The Magazine Antiques articles from November 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from November 2008

The great subject of much of American painting is, of course, the country itself.(EDITOR'S LETTER)
November 1, 2008... This month ANTIQUES forsakes three-dimensional objects for its annual American painting issue. Until nearly forty years ago, as Martin Filler reminds us in his tribute to the art historian Barbara Novak, American painting, at least...

New York Public Library.(Current and coming)(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... The exhibitions program at the New York Public Library--comprising an annual roster of some fifteen small, focused shows that explore the fine and performing arts, as well as literature, history, and current events--is a tremendous cultural...

Joshua shaw.(Museum accessions)(Biography)
November 1, 2008... In 1954 John I. H. Baur, then curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, wrote of "a group of obscure American artists" who "relying on infinitely subtle variations of tone and color" captured "their magical effects."...

Cultural exchange.(Farther afield)
November 1, 2008... This fall's crop of exhibitions revels in a fascination with cultural exchange: in Saint Petersburg, it is European tea drinking; in Dresden, imperial China is compared to the Saxon-Polish court; in the vicinity of Paris, the foreign-born Mary,...

On books.(ANTIQUES)(The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez. Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, 2008 A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a...

Fine artisan frames.(Design notes)
November 1, 2008... The noted nineteenth-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole once wrote, "The frame is the soul of the painting." And, indeed, artists have always recognized the important role that frames play in the exhibition of their paintings....

Antiques.(Marsden Hartley)
November 1, 2008... Of course an over self-conscious straining after a nationalistic form of expression may defeat itself. But this is merely because self-consciousness is almost always a drawback. The self-conscious striving after originality also tends to defeat...

Ernest Blumenschein and the Indians.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... Earnest L. Blumenschein (Fig. 2) is recognized for multiple and magnificent contributions to American art and culture. Many of his most laudable accomplishments, and they were legion, seem to counterpose one another--he was a virtuoso violinist...

Seattle goes boom: a colorful history, a maverick spirit, and a tsunami of recent donations has made the Seattle Art Museum a mecca for American art.
November 1, 2008... In addition to its seventy-fifth birthday, the Seattle Art Museum is celebrating donations of a billion dollars' worth of art, including what some think is the best Edward Hopper in private hands (Fig. 11) and multiple Willem de Koonings, Mark...

American art and the Seattle Art Museum.(A sense of place)
November 1, 2008... When and where the Seattle Art Museum was founded greatly shaped its collecting of American art--far from the art centers of the East Coast and comparatively late in this slowly developing city on the Pacific Northwest frontier. Long a student...

Reflections: Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... In the overexposed biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, there remain a few relatively undisturbed corners. Her devotion to Charles Demuth is one. An exhaustive study of their relationship, however, is inconceivable; far too many documents are...

Barbara Novak and the resurrection of nineteenth-century American painting.(Founding Mother)
November 1, 2008... Before Barbara Novak helped open the world's eyes to the glories of our country's nineteenth-century painting, the luminists were dismissed as provincial marine topographers and the Hudson River school regarded as embarrassing proof of a...

The devil went down to Brooklyn; William Moore Davis and the "Legend of Martense's Lane".
November 1, 2008... The Brooklyn Historical Society owns a fascinating series of four charcoal and white chalk drawings by the Long Island artist William Moore Davis illustrating the "Legend of Martense's Lane" (Figs. 1-4). This indigenous folktale, probably...

Poetry of the air: Thomas Moran's Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... Thomas Moran is best known today for his paintings of the American West, particularly the Grand Canyon, and of Venice. But the rich colors of nature's rocks and the reflective qualities of Venetian canals were not his only triumphs. He also...

Seymour Joseph Guy.(Biography)
November 1, 2008... Seymour Joseph Guy established a reputation in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century as one of the finest genre painters of children. His primarily cabinet-sized pictures were esteemed by his fellow artists and leading collectors of...

Frederic Edwin Church's our Banner in the sky: an update on an American icon.
November 1, 2008... Early in 1980 a nice lady from Connecticut named Dora Schwimer (1910-1997) brought a small unsigned oil painting to Sotheby Parke Bernet in New York. It depicted a scene at dawn or twilight that featured lurid red and yellow streaks of clouds...

Exhibitions symposiums lectures.(EVENTS)(art exhibitions)(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... ARIZONA Phoenix Phoenix Art Museum: "One for All, and All for One; The Jumpsuit"; to February 1,2009. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Hearst the Collector": November 9 to February 1,2009.* San...

Calendar of shows.(antiques shows)(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... November 7-9 Atlanta. GA. SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET Held the second weekend of every month. Hours: Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission: $5. good for the whole weekend. Location: Atlanta Expo Centers. For...

Clearing house.(art dealers)(Directory)
November 1, 2008... Wanted to Buy HIGHEST PRICES PAID for 19th Century American furniture by Belter, Meeks, Herter, Hunzinger, Roux. Phyfe and Lannuier, Wooton, Moore Desks. Pottier & Stymus, and Kimbel & Cabus. Send photographs and prices to, or call Richard...

Transforming the aesthetic appreciation of paintings.(DEFINING DUMMY)(Interview)(Company overview)
November 1, 2008... COMPANY BRIEF Founded in 1983 and located on Manhattan's Upper Bast Side, Eli Wilner & Company (www. eliwilner.com) is internationally regarded as a leading dealer, restorer, and collector of 1.9th-and 20th-century European and American frames....