The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2004

Whistler's legacy.
March 1, 2004... Today celebrities at vast expense hire armies of consultants, agents, and public relations experts to create their public image--frequently one that has nothing to do with who they really are. In earlier times celebrities like James McNeill...

Dresser retrospective.
March 1, 2004... The name Christopher Dresser is synonymous with many of the great innovations in design during the latter part of the nineteenth century. When he visited the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 a writer for the New York Times...

A first for the Osage.
March 1, 2004... During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Osage, a small group of Indians in the Midwest, lived in permanent structures they erected along the Mississippi, Missouri, Osage, and Red Rivers of the Upper Louisiana Territory. By the end...

The economics of art.
March 1, 2004... There are many fascinating aspects to the art world, with the machinations behind buying and selling works of art among the most intriguing. The art market as it has evolved over four centuries is the subject of an exhibition organized by the...

Museum accessions.
March 1, 2004... The firebag illustrated above is a fine example of the exceptional beadwork created by Athapascan women. Specifically, it was made about 1875 by a member of the Tahltan nation, located in northwestern British Columbia and southern Alaska, one...

Rubens in Europe.(Report from Europe)(Peter Paul Rubens)(Biography)
March 1, 2004... Peter Paul Rubens was born in 1577, studied painting in Antwerp, and swiftly outshone his teachers. In 1598 he became a master painter in the Guild of Saint Luke, and two years later he went to Italy and there achieved his artistic maturity. He...

Chinese silk.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Among China's many contributions to civilization is silk, the cloth of commerce and legend for more than four thousand years. Initially spun by peasants, woven, and then worn by the nobility, it gradually became an accepted fabric for all...

The Royal Academy's collection.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... The Royal Academy of Arts in London was founded in 1768. A condition of membership has always been that each artist or architect gives to the academy a representative work. These paintings, sculptures, and architectural models are known as...

Fairs this month.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... As usual in March, two major fairs are being held in Europe. One is the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht (see Report from Europe in the February 2004 issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES), and the other is the British Antiques Dealers'...

Guimard.(Books About Antiques)(Hector Guimard, Architect Designer 1867-1942)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Hector Guimard, the French master of art nouveau, is remembered today for his fantastical entrances to Paris Metro stations and for not much else. That is until Georges Vigne, author; and Felipe Ferre, photographer, collaborated on Hector...

New and improved.(Books About Antiques)(The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture by Timothy D. Rieman, who makes reproductions of Shaker furniture, and Jean M. Burks, a curator and scholar of Shaker furniture, first appeared in 1993, published by Harry N. Abrams. The book has now been...

Queries.
March 1, 2004... NATHAN STARKEY, a cabinetmaker from Philadelphia, made portable desks, dressing cases, medicine chests, and ladies' work-boxes from about 1829 to 1865. He labeled his pieces, and was listed in Philadelphia business directories at various...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Figuring the Feminine: Selected Works by African-American Women Artists"; to April 4. [??] "An Impressionist...

Antiques.
March 1, 2004... Queen Victoria was like a great paper-weight that for half a century sat upon men's minds, and when she was removed their ideas began to blow all over the place haphazardly. H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, 1934 Victoria...

Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer's Chinese enameled plaques; Part II: the copper plaques.(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... The famous collection of fine and applied Chinese arts assembled in the eighteenth century by Jean Theodore Royer (1737-1807) in The Hague included a rare group of eighteen painted plaques. In Part I of this article I discussed the ten...

John Ross Key's world's fair paintings.
March 1, 2004... Starting in 1893 with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, world's fairs were held in various American cities every few years and became popular...

Reappraising an upside-down Shaker masterpiece.
March 1, 2004... The yellow Shaker case with two cupboards and four drawers shown in Plate I became well known when it was included in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 1986 and illustrated in the accompanying catalogue....

London ormolu lighting from George II to George IV.
March 1, 2004... The opportunity to redisplay the domestic metalware collections in London's Victoria and Albert Museum has led to a reassessment of the museum's historical lighting equipment. This article looks at lighting in ormolu and relates the museum's...

Western themes in Chinese design.
March 1, 2004... When a conspicuously Western motif appears in (or on) a Chinese object of the Qing dynasty, our curiosity is at once aroused--especially if the object was made for Chinese, not Western, consumption. A case in point is the extraordinary...

Travel guide.(Directory)
March 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...

Calendar of shows, March 2004.(Calendar of Shows)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... Calendar of Shows, March 2004 March 5-7. Charlottesville, VA. 8th ANNUAL FLEUR-DE-LIS ANTIQUES AND GARDEN SHOW. Charlottesville-Albemarle's premier sale of antiques, decorative arts and garden accessories. Preview Party & Cocktail Buffet,...

Hardware for miniature furniture.(Column)
March 1, 2004... Antique miniature and children's furniture has always attracted attention. In the first issue of this magazine in January 1922 among the editorial offerings was an article entitled "Playthings of the Past" by Alice Van Leer Carrick. She wrote...