The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2003

An American art colony. .
July 1, 2003... At the turn of the twentieth century American painters, like their French counterparts, left their urban studios in the summer in favor of bucolic settings with captivating scenery for them to paint en plein air: Once American artists found a...

A major expansion in Salem, Massachusetts. (Current and Coming).
July 1, 2003... The history of the venerable Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is as fascinating as the diverse and extraordinary collections housed within its many walls. However, its mergers with other institutions over the course of more than...

Books in the Renaissance. (Current and Coming).
July 1, 2003... Before the invention of printing, books were produced entirely by hand by a series of painters, calligraphers, and binders. Many of these manuscripts were embellished with exquisite, brilliantly colored miniature paintings aptly called...

Museum accessions.
July 1, 2003... In 1904 Childe Hassam traveled to Portland, Oregon, to install a mural he had painted for the study in the house of his friend Charles Erskine Scott Wood, a prominent Portland lawyer; poet, art collector, and painter himself. Together the two...

Queries.
July 1, 2003... On April 18, 1838, an act of the New York State Legislature incorporated the 'Green-Wood Cemetery for the purpose of establishing a public burial ground in the City of Brooklyn." David Bates Douglass, a civil engineer, was chosen as its...

Samuel Pepys. (Report from Europe).
July 1, 2003... Samuel Pepys was born in 1633, the son of a tailor. In 1656 he entered the household of Sir Edward Montagu, who later became first earl of Sandwich, and because of Montagu's patronage he was able to improve his lot considerably. Pepys became a...

Public Catalogue Foundation. (Report from Europe).
July 1, 2003... Until now no single catalogue has existed of the holdings of oil paintings in all the public museums in the United Kingdom. The Public Catalogue Foundation, formed earlier this year, aims to fill this void, location by location. The board of...

Focus on silver. (Report from Europe).
July 1, 2003... Louisa Courtauld (nee Ogler) was born in London into a Huguenot family of silk weavers in 1729. She married Samuel Courtauld I, who was a member of a London dynasty of goldsmiths. The couple had seven children and together ran a successful...

Research at Waddesdon. (Report from Europe).
July 1, 2003... In keeping with the aim of presenting both a popular and an academic face, a new library and research facilities have been created at Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild property in Buckinghamshire. It contains a working library as well as a...

The road to impressionism. (Report from Europe).
July 1, 2003... Josephine Coffin Chevallier and John Bowes were married in 1852. Initially they lived in France, and as a wedding gift Bowes, an Englishman, bought his French bride the Chateau du Bany in Louveciennes, formerly the home of Louis XV's mistress...

Remington's nocturnes. (Books About Antiques).
July 1, 2003... Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, by Nancy K. Anderson with contributions by Williams C. Sharpe and Alexander Nemerov (National Gallery of Art with Princeton University Press, 800-777-4726), $49.95 (hardcovers). Frederic Remington...

Calendar: The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.
July 1, 2003... By Kathleen Luhrs Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Chinese Blue and White Porcelain: The Thaddeus Crenshaw Collection"; to August 17. * California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "The Artful Teapot:...

Antiques.
July 1, 2003... I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut--anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees--and practical; yes, and nearly barren of sentiment, I suppose--or poetry, in other...

History in towns: Stonington Borough, Connecticut.
July 1, 2003... Stonington Borough, part of the Town of Stonington in southeastern Connecticut, was first settled in 1753, a little more than a century after William Chesebrough (1594-1667) established a trading post at nearby Wequetequock Cove in 1649. Built...

Sarah Bixler's plates and flowerpots.
July 1, 2003... Absalom Bixler of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, gave his wife, Sarah, six redware flowerpots and two redware plates over the course of their marriage. The objects are all dated 1824, but evidence from church records, tax lists, and related...

Gilbert Munger's quest for distinction.
July 1, 2003... In mid-November 1872, during intensely cold snowstorms at the summit of the Sierra Nevada near Donner Pass, an aspiring landscape painter from Connecticut sketched alongside one of the nation's most illustrious artists. "I am now sketching this...

Decorative architectural elements on a Chinese house.
July 1, 2003... Recently the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, opened Yin Yu Tang, the house of a Chinese merchant's family that has been reassembled on the museum's grounds. It is a two-story nineteen-room structure built around 1800 in the...

Calendar of Shows.
July 1, 2003... Calendar of Shows for July 2003 July 4. Pound Ridge, NY. ANTIQUES & FARMER'S HOLIDAY MARKET, 9am-5pm. 40 dealers, outside, barbecued lunch. $2 admission, free parking. Merritt, exit 35, left 4 miles, see sign. Or 684, exit 4, east on 172,...

Anatomy of a room. (Design Notes).
July 1, 2003... The methods used to uncover physical evidence of what might have been used to embellish rooms in earlier times now include scientific analyses by a number of specialists who do much to eliminate or substantially reduce the role of guesswork An...