The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2001

A Worcester porcelain celebration.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2001... In 1751 the medical doctor John Wall, one of England's earliest and most persuasive venture capitalists, enlisted the financial backing of thirteen gentlemen, among them a printer, a glover, a merchant, and a goldsmith, successfully raising...

Washington Square, New York City, in art.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2001... Almost every major city has its cultural heart--a quarter where established and would-be artists, writers, composers, and actors live and work: For many years in New York City this was Washington Square in Greenwich Village. In its...

New Orleans gardens.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2001... Much has been written about New Orleans and the fine and decorative arts created in this, the most French of all American cities. By contrast, the history of landscape architecture there is less well known. The Historic New Orleans Collection...

Nineteenth-century French jewelry.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The most comprehensive account of nineteenth-century French jewelry was written by the distinguished connoisseur and creative jeweler Henri Vever (1854-1942). It was published in three volumes between 1906 and 1908 under the title La Bijouterie...

Rodin remembered.(Report from Europe)(Auguste Rodin)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Auguste Rodin was born in Paris on November 12, 1840. Three times he failed the entrance exam for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and eventually he studied and worked in a number of sculpture studios. Then, in 1875, he set off for Italy,...

June fairs in London.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
June 1, 2001... The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar takes place at the Park Lane Hotel from June 15 to June 18. The subject of the loan exhibition is a recently formed private European collection of Vincennes and Sevres porcelain. Some twentyfive...

Museum news in Britain.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Three developments merit noting this month. The first is the opening on June 20 of a gallery of early twentieth-century art in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University. The museum has extensive holdings of works by...

Sir Stanley Spencer.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Sir Stanley Spencer was one of the most individual artists in twentieth-century Britain--or anywhere. He was born in Cookham, Berkshire, in 1891 and studied at the Slade School in London from 1908 until 1912, where his contemporaries included...

Books about antiques: Edinburgh cabinetmakers' price books.(The Edinburgh Cabinet and Chair Makers' Books of Prices, 1805-1825)(Book Review)
June 1, 2001... Edinburgh cabinetmakers' price books Before Amazon.com and desktop publishing there were the printing shop down the street and a lot of cast-lead letters. Producing a book was a craft and selling it was a slow and uncertain challenge....

Queries.(upcoming exhibitions)
June 1, 2001... THE CHARLES J. CONNICK Stained Glass Foundation is organizing an exhibition of the work of Charles J. Connick Associates (1912-1986), a leading American maker of stained glass in the Gothic revival tradition. In 1912 Charles J. Connick...

Calendar: the arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.(Calendar)
June 1, 2001... Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection"; to June 24. * California LOS ANGELES Autry Museum of Western Heritage: "John James...

Antiques: we remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude nature; and by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.(industrialization in Britain)
June 1, 2001... Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times," Edinburgh Review, 1829 The distinctiveness, even uniqueness, of the British has long been taken for granted by foreigners and natives alike. They have focused on a number of themes they believe to have...

Eighteenth-century British draftsmen abroad.
June 1, 2001... When Charles Rogers (1711-1784), a connoisseur and collector, published A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings in 1778, he stated that "it must be unquestionably allowed that Drawing is the Fountain from which all the imitative Arts...

Cottier and Company, art furniture makers.
June 1, 2001... The term "Art Furniture" was coined by the English designer and art critic Charles Locke Eastlake (1836-1906) in 1868 and came to signify the response of commercial furniture manufacturers to the reforms of mid-Victorian designers and critics....

The Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, 1857.
June 1, 2001... A major concern of mid-Victorian Britain was the relationship between art and industry. One of the key moments in this debate, often overlooked, was the Art Treasures Exhibition held in Manchester in 1857. The posthumous publication of Francis...

W.A.S. Benson a pioneer of modern design rediscovered.(Biography)
June 1, 2001... In the summer of 2000 the Fine Art Society on New Bond Street, London, mounted a selling exhibition entitled Pioneers of Design, adapting the title of Nikolaus Pevsner's 1936 classic book. (1) It celebrated the work of three of the most...

Rodmarton Manor, the English arts and crafts movement at its best.(Biography)
June 1, 2001... Rodmarton Manor, about six miles southwest of the English market town of Cirencester in the Cotswolds, was designed in 1909 by the arts and crafts architect Ernest Barnsley for Claud and Margaret Biddulph. It was traditionally built more or...

North country quilts: an English tradition.
June 1, 2001... Except for the Lake District and York, the northern part of England is not a tourist mecca. Visitors to Britain often simply bypass the northern counties or at best have a fleeting glimpse of them on a journey between London and Edinburgh. Yet...

Travel guide.(A-W)(antique dealers)(Directory)
June 1, 2001... ALABAMA Gadsden DUNCAN HOUSE ANTIQUES, 247 South Fourth St., 35901. Charming Williamsburg house and dependency filled with 18th -and 19th-century investment quality antique furniture and accessories. Open by appointment or chance....

Calendar of shows June 2001.(Calendar)
June 1, 2001... May 31 - June 3. Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY. 10TH ANNUAL HAMPTON'S SPRING GARDEN ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE "A Jean Sinenberg Prestige Show." For garden, porch, patio, architectural & pool house. Bridgehampton Community House, Montauk Highway....

Furniture restoration in England.(Design Notes)(British Antique Furniture Restorers' Association)
June 1, 2001... Edward James (1907-1984), an Englishman, was well ahead of his time. In 1912, at the age of five, he inherited his family's beautiful countryseat, West Dean, in Chichester. He is notable for having established one of the greatest private...