currently in focus at the society is sewing. Home Sewn:...

Dutch art and letters.
January 1, 2004... Holland's golden age of arts and letters in the seventeenth century earned the country the distinction of having the highest literacy rate in Europe. Holland was also regarded as the mapmaking and publishing center of the world, and was home to...

Museum accessions.
January 1, 2004... In 1918 Wanamaker's department store in New York City held a special display and sale of decorative looking glasses that were unusual collaborations between the artists Rockwell Kent and Max Kuehne. They featured reverse-painted glass panels by...

Report from Europe; Hungarian culture in London.
January 1, 2004... To mark the entry of Hungary into the European Union this year a number of cultural events are being held in Britain, of which two are exhibitions. The first exhibition, entitled A Celebration of Hungarian Gold and Silver, is on view at...

Books about antiques: British Servants' Portraits.(Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants' Portraits)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants' Portraits resurrects a colorfully populated world normally out of sight but never out of mind. From fortified castles in the Middle Ages to grand country houses today, England has depended on staff to get...

Queries.
January 1, 2004... THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL is seeking applications for the eighteenth annual United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of art and architecture of the...

Calendar: the arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920"; to March 14. * "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; to April 11. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Antiques.
January 1, 2004... [Henry Adams] found himself lying in the Gallery of Machines [Galerie des Machines] at the Great Exposition of 1900, with his historical neck broken by the sudden irruption of forces totally new. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams,...

Western dining implements with Japanese kozuka and kozuka style handles.
January 1, 2004... From ancient times custom dictated that Japanese men should not wear jewelry, but eventually they were able to express their vanity and taste as well as their wealth and social status through the decoration on the swords they carried. Their...

Maria Oakey Dewing's flowers and figures.
January 1, 2004... "I hold my heart in my hand when I paint." Maria Oakey Dewing once told a young art student, and she invites us to share these emotions with her through her perceptive painter's eye. (1) With their cutoff foregrounds, her compositions seem to...

Living with antiques: the rescue and restoration of a New York city landmark.
January 1, 2004... When most Manhattan collectors want to buy a town house, they typically seek out a "brownstone" on one of the tree-lined side streets of the Upper East Side or the Upper West Side, or on one of the better historic blocks in Greenwich village or...

Glass and glamour: Steuben's modern moment, 1930-1960.
January 1, 2004... By the early twentieth century, the lightness and transparency of glass had come to define all that was good about modernism. From the Crystal Palace designed by Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) and built for London's Great Exhibition of 1851, to...

An introduction to the Biedermeier period.
January 1, 2004... The Biedermeier period in Germany and Austria (c. 1815-1848) acquired its name from a fictional character named Gottlieb Biedermaier, who was portrayed in the Munich satirical weekly Fliegende Blatter as a recently deceased schoolteacher and...

American Indian baskets made in New England.
January 1, 2004... During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in New England, Indians were making splint baskets in large numbers for sale to non-Indians. (1) In order to survive in the new world of European conquest and settlement, Indians were forced to...

Louis Victor Gerverot in a new light: his early years and bird painting, 1766-1773.(Biography)
January 1, 2004... Louis Victor Gerverot, a widely traveled French decorator of ceramics known for his birds of fantasy, worked at several European manufactories in his lifetime. Unfortunately, the published accounts of his life contain many discrepancies and...

Calendar of Shows.(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... Calendar of Shows--January 2004 January 1, 2004. New York, NY. NEW YEAR'S DAY ANTIQUES SHOW returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion. 125 West 18th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues), $10 admission. 11am-6 pm. Deco furniture, estate and...

Victorian tiles.
January 1, 2004... During the Victorian period in England and the United States, tiled floors, particularly in heavily trafficked areas, became a practical and beautiful alternative to more fragile floor coverings. At the same time health officials became aware...