The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2004

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2004

American art at Princeton.(Current and coming)
November 1, 2004... The collections of college and university art museums are sometimes motley assortments of works of art donated by alumni to their alma mater--uneven collections with glaring gaps. One exception is the collection of American works on paper at...

Trompe l'oeil painting.(Current and coming)
November 1, 2004... Trompe l'oeil painting reached the height of its popularity in this country around the turn of the twentieth century. Because these works often feature dead game, hunting tools, and smoking paraphernalia, they are frequently considered works...

Chase, the eclectic collector.(Current and coming)
November 1, 2004... William Merritt Chase was one of the most versatile and intriguing American artists working around the turn of the twentieth century. Always a fierce individualist with a flair for the exotic, his preferred painting method called for bypassing...

A survey of American sculpture.(Current and coming)
November 1, 2004... In the eighteenth century the influx of European artists seeking opportunity in the United States was counterbalanced by the exodus of aspiring American artists to Europe, where they could study under accomplished teachers at established...

Museum accessions.
November 1, 2004... After journeying all the way to Texas, the over-mantel painting illustrated above has been returned to New Hampshire, where it was painted about 1789. It was acquired earlier, this year by the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire,...

Images of the floating world.(Report from Europe)
November 1, 2004... The seventeenth century heralded an era of peace and prosperity in Japan known as the Tokugawa, or Edo, period. Named after the old name for Tokyo, the capital city, it lasted from 1603 to 1868 and introduced the concept of the floating world...

Royal Watercolour Society.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... In the two hundred years since it was founded, the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in London has had twenty-eight presidents. The first was William Sawrey Gilpin, and the incumbent is Trevor Frankland. The present queen is patron of the...

The beginnings of art nouveau.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The term art nouveau was coined in Belgium in 1884 by a group of artists known as Les XX, who described themselves as being "votaries of art nouveau." Eleven years later, Siegfried Bing, a German-born dealer, opened a shop in Paris that he...

The John siblings.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... As far as biography is concerned, there cannot be two more disparate siblings than Gwen John and her brother Augustus. They both studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1890s, and both were infatuated with the same woman,...

Eli Wilner's job: putting the frame in the picture.(ART)
November 1, 2004... YOU know that dour Victorian portrait your Aunt Tellie left you? Get it down from the attic. Even if the painting's not worth anything, the frame might fetch up to $200,000. And if it does, Eli Wilner will be the man to thank. In 1982, when...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Alabama BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Eighteenth-Century English Ceramics from the Catherine H. Collins Collection"; to February 6, 2005. [??]...

Antiques.
November 1, 2004... Visited this afternoon the Metropolitan Museum of Art... on West Fourteenth Street.... Art treasures (so-called) are evidently accumulating in New York, being picked up in Europe by our millionaires and brought home. This collection...

Gilbert Stuart in England and Ireland.
November 1, 2004... The finest painter of America's early national period was only nineteen years old when he arrived in London in November 1775. Unlike his elder compatriots Benjamin West (see Pl. III) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), each of whom set out...

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: patron of the modern.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... On October 9, 1901, several hundred statesmen, bankers, and robber barons journeyed by yacht, chartered steamer, and private train to Warwick, Rhode Island, to attend the elaborately choreographed wedding of Abby Aldrich (see Fig. 1), the...

The diary of Theodore Robinson, an American impressionist.(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Frequently called the first American impressionist, Theodore Robinson was born in Irasburg, Vermont, spent his youth in Evansville, Wisconsin, and eventually settled in New York City, where he became an influential and much admired member of...

The art of John Henry Brown.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... The growth in popularity of miniatures, which swelled between 1790 and 1810, followed general trends toward close familial relationships, and more privacy and intimacy in Europe and the United States. Often as expensive as small oil portraits,...

Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.
November 1, 2004... Sharp-eyed readers might have noticed something a bit strange about a number of the illustrations for this article: they appear to have been printed in reverse. If you carefully examine the lower left corner of Plate II, The Banjo Lesson, you...

Thomas Cole's View of Fort Putnam.(Excerpt)
November 1, 2004... American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations--the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain, stream, and rock, has its legend, worthy of poet's pen or the painter's pencil....

John Singer Sargent and Robert Louis Stevenson.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... John Singer Sargent had a capacity to idealize his portrait subjects that few painters of his era could rival. He could also tantalize and mystify, as he did in Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife (Pl. I). Why did Sargent paint the celebrated...

The browser.(Web sites providing information on antiques)(Directory)
November 1, 2004... ANTIQUE SHOWS www.AntiquesCouncil.com Founded in 1990, the Antiques Council manages antiques shows for charities and promotes excellence in collecting through our Focus program. Member expertise is known worldwide. Details and calendar...

Calendar of shows.(Antiques and fine arts)(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... November 5-6. York. PA. 11th ANNUAL YORK COUNTY CLASSIC ANTIQUES SHOW. York Expo Center--Memorial Hall West. 100 dealers in room settings offering American country and formal furniture, early folk art, paintings, textiles, china and pottery,...

Clearing House.(Antiques wanted)(Directory)
November 1, 2004... Rates: $130.00 per single insertion for 25 words. $115.00 per issue under contract for 6 months per year. $100.00 per issue under contract for 12 consecutive months. $3.50 per additional word. Deadline for the January issue is November 21,...

The carver's art.(Design notes)(Master carver Allan S. Webb keeps the craft alive at Julius Lowy Frame and Restoring Company)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Stabbing down, wasting away, and undercutting are just a few of the techniques, and veiners, macaronis, fluteronis, skew chisels, and fishtail gouges are some of the tools that enable a wood carver to coax exquisite figures, flora, fauna, and...