The Magazine Antiques articles from January 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from January 2005

A bicentennial in New York City.(Current and coming)(New York Historical Society)
January 1, 2005... As the cover lines of this issue announce, the editorial pages this month celebrate the 200th anniversary of New York City's oldest continuously operating art institution--the New-York Historical Society. As is detailed in the articles that...

Pottery, porcelain, and glass.(Current and coming)(New York Ceramics Fair)
January 1, 2005... For the last five years, only a Philistine could have wondered why, on a freezing afternoon in mid-January, a line of people waited to enter the National Academy of Design in New York City. Everyone else would know that this was the preview day...

American antiques.(Current and coming)(American Folk Art Museum)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... Four years ago, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City decided to inaugurate an antiques show for the benefit of the institution. The American Antiques Show moves to a new location this year--the north tower of the Time Warner Center at...

Museum accessions.
January 1, 2005... From its founding in 1804, the New-York Historical Society has acquired objects that document the past and the present, creating an ever-changing kaleidoscopic view of life and art in New York. As the recent accessions illustrated here...

Wyndham Lewis in London.(Report from Europe)(Biography)
January 1, 2005... Wyndham Lewis achieved prominence both as an artist and a writer. He was born in Nova Scotia of British and American parents, moved to England as a child, and then studied at the Slade School of Art in London. From 1902 to 1908 he traveled in...

Hungarian treasures.(Report from Europe)(Hungary's Heritage: Princely Treasures from the Esterhazy Collection: art exhibition)
January 1, 2005... The Esterhazy family of Hungary rose to prominence during the Turkish wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Miklos Esterhazy was a charismatic military leader and astute politician who founded the family's treasury, which became a...

Morocco and the Netherlands.(Report from Europe)(Morocco, on view at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam: a cultural exhibition)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... An exhibition entitled Morocco, on view at De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam until April 17. marks four hundred years of relations between Morocco and the Netherlands. It contains more than three hundred works from museums and libraries in both...

Turkey and England.(Report from Europe)(Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600: a cultural exhibition)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... The Royal Academy of Arts in London is host to an exhibition called Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600, which is on view from January 22 to April 12. The artistic and cultural heritage of Turkic cultures will be explored, and,...

The Battle of Gettysburg: Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, upon seeing the almost completed painting in Walker's studio, wrote commending its "fair and complete representation of that eventful scene.".
January 1, 2005... One of the finest examples of American history painting of the Civil War era, the monumental Battle of Gettysburg was conceived and commissioned by Colonel John B. Bachelder and painted by the accomplished artist, James Walker. It was created...

Some frames border on high art.(The Art of the Frame: Gems From the Simoni Collection: an art exhibition)(Advertisement)
January 1, 2005... Pensacola, Fla. 'The Art of the Frame: Gems From the Simoni Collection," at the Pensacola Museum of Art through Saturday, features work from the world's only private collection of American 19th- and early-20th-century picture frames. They...

Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History Edited by John Salter MA-276 Our price $150.00 This is the first book published on this engaging subject since 1947. It covers the enormous range of materials used for wine...

New Hall Porcelains.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... New Hall Porcelains By Geoffrey A. Godden MA-277 Our price $125.00 What is today known as New Hall porcelain was manufactured in Staffordshire from about 1781 until the mid-1830s. This book records the various shapes and...

Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Classical Norfolk Furniture, 1810-1840 By Thomas R.J. Newbern and James R. Melchor MA-278 Our price $63.00 The authors investigate the large body of surviving furniture made in Norfolk, Virginia, in the first part of the...

Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America By Margaretta M. Lovell MA-279 Our price $39.95 Lovell concentrates on the colonial period, focusing on patrons and the artists they commissioned...

American Furniture 2004.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... American Furniture 2004 Edited by Luke Beckerdite MA-280 Paper covers Our price $55.00 This annual, now in its tenth year, presents the latest scholarship in American furniture studies by leading furniture historians...

Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry Edited by Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker MA-281 Our price $75.00 This dynasty of Italian jewelers, founded by Fortunato Pio Castellani in 1814, made fascinating jewelry...

American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume 1: Drawings and Watercolors By John Wilmerding with an essay by Kathleen A. Foster MA-282 Our price $65.00 Princeton University has one of the most important...

A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Yachtsman's Eye: The Glen S. Foster Collection of Marine Paintings Edited by Alan Granby MA-283 Our price $75.00 The late Glen S. Foster, an avid Olympic-class sailor, assembled an excellent collection of American and...

Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris By Ulrich Leben MA-284 Our price $60.00 The Royal Free Drawing School, founded in Paris in 1766, trained a number of highly...

Impressions of New York: Prints from the New York Historical Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society By Marilyn Symmes MA-285 Our price $50.00 The print collection at the New-York Historical Society is highly regarded for the depth and breadth of its...

Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt By Jay E. Cantor and Pamela A. Ivinski MA-286 Paper covers Our price $38.00 In the years before and after the turn of the twentieth century the great pastel artist Mary...

Directory of European Porcelain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Directory of European Porcelain By Ludwig Danckert MA-287 Our price $75.00 This enormous compendium greatly expands and revises that first published in English more than twenty years ago and reprinted many times since. This...

Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life By Martha M. Evans MA-288 Our price $45.00 Hirst is notable not only for being one of a very few women artists to paint trompe I'oeil still lifes of exceedingly high...

The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Furniture Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1850-2000/From Michael Thonet to Marcel Wanders By Luca Dosi Delfini et al. MA-289 Our price $110.00 This fine and decorative arts museum in the Netherlands has a...

Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: Volume 1, 1826-1925 General editor, David B. Dearinger MA-290 Our price $95.00 Founded in 1826 the National Academy of Design in New York City is...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection"; to February 6.* ...

Antiques.(Americans saving their national memory)
January 1, 2005... To rescue from the dust and obscurity of private repositories such important documents, as are liable to be lost or destroyed by the indifference or neglect of those into whose hands they may have fallen, will be a primary object of our...

A history of the New-York Historical Society.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... In February 1867 carriages colliding at the intersection of Third Avenue and Thirteenth Street mortally wounded a bystander characterized by Harper's New Monthly Magazine as "the oldest living thing in the city of New York." (1) The victim's...

Nineteenth-century American paintings.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... As one of the nation's great museum repositories of nineteenth-century American painting, the New-York Historical Society has few equals as to the depth and richness of its holdings of portraits, genre scenes, and landscape paintings. Brimming...

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century family silver.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... In 1895 George C. McWhorter (1822-1902) presented the New-York Historical Society with a silver cann (Pl. I) once owned by his great-grandfather, the Presbyterian minister and patriot Alexander McWhorter (1734-1807). Although made by the...

Witness to history: furniture and historic relics.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... On April 29, 1789, the United States Congress finalized details for the inauguration of George Washington as the nation's first president, scheduled to take place the following day. Central to the deliberation was the placement and number of...

Prints, photographs, and architectural records.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... The New-York Historical Society's Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections is more familiarly known as the print room. Its holdings in every way complement those in the museum (art and artifacts) and the library (books,...

Collectors' legacies.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... The New-York Historical Society's museum collection, which numbers in excess of fifty thousand items, has grown steadily during the past two centuries through many donations and a few significant purchases. The collections from which these...

A selection of European paintings and objects.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... Through selected European objects in the collection of the New-York Historical Society one can chart the aspirations and taste of the citizens of New Netherland and then of New Yorkers. In an assertion of identity and then a quest for...

Children's toys.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... Appealing to the imagination of children of all ages, the toy collection of the New-York Historical Society offers a miniature window into nineteenth-century American family life. The approximately three thousand objects that constitute the...

The work of Tiffany Studios.(The NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 200 years)
January 1, 2005... In June 2004 the New-York Historical Society unveiled the installation of a series of five leaded stained-glass windows depicting the Good Shepherd (Pl. V), originally created for the chapel of the Stony Wold Sanatorium in the Adirondack...

Calendar of shows.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... January 7-9, 2005. Fort Lauderdale, FL. FORT LAUDERDALE ANTIQUES WORLD 2005. Greater Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316. Show hours: Friday, 12-8pm; Saturday, 12-7pm; Sunday, 12-6pm; Admission: $8;...

An Anglo-American collaboration.(Design notes)
January 1, 2005... There were a number of positive outgrowths of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, held in London's Hyde Park in 1851. Not only was the enormous and innovative glass structure (called the Crystal Palace) in which it was...