The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2005

American paintings--an exhibition and gift.(Current and coming)
July 1, 2005... Works of art in the marketplace end up either on the walls of institutions, where they are accessible to the public, or tucked away in private collections sometimes to be shared with a wider audience during loan exhibitions. The latter is the...

Georg Jensen, sculptor turned silversmith.(Current and coming)(Georg Jensen Jewelry)
July 1, 2005... Silver hollowware and flatware made by Georg Jensen and members of the firm he founded in Copenhagen in 1904 has hit its stride in the marketplace. In January the Rowler collection of about eight hundred pieces was auctioned at Christies in New...

Daguerreotype portraits.(Current and coming)(Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes)
July 1, 2005... It has been estimated that in the mid-nineteenth century there were as many as ten thousand daguerreotype studios operating in the United States, although the process was only announced in 1839. Many of the photographs that have survived from...

Museum accessions.(Louisiana Purchase)
July 1, 2005... In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, adding more than eight hundred thousand square miles to the young United States at a cost of approximately fifteen million dollars. Ironically, last year the Thomas Jefferson...

Stubbs engravings.(Report from Europe)(The Engraved Work of George Stubbs )(Brief article)
July 1, 2005... George Stubbs is best known now for his paintings of animals, in particular horses. His paintings were frequently engraved, and it is this aspect of his work that will be highlighted in The Engraved Work of George Stubbs (1724-1806), an...

Nelson and Napoleon.(Report from Europe)(Napoleon Bonaparte and Admiral Horatio Nelson)(Brief article)
July 1, 2005... The rivalry between France and Britain that raged for many centuries reached fever pitch at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries when Napoleon Bonaparte had designs not only on his own country but also on the rest...

Memling portraits.(Report from Europe)(Hans Memling)(Brief article)
July 1, 2005... Hans Memling was born in Germany in the 1430s, but is known as a Flemish painter. He moved to Flanders early in his career and in 1465 was made a citizen of Bruges, where he spent the rest of his life. Little is known about his early career,...

Belgian art nouveau.(Report from Europe)( Art Nouveau and Design, 1830-1958 )(Brief article)
July 1, 2005... Ouite a few cities lay claim to being the birthplace of art nouveau. As one of them, Brussels can certainly take credit for being the midwife. The decorative arts have always flourished in Flanders, and to mark the 175th anniversary of the...

Mount Desert Island.(Books about antiques)(Maine Cottages: Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert )(Book review)
July 1, 2005... It is fitting that Fred Lincoln Savage of Northeast Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, should have shaped the island's architecture. Starting as a carpenter in his hometown, he designed some three hundred houses, most of them on the island,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; to September 25.* California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "For Your Approval: Oil...

Antiques.(colonization of the indians)
July 1, 2005... The "West" is the great word of our history. The "Westerner" has been the type and master of our American life. Woodrow Wilson, "The Course of American History," Address to the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, May 16, 1895 The...

Pleasant Days: "a millionaire's dream castle".(Joseph Paul Day)
July 1, 2005... From 1911 until 1944, Pleasant Days (Pl. I) was the home of Joseph Paul Day (see Fig. 1), a multimillionaire real estate auctioneer who, in the course of his career, "sold more real-estate in and around New York City than any other single human...

Rockwell Kent's reverse paintings on glass.(Cover story)
July 1, 2005... A brief but dazzling chapter in the history of American art began during World War I, when several artists explored the many conceptual and visual possibilities of glass as a support for paint. (1) The iconoclastic Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968),...

Sister act: the Overbeck pottery, 1911-1955.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2005... At the beginning of the last century, the arts and crafts movement in England and the United States was encouraging a shift in the making of high-quality decorative arts, moving the location of these endeavors from large manufactories to modest...

Willard Metcalf in the Southwest.(Essay)
July 1, 2005... The American impressionist Willard Leroy Metcalf (Fig. 7) is best known as a chronicler of the moods and seasons of the New England countryside. (1) His nearly fifty-year career was quite varied, however, and demonstrates broad interests and...

Living with antiques: New England and European antiques at home in Connecticut.
July 1, 2005... An inspiring example of American-French rapprochement began eight years ago in the hills of Connecticut's Litchfield County. On Memorial Day weekend in 1997, Jeffrey Morgan, a Connecticut Yankee by birth and breeding, and Robert Couturier, a...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... July 29-31, 2005. Virginia Beach, VA. THE 38TH VIRGINIA BEACH ANTIQUES SHOW. Expanding to over 125 highly-juried dealers from 22 states and Canada, this prestigious event features the finest in American, European and Asian antiques with...

Dresser wallpapers.(Design notes)(Christopher Dresser )
July 1, 2005... The prolific and influential designer Christopher Dresser has been the subject of several recent exhibitions and monographs. He is well known not only for his many designs for furniture, ceramics, glass, floor coverings, metalware, textiles,...