The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2005

Reinstallation in Baltimore.(Current and coming)(Walters Art Museum)
November 1, 2005... William T. Walters and his son Henry were acquisitive men. Before his death in 1894, the elder Walters amassed a collection that included nineteenth-century European paintings and bronze sculptures, Asian ceramics, rare books, and manuscripts,...

Murray Hantman, American artist.(Current and coming)(Biography)
November 1, 2005... The modernist painter Murray (born Morris) Hantman spent numerous summers in Maine, most of them on tiny, rocky, and remote Monhegan Island. Accessible only by boat, Monhegan was a summer destination for artists as early as the early 1900s,...

A diamond anniversary.(Current and coming)(New Jersey Remembered)
November 1, 2005... Seventy-five years ago, in September 1930, Frank S. Schwarz moved his newly established antiques business from a farmhouse in southern New Jersey to, of all places, Atlantic City. Business was good--so good in fact that, following two more...

Portraits by Henri.(Current and coming)
November 1, 2005... Portraits by the early twentieth-century figurative painter Robert Henri, for the most part, were not commissioned, and in more than a few instances Henri painted his sitters multiple times. In choosing his subjects he looked for a compelling...

Museum accessions.
November 1, 2005... The earliest portrait of a native of Maine attributed to a native-born American artist has been acquired by the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. It is the likeness of the Reverend Seth Storer illustrated above, which for many years was...

The Westminster Retable.(Report from Europe)
November 1, 2005... A retable is a frame enclosing decorated panels; in a Gothic church or cathedral it was normally situated above the back of the altar. The one made for Westminster Abbey in London dates from about 1270 and was part of an elaborate scheme for...

Black Victorians.(Report from Europe)(Black Victorians: Black People in British Art)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... People of African or Caribbean origin have lived in Britain for some centuries. With the growth of the British Empire, first explorers and then governors brought back, along with such exotic produce as tobacco and potatoes, a few people native...

Fit for a queen.(Report from Europe)(Marie Antoinette)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... This month marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Marie Antoinette. An Austrian princess, she became queen of France at the age of nineteen. Personally she was charming, politically she was a meddler, and her way of life was famously...

Francis Towne.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The landscape watercolorist Francis Towne (1739-1816) traveled widely and made a successful career of painting landscapes both in England and on the Continent. He had an important one-man exhibition in London in 1805, which the dealer John...

Early photographs.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites is the sumptuous catalogue to an exhibition of the same title that will inaugurate the reopening of the Getty Villa in Malibu, California, in 2006. All the photographs...

Queries.
November 1, 2005... The American Ceramic Circle (ACC) promotes scholarship and research in the history, use, and preservation of ceramics. The ACC offers awards up to five thousand dollars to individuals for expenses associated with travel and photography in...

Russian Empire: Architecture, Decorative and Applied Arts, Interior Decoration, 1800-1830.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Russian Empire: Architecture, Decorative and Applied Arts, Interior Decoration, 1800-1830 By Arcadi Gaydamak MA-321 Our price $125.00 The Empire style, which spread quickly throughout Europe in the early nineteenth century,...

Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World Edited by Page Talbott MA-322 Our price $40.00 Published in conjunction with a series of exhibitions celebrating the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, this beautifully produced...

A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts By Vicki Fama and others MA-323 Our price $40.00 Assembled over four decades, this collection includes...

Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Chinese Export Art at Historic Deerfield By Amanda E. Lange MA-324 Our price $65.00 Lange's fascinating study of several towns of the Connecticut River valley reveals that residents had access to Chinese goods earlier than...

Missouri's Silver Age: Silversmiths of the 1800s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Missouri's Silver Age: Silversmiths of the 1800s By Norman Mack MA-325 Our price $55.00 Between 1800 and 1900 silversmiths were working in many cities and towns in Missouri. Norman Mack and his late wife, Beatrice Davidow...

American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings By Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison MA-326 Our price $45.00 This welcome addition to the literature on institutional collections...

Ceramics in America 2005.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Ceramics in America 2005 Edited by Robert Hunter MA-327 paper covers Our price $55.00 This annual compendium is devoted to ceramics made or used in the United States. Articles in this edition explore ceramics that relate...

Georg Jensen Jewelry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Georg Jensen Jewelry Edited by David A. Taylor MA-328 Our price $65.00 The Danish sculptor, silversmith, and jeweler Georg Jensen is considered one of the leading designers of the early twentieth century. This comprehensive...

The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany By Martin Eidelberg and others MA-329 Our price $75.00 Tiffany lamps are admired by collectors around the world for their astonishing artistic qualities and high level of craftsmanship. The...

Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design By Jewel Stern MA-330 Our price $75.00 The first publication to trace the history of the design of American silver between 1925 and 2000, this volume was issued in conjunction...

The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide By Don Yoder MA-331 Our price $49.96 Since broadsides were designed to be given away or sold, Yoder divides his study of these illustrated advertisements according to the...

Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages By Marilynn A. Johnson and others MA-332 Our price $49.95 This beautifully produced catalogue of a traveling exhibition provides a lucid and thorough account of one of the most...

Frederic Church.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Frederic Church By John K. Howal MA-333 Our price $50.00 Howat's monograph on this key figure among Hudson River school painters discusses Church and his relationship to his mentor and teacher, Thomas Cole, and places him in...

Painting Lake George, 1774-1900.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Painting Lake George, 1774-1900 By Erin Budis Coe and Gwendolyn Owens MA-334 paper covers Our price $29.95 Lake George, called the "Holy Lake" by Thomas Cole, was a popular destination for artists. Thus, it is surprising...

A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement By Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio MA-335 paper covers Our price $29.95 Household accessories and even pieces of furniture made of a variety of metals, including brass,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII"; to January 8, 2006. [??]...

Antiques.(Hudson River school)
November 1, 2005... Of course an over-self-conscious straining after a nationalistic form of expression may defeat itself.... Yet the fact remains that the greatest work must bear the stamp of originality. In exactly the same way the greatest work must bear...

The New York Water Color Club.
November 1, 2005... The New York Water Color Club (NYWCC), founded in 1890, has always been something of a phantom on the radar screen. This is primarily due to the club's amalgamation with the American Watercolor Society in 1941. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Oscar Bluemner: Suns and Moons.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
November 1, 2005... Oscar Bluemner immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1892 as a twenty-five-year-old graduate of Berlin's prestigious Royal Technical Academy and a winner of its royal medal in architecture. By 1927, when he began his Suns and Moons...

The Archives of American Art at 50.
November 1, 2005... At the end of a long letter to his favorite ex-wife, Elinor, the painter John D. Graham (1881-1961) closed with a P.P.S.: "Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations, in fact, it is its finest residue." (1)...

Francis Martin Drexel (1792-1863): his life and work.(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Francis Martin Drexel (see Pls. I, II, and IX) was an unusual figure for his time, a success in the widely disparate fields of art and banking. As a young artist in Austria, he escaped to Switzerland in 1809 to avoid conscription into...

Charles Caryl Coleman on Capri.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
November 1, 2005... To the Sirens first shalt thou come, who beguile all men whosoever comes to them. Homer, The Odyssey, XII, 39-40 The American artist Charles Caryl Coleman (Fig. 1) celebrated his eighty-first birthday at Villa Narcissus, his home on...

William Rush and the American figurehead.(Critical Essay)
November 1, 2005... In 1775 John Hancock instructed the superintendent of two frigates being built in Massachusetts to let the heads & Galleries for the Ships be neatly carv'd and Executed, I leave the Device to you, but by all means let ours be as good,...

Before the Art Institute of Chicago: Katharine Kuh's early career and American art.
November 1, 2005... Katharine Kuh (see Fig. 1) made her name as an advocate of the international avant-garde during her tenure as a curator specializing in modern painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. She joined the museum in 1943 and in 1949 she...

In pursuit of a higher truth: the landscape paintings of Charles Morris Young.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
November 1, 2005... In the first decades of the twentieth century Charles Morris Young was considered by many to be a leading member of the Pennsylvania school of landscape painting. (1) By the end of the century, his reputation had all but vanished, owing in part...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
November 1, 2005... November 4-6. Morristown, N.J. MORRISTOWN ANTIQUES SHOW. Since 1971, this has been the "favorite" show of New Jersey. Featuring 50 antiques and arts dealers, the show offers the best of 17th to 20th century American, English, Continental,...

Pennsylvania iron.(Design notes)
November 1, 2005... Pennsylvania has been a center for the iron industry since the early eighteenth century, and some of the most beautiful American ironwork was, and still is, produced there. In the early days the region was rich in the materials needed to make...