The Magazine Antiques articles from May 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from May 2006

Russel Wright, American modernist.(Current and coming)
May 1, 2006... Possessed of an innovative sense of design, Russel Wright met his match in 1927 when he married Mary Small Epstein, a woman with an amazing flair for advertising and promotion. Design at the time reduced wares to basic lines, free of...

The Morgan Library and Museum reopens.(Current and coming)
May 1, 2006... The Morgan Library and Museum is one of the most impressive, yet intimate and rarefied museums in New York City, so some of its admirers were not enthusiastic when it announced its plan to expand and closed down more than three years ago....

Museum accessions.
May 1, 2006... In 1834, twenty-one-year-old Henry Chandler Bowen left his native Woodstock, Connecticut, to seek his fortune in New York City. He returned some twelve years later with a fortune made as a silk wholesaler, a wife, the first of ten children, and...

Silver shines.(Report from Europe)
May 1, 2006... Orientalism has been defined as the imitation by Western artists of aspects of Eastern cultures, particularly those of the Middle East. In the nineteenth century, triggered by Napoleon's military campaign in Egypt and because travel in the...

June fairs in London.(calendar )(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... Next month five fairs make London the chosen destination for lovers of art and antiques. The largest, now called the Summer Fair, Olympia, features some three hundred dealers and takes place from June 9 to 18. The oldest fair is the Grosvenor...

Faberge and the Russian jewelers.(jewelry exhibitions)(Brief article)
May 1, 2006... From time to time, the London jewelry dealer Wartski mounts exhibitions related to the jewelry and other works by Faberge in which it specializes. The current show, on view from May 10 to 20, is entitled Faberge and the Russian Jewellers....

New England and the China Trade.(Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... In 1793 the Qianlong emperor of China wrote to George III of England: "We possess all things. I set no value on objects strange and ingenious, and have no use for your country's manufactures." Pride aside, everyone needs something, and the...

George Bridport.(Collectors' notes)(Biography)
May 1, 2006... Decorative painters of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ornamented all parts of the visual world--from interior walls and furniture to window blinds and floorcloths--but they remain largely anonymous. George Bridport was one...

Calendar.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
May 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.* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Antiques.(demand for artisans in the american furniture lead to their immigration)
May 1, 2006... The master [craftsman] does indeed own the conditions of production-- tools, materials, etc. (although the tools may be owned by the journeyman too)--and he owns the product. To that extent he is a capitalist. But it is not as a capitalist...

Paint and ornament on Federal period vernacular chairs.
May 1, 2006... During the Federal period painted or colored surfaces were critical to the appeal and salability of vernacular seating furniture, principally the windsor chair and the fancy chair. Emphasis on the eighteenth-century windsor chair centered on...

Living with antiques: New England begins at home.
May 1, 2006... The New England couple who owns the collection featured here was first lured into the sport of collecting thirty years ago by the gift of a copy of Wallace Nutting's Furniture of the Pilgrim Century (1921) and a subsequent friendship with...

The Peleg and Lucy Arnold chest of drawers.
May 1, 2006... The Yale University Art Gallery has underway a comprehensive study of furniture making in Rhode Island from 1636 to 1800 to both identify the makers and interpret the products of the smaller towns as well as the major centers of furniture...

A bill of sale from John Goddard to John Brown and the furniture it documents.
May 1, 2006... The fortunate discovery among the Brown family papers of a 1760 bill of sale (Fig. 1) sent by the acclaimed Newport cabinetmaker John Goddard to the merchant John Brown has allowed for the firm documentation to Goddard of several of Brown's...

The painted furniture of Philadelphia: a reappraisal.
May 1, 2006... Philadelphia was the capital of the United States until 1800, and in the late eighteenth century it was a thriving city with a bustling port, an active intellectual community, and a booming market for manufactured wares. A taste in Philadelphia...

A Grecian card table by William Fisk and Thomas Wightman of Boston.
May 1, 2006... Well-documented furniture inspires new scholarship, which sometimes raises as many new questions as it answers. A mahogany card table bearing the stenciled mark of the Boston cabinetmaker William Fisk and the signature of the carver Thomas...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... May 12-17. New York, N.Y. THE INTERNATIONAL FINE ART FAIR. Daily 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Renaissance to Modern Masters featuring European and American artists. Organized by Anna...

Descendants of historic trees.(programs conducted by American Forests (Washington, D.C.))(Organization overview)
May 1, 2006... Many communities in the United States venerate their oldest or largest trees, often identifying them with a descriptive marker. On a national level this is a preoccupation of American Forests, founded in 1875 and one of the oldest nonprofit...