The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2007

Celebrating folk art.(Current and coming)
March 1, 2007... The founding of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum dates back to 1939, when Abby Rockefeller donated part of her collection of folk art objects to Colonial Williamsburg, which her husband John D. Rockefeller Jr. had helped to create...

Vive la France.(Current and coming)(High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Musee du Louvre in Paris exchange)
March 1, 2007... In a partnership that is to span three years, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Musee du Louvre in Paris began an exchange in October that is proving to be as beneficial as both participants wished. This symbiotic endeavor is an...

Albany stoneware.(Current and coming)
March 1, 2007... Three exhibitions related to New York State pottery are on view at the Albany Institute of History and Art until May 27: Clay Connections: Four Centuries of Ceramics and Their Stories from the Albany Institute's Collections and Containing...

Museum accessions.(Phoenix Art Museum)
March 1, 2007... What do the Italian Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia and the haute couture designer Charles Frederick Worth have in common with Qing dynasty Chinese painting and Louis Philippe Hebert, a Canadian sculptor working at the turn of the...

The Goldsmiths' Company.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The oldest part of London, settled by the Romans and now called the City of London, is home to the country's financial district as well as to the trade guilds and livery companies that began in the Middle Ages. One of these organizations, the...

Oxford exhibitions.(Bodleian Library exhibition)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford was founded in 1602 and is home to more than eight million volumes, including many manuscripts and rare books. Among its treasures is a collection of manuscript illustrations and paintings from...

New angles on impressionism.(Report from Europe)(works of Pierre Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet in the National Gallery)
March 1, 2007... Lesser-known aspects of the work of two impressionist painters--Pierre Auguste Renoir and Claude Monet--are being examined in complementary exhibitions now on view in London. The National Gallery is offering Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883, which...

Hogarth.(Report from Europe)(works of William Hogarth on exhibit)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Acomprehensive exhibition of William Hogarth's multifaceted career is the subject of a major show on view at the Tate Britain in London until April 29. The exhibition examines the whole of Hogarth's life and work, from his beginnings as an...

A virtuoso landscape architect.(Books about antiques)(Salomon de Caus)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... If Salomon de Caus, the seventeenth-century designer of such useful and beautiful appurtenances as garden gates and walls, were alive today he would have a thriving career in places like Greenwich, Connecticut, where such structures, as they...

Calendar of shows.(art exhibits)(Calendar)
March 1, 2007... March 9-11. Alexandria, VA. 11th ANNUAL ANTIQUES IN ALEXANDRIA. 60 nationally recognized dealers. Special events include gala preview party, Thursday, March 8, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ($125); luncheon lecture by Alexa Hampton, senior design...

Calendar.(art shows)(Calendar)
March 1, 2007... Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "A Century of Irish Art"; March 3 to April 29. [??] "Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art"; to May 6. California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Painting with Fire: Masters of...

Antiques.(China and Western world)
March 1, 2007... As your Ambassador can see for himself, we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures.... I do not forget the lonely remoteness of your island, cut off from the world...

New additions to the Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
March 1, 2007... The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver has been a bright star in the constellation of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond since it first went on view in 1988. It is an outstanding selection of domestic silver, largely...

Folk furniture of Canada's Doukhobors.
March 1, 2007... In recent years an influx of folk furniture imported from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, northern Russia in particular, has made it easier to compare the pieces made by Russian immigrants after their arrival in North America with...

The emperor looks west.(Qianlong emperor's fascination with Western cultures)
March 1, 2007... The eighteenth-century Qianlong emperor was one of China's greatest art patrons. Just as he strove to expand the territory under his control, so too did he endeavor to bring the arts of many foreign cultures into his domain. The premier...

The women mosaicists at Tiffany Studios.
March 1, 2007... The reputation of Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) rests in large measure on the richly colored leaded-glass windows made by his firm Tiffany Studios in New York City, but glass mosaics were an equally important and successful part of his...

Asher B. Durand and the old masters.(Biography)
March 1, 2007... In 1859 the Crayon, the pioneering periodical devoted to American art and culture, published portions of biographical entries devoted to artists taken from The New American Cyclopaedia (1858). (1) Included was a piece on Asher B. Durand, the...

Antique and reproduction hardware.(Design notes)(Charleston Hardware Company )
March 1, 2007... Charleston, South Carolina, is an exceptional historic city well-known for the preservation of its architectural heritage. Set along the waterfront and on tree-lined streets are numerous houses and public and commercial buildings, many of which...