The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2007

J. M. W. Turner.(Current and coming)(Joseph Mallord William Turner's exhibit)
November 1, 2007... The emergence of the British school of landscape painting at the beginning of the nineteenth century has long been attributed to the influence of two great masters of the genre, John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner. Though as is...

Rookwood, Farny, and the American Indian.(Current and coming)(Vanishing Frontier: Rookwood, Farny, and the American Indian)
November 1, 2007... Maria Longworth Nichols opened the Rookwood Pottery Company in November 1880 in a converted Cincinnati schoolhouse on the banks of the Ohio River. From the beginning, the pottery emphasized the surface decoration of its wares; Nichols, who had...

Cos Cob illustrators.(Current and coming)(Once Upon a Page: Illustrations)
November 1, 2007... While the history of the American impressionist painters, such as Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, and Julian Alden Weir, who spent their summers at the Cos Cob art colony on the shores of Connecticut's Mianus River has...

Museum accessions.
November 1, 2007... They saw the gleaning river seaward flow From the inner land; far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flushed; and, dew'd with showery drops, Up-clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. ...

Renaissance Siena.(Report from Europe)(Renaissance Siena: Art for a City)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The art produced in Florence and Rome during the Renaissance is well known and admired. The same can be said of the paintings made at the end of the medieval era in Siena. What is less understood is Siena's role in the later fifteenth and early...

Barcelona 1900.(Report from Europe)(art nouveau exhibit)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Barcelona underwent a fundamental change from being a quiet, somewhat isolated, backwater to one of the most innovative and vibrant places in Europe. The Exposicion Universal, held there in 1888,...

Dutch ceramics.(Report from Europe)(Rozenburg: Delftware from Hague Circles)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... In 1883 Wilhelm Wolff Freiherr von Gudenberg, a German entrepreneur, established the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in The Hague. His original aim was to produce traditional Delft pottery, but he soon realized that contemporary artistic...

Loan exhibitions.(Report from Europe)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... This month there are three noteworthy nonselling exhibitions on view at commercial enterprises in London. At the Winter Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia a collection of about forty naive English paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth...

The Kelloggs and clocks in Connecticut.(Collectors' notes)
November 1, 2007... Nancy Finlay, who has written for us in the past about the Kellogg family of lithographers in Connecticut, (1) has recently shared with us her findings about a typical Connecticut shelf clock decorated with a contemporaneous Kellogg lithograph...

Demuth's industrial paintings.(Books about antiques)
November 1, 2007... In 1927 the accomplished modernist painter Charles Demuth began a series of seven paintings of industrial sites in his native Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the last of which was executed in 1933, shortly before his untimely death from diabetes on...

Calendar.(Calendar)
November 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "A Century of Retablos: The Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780-1880"; to January 27, 2008....

Antiques.(American art and artists)
November 1, 2007... If America is to produce great painters and if young art students wish to assume a place in the history of art in their country, their first desire should be to remain in America, to peer deeper into the heart of American life, rather than...

The American career of Charles Robert Leslie.(Biography)
November 1, 2007... In 1826 the inaugural exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York City was hailed as a welcome and long overdue step in the country's cultural progress. One writer was especially encouraged because the initiation of the academy's...

The making of Making It New.(Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy)(Cover story)
November 1, 2007... Visitors to the exhibition Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, have compared the experience to walking into a scrapbook where letters, photographs, and...

Three rediscovered paintings of currency by John Haberle.
November 1, 2007... Three rare and important trompe l'oeil paintings depicting currency by the New Haven artist John Haberle have recently appeared on the art market. Haberle was a unique figure in nineteenth-century American still-life painting because of his...

Building on Dartmouth's historic American collections: Hood Museum of Art acquisitions since 1985.(Dartmouth College)
November 1, 2007... The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, which opened in a building designed by Charles W. Moore (1925-1993) and Chad Floyd of Centerbrook Architects in 1985, boasts extensive, rich holdings of American art that...

A brilliant formula: Ammi Phillips's women in white.('Lady in White')(Critical essay)
November 1, 2007... For most artists there are defining influences--the work of other artists, period conventions, and historical and personal circumstances--that determine the content and provide a structural framework for their work. For Ammi Phillips there must...

Sears Gallagher, Boston watercolorist, 1865-1955.(Biography)
November 1, 2007... During a career that spanned from the late 1880s until World War II, Sears Gallagher (see Fig. 1) was one of Boston's most respected artists and a key figure in the development of watercolor painting in the United States. (1) At the height of...

"Like a needle to the Pole": the French adventures of Cecilia Beaux.(Biography)
November 1, 2007... Cecilia Beaux (Fig. 3), the celebrated turn-of-the-century figure painter, is traditionally regarded as a product of her Philadelphia upbringing and artistic training, and the city is right to proudly claim her as its own. Beaux was born and...

Calendar of shows.(antiques trade shows)(Calendar)
November 1, 2007... November 16-18. Boston, MA. THE BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR. The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the Hynes Convention Center and will feature 130 dealers from the U.S. and Europe displaying and selling...

Paintings conservation.(Design notes)(Fodera Fine Art Conservation)
November 1, 2007... The well-known deafmute portrait painter John Brewster Jr. was born in Hampton, Connecticut, and learned to paint from the Reverend Joseph Steward. When his brother and sister-in-law moved to Buxton, Maine, in 1795, Brewster accompanied them,...