The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2002

A new museum in Santa Fe. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Santa Fe is a small city in which culture looms large. In addition to its world famous opera there are ten museums and more than two hundred art galleries and antiques shops. On July 21, there will be eleven museums with the opening of the...

Vienna in the Berkshires. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Under the rubric "the Vienna Project," eleven cultural institutions located in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts are sponsoring a series of events this summer that range from operatic, choral, and theatrical to film screenings and museum...

Redoute's flowers. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... When John James Audubon visited Paris in 1828 he claimed that the highlight of his stay was meeting Pierre Joseph Redoute, whose work he greatly admired. Redoute is a well-known figure in the world of botanical art, so it is surprising that...

A regional museum expands. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Old Lyme, Connecticut, on the Lieutenant River, was the site of an important art colony for American impressionist painters. It has also inspired artists of many other kinds thanks to its natural beauty. The art colony grew up around the...

Museum accessions.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Catskills, Lake George, Singing Beach, Narragansett. It is July, and so there seems no more appropriate way to introduce the collection of American paintings featured here than with views of these summer vacation spots painted by...

Girtin at the Tate. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Joseph Mallord William Turner and Thomas Girtin were both born in 1775, and their careers were in parallel until Girtin's death at the age of twenty-seven. Turner was well aware of his colleague's prodigious talents, for he remarked that "if...

Van Gogh's letters. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Vincent van Gogh was a prolific, even compulsive, letter writer, and his correspondence has become vital in understanding his life and work. Changes in his handwriting often signaled his moods, and his artistic and literary references showed an...

The Wernher collection finds a home. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Sir Julius Wernher was born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1850 and came to England at the age of twenty-one. His business aptitude was recognized first by the diamond merchant Theodore Porges in Paris and then by Jules Porges in London. The latter...

The queen of Sheba. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Southern Arabia has a long history of myths and legends the best known internationally being that of the queen of the kingdom of Saba (or Sheba). According to biblical sources, she led a caravan laden with gold, spices, and precious stones to...

Elegant lighting in the nineteenth century. (Books About Antiques).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Nineteenth Century Lighting: Argand, Sinumbra, and Solar Lamps, by Gerald T. Gowitt (Schiffer Publishing, 800-288-2129), $69.95 (hardcovers). Between the Neanderthal's bundle of burning faggots and the blinding blue glare of the modern...

Calendar.
July 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures. Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus"; to July 14. * California LONG BEACH...

Highland House Publishers.('Hornors Blue Book')
July 1, 2002... HORNORS BLUE BOOK 372 PAGES OF PHILADELPHIA ANTIQUES FULLY INDEXED Nearly sixty years after it was published, Hornor's Blue Book stands alone as the most eloquent and erudite classic on Philadelphia Chippendale furniture. Rigorously...

Antiques.(Captain John Brown)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2002... These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown," 1859 This month marks the thirtieth consecutive year of Wendell Garrett's editorials in this...

John Brown's grave and other Civil War themes in William T. Richards's Adirondack landscapes.
July 1, 2002... No eyewitness pictorial record is known of the execution of John Brown (1800-1859) for treason on December 2, 1859, at Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia). In October the radical abolitionist had led a raid on the United States Arsenal...

Emblems of honor: congressional medals of war and peace.
July 1, 2002... As medals are among the surest monuments of history, as well as muniments of individual distinction, there should be given to them, besides intrinsic value and durability of material, the utmost grace of design, with the highest finish in...

The early artistic jewelry of Louis C. Tiffany.
July 1, 2002... Louis Comfort Tiffany, working during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is the acknowledged master of virtually every decorative medium. He and his highly skilled craftsmen and women created stained-glass windows, leaded-glass...

Living with antiques: Temple Heights Columbus, Mississippi.
July 1, 2002... The story of the house known as Temple Heights provides in microcosm the history of the settlement of the region called the Old Southwest. Including roughly two-thirds of present-day northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama, the area...

Calendar of shows.
July 1, 2002... Calendar of Shows July 2002 July 10-14. Brimfield, MA. BRIMFIELD'S HEART-O-THE-MART. Opens, 9 am Wednesday July 10th for over 600 dealers of antiques & collectibles from across the USA and abroad. Part of Brimfield's famous 4000 exhibitor...

Victorian and early twentieth-century lighting. (Design Notes).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Far West abounds in buildings that date from the turn of the twentieth century, ranging from large Victorian mansions to pared-down bungalows. These buildings are sought after but often need a great deal of restoration to bring them back to...