The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2004

Constable and "skying".
June 1, 2004... In October 1821 John Constable wrote to his dearest friend John Fisher that he had been engaged in a "good deal of skying," by which he meant making oil sketches of clouds under various weather conditions. In the exhibition catalogue Constable...

From the Islamic world to Renaissance Italy.
June 1, 2004... As Catherine Hess so ably points out in the exhibition catalogue The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance, globalization is not a twenty-first-century concept. Indeed, since the eighth century...

Hopper in Maine.
June 1, 2004... Reviewing art exhibitions in New York City for the February 1926 issue of the Arts, Lloyd Goodrich wrote that in one of them, House by the Railroad, painted by Edward Hopper in 1925, was probably "the most striking.... Without attempting to be...

Russian icons.
June 1, 2004... The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Russia have been labeled the golden age of icon painting. At that time, Orthodox Christians venerated icons, seeing them as vehicles for spiritual communication with saints and other holy figures. In the...

Art deco furniture.
June 1, 2004... Emile Jacques Ruhlmann was one of the most innovative and talented designers of the art deco period. He created furniture that is greatly admired for its excellent craftsmanship and distinctive look, attained through the use of sumptuous and...

Museum accessions.
June 1, 2004... Between about 1790 and the late 1820s, potters around Leeds and nearby towns in Yorkshire were producing charming teapots like the one illustrated above. Made of highly fired feldspathic white stoneware with elaborate molded decoration and...

Year of the garden.
June 1, 2004... This year the Royal Horticultural Society in London marks its bicentenary. It was founded as the Horticultural Society of London to collect information about plants and to encourage improvements in horticultural practices. Among the seven...

Meissen for the czars.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Meissen porcelain manufactory was established in Meissen near Dresden in 1710 by Augustus II (the Strong) of Poland, who was also elector of Saxony. In 1697 Augustus had been elected king of Poland, but lost the throne in 1706. Czar Peter I...

Art Fortnight London.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... In a rare example of cooperation among three sectors of the art community, the first Art Fortnight London takes place between June 21 and July 5. Art dealers, museums, and auction houses have united to hold a series of lectures, exhibitions,...

Jewelry gallery in Paris.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... The Musee des arts decoratifs in Paris has a new gallery in which to display its permanent collection of jewelry for the first time. Sponsored by Rolex, the gallery opens on June 17. The museum's collection comprises about twenty-five...

Art from Islamic lands.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... Islamic art and architecture in a rich variety of styles have flourished since the seventh century. Examples from two major collections of Islamic art are on view in the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House in London until August 22. Entitled...

Exploring the Delaware River Valley.(Directory)
June 1, 2004... DELAWARE GREENVILLE 1 Somerville-Manning Gallery Beck's Mill, 2nd Floor, 101 Stone Block Row, 19807. A fine arts gallery in historic Breck's Mill on the Brandywine River specializing in late 19th and 20th century art including the...

Books about antiques.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Royal gardeners Alan Titchmarsh is the author of Royal Gardeners: The History of Britain's Royal Gardens, more than thirty books about gardening, four novels, and an autobiography. He writes for various British periodicals and appears on...

Queries.(Column)
June 1, 2004... HENRIETTA GARDNER MACY (1854-1927), a sculptor and teacher, was born in Decatur, Illinois. She studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and taught kindergarten in Boston before leaving...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Father of Modern Japanese Design"; to August 1.* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Palmetto Silver: Riches of the South.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Karen Klein Swager and Rodger Stroup MA-231, paper covers Our price $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Silver is found in South Carolina inventories as early as the late seventeenth century. Earlier studies have concentrated on...

American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Sumpter T. Priddy III MA-232 (available in May or June) Our price $75.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Between 1790 and 1840 many middle-class Americans furnished their houses with objects in brilliant colors and bold patterns,...

American Fish Decoys.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Steven Michaan MA-233 Our price $84.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fish decoys are known to have been used for centuries by ice fishermen along the Alaskan side of the Bering Strait. The practice of ice fishing migrated to...

Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies, and Society, 1700-1880.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Antigone Clarke and Joseph O'Kelly MA-234 Our price $89.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This book surveys the various types of antique boxes made primarily in Great Britain, the Far East, and India. Following a stylistic...

The Arts and Crafts Companion.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Pamela Todd MA-235 Our price $45.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This guide begins with a chapter on the origins of the arts and crafts movement. Todd then discusses the principal architects, designers, and craftsmen who worked...

Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Edited by Jennifer L. Howe MA-236 Our price $60.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This thorough study of a fascinating period in Cincinnati's history includes a catalogue of the art-carved furniture in the Cincinnati Art Museum and...

Colonial Houses: The Historic Homes of Williamsburg.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Hugh Howard MA-237 Our price $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The houses of Williamsburg, Virginia, comprise a virtual encyclopedia of the architectural styles that existed in the region from colonial times through the...

Cutlery from Gothic to Art Deco: The J. Hollander Collection.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Jan Van Trigt MA-238 Our price $75.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The history of cutlery begins in the Middle Ages when forks, knives, and spoons began to replace fingers at the table. The Hollander collection contains pieces...

Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By James R. Cothran MA-239 Our price $49.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The rich garden history of the South is comprehensively chronicled in this lavishly produced book that includes illustrations of botanical and other prints,...

The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Timothy D. Rieman and Jean M. Burks MA-240 Our price $125.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This enormous study was first published in 1993 to wide acclaim. It has recently been enlarged to include more than three hundred new...

Orsay: Decorative Arts.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Philippe Thiebaut MA-241, paper covers Our price $24.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Musee d'Orsay in Paris is justifiably renowned for its astonishing paintings collection but is less well known for its outstanding...

Royal Clocks in Paleis Het Loo, A Catalogue.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By A. M. L. E. Erkelens, J. J. L. Haspels, and M. F. van Kersen-Halbertsma MA-242 Our price $95.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the course of more than two centuries the eighty-eight clocks in this catalogue were furnished to...

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Edited by Michael Whiteway MA-243 Our price $55.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Often called the first industrial designer, Christopher Dresser, working in concert with more than fifty manufacturers, conceived an astonishing array...

This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... By Mary Jane Lederach Hershey MA-244 Our price $29.95 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In her comprehensive study the author concentrates on the teacher Christopher Dock, who inspired a large group of students for more than thirty...

The Elements of Design: A Practical Encyclopedia of the Decorative Arts from the Renaissance to the Present.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Edited by Noel Riley MA-245 Our price $75.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This ambitious publication traces the ebb and flow of taste, cross-cultural influences in form and ornament, and technological innovations in the Western...

Antiques.
June 1, 2004... Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751 The...

Wood carvers in England, c. 1660-1880.
June 1, 2004... In recent years several scholars have done much to bring understanding to the complex interrelated activities of the architects and craftsmen who built so many of the great English and Scottish houses. (1) Whilst fully documented accounts...

Early English blue-and-white porcelain.
June 1, 2004... In an auction of antiques and bric-a-brac in the south of England just before last Christmas, a collector bought the blue-and-white porcelain coffee cup shown in Plate IV. Catalogued as eighteenth-century Chinese, the price paid--twenty pounds...

Chinese botanical paintings for the export market.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2004... A single stem of chrysanthemum explodes off the page shown in Plate I. This exquisite Chinese export painting was executed about 1823, two years after this variety of chrysanthemum, the so-called quilled orange, had been introduced into English...

Silver for drinking and dining in the Oxford colleges.(The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford's exhibition of early silver.)
June 1, 2004... In Britain early silver is rare. Some three hundred pieces survive from before 1530, about half preserved by the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities. But these evocative objects are rarely visible even to current students, and their...

Gillow and the furnishing of the Midland Grand Hotel, London.
June 1, 2004... Rising dramatically on Euston Road between the new British Library and the austere King's Cross railway terminus is one of the most striking examples of High Victorian Gothic architecture in London, the Midland Grand Hotel. It was built to the...

Travel guide.(Directory)
June 1, 2004... COLORADO Denver ERON JOHNSON ANTIQUES, 451 Broadway, 80203. Telephone: (303)777-8700. Offers a vast collection of period furniture, lighting, accessories and architectural items from the 17th-19th centuries. View over 7,000 items from...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
June 1, 2004... June 5-6. The Shaker Village near Harrodsburg, KY (25 miles from Lexington). PLEASANT HILL ANTIQUES SHOW & SALE. Featuring 75 professional dealers from 18 states. A national show within a wonderfully restored historic treasure. Village...

Clearing house.
June 1, 2004... Rates: $130.00 per single insertion for 25 words. $115.00 per issue under contract for 6 months per year. $100.00 per issue under contract for 12 consecutive months. $3.50 per additional word. Deadline for the August issue is June 21, 2004...

More Chinese botanicals.(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... One of the most fascinating houses in the north of England is Temple Newsam House in Leeds. West Yorkshire. The venerable property on which it is situated was mentioned in 1086 in the Domesday Book. The house has undergone many building...