The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2001

Dutch interiors of the Golden Age deconstructed.(Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exhibition)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The history of interior decoration as it pertains to Continental, English, and American domestic spaces has been the subject of scholarly inquiry for many years. More recently scholars have mined period documents, paintings, prints, and...

An expansion in Baltimore.(exhibits to celebrate reopening of Walters Art Gallery)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In the great era of collecting at the beginning of the twentieth century, titans such as John Pierpont Morgan amassed enormous and important art collections. More than a few achieved this by buying entire collections that had been assembled by...

European clocks at the Frick Collection.(The Art of the Timekeeper. Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest, exhibition)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The scholar-collector is a rare bird, but when well-honed connoisseurship skills, a thorough understanding of the history of design, and great financial resources are combined in a single individual, a remarkable collection can be assembled....

Netsuke in Boston.(Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture, exhibition)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... It has long been said that like many accessories, netsuke was born of necessity. These ornaments were originally made to provide a way to secure tobacco cases, purses, or inro (medicine containers), which fashionable Japanese men suspended on...

Photographs by Edward Curtis.(exhibition)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The early twentieth-century photographer Edward S. Curtis has been rediscovered, first by historians of photography then by ethnologists, and finally by the American public, which learned of him chiefly because of a recent documentary film...

Museum accessions.(Florence Griswold Museum)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company has operated in Connecticut for 135 years. Nearly twenty years ago, recognizing the important role its home state had long played in American art, the firm began collecting paintings,...

Report from Europe.(planning and reopening of British Galleries within Victoria and Albert Museum)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... This month a museum within a museum opens in London. The Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries, five years in the planning, will welcome their first visitors on November 22. The galleries display all aspects of British design from...

Books about antiques.(Gillray Observed: The Earl Earliest Account of his Caricatures in London und Paris)(Review)
November 1, 2001... James Gillray Curiously the only contemporary writings about the English caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in the German journal London und Paris that appeared in Weimar between 1798 and 1806. His political cartoons,...

THE EARLY AMERICAN INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION.(research grants available)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... THE EARLY AMERICAN INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (EAIA) announces a research grants program to provide funding to individuals or institutions engaged in research projects that relate to the study of early American industries in homes, shops, farms, or...

THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL is seeking applications for the seventeenth annual United States Capitol Historical Society Fellow-ship. This fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of the art and architecture of...

THE NEW YORK PAINTER.(James Freeman)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... THE NEW YORK PAINTER James Freeman (1808-1884) is the subject of a forthcoming catalogue raisonne. Freeman enrolled in classes at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1826 and became an academician in 1833. In 1836 he traveled to...

THE OLD WHALERS' CHURCH.(steeple restoration)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... THE OLD WHALER'S New York, is Sag Harbor; New York, is planning a restoration of its steeple which was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938. Attributed to the architect Minard Lafever (1797-1854), the church was completed in 1844. At 187 feet, the...

ANTIQUES.(American flag unifying symbol)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The...

FAMILY PICTURES: THE IMPRESSIONIST ART OF EDMUND C.TARBEL.
November 1, 2001... Painters have always used family members as models, but with the rise of impressionism in the late nineteenth century this practice became part of a larger project to interpret modem life. Charles Baudelaire's declaration that eternal beauty...

Luminist paintings in California.(landscape painters)
November 1, 2001... In the second half of the nineteenth century a number of American landscape painters created works that featured simple, often severely horizontal compositions depicting lakes, rivers, beaches, and ocean, in which realistic transcriptions of...

Living with antiques: A collection where East meets West.(American art)
November 1, 2001... How collectors decide on the focus of their collection is often a fascinating process. An interesting case in point is the story of a couple who came to American art after having achieved distinction as collectors of Asian, especially Japanese,...

Twentieth-Century Paintings and Sculpture in the new Amon Carter Museum.(Fort Worth, Texas)
November 1, 2001... In 1975 The Magazine ANTIQUES devoted an issue to Texas institutions of regional history and art, affording the still young Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth a chance to show the highlights of its collection to a national readership. [*] The...

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, Nantucket artist.
November 1, 2001... The writer Elizabeth Williams Champney (1850-1922) claimed in 1885 that Nantucket, Massachusetts, with its "types of old men and women that are fading out elsewhere...its queer houses and windmills, its antique furniture and costume" had long...

The circus in twentieth-century American art.
November 1, 2001... Henry Miller's 1948 parable about the circus, The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder; recounts the story of Auguste, a clown who achieves fame for his impersonation of "the simulation of ecstasy, which he had brought to perfection." [1] in a...

Fireplaces.(antiques)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... To discover a fireplace surround documented to a commission by someone as renowned as Robert Adam would be astonishing, and the cost, were it to enter the marketplace, would be prohibitive to many. Moreover, countries are making it more and...