The Magazine Antiques articles from May 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from May 2002

Winterthur in Washington, D.C. (Current and Coming).(decorative arts exhibits)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... To visit the Winterthur Museum, in Winterthur, Delaware, is to encounter masterpieces of American decorative arts that comprise a comprehensive survey of our artistic heritage from 1640 to 1860. The works are installed in period-room settings...

Springtime in New York. (Current and Coming).(Plants and Garden's Portrayed: Rare and Illustrated Books from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... When spring is in full flower in New York City the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx is at its best. The formal and woodland gardens are a calm oasis, seemingly far from the bustling city. Less well known than the gardens is the...

A family collection of Asian art. (Current and Coming).(at Tudor Place, Washington D.C.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tudor Place was built to the designs of the great architect William Thornton in the Georgetown section of the District of Columbia, in 1816 for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter Martha Peter was the namesake of her grandmother Martha Washington,...

Museum accessions.(George Mason's Gunston Hall, Virginia)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A bout 1755 the Virginia statesman George Mason began building Gunston Hall, the fine brick house in Fairfax County that became his primary residence for the rest of his life and which has long been open to the public. Recently the museum staff...

Dennis Miller Bunker (1861-1890).(painting: A Winter's Tale of Sprites and Goblins)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Dennis Miller Bunker's largest known figurative painting, A Win ter's Tale of Sprites and Goblins, was the artists first significant endeavor upon setding in Boston in 1885. The title comes from The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's comedy which...

John Whorf (1903-1959).(American watercolorist)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... A master American watercolorist, John Whorf was a prolific painter during a short career. Born in Boston in 1903, Whorf decided at a young age to bc an artist with the encouragement and early instruction provided by his father, Harry Whorf, an...

The Sale of the Seventeenth Century. (Report from Europe).(exhibit at Museo del Prado, Spain)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In 1623 the Prince of Wales, later Charles I, spent six months in Madrid attempting to break the impasse over negotiations for a marriage between himself and the Infanta Maria, the sister of Philip IV. The wedding never took place, but the...

June fairs in London. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Five art and antiques fairs will be held in London in June with overlapping dates that allow visitors the maximum opportunity to see what is on offer. The Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, sponsored by Zurich Financial Services, will...

Celia Laighton Thaxter. (Books About Antiques).('Among the Isles of Shoals')
May 1, 2002... The nine small Isles of Shoals, ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire, were so named for shoals of fish not shoals of rocks, although in truth there are a great many rocks both above and below the surface of the sea there. Except for...

Calendar: The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.
May 1, 2002... Arizona TUCSON Tucson Museum of Art: "American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculptures from the Smith College Museum of Art [Northampton, Massachusetts]"; to May 12. (*) California BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum, University of...

Antiques.(John Adams on emulation)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... EMULATION, which is imitation and something more--a desire not only to equal or resemble, but to excel, is so natural a movement of the human heart, that, wherever men are to be found, and in whatever manner associated or connected, we see its...

Eighteenth-century Philadelphia case furniture at Stenton.
May 1, 2002... James Logan (1674-1751), the learned secretary to William Penn (1644-1718), arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1699. By the 1720s, he had found a wife and begun a family. He had also started amassing one of the great libraries in the...

The Meeks cabinetmaking firm in New York City: Part I, 1797-1835.
May 1, 2002... Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, New York City was the center for the manufacture of high-style furniture in the United States. The Meeks firm, run by three generations of the family from 1797 until 1869, was one of the...

Living with antiques: A Saint Louis couple collects.
May 1, 2002... In 1978, inspired by the first Decorative Arts Trust meeting, which was held in New Harmony, Indiana, and included as speakers Wendell Garrett, Berry B. Tracy (1933--1984), Joe Kindig III, and others, a Saint Louis couple purchased a simple New...

Continuity and innovation: recliners, sofa beds, rocking chairs, and folding chairs.
May 1, 2002... With the rise of the new middle class during the nineteenth century, a whole new breed of craftsmen began to design furniture. Compared to their predecessors, these furniture makers were often unschooled in the art of cabinetmaking. Some were...

Hugh Easley, Alabama cabinetmaker.
May 1, 2002... The antebellum period in northern Alabama (see P1. II) had a rich cabinetmaking tradition that has been largely overlooked. (1) The region was somewhat remote, with closer ties to Tennessee to the north than to southern Alabama. The chief port...

The furniture mounts of P.E. Guerin.
May 1, 2002... Behind a simple facade on Jane Street in New York City is the luxury hardware business of P. E. Guerin, founded in New York in 1864 by Pierre Emmanuel Guerin (1833-1911). The exquisite details of their metalwork are created through the labor...

A Herter Brothers library rediscovered.
May 1, 2002... The history of 634 Fifth Avenue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-first Streets, is a microcosm of the changing taste in architecture and interior design in New York City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the span of about...

Calendar of shows.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Magazine ANTIQUES Calendar of Shows for May 2002 May 3-5. White Plains, NY. THE WHITE PLAINS ANTIQUES SHOW, Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY. $6 Admission, Fri & Sat 11am- 7pm; Sun. 1lam-6pm. Show Tel 914-949-6236. Advance...

Heirlooms for the garden. (Design Notes).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Avid gardeners have always craved new specimens to ornament their gardens and provide new dishes for their table. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century letters between friends who shared a common interest in gardening are peppered with fulsome...