The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2005

Restoration and expansion on Nantucket.(Current and coming)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The Whaling Museum (a part of the Nantucket Historical Association in Nantucket, Massachusetts) is appropriately housed in a spermaceti candle factory that was built in 1847. Nantucket prospered in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...

Chinese export goods in inland American towns.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2005... When affluent residents of the Connecticut River valley went shopping, they were able to purchase more than farm tools, seeds, and other goods usually associated with this agricultural region, for the valley was hardly a cultural backwater. The...

American still-life painting.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2005... Of the many deserving nineteenth-century painters who languish in relative obscurity, some are being rediscovered by scholars, collectors, and art dealers. One who has recently received notice is Julia McEntee Dillon, an accomplished painter of...

Wyeth watercolors.(Current and coming)
June 1, 2005... Watercolor is one of the most demanding and unforgiving artistic mediums. Mistakes cannot be rectified, pools of colors can merge before they are dry, underdrawing is difficult to obliterate, and washes laid on top of one another can create a...

Museum accessions.
June 1, 2005... Born in Boston in 1759 to a British customs officer stationed there, Isaac Coffin joined the Royal Navy in 1773, rising to the rank of admiral by 1814 and along the way, in 1804, being created a baronet. Despite his lifelong allegiance to...

7 Hammersmith Terrace.(Report from Europe)
June 1, 2005... Emery Walker's father was a coachbuilder, and when his sight failed the boy had to leave school at the age of thirteen to support his family. After trying a number of occupations, he went to work for a printer who was developing novel...

Monarch of the Glen.(Report from Europe)(Edwin Landseer )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Sir Edwin Landseer was one of the most famous British artists of the nineteenth century. He was a child prodigy, and from the age of eight he exhibited and sold his work regularly. The minimum age for full membership in the Royal Academy in...

Botanical art.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... The origins of botanical art can be traced to antiquity: the Greek artist and physician Crateuas (120-63 BC) illustrated a pharmaceutical guide with the plants used to make the compounds. However, the artistic rendering of plants began to...

Fitz who Lane?(Collectors' notes.)
June 1, 2005... Last September John Wilmerding delivered a lecture about the renowned American luminist painter Fitz H. Lane at the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. As many of our readers know, Wilmerding was virtually single-handedly...

Eakins revised.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Henry Adams's revisionist biography of Thomas Eakins concludes with a pair of photographs of the pot-bellied painter at about the age of sixty-five. He is shown naked, first standing in the shallows of the Cohansey River in Fairton, New Jersey,...

Early Georgian Interiors.(book by John Cornforth)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Early Georgian Interiors By John Cornforth MA-291 Our price $85.00 The late John Cornforth, long a highly regarded architectural editor for the British magazine Country Life, has provided a wide-ranging look at English houses...

Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur.(book by Ronald W. Fuchs II and David S. Howard)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur By Ronald W. Fuchs II and David S. Howard MA-292 Our price $50.00 This beautifully produced volume highlights more than one hundred...

Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture.(book by Sarah Handler)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture By Sarah Handler MA-293 Our price $50.00 This is the first book to treat the close relationship between Chinese buildings and the furniture created to appoint them. Handler...

East Anglian Silver 1550-1750.(book by Christopher Hartop )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... East Anglian Silver 1550-1750 Edited by Christopher Hartop MA-294 Paper covers Our price $24.95 East Anglia in England has a long history as a center for the making of silver of excellent quality. Between 1500 and 1750...

Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection.(book by Claudine Cartier, Alessandro Cesati and Marie-Veronique Clin)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection By Claudine Cartier, Alessandro Cesati, Marie-Veronique Clin, and others MA-295 Our price $75.00 The exquisitely produced volume with dramatic photographs treats tools...

International Arts and Crafts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... International Arts and Crafts Edited by Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry MA-296 Our price $75.00 Following enormous exhibitions on the art nouveau and art deco styles, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London recently opened...

White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... White Salt-Glazed Stoneware of the British Isles By Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson MA-297 Our price $89.50 Salt-glazed stoneware was first made in the early sixteenth century in the Westerwald region of Germany. By the...

The British Stable.(book by Giles Worsley )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The British Stable By Giles Worsley MA-298 Our price $75.00 Before the early twentieth century, horses were an essential element of life on the enormous working estates of the English gentry. Stables built to house them...

The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America.(book by Ralph Sessions )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Shipcarvers' Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America By Ralph Sessions MA-299 Our price $75.00 Shipcarvers were highly skilled artisans who were responsible not only for the figureheads that...

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World.(book by Wendy Kaplan )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World By Wendy Kaplan with others MA-300 Our price $60.00 This beautiful volume, written in conjunction with a large traveling exhibition organized by...

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians.(book by John Fleming and Michael Rowan)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians By John Fleming and Michael Rowan MA-301 Our price $60.00 Between about 1870 and 1930 enormous numbers of Europeans emigrated to Canada, among them...

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art.(book by Barbara J. MacAdam )(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art By Barbara J. MacAdam with others MA-302 Our price $60.00 The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence.(book by Mark Hair, Michael Lewis and Stephen May)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence By Mark Hair, Michael Lewis, Stephen May, and others MA-303 Our price $80.00 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia is the oldest...

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory.(book by Bill Mercer)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory By Bill Mercer MA-304 Our price $49.95 This is the first publication to examine the artistic output of the Indians who lived along the lower Columbia River from the...

The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.(book by Paula Henderson)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries By Paula Henderson MA-305 Our price $65.00 Henderson discusses English Tudor and early Stuart country houses within the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENLX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; June 5 to September 25.* California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "For Your Approval:...

Antiques.
June 1, 2005... Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that...

The Homewood.
June 1, 2005... In March 2004 the National Trust opened the doors of a new kind of English country house. The Homewood is a modernist house in Esher, Surrey, designed by the architect Patrick Gwynne (Pl. IV) and completed in 1938. World War II, followed by...

Royal goldsmiths: the art of Rundell and Bridge and its successors.
June 1, 2005... One of the most spectacular business successes of the first half of the nineteenth century was the partnership started toward the end of the previous century by Philip Rundell and John Bridge, dealing in jewelry, silver, snuffboxes, watches,...

Samuel Bancroft and collecting English art.
June 1, 2005... At the turn of the twentieth century American taste in foreign art was focused almost exclusively on France, and there was a general disregard for the work of the English Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, among them Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William...

Slipups: Mocha ware at the Shelburne Museum.
June 1, 2005... Mocha ware, with its brightly patterned surfaces and surprisingly modern decoration, has attracted the attention of collectors for many years. (1) Recently, research on the origins of its kaleidoscopic designs has resulted in the publication of...

The Home House carpet.
June 1, 2005... In 1775 Elizabeth, dowager countess of Home, hired the renowned architect Robert Adam to design and complete the interiors of her newly built house at 20 Portman Square, London (Fig. 1). (1) While this patron and commission may not be among the...

English furniture at Colonial Williamsburg.
June 1, 2005... The English furniture in the collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, was acquired by four successive curators. James L. Cogar (1906-1987) presided during the 1930s and 1940s, John Meredith Graham...

Travel guide.(Buyers Guide)
June 1, 2005... ALABAMA Fairhope BETTY G. HAYNIE ANTIQUES & FINE ART, 15 North Section St., 36532. Offers a fine selection of American, English, and French furniture, also ceramics, silver and 19th century paintings; located in downtown Fairhope, a...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... June 11-12, 2005. Long Branch, NJ. THE TWO RIVERS ANTIQUES SHOW & GARDEN TOUR. The Two Rivers Antiques Show & Garden Tour will take place Saturday, June 11-Sunday, June 12, 2005 at The Red Bank Armory and Ice Complex. Tickets: $25.00 in...

Historical paints from England.
June 1, 2005... Making paints in shades used in England and America from the seventeenth century onward has been a growing industry both in this country and abroad. It has advanced in step with the technology for analyzing historical paint samples precisely....