The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2004

The summer of Hassam.(Current and Coming)
July 1, 2004... Were he alive to enjoy it, the brilliant painter and astute marketer Childe Hassam would be basking in the glory of a triumvirate of special exhibitions of his art organized at various institutions in Connecticut to complement the enormous...

American quilts.(Current and Coming)
July 1, 2004... Sewing has long been an activity for American women, who were taught all manner of the needle arts during their childhood. A critical part of a girl's education in this discipline was learning how to stitch letters so she could work her...

Impressionism and modernism in Maine.(Current and Coming)
July 1, 2004... Like their counterparts who spent summers at the various art colonies in Connecticut, another group of artists discovered an impressive landscape on the tiny island of Monhegan, off the coast of southern Maine, during the summer of 1903. This...

Museum accessions.
July 1, 2004... Shortly before her death in February 1816, Everarda Catharina Sophia Roberts Morris (nee van Braam Houckgeest) decided to have her wishes for the disposition of her personal affects recorded. A surviving handwritten memorandum, probably...

Foundling Museum.(Report from Europe)(The Foundling Hospital)
July 1, 2004... In early eighteenth-century London, about a thousand babies a year were abandoned. In 1739 the Foundling Hospital was founded by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram (who made his fortune by establishing trading posts in the...

Cleopatra.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The real Cleopatra VII was queen of Egypt at the height of the Roman Empire, the lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and committed suicide in 30 BC following her military defeat at Actium. The Egyptians believed in immortality, which...

This summer at Waddesdon.(Report from Europe)
July 1, 2004... In 1874 Baron Ferdinand Rothschild purchased the Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, from George Charles Spencer-Churchill, eighth duke of Marlborough. At the time it was an agricultural property, but the baron planned...

A brace of Soane shows.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Contrasting aspects of Sir John Soane's activities and interests are the subjects of two exhibitions in Britain this summer. The first, "Hooked on Books": The Library of Sir John Soane, Architect, 1753-1837, is on view at the Weston Gallery of...

Compo.(Books about Antiques)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Composition ornament--compo to the initiate--was used by the ancient Egyptians to embellish mummy cases and furniture, then by Europeans in the Middle Ages to beef up paintings, in the Italian Renaissance to decorate picture frames, and by...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Father of Modern Japanese Design"; to August 1.* HUNTSVILLE Huntsville...

Antiques.
July 1, 2004... When will they speak, or stir? They wait for you To recollect that, while it lived, the past Was a rushed present, fretful and unsure. Richard Wilbur, "This Pleasing Anxious Being," Mayflies: New Poems and Translations, 2000 As the...

Emile Jacques Ruhlmann, art deco designer.
July 1, 2004... Though the French art deco designer Emile Jacques Ruhlmann (1) (Fig. 2) is today best known for his luxurious, costly, and frequently extravagant furniture, he was in fact, a full-fledged interior designer--an ensemblier who was both able and...

Ceramics from University City, Missouri.
July 1, 2004... Between 1909 and 1914 an international faculty of ceramic artists worked in an art academy and porcelain works in University City, Missouri, on the western outskirts of Saint Louis. The leader was Taxile Doat, whose fame in the United States...

Childe Hassam: patterns of appreciation.(painter)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... Childe Hassam (Fig. 1) was a prolific pioneer of American impressionism. (1) Trained first in Boston as a watercolorist and illustrator, he learned oil painting at several schools and through contact with a number of artists. His New England...

History in towns: Deadwood, South Dakota.
July 1, 2004... The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Main Street (see Pl. III), the principal commercial thoroughfare, snakes down the ravine cut by the Whitewood and Deadwood creeks....

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... July 4 & Labor Day. Pound Ridge, NY. ANTIQUES & FARMERS HOLIDAY MARKETS, 9am-5pm. 40 dealers, outside, barbecued lunch. $2 admission. Merritt, exit 35, left 4 miles, see sign. Or 684, exit 4, east on 172, see signs. Town-wide Yard Sales (about...

Clearing house.(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... Rates: $130.00 per single insertion for 25 words. $115.00 per issue under contract for 6 months per year. $100.00 per issue under contract for 12 consecutive months. $3.50 per additional word. Deadline for the September issue is July 21,...

English lighting devices.(Design Notes)
July 1, 2004... More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation. Such was the case with the late Price Glover who made his livelihood crisscrossing the Atlantic as a pilot for...