The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2002

Two collections at Colonial Williamsburg. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Some collectors only stop acquiring when their houses are suitably furnished; others focus more narrowly and can therefore always manage to find room for one more purchase. Two collections on view at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in...

California impressionists, a conundrum. (Current and Coming).('In and Out of California: Travels of American Impressionists' exhibit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Why are California artists who painted in the impressionist style considered members of a regional school and therefore not examined within the larger context of an international movement embraced from Australia to Russia? This is one of the...

Photography in Deerfield. (Current and Coming).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Much has been written about Deerfield, Massachusetts, as a hub of the American arts and crafts movement, particularly as the home of the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework and the Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts. During the...

Museum accessions.(George II dinner service on view at London's Somerset House)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... In an intriguing story of intertwining histories, 120 pieces from a magnificent dinner service ordered for George III have found their way to Britain. Some 80 examples will be on view at Somerset House in London until the end of this year....

Exploring southeastern Pennysylvania.(retail shops for antiques)(Brief Article)(Directory)
June 1, 2002... BERWYN (1) Surrey Consignment Shop 28 Bridge Avenue, 19312. A Non-profit Antique Consignment Shop Benefits Surrey Services for Seniors; china, silver, glassware, furniture, vintage linens, lamps, jewelry, etc. "Treasures from the...

Fabric of vision. (Report from Europe).('Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting' exhibit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... It may seem obvious, but when the human figure is portrayed in art, it is either clothed or naked. In either case, many meanings and emotions can be conveyed. Paintings of the Virgin Mary, for example, universally depict her in attire that...

Queen's Gallery. (Report from Europe).('Royal Treasures: A Golden Jubilee Celebration' exhibit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A number her of events have scheduled this year to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. One of the most significant was the reopening last month of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, after a closure of...

Turner at Petworth. (Report from Europe).(Joseph Mallord William Turner exhibition)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Joseph Mallord William Turner spent much of his time in the 1820s and 1830s at Petworth House in West Sussex, the estate of George O'Brien Wyndham, the third earl of Egremont. The earl commissioned many works from Turner, and twenty of those...

Somerset House and its history. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... The first Somerset House in London was begun by Edward Seymour; the first earl of Hertford and duke of Somerset, after he was made lord protector over Edward VI in 1547 and decided to demonstrate his new power by building a palace that rivaled...

Jan van Eyck. (Report from Europe).('Jan van Eyck: Early Netherlandish Painting and Southern Europe' exhibit)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Jan van Eyck and his broth-Hubert were among the first artists to work in oils. Little is known about their early lives, although it is certain that Jan van Eyck worked in The Hague from 1422 probably until January 1425 for John of Bavaria,...

Inspired by Italy. (Report from Europe).('Dutch Landscape Painting, 1600-1700' exhibition)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... For more than two centuries Netherlandish artists made the difficult journey across the Alps or by sea around the Iberian peninsula to Italy. The attraction of the antique and the High Renaissance were irresistible, and the list of painters who...

The first Cecils. (Books About Antiques).('Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils')
June 1, 2002... The cover of this collection of essays about the first Cecils shows William Cecil, Lord Burghley astride a small mule. This was one of the few recreations he allowed himself while in the lifelong service of Elizabeth I as, successively,...

Calendar.
June 1, 2002... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "From Tavern to Tabernacle: Decorated British and European Pewter, 1600-1800"; to September 8. LOS...

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. (Antiques).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 1643 The eighteenth century in England was above all a period of rapid economic expansion that stretched the social fabric. Luxury and refinement seemed within the reach of even the...

Ernest Gimson as a designer.
June 1, 2002... Ernest William Gimson (P1. I) was one of the most inspiring and influential designers of the British arts and crafts movement. His contemporary, the architect William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931), described his furniture as "one kind of...

Silver in the Portland Art Museum.(English silverware; Portland, Oregon)
June 1, 2002... There is a long-standing tradition of collecting English silver in Portland, Oregon. The largest museum in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Art Museum, has one of the finest collections of silver on the West Coast, due in large part to...

The artificial grotto in Britain.
June 1, 2002... The British Isles, notorious for being cold and damp, might seem the last place where one would wish to build an artificial grotto--a man-made recess or structure, subterranean or above ground, constructed and decorated so as to imitate a...

A new chronology for English walnut - veneered furniture 1670 - 1740.
June 1, 2002... It has long been recognized that the construction of English case furniture during the so-called age of walnut followed a discernible pattern of development that can be used to approximately date individual pieces. Thus, we know that bun feet...

The Ashmolean, a collection of collections.(Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England)
June 1, 2002... The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is housed in an impressive neo-Grecian building designed by Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) in 1845, which remains one of the most imposing buildings in Oxford. It was built as the University...

Calendar of Shows.
June 1, 2002... The Magazine ANTIQUES, Calendar of Shows for June 2002 May 30, 31. June 1, 2. Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York. 11th ANNUAL HAMPTON'S SPRING GARDEN ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE -- for garden, porch, patio, architecturals & pool house- "A Jean...

A new service for dating English furniture. (Design Notes).
June 1, 2002... Account books for English furniture makers and their patrons survive, but primarily only for the grandest and most prolific makers who were commissioned to supply affluent owners with furniture for their palatial houses in London and the...