The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2003

Current and coming.
November 1, 2003... S.R. Gifford, painter of atmosphere The American landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford was among the artists, businessmen, art collectors, and philanthropists who founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1870. In...

Museum accessions.
November 1, 2003... Two eye-popping American paintings have been acquired by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. The earlier is Buffalo Hunt, by Alfred Jacob Miller, which sheds new light on his working methods. Illustrated above, the work is thought to date...

Report from Europe.
November 1, 2003... Gothic art at the Victoria and Albert Museum This winter's major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is called Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547, which spans work produced from the reign of Henry IV to that of Henry VIII....

An Annapolis silversmith and gardener.(Books about Antiques)
November 1, 2003... William Faris, born in London in 1728, was a prosperous silversmith, clock-and watchmaker, and tavern keeper in Annapolis, Maryland, from 1756 or 1757 until his death in 1804. He was also a single-minded gardener, and it is in that in carnation...

Gorham catalogues.(Books about Antiques)
November 1, 2003... As everyone knows who has a mailbox, catalogues reproduce like rabbits, filling trash bins as fast as they are emptied. This instant obsolescence is a pity in the long run, since it creates an instant collectible. A case in point is a set of...

Queries.
November 1, 2003... WORKING INITIALLY AS A landscape painter in New York City and Washington, D.C., in the 1840s and 1850s, William Douglas MacLeod (1811-1892) served as the first curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington beginning in November 1873. He...

Queries.
November 1, 2003... ERIK K. GRONNING AND DENNIS CARR are seeking the where-about of early eighteenth-century Rhode Island tables presently or formerly in private collections and museums to include in a research study of the form for a forthcoming article in this...

Queries.
November 1, 2003... ON MAY 4, 1895, a year before his death, the American painter Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) noted in his journal that he had seen the Manasquan River on the New Jersey shore for the first time. Later in the summer, while at the shore, Robinson...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... The arts here and abroad-a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures. Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; November 15 to April 11, 2004. California FRESNO Fresno...

Antiques.
November 1, 2003... The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself, or with the Supreme Being. As to the corporeal world, though there are many other sorts of consents, yet the sweetest and most charming beauty of it is its...

George Inness and the unfinished painting.
November 1, 2003... The communicative power of the unfinished work of art was a primary source of inspiration for the American landscape painter George Inness (Fig.1). He recognized the heightened capacity of an unfinished painting or sculpture to conjure ideas...

Madame X speaks.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2003... John Singer Sargent's most famous portrait, Madame X (Madame Gautreau) (Pl. I), was painted in France in 1883 and 1884 and hung in the artist's London studio for more than thirty years before it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in...

American paintings in the Schenectady County Historical Society.
November 1, 2003... The Schenectady County Historical Society in Schenectady, New York, will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary in 2005. Over the years it has amassed approximately sixty-five portraits and landscapes that portray the history of Schenectady...

Two American artists: Amos Bad Heart Bull and N.C.Wyeth.
November 1, 2003... The sole surviving painting created by Plains Indian artist Amos Bad Heart Bull has recently resurfaced in a private collection (Pls. II-VI). The painted textile depicts the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory in 1876, during...

Mr. Whistler's gallery: the art of displaying art.
November 1, 2003... Styles of art change. Indeed, general survey museums like the Museum du Louvre in Paris or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City usually install their collections chronologically by national school, precisely so that visitors can...

John Wood Dodge: and the portrait miniature.
November 1, 2003... Limning, wrote Nicholas Hilliard (c. 15471619) about 1600, "is sweet and cleanly to usse and it is a thing apart from all other Painting or drawing and tendeth not to common mens use. (1) John Wood Dodge, an uncommon man, used limning well, and...

Thaddeus Welch, California landscape painter.
November 1, 2003... The California pastoral landscapes painted by Thaddeus Welch (Fig. 1) at the turn of the twentieth century were praised by art critics and sold to collectors across the country. Since his death in 1919, however, his visibility has diminished to...

Calendar of Shows.(Calendar)
November 1, 2003... Calendar of Shows for November 2003 November 6-9. Wilmington, DE. 40TH ANNUAL DELAWARE ANTIQUES SHOW, a benefit for Winterthur education programs. Nearly 60 of America's finest dealers will offer significant antiques, art and decorative...

Dating historic structures.(Design Notes)
November 1, 2003... As children, we were told that one could determine the age of a felled tree by counting the concentric rings on its stump. Later, we learned that this was poppycock. In fact, neither of these statements is entirely accurate. For quite some...