The Magazine Antiques articles from March 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from March 2008

Quilt study center.(Current and coming)
March 1, 2008... The names Ardis and Robert James are probably familiar to most quilt aficionados--in 1979 they began assembling what would become arguably the most important collection of quilts in the world, including some one thousand American and...

Rococo design.(Current and coming)(Rococo: The Continuing Curve exhibition)
March 1, 2008... According to its most narrow definition, rococo is the style of ornament and decoration that emerged in Paris toward the end of the reign of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715), flowered in France from about 1730 to 1765, during the era of Louis XV (r....

Designed by architects.(Current and coming)(Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection)
March 1, 2008... Margo Grant Walsh began collecting silver and metalwork as a respite from the quotidian demands of her high-powered career as a managing principal at the prominent international architecture firm Gensler. The fluky nature of her story may sound...

An update on Robert Wellford's compo.(Collectors' notes)(composition ornament )
March 1, 2008... Mark Reinberger, the author of the comprehensive Utility and Beauty: Robert Wellford and Composition Ornament in America (2003), which we reviewed in July 2004, has written to us about an exciting discovery made since the book was published....

Corrections.(Correction notice)
March 1, 2008... In our January issue a number of works were misidentified in Gerald Carr's article, "New light on Frederic Church's 'late' work." The Vale of St. Thomas Jamaica of 1867 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford) was mistakenly identified as...

Brilliant women.(Report from Europe)(Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings)
March 1, 2008... In the 1750s a group of men and women known as the bluestocking circle began to meet in the London houses of certain fashionable hostesses to nurture a sense of intellectual community and potential. The guests included the leading literary,...

Chinese art in Italy.(Report from Europe)(China: At the Court of the Emperors exhibition)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Tang dynasty (618-907) was a period of prosperity in China noted for social, economic, and cultural developments. With its capital city, Chang'an (now called Xi'an), located at the eastern end of the Silk Route, the country formed the land...

A Dutch dynasty.(Report from Europe)(It Must Be in the Genes! Four Painters in a Single Family: Salomon, Jan, Joseph and Dirck de Bray)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Occasionally a single family produces a number of artists, as was the case with the de Brays of Haarlem in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. The father, Salomon (1597-1664), was a painter, architect, and graphic artist. One of his best-known...

Museum accessions.(Haviland Brothers and Company)
March 1, 2008... A recent gift to the New Orleans Museum of Art is an extremely fine pair of French porcelain candelabra that were produced in Limoges for Haviland Brothers and Company, a ceramics firm that had its beginnings in New York City. The Haviland...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse, and More"; to May 4.* [??] "When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan...

Antiques.(the Puritans)
March 1, 2008... But such as we were, high and low, good and bad, refined and illiterate, barbarian and civilized, negro and white, the old meeting-house united us all on one day of the week, and its solemn services formed an insensible but strong bond of...

Chaste and pure: Maine's eighteenth-century meetinghouses.
March 1, 2008... Maine's remote position in the far Northeast--where the sun first shines on the continental United States--has made its residents resistant to change and aware of their state's individuality, especially when it comes to a love of its history...

Musical machines and living dolls: the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection.
March 1, 2008... In today's world of radios, CDs, and iPods, we are saturated with reproduced sound. But this was not the case hundreds of years ago. In 1617, after describing his vision for an automatic musical instrument, the English physician Robert Fludd...

The artistic hearth: the fireplace in the American aesthetic movement.
March 1, 2008... Inspired by the slogan l'art pour l'art, the followers of the aesthetic movement achieved a brief period of cultural efflorescence that reached its height in the United States in the 1880s. (1) In the visual arts, the movement produced objects...

"Savage and deliberate": Alexander Calder's wearable art.
March 1, 2008... Even seasoned aficionados of twentieth-century art may be astonished when they walk into the exhibition Calder Jewelry at the Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach and see that the great abstract sculptor Alexander Calder was also a prolific...

American modernism and the Addison Gallery of American Art.(Cover story)
March 1, 2008... Stuart Davis's 1932 painting Red Cart (Fig. 2) expresses so well the period in American art known as modernism. Its color key is jauntily high and its palette rich, marking Davis as an edgy colorist on the order of Henri Matisse (1869-1954)....

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... March 7-9. Atlanta, GA. SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET. Held the second weekend of every month. Hours: Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $5, good for the whole weekend. Location: Atlanta Expo Centers. Information:...

Design notes.(Authentic Designs)
March 1, 2008... When Dan Krauss decided to restore his eighteenth-century house in Great Neck, New York, he faced a problem that many collectors of antiques have grappled with over the years: how could he find period lighting for an interior that was meant to...