The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2001

Eakins in Philadelphia.(Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... This autumn devotees of the American artist Thomas Eakins will want to make haste to Philadelphia where two impressive exhibitions of his work are on view. As a native son of Philadelphia, Ealtins was selected as the subject of a large...

Candace Wheeler, designer and reformer.(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
October 1, 2001... Between the close of the Civil War and the Panic of 1873 thousands of women who had been financially dependent on husbands, brothers, or fathers suddenly found themselves without any means of support. These needy women became the catalyst for...

Theater in porcelain.(Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... In her article in this issue, Gloria Deak, delves into the history of the theater in New York City particularly as it relates to Fanny Kemble, who stormed the stage to rave reviews in the early nineteenth century Theater has provided live...

William Beckford, collector.(Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, New York)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... William Beckford was one of Britain's most flamboyant eccentrics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was known not only because of his great wealth but also through his writings, astute patronage, insatiable collecting,...

Asia Society renovates.(New York City)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The Asia Society in New York City was founded by John D. Rockefeller 3rd in 1956, at what was then called Asia House on East Sixty-fourth Street It was Rockefeller's idea that the society should be a center in North America where Asian art,...

Museum accessions.(June and Henry Weldon donate collection of English pottery to Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... In 1972 June deH. ("Jimmy") Weldon came across a small earthenware cockerel covered in a multicolor glaze that struck her fancy. Not only did it resemble the logo of her husband's farm products business, but it was associated with an...

Five centuries of portraits.(Face to Face: Portraits from Five Centuries, exhibit)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Portraits inform the viewer of what the subject looks like, but by costume and attributes, the subject's character and social position can be discerned. Initially, portraits were the province of royalty the nobility, and the clergy. After all,...

French marquetry.(Pictures in Wood: The Hidden Colours of French Furniture, exhibit)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The decorative technique of marquetry was first devised in the fifteenth century and has changed little since then. Wood, ivory bone, metal, or other materials are inlaid into a sheet of veneer that is in turn fixed to the surface of a piece of...

Painted ladies.(Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II, exhibit)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The reign of Charles II (1660-1685) was characterized by religious strife, the plague in 1664 and 1665, the Great Fire of London the following year, and constant negotiations with Parliament and France. But there were also lighter moments....

Tate centenary.(reopening of Tate Britain museum and exhibit Exposed: The Victorian Nude)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... The Tate Britain Centenary Development will be complete with the opening of what is now known as Tate Britain in the old Tate Gallery building on Millbank in London. The inaugural show, entitled Collection 1500-2001, opens on November 1. It is...

Exploring Martin's Hundred.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Martin's Hundred, on the north bank of the James River six miles from Williamsburg, Virginia was colonized in 1619 by some 220 English emigrants who disembarked from the ship Gift of God, An Indian raid in 1622 left about half of them dead or...

Editorial.(historic development of and social views toward museums)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 1, 2001... A "Museum" in the American sense of the word means a place of amusement, wherein there shall be a theatre, some wax figures, a giant and a dwarf or two, a jumble of pictures, and a few live snakes. In order that there may be some excuse for the...

VIENNESE GLASS DESIGN 1895-1925.
October 1, 2001... Venice and Bohemia have long been rival centers of fine glassmaking in Europe, and each reached its greatest height in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While many styles of glassware were manufactured in bath places, the production and...

WORN WITH PRIDE.(North Western Native American clothing and textiles)
October 1, 2001... Native American textiles and garments from the Northwest Coast The rich wrap themselves up sometimes in white blankets, manufactured in the country, from the wool of the wild sheep, which b as soft and fine as the Spanish merino. These...

The MARIO PRAZ MUSEUM IN ROME.
October 1, 2001... To those who would choose Mario Praz's books An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration or The House of Life as essential for survival on a desert island, a visit to his former apartment in the Palazzo Primoli on via Zanardelli in Rome, now...

Gifts to the czars: Seventeenth-century European silver from the Kremlin Armory in Moscow.
October 1, 2001... The Armory Museum in the Moscow Kremlin (see P1. II) has one of the largest collections of European Renaissance and baroque silver in the world. One reason for its magnificence is the richness of the gifts brought to the Russian czars by...

The restoration Joseph Hartford Museum.
October 1, 2001... In 1792 the Connecticut legislature authorized the building of a new State House in Hartford. It was designed by Charles Bulfinch (1763--1844) and was his first public commission, followed by the Massachusetts State House (completed in 1798)...

FANNY KEMBLE'S NEW YORK.(actress)
October 1, 2001... By my troth I am not nervous," [1] avowed Fanny Kemble to visitors who called at her hotel some hours before she was to make her first stage appearance in New York City. The English actress was under contract for an extended engagement in the...

Provencal fabrics.(reproductions of pieces from textile art collection of Andre-Jean Cabanel)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Filling antique arrmoires with eighteenth- and nineteenth- century quilts might seem an unlikely collecting passion for a French farmer and truffle hunter, yet over the last four decades Andre-Jean Cabanel has assembled an important collection...