The Magazine Antiques articles from July 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from July 2008

Editor's letter.(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... A wise man of unimpeachable reputation, who also happens to be a dealer in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century American furniture, tells me that he is not at all discombobulated by the recent New York Times report of England's big antiques...

Photography--landscapes and streetscapes.(Current and coming)
July 1, 2008... This month a selection of works by the influential photographer Peter Henry Emerson will be on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, in an exhibition entitled The Old Order and the New: P. H. Emerson and Photography,...

The antithesis of the rural English landscape--street life in modern cities such as New York, Chicago, Moscow, and Paris--is the subject of a small photography show at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago.(Current and coming)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The antithesis of the rural English landscape--street life in modern cities such as New York, Chicago, Moscow, and Paris--is the subject of a small photography show at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Intended to serve as a thematic...

Another important event at the Chrysler Museum is the reinstallation of the first-floor gallery that houses the extraordinary group of early American furniture from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore from the collection of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman and the Kaufman Americana Foundation.(Current and coming)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Another important event at the Chrysler Museum is the reinstallation of the first-floor gallery that houses the extraordinary group of early American furniture from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore from the collection of George M....

Fantasy illustration.(Current and coming)(Flights into Fantasy: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration)
July 1, 2008... The rich and engaging field of children's book illustration has become an increasingly popular subject for publications, exhibitions, and even entire museums. The most recent example is Flights into Fantasy: The Kendra and Allan Daniel...

Gutenberg Bibles.(Current and coming)(Johann Gutenberg)
July 1, 2008... This summer the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City offers visitors a rare opportunity to examine all three of its Gutenberg Bibles side by side. The books were printed by Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johannes Fust in Mainz, Germany,...

Fraktur art of western Pennsylvania.(Museum accessions)
July 1, 2008... Fraktur is the term used in North America for the decorative and embellished documents that were produced mostly by teachers and ministers in German American settlements in Pennsylvania, but also in Maryland, New York, Virginia, North Carolina,...

Hadrian returns to Britain.(Report from Europe)
July 1, 2008... In AD 117, when Hadrian came to rule the Roman Empire, it encompassed an area stretching from northern Africa to Scotland and included a large area of the Middle East. Bigger than the present European Union, these lands shared a language,...

The Renaissance in Hungary.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Hadrian was not the only European ruler with a troublesome realm. Some fourteen hundred years later, Matthias Hunyadi (also known as Matthias I Corvinus), who was proclaimed king of Hungary in 1458, faced threats from the Turks and Venetians to...

Images of Saint Petersburg.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... An exhibition at the Hermitage's outpost in Amsterdam highlights the Russian museum's holdings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photography. Use of the new process was taken up enthusiastically by the imperial family, who appointed...

Boucher and Chardin.(Report from Europe)(Francois Boucher, Jean Simeon Chardin)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... French eighteenth-century paintings frequently tell a story or comment on manners and behavior. The pictures of both Francois Boucher and Jean Simeon Chardin, for example, illuminate aspects of social history by showing women in their private...

Discoveries.
July 1, 2008... Without preamble the caller said "a lady at the art museum said you will look at our jar." I explained to Susan (as we'll call her here) that appraisers charge for time like plumbers, and I asked her to describe it. "My husband's...

On books.(F. Luis Mora: America's First Hispanic Master - 1874-1940)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Between 1910 and 1930, F. Luis Mora was one of America's leading painters and illustrators. A student the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Art Students League in New York City, he was a protege of William Merritt Chase. His...

The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.(Calendar)
July 1, 2008... California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Imagining Christ"; to July 27. "Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science"; to August 31. * "Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the Camera"; to August 10. Redondo Beach...

Antiques.
July 1, 2008... In character Maine always was and still is a province by itself, distinctive from its neighboring States. The coastwise steamers... between its river ports and Boston, bring with the salt fish, lobsters, lumber, hay, and potatoes a special...

The innovative techniques and unusual materials of art nouveau jewelry.
July 1, 2008... The jewelry created in France, Belgium, and other parts of Europe by a select group of avant-garde artists at the close of the nineteenth century was revolutionary. It reinvigorated what had become a formulaic naturalism with new forms drawn...

Hope springs eternal, again.
July 1, 2008... Publicity and its evil twin, celebrity, have become such dominant features of modern life that it's easy to forget that those intertwined phenomena are scarcely modern developments, not even in the relatively benign world of high-style design....

Thomas Hope's costume of the Ancients and the painters George Cooke and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... The widely traveled and multitalented connoisseur Thomas Hope filled his Duchess Street mansion in London with the extensive ancient art collection he had acquired during his youthful travels between 1787 and 1795. (1) Pieces from his...

Showmanship and fantasy: the designs of James Mont.(What modern was)(Biography)
July 1, 2008... The world of fine decorative arts has been populated by many colorful characters, but only one who could have stepped out of the pages of Damon Runyon or--if your tastes run to less sentimental portrayers of the criminal underworld--Mario Puzo....

Early folk art collecting in Maine: its contributions to modernism.
July 1, 2008... Largely rural until the early twentieth century--its factory towns like Biddeford and Lewiston not withstanding--the state of Maine has served as both backdrop and inspiration to many significant episodes in the history of American art. The...

Ingenuity imitation: Pietre dure and its colorful progeny.
July 1, 2008... A major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this summer, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe, explores the wealth and scope of hardstone carving and mosaic inlay known as commessiti pietre ture...

Nantucket lightship and friendship baskets.(Design notes)
July 1, 2008... The nation of Nantucket" is how the American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described the island in his journal for the years 1847 and 1848. Located thirty miles off the coast of Massachusetts, Nantucket's remoteness enabled its...