The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2003

Rescuing Mount Vernon. (Current and Coming).
March 1, 2003... During his presidency and in his retirement, George Washington was besieged by visitors. In his own words, his house, Mount Vernon, was comparable to "a well-resorted tavern, as scarcely any strangers who are going from north to south or from...

Jefferson and exploration. (Current and Coming).(Thomas Jefferson)
March 1, 2003... Although the seeds were sewn earlier, on January 16, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent a confidential letter to Congress requesting $2,500 to underwrite the exploration and charting of the vast and largely unknown lands west of the Missouri...

Philadelphia as depicted on ceramics. (Current and Coming).
March 1, 2003... Between about 1820 and 1860 potters in Staffordshire, England, saw an opportunity to profit from a surge of national pride in the United States. These astute manufacturers exported a wide variety of affordable table-wares with transfer-printed...

Museum accessions.
March 1, 2003... The Bayou Bend Collection at e Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has added several objects to its collection that underscore the range and depth of its American ceramics holdings. At one end are works by early folk artisans working in Texas; at the...

Alexander Gallery.
March 1, 2003... 942 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10021 TELEPHONE 212-472-1636 * FACSIMILE 212-734-6937 MARTHA Is NOT COOKED Specialists in Brazilian Gems Diamonds, Aquamarines, Topazes, Tourmalines, etc. Dear Mr. Marvin, We take...

Hendrik Goltzius in Amsterdam. (Report from Europe).(exhibition of paintings at the Rijksmuseum)
March 1, 2003... Hendrik Goltzius was renowned during his lifetime for his prints and drawings. Born in the duchy of Westphalia in 1558, he moved to Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1577. His fame spread quickly, and he became so well known that when he traveled in...

Cobra. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The short-lived Cobra movement, which only existed from 1948 to 1951. had an impact far beyond its brief life. It was a radical group of artists and poets who were interested in folk and primitive art as well as in spontaneous expression. The...

Vermeer interiors at the Prado. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... There are only thirty-five paintings ascribed with certainty to Johannes Vermeer, and many of these depict intimate domestic interiors that speak volumes about the values and morals of seventeenth-century Delft. There are no works by...

Nineteenth-century romanticism. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Following Napoleon's final exile in 1815, the French became fascinated by every aspect of Anglo-Scottish civilization. British literature in particular was a rich lode of subject matter for French artists, and it is no coincidence that the...

Art deco. (Report from Europe).(Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Following the exhibition devoted to art nouveau in 2000 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the logical successor is on view from March 27 until July 20. The aim of the exhibition, entitled Art Deco 1910-1 93 9, is to explore the...

European Fairs. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... There are two major antiques fairs in Europe during the month of March. TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands takes place from March 14 to 23 and this year does not have a loan exhibition. As usual, it has attracted some two hundred antiques...

Japanese ceramics. (Books About Antiques).
March 1, 2003... Japanese collectors have an almost mystical feeling for their ceramics, associating them first and foremost with the earth from which they sprang. Consider, for example, this passage about one of the sites where white-glazed pottery was first...

Queries.
March 1, 2003... A LLYN Cox (1896-1982), one of the nation's leading twentieth-century muralists, was best known for the frescoes he painted in the great rotunda of the United States Capitol. He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students...

Calendar.
March 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad-a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: Sacred Treasure: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections"; to April 13. * Arizona PHOENIX...

Antiques.(brief history of museums)
March 1, 2003... I do not believe in the end of man.... I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit, capable of compassion and...

Marjorie Merriweather Post. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... Hillwood Museum and Gardens in northwest Washington, D. C., was once the twenty-five-acre estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post (P1. I), the only child of Charles Wil Barns Post (1854--1914), who founded the Post cereal empire. Adjoining the...

Furnishing Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post's passion for French style. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... Hillwood was Marjorie Merriweather Post's ultimate legacy as a collector. To understand her decorative preferences and her taste for the arts of eighteenth-century France, one has to examine the collecting trajectory of this grande dame. ...

The northern Palmyra: Saint Petersburg at three hundred. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... This year the city of Saint Petersburg will be celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of its founding. In honor of this momentous anniversary, Hillwood Museum and Gardens is presenting its first temporary exhibition, The Myths of St....

Russkii stil': the Russian style for export. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... The Empire style united the decorative arts of Europe during the first third of the nineteenth century. However, as international expositions became the framework for touting national achievements starting in 1851, each country searched its...

Gold boxes at Hillwood. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... The collection of gold boxes and objects of vertu (1) at Hillwood testifies to the sustained interest of Marjorie Merriweather Post (seep. 82, Pl. I) in precious objects with historical associations. She began buying French examples in the...

The Russian porcelain figure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. .
March 1, 2003... One of the distinctive characteristics of Russian decorative arts of the nineteenth century is the number and diversity of porcelain figures produced. It is immediately clear that these figures almost obsessively explored Russian national...

Russian icons at Hillwood. .
March 1, 2003... When Marjorie Merriweather Post (see p.82, PL I) arrived in Moscow in January 1937 as the wife of the United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), nothing in her background could have prepared her to become a collector of Russian...

Pietre dure for an American palace: a dining table for Mar-A-Lago. .
March 1, 2003... After Marjorie Merriweather Post (see p. 82, P1. D died in 1973, Topridge, her camp in the Adirondacks, was given to New York State; and Mar-A-Lago, her estate in Palm Beach, Florida (P1. I), was sold, with the proceeds reverting to the...

Paintings on porcelain vases at Hillwood. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
March 1, 2003... In the course of the nineteenth century the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory in Saint Petersburg produced a remarkable number of vases, many decorated with copies of old master or popular nineteenth-century paintings. The factory artists...

The Japanese style garden at Hillwood and its context.
March 1, 2003... It is unusual to consider gardens in connection with antiques in general and Russian imperial objects in particular, especially a Japanese style garden built after World War II in the United States. Yet Marjorie Merri-weather Post (see p. 82,...

Calendar of Shows.(March, 2003.)(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... Calendar of Shows for March 2003 March 6-9. Alexandria, VA. 7th ANNUAL ANTIQUES IN ALEXANDRIA SHOW. The Episcopal High School, Flippin Field House, 3900 Braddock Road. Sixty nationally-recognized dealers offering period American and...

Fabrics of the gilded age and beyond. .
March 1, 2003... Starting in the nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, became a fashionable summer destination for affluent families who otherwise lived in luxurious houses in cities along the East Coast. They had the means to distance themselves from the...