The Magazine Antiques articles from June 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from June 2008

Editor's letter.
June 1, 2008... We may be living with the past here at The Magazine ANTIQUES but that doesn't mean we're entombed in it. I was reminded of the difference this spring during three days at the Philadelphia Antiques Show. Held for the first time at the city's...

Painting softly.(Current and coming)(Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Paint ing Softly, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts )(Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York)(Houdon at the Louvre: Master-works of the Enlightenment, High Museum of Art, Atlanta )(Calendar)
June 1, 2008... James McNeill Whistler once said: "Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass." His metaphor is the basis of a provocative exhibition that opens this month at the Clark Art Institute in...

Rare Godwin vases.(Museum accessions)
June 1, 2008... The recent acquisition of a pair of lively and amusing nineteenth-century vases by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is a harbinger of the large exhibition on the aesthetic movement the museum is planning for 2010. The vases are the only...

Exploring Pennsylvania and the Delaware river valley.(Directory)
June 1, 2008... DELAWARE CENTREVILLE 1 Ronald C. Bauman, Inc. 5722 Kennett Pike, 19807. One mile North of The Winterthur Museum on Route 52. 18th- and 19th- century American furniture, tall case clocks and related accessories. Tues to Sat 10 a.m....

Treasures of the English Church.(Report from Europe)(Treasures of the English Church: Sacred Gold and Silver, 800-2000 * Goldsmiths' Hall, London)
June 1, 2008... From its earliest years the Christian Church has commissioned ritual objects from the most sumptuous materials. Precious metals, jewels, and rare objects have been combined to dazzle the spectator and inspire devotion. English churches...

Goya--a double helping.(Report from Europe)(Goya in Times of War, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid )(The Capriccios of Goya. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille )(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... Two Goya exhibitions are on at the moment. The first, at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, centers around the artist's two major canvases commemorating the uprising in Madrid against Napoleon's army two hundred years ago: The Second of...

Symbols of power .(Report from Europe)(Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style 1800-1815, Musee des Art decoratifs, Paris)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The close relationship of the decorative arts to political power is examined in an exhibition now in Paris, but seen earlier at the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which illuminates Napoleon's use of image and...

Briefly noted.(Report from Europe)(Portrait Miniatures, Philip Mould, London )(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The London-based portrait specialist and dealer Philip Mould is holding a loan exhibition of British portrait miniatures until June 14. The aim is to focus on images of major historical figures not usually on display, including an unrecorded...

Briefly noted.(Report from Europe)(Colours of Another Age: The Rothschild Autochromes, All That Glitters: Advertising and Shopping in Eighteenth-century Paris, Sellers of Everything, Makers of Nothing: The World of the Marchands Merciers in Eighteenth-century Paris, Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire )(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... At Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, there are three exhibitions for the summer season. The subjects are auto-chromes, an early form of color photography; advertising and shopping in eighteenth-century Paris; and the world of...

Paul Walter moves his W.A.S. Benson chandelier.(THE COLLECTOR'S EYE)
June 1, 2008... In every medium there are culture heroes whose work is even more admired by fellow artists than by the general public--the painters' painters Velazquez and Cezanne come to mind, as do the architects' architects Louis Kahn and Carlo Scarpa. Even...

On books.(NEW AND NOTEWORTHY)
June 1, 2008... Having been moved by Nancy Horan's beautiful historical novel Loving Frank (Ballantine Books, 2007), about the tragic love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney, I gladly received a pair of important new republications of...

The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.(Calendar)(Calendar)
June 1, 2008... Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Passport to Europe: Six Centuries of Treasures from Museo de Arte de Ponce [Puerto Rico]"; to June 15. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Imagining...

Antiques.(David Hume)
June 1, 2008... [An] advantage of industry and of refinements in the mechanical arts [is] that they commonly produce some refinements in the liberal [arts]; nor can one be carried to perfection, without being accompanied, in some degree, with the other. The...

Pugin's "perfect" church Saint Giles' in Cheadle.(Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin )(Biography)
June 1, 2008... Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was one of the most influential architects of the nineteenth century, and his Gothic revival buildings and churches, among them the amazing Saint Giles' Roman Catholic Church at Cheadle in Staffordshire (Fig. 2),...

Bold, bright, and underappreciated: British furniture at mid-century.(What modern was)
June 1, 2008... In the dozen or so years since a new wave of collectors and design aficionados rediscovered furnishings of the mid-twentieth century, works from many countries--France, the United States, Italy, the Scandinavian nations, Brazil--have become...

An eclectic taste for ormolu: mounted ceramics at Tatton Park, Cheshire.
June 1, 2008... Tatton Park, Knutsford, Cheshire, best known for its collection of furniture supplied by Gillow and Company between 1780 and 1812, also has an intriguing, varied, and little known collection of ceramics with ormolu and gilt-metal mounts. (1)...

Savoring the past: Ivan days collection of culinary antiques.
June 1, 2008... If the past is indeed a foreign country where they do things differently, then the historian may be regarded as a kind of tourist. Just as the food of a different country can make us vividly aware of its strangeness, so its cuisine--not just...

A collection of British art pottery and fin de siecle decorative arts.(Living with antiques)
June 1, 2008... Over four decades two English collectors filled their house with British art pottery and fin de siecle furniture and decorative arts, presenting the whole with a theatrical flourish that reflects the creative partnership of an actress trained...

Travel guide.(Directory)
June 1, 2008... WILLIAM A. KARGES FINE ART, 427 N. Canon Dr., #101, 90210. Located in both Carmel and Los Angeles, Karges Fine Art carries one of the most high quality inventories of early California and American paintings available on the West Coast....

Traditional garden ornaments.(Design notes)(Garden Traditions )(Company overview)
June 1, 2008... Small garden, small ornament; large garden, large ornament" are the common sense words of advice given by Barbara Israel, the noted authority on garden ornaments. Israel's earliest contact with gardens was as a child growing up in Peapack, New...