The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2006

Siblings and their collections.(Current and coming)
July 1, 2006... Alfred Corning Clark was the only surviving child of Edward Clark, an attorney in Cooperstown, New York, who amassed a vast fortune though his partnership with the inventor of the continuous-stitch sewing machine, Isaac Singer. Alfred and his...

Expansion in Minneapolis.(Minneapolis Institute of Arts expands )(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Founded in 1883, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is one of the larger museums in the Midwest. With the opening last month of a wing designed by Michael Graves and Associates of Princeton, New Jersey, the museum has increased its gallery space...

A new initiative at the Frick Library.(Frick Art Reference Library)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Long regarded as one of the foremost libraries for the study of the history of art, the Frick Art Reference Library, founded in New York City in 1920, has recently formed the Center for the History of Collecting in America. The library is an...

Museum accessions.
July 1, 2006... The great French romantic painter Eugene Delacroix was an avid horseman, his intimate knowledge of the animal evident in his many works depicting them. In the 1820s he executed several small studies of wild horses, of which the one illustrated...

Islamic calligraphy.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... The Islamic devotion to calligraphy stems in part from the frequent references to writing in the Koran and the practice of making manuscript copies of the sacred book. The copyists approached their task with reverence and great attention to...

Two British landscapists.(John Constable and George Frederic Watts exhibits their paintings)
July 1, 2006... This summer exhibitions devoted to two very different styles of British landscape painting are on view. George Frederic Watts is best known for his portraits and allegorical works in a classical style, but he also produced many landscapes. The...

American toys and games.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... When European families first settled in the New World, among the things they brought with them were toys. These were a source of comfort and distraction for the children, and a commodity to present as gifts to the locals. The toy industry...

Calendar.(Calendar)
July 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Art & Tradition: Design at Wedgwood in the Twentieth Century"; to August 6.* [??] "Greene & Greene in...

Antiques.
July 1, 2006... ... so anxious is every one in Texas to give all strangers a favorable impression, that all statements as to the extreme profit and healthfulness of lands must be taken with a grain of allowance. We found it very difficult, without...

The Texas Governor's Mansion.(150th anniversary)
July 1, 2006... In the midst of the sprawling city of Austin, one of the fastest growing metropolitan centers in the United States, is a beautiful antebellum house that is the home of the governor of Texas (Fig. 1). Begun in 1854 and completed in 1856, the...

Rediscovering Fitz Henry Lane's View of Coffin's Beach on Cape Ann.(Biography)
July 1, 2006... Fitz Henry Lane (1) was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann but did not settle there permanently until 1848, "with a reputation fully established," as the early historian of Gloucester John James Babson (1809-1886) put it. (2) In the...

Salt-glazed stoneware at Temple Newsam House, Leeds.
July 1, 2006... Temple Newsam House in Leeds, England, has a rich history extending back to the Domesday Book in 1086, when the manor of Newsam (or Neuhusum), meaning "new houses," was first recorded. The property was bought in 1622 by Sir Arthur Ingram (1565...

The new Smithsonian American Art Museum.(reopens to public)
July 1, 2006... The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C., reopens to the public on July 1, along with its sister museum the National Portrait Gallery, as part of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture (see Fig. 1)....

Wardian cases: Adornments for Homes of Taste.(psychological effect of horticulture)
July 1, 2006... A plant, or a stand of flowers, is a constant source of pleasure in a room; it is a spring of sunshine, and its silent influence makes all the household more cheerful and better. So wrote Edward Sprague Rand (1834-1897), vice-president of...

The Kellogg menagerie of Civil War cartoons.( Kellogg Brothers Inc.)(Company overview)
July 1, 2006... Early in the nineteenth century, ownership of frameable prints in the United States was limited to the elite. However, by 1850 prints had become accessible to almost everyone, thanks to the introduction of lithography and the appearance of a...

Calendar of shows.
July 1, 2006... July 2. Centreville, Mich. MICHIGAN'S MASSIVE ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES MARKET. Show hours: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Upcoming show dates: August 6, October 1. Location: St. Joseph County, Grange Fairgrounds. For information: 715-526-9769,...

In the movies, museums, and your house.(Design notes)
July 1, 2006... There are some who make a sport out of exposing historical bloopers in movies set in earlier times. Indeed, one film Web site incorporates an entire section entitled "Goofs" (www.imdb.com/sections/goofs). Clearly some producers and directors...