The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2007

A Gloucester duo.(Current and coming)
July 1, 2007... Appropriately for a summer exhibition, a group of fifty works by the painters Fitz Henry Lane and Mary Blood Mellen have been brought together in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where for a time both artists lived and painted. On view at the Cape...

Folk art in Pennsylvania.(Current and coming)
July 1, 2007... The often brilliantly colored examples of folk art created in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are immensely varied--the work of immigrant craftsmen and other artists who drew heavily on their European, particularly...

Museum accessions.(New York State Historical Association; Fenimore Art Museum)
July 1, 2007... Few places are as lovely for a summer idyll as the area around Cooperstown in upstate New York. Nestled at the foot of Otsego Lake at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and surrounded by woodlands and hillsides covered with wild berries...

Collecting sisters.(Report from Europe)(Gwendoline and Margaret Davies)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Gwendoline Davies (1882-1951) and her sister Margaret (1884-1963) were raised in rural Wales in a family with a considerable fortune but no tradition of art collecting. They were educated at home by a governess, Jane Blaker, whose brother Hugh...

Capodimonte porcelain.(Report from Europe)(Royal Fragility: The Royal Factories of Capodimonte and Naples)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... In 1738, nearly thirty years after Augustus II, called Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony, founded the first European hard-paste porcelain factory in Meissen, his granddaughter Maria Amalia married Charles de Bourbon, king of Naples and...

Dutch portraits.(Report from Europe)(Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Following its independence from Spain in 1581, the Dutch Republic experienced a golden age of unprecedented wealth. The emerging middle class of merchants and entrepreneurs became important patrons of the arts, and one way of establishing and...

Continental earthenware.(Report from Europe)(White Series: Ceramics, Birth of an Industry at the Heart of Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... This year the city of Luxembourg is a European Capital of Culture, a designation originated by the European Council of Ministers in 1985 and now overseen by the European Union to allow chosen locales an opportunity to showcase their cultural...

Painting New Hampshire.(Books about antiques)(Consuming Visions: Art and Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850-1900)
July 1, 2007... The pristine wilderness of New Hampshire, particularly the region that surrounds the White Mountains, was a beacon to nineteenth-century artists and writers, who described the alluring natural scenery in words and pictures. As the region became...

Calendar.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Classic New Mexico, 1898-1950: Paintings from Valley Collections"; to September 23. [??] "Views of Edo Japan: Prints...

Antiques.(The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America)
July 1, 2007... We have it in our power to begin the world over again... the birthday of a new world is at hand. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 On January 10, 1776, one of the most remarkable political pamphlets in the history of English writing...

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: the first 116 years.
July 1, 2007... For 116 years, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) (1) and its forty-four state societies have influenced the historical landscape of the United States through the restoration and preservation of scores of buildings...

Pioneers in historic preservation.(the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America)
July 1, 2007... Article II of the constitution of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA), written in 1891, the first year of the society's existence, defines the organization's objectives. The dictum holds a prominent place in the...

Treasure houses of the Colonial Dames.
July 1, 2007... Women have long been the stewards of the memory-laden heirlooms within their houses, sharing intimate associations and carefully instructing members of the next generation about historical significance and traditional uses while enlisting...

Vernacular architecture.(Colonial architecture )
July 1, 2007... This selection of buildings owned by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) encompasses the range of American vernacular architecture from roughly 1700 to 1900. Their distribution across the continental United States...

A precious legacy of furniture.(Winterthur Museum and Country Estate)
July 1, 2007... The furnished historic house is a type of museum that exists in greater abundance in the United States than anywhere else. It says a great deal about our ideals that these highly individualistic museum environments are so diverse and widely...

Extraordinary furniture discoveries.(National Society of the Colonial Dames of America)
July 1, 2007... Search and discovery are a connoisseur's passion and the way historians learn. Nothing beats turning up a treasure in one of the small underexposed house museums scattered around the country. These are the places where the nation's patrimony...

A gracious way of life.(The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America)
July 1, 2007... The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) preserves a wide array of properties in the United States for their associations with historic figures, their architectural significance, and many other reasons. The NSCDA's...

"Mementos of bygone days: portraits.(National Society of the Colonial Dames of America; collections )
July 1, 2007... In the more than one hundred years since its founding, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) has collected, preserved, and interpreted the nation's fine arts as tokens of the past capable of revealing significant...

"Healthful and intelligent information": paintings and drawings.(National Society of the Colonial Dames of America art collections)
July 1, 2007... In some instances, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) acquired works of art focusing on the history of a people or region, rather than works that tell stories about specific individuals and their contributions. ...

Calendar of shows.(antiques)(Calendar)
July 1, 2007... Through November 10. Newport, RI. "THE LOOK! DORIS DUKE'S DAY & EVENING WEAR." Rough Point, the home of heiress Doris Duke, features a magnificent collection of European art, Chinese porcelains, and Flemish tapestries. "The Look! Doris Duke's...

Furniture restoration.(Design notes)
July 1, 2007... The London cabinetmakers John McLean and Son manufactured and sold furniture beginning in the late eighteenth century, and McLean himself was a subscriber to the 1803 edition of Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary. The firm became known for...