The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2006

Folk portraits.( John Brewster Jr.)
November 1, 2006... For an American itinerant folk artist in the early nineteenth century, earning a living took patience, perseverance, and at least some skill at limning a likeness or painting a landscape mural. In the case of John Brewster Jr., being deaf and...

In the galleries.(Hirschl and Adler Galleries to host Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute's exhibition)
November 1, 2006... At the funeral of Thomas Cole in 1848, William Cullen Bryant delivered an oration that described Cole's epic series The Voyage of Life (see the illustration below) as "a perfect poem." Those who have not traveled to Utica, New York, to see this...

Gold jewelry by Jensen.(Georg Jensen's exhibition)
November 1, 2006... Shortly after Georg Jensen opened his silversmithing shop in Copenhagen in 1904, he received an invitation to participate in an exhibition to be held at the Danske Kunstindustrimuseum (Danish Museum of Art and Design), not far from his tiny...

Museum accessions.(portrait miniatures collections of art museums)
November 1, 2006... There are a lot of new faces in the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, thanks to the recent acquisition of the Gloria Manney Collection of American portrait miniatures. The...

The British love of animals.(George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Two exhibitions currently on view examine aspects of the British passion for animals. The first, at the recently renovated Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk, until December 16, is entitled Gainsborough's Dogs. This is an aspect of...

Rembrandt and the Jews.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... There have been a number of exhibitions this year celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of Rembrandt's birth. The last of a group of major Rembrandt exhibitions explores his bond with Jews and opens on November 10 at the Joods Historisch...

Velazquez in London.(Diego Velazquez )
November 1, 2006... Diego Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599 and showed an early talent for painting. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to Francisco Pacheco, the man who was to become his father-in-law By the time the student was eighteen, however, he was...

Silver in Antwerp.(exhibition )(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The province of Antwerp in Belgium has a long and interesting history of gold and silver production. Much that was manufactured in what was a flourishing silvermaking region in the Middle Ages was lost in the many wars that later ravaged the...

Edith Gregor Halpert--dealer extraordinaire.(The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market )(Book review)
November 1, 2006... If Edith Gregor Halpert's Downtown Gallery, which occupied four separate locations in New York City between 1926 and 1970, could be likened to anything, it would be to that teetering and tottering apparatus known as the seesaw. On one side sat...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century"; to November 26.* ...

Antiques.(colonialism in paitings of John Singleton Copley)(Critical essay)
November 1, 2006... Every student and reader of History, who strives earnestly to conceive for himself what manner of Face and Man this or the other vague Historical Name can have been, will, as the first and directest indication of all, search eagerly for a...

American painters in Paris, 1860-1900: urban encounters and rural retreats.
November 1, 2006... Late nineteenth-century American painters were drawn to Paris by its modern spirit and rich multifaceted art life. Beginning in 1853, Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, Emperor Napoleon III's chief architect, transformed it from a jumbled,...

"Art is long, and ... Time is short": Benjamin Franklin's views on the visual arts.(Biography)
November 1, 2006... Visual art would probably not make the shortlist of Benjamin Franklin's preoccupations, and he would not likely have considered himself a connoisseur, scholar, or practitioner of fine art in the traditional sense. However in the tens of...

John Singer Sargent's Venice: on the canals.
November 1, 2006... Mary Newbold Singer Sargent (1826-1906) required that her young son John complete one drawing every day as he accompanied her on their morning outings. She and her husband, Fitzwilliam (1820-1889), had decided to homeschool their children, and,...

Pretty women: Charles Lang Freer and the ideal of feminine beauty.(Biography)
November 1, 2006... It is a rare instance when an art connoisseur actually knows the women depicted in the pictures in his collection. But the Detroit railroad car builder Charles Lang Freer (Fig. 4) was just such a collector, familiar with the models whose lovely...

Lawrence Mazzanovich in Connecticut.
November 1, 2006... When the painter Lawrence Mazzanovich arrived in Westport, Connecticut, in 1909, the seaside community was evolving from a rural town to a suburb of New York City. Unlike adjoining Fairfield and Norwalk, long known as prosperous mercantile...

Double take: a closer look at American bronze sculpture.(american art)
November 1, 2006... Bronze sculpture made in the United States between 1845 and 1945 was little studied and largely undervalued until it began to attract interest in the early 1980s. It now continues to gain attention from scholars, museum curators, and...

Jose Campeche and Francisco Oller: painting Puerto Rico.(Biography)
November 1, 2006... What Van Dyck, Velazquez, and Sargent were to the aristocracy of their respective ages and countries, Jose Campeche was to the affluent Puerto Ricans of his era: the preferred portraitist of the elite who ruled the island in the late eighteenth...

Calendar of shows.
November 1, 2006... November 10-12. Wilmington, Del. 43rd ANNUAL DELAWARE ANTIQUES SHOW. Winterthur Museum & Country Estate presents one of the East Coast's premier antiques events, featuring 60 of the nation's most distinguished dealers in American antiques,...

Packing, shipping, installing, and storing works of art.(Artex Fine Art Services)
November 1, 2006... There are collectors who are so passionate, some might say addicted, to the fine and decorative arts, that they simply cannot stop acquiring objects. This is usually not a problem for those who collect smaller-scale pieces such as snuffboxes,...