The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2006

Small-scale paintings ...(Current and coming)
March 1, 2006... Two exhibitions on view at the National Academy Museum in New York City until April 30 feature American works of art executed on a small scale. One group of paintings reflects the personal viewpoint of Frederic Edwin Church, who painted them....

... and smaller still.(Current and coming)(Cincinnati Art Museum's exhibition)
March 1, 2006... The most intimate of art forms, the portrait miniature, has experienced a renaissance of scholarly and collector interest in recent years. Small enough to be worn or held in the palm of one's hand, these works of art are prized for the accuracy...

Greene and Greene furniture.(Current and coming)(historic architectural partnership of brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene)
March 1, 2006... The years 1903 and 1904 were active ones for the California architectural partnership formed by the brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene. At the behest of two remarkably forward-thinking women, Jennie A. Reeve and Adelaide...

Museum accessions.(collection of colonial American powder horns to Historic Deerfield)
March 1, 2006... Shortly before his death earlier this year, the collector and dealer in militaria William H. Guthman arranged for the transfer of his renowned collection of colonial American powder horns to Historic Deerfield, in Massachusetts--one of the few...

Fairs this month.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... Arguably the most impressive and important art and antiques fair in Europe takes place this year from March 10 until March 19 in the Dutch border city of Maastricht. This year, its nineteenth, the European Fine Art Foundation's fair has...

Identifying Shakespeare.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The first portrait purporting to be of William Shakespeare presented to the newly founded National Portrait Gallery in London in 1856 was a painting known as the Chandos portrait (see p. 40). It may or may not be of the playwright, but it has...

Van Gogh and Britain.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... The first Van Gogh to enter a British public collection was one of three versions of A Wheatfield with Cypresses (see above), painted in 1889. It changed hands twice before Samuel Courtauld paid [pounds sterling]3,300 for it to enter the Tate's...

Fans in the royal collection.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Fans were popular accessories in Europe from the late sixteenth century when they were introduced from China. In 1793 several were listed among the gifts from the emperor of China to George III. In addition to keeping the bearer cool on hot...

New England.(Books about antiques)(The Encyclopedia of New England)(The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Encyclopedia of New England has 1,564 pages, of which 12 are devoted to the contributors, three columns to a page. Thirty-one editorial assistants were helping out in the backroom. The editors set out a complex and ambitious approach to the...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas"; to May 14.* Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art...

Antiques.
March 1, 2006... Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. President William McKinley, New York Times, September 25, 1901 The World's Columbian Exposition held its dedication ceremonies in October 1892, on the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's...

Tiffany's tiger hunt loving cup.
March 1, 2006... A monumental loving cup made by Tiffany and Company in 1897--a masterpiece of silver embellished with a scene of buffalo hunting--was the subject of an article in the January 2006 issue of this magazine. (1) The present article will explore the...

John Singer Sargent and modern womanhood.
March 1, 2006... The notoriously reticent artist John Singer Sargent once said of conservative women. "I don't like them. They are too like your well-to-do, respectable, middle-class women going to church on a Sunday afternoon." (1) Sargent's partiality for...

Samplers from Charleston, South Carolina.
March 1, 2006... In the colonial period, visitors to Charleston, South Carolina, often remarked on the diversity of the city's population. By 1710 the colony had become the first province in British North America with a black majority, a situation that...

Living with antiques: in the form of a story: a collection of nineteenth-century American and European decorative arts.
March 1, 2006... The European and American decorative arts discussed here, dating from the second half of the nineteenth century, encapsulate many of the themes and influences that can be identified as typical of the period. Principally housed in Southampton,...

William Faris's silver and his shop designs.
March 1, 2006... William Faris of Annapolis has long been recognized as "the most picturesque figure among eighteenth-century Maryland silversmiths." (1) In addition to being a silversmith, he was a "watch maker, clock maker, designer, portrait painter, cabinet...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
March 1, 2006... March 3-5. New York, N.Y. GRAMERCY GARDEN & ANTIQUES SHOW. 80 exhibitors selling chic and fanciful antique garden furniture & ornaments, planters, pots, fences & gazebos, plus plants, gardening equipment and books. Speakers this year include...

Restoring period gilding.(collection of decorative arts)
March 1, 2006... Since period frames--those used to surround and embellish mirror glass, paintings, and other works of art--are rarely handled because they hang safely out of harm's way, they would appear to be among the best preserved of all antiques. However,...