The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2002

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2002

French furniture in Boston. (Current and Coming).(Boston Museum of Fine Arts' conservation, exhibit of French furniture suite)
October 1, 2002... James Swan, a self-made Scottish immigrant who arrived in Boston around 1765, began as an apprentice in a countinghouse and became a man of international reputation with a sizeable fortune. He accomplished this metamorphosis in two ways: first...

Hand-colored prints. (Current and Coming).(exhibit Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts )
October 1, 2002... Northern Renaissance prints immediately bring to mind Albrecht Durer, whose bard-edged engraved lines and seemingly infinite cross-hatchings give his prints extraordinary depth and tonal qualities. Color seems entirely unnecessary. Not so in...

Renaissance ceramics. (Current and Coming).(exhibit Gods, Saints and Heroes: Ceramic Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance)
October 1, 2002... During the Renaissance vibrant pigments were not only used to color prints in northern Europe. In Italy they were used to decorate ceramics. Many of these pigments were newly discovered and added greatly to the earlier palette. In Italian wares...

A modernist painting collection. (Current and Coming).(exhibit Living with Art: Early American Modernism from the Baker/Pisano Collection of the Heckscher Museum of Art)
October 1, 2002... The collection of American modernist paintings and works on paper formed by Ronald G. Pisano and D. Frederick Baker and donated over many years to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, is a revealing and highly personal...

Mapping colonial America. (Current and Coming).(early map exhibit; book Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America )
October 1, 2002... By the sixteenth century Europeans were aware of the location of the new world through maps. Explorers and traders returned home with hand-drawn maps that were subsequently published and were important tools for promoting emigration to the...

For students and collectors. (Current and Coming).(Corning Museum of Glass' seminar on Bohemian, Czech art glass )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Now in its forty-first year, the annual seminar of the Coming Museum of Glass takes place from October 16 through 19 in Corning, New York. This year it focuses on Bohemian and Czech glass of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several of...

Thomas Richards, clockmaker? (Collectors' Notes).(clock seller, possible clockmaker)(Biography)
October 1, 2002... Peter Spellane, a reader and clock collector, has contributed the following fascinating investigation of Thomas Richards of New York City, best known as an agent for the famous Massachuseas clockmaker Simon Willard. He writes: To sell his...

Mark Gertler. (Report from Europe).(exhibit Mark Gertler: A New Perspective )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Mark Gertler was born in East London in 1891, the son of Jewish Austro-Polish immigrants. He showed early promise as an artist and enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1908, where he was a contemporary of the painter and draftsman...

Dresden porcelain collection. (Report from Europe).(reopening of porcelain museum Zwinger in Dresden, Germany)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Augustus II (the Strong), the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, was a passionate collector of paintings, sculpture, antiquities, and above all porcelain. By 1721 he had assembled more than 14,500 pieces of porcelain from China and Japan...

Four centuries of the VOC. (Report from Europe).(exhibits The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600-1950, The Hare Anti the Moon: Arita Porcelain in Japan, 1620-1820)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), or Dutch East India Company, was founded in 1602 as an amalgam of a number of competing trading companies It marked the beginning of great economic and cultural growth in the Netherlands, as the...

Constable in Paris. (Report from Europe).(exhibit Constable: Le choix de Lucian Freud )
October 1, 2002... The last time John Constable exhibited his work in Paris was at the Salon of 1824, when his large painting The Hay Wain (illustrated on p. 62) so impressed Eugene Delacroix that he reworked parts of his own Massacres at Chios (Musee du Louvre,...

Fundamentals. (Books About Antiques).(Bibliography)
October 1, 2002... A fifteenth-century observer described artist's brushes made of miniver fur mounted in quill handles. Painting on canvas thrived in Venice, which was so damp that frescoes aged badly. The word "cartoon," in its meaning as a humorous drawing,...

Queries.(Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation's scholarships; catalogue raisonne of sculptor Harriet Whitney Frishmuth; research on wallpaper patterns reconstruction )
October 1, 2002... Established in 1991, the Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation is a Canadian nonprofit federally incorporated charitable trust. It seeks to encourage and support the knowledge about ceramics, with emphasis on the production of English and...

Calendar.(exhibits, related events )(Calendar)
October 1, 2002... By Kathleen Luhrs The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "Micro Painting: The Portrait Miniature"; to December 22. * LONG BEACH Long Beach...

Antiques.(former king Joseph Bonaparte in United States; visit of American Relution hero Lafayette; democratic ideals in United States)
October 1, 2002... What is the throne?--a bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. I am the state--I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public--people wash their dirty linen at home....

Metamorphoses: the interiors and furniture of Dagobert Peche.(designer )
October 1, 2002... A recurring subject of articles about early twentieth-century arts and crafts written about the time of World War I was the distinction between the Austrian and the German way of making everyday objects. It was generally agreed that the former...

Stanford White's house for Payne Whitney in New York City.(architect)
October 1, 2002... McKim, Mead and White was unquestionably the preeminent American architectural firm in the late nineteenth century. Together, the three partners, Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846-1928), and Stanford White, created...

Point Breeze: Joseph Bonaparte's American.(estate of former king in New Jersey; art, furniture collections )
October 1, 2002... On ornament to society (1) was the way Napoleon I (r. 1804-1815) described his older brother Joseph Bonaparte (P1. II). Although this description had an edge to it, since Joseph Bonaparte had not been the ambitious ruler Napoleon had hoped for,...

Napoleon's fauteuil: from Paris to Point Breeze.
October 1, 2002... In December 1867, the New-York Historical Society in New York City was given the majestic French armchair (fanteuil) illustrated in Plate III. A letter accompanying the donation asserted that it was the "armchair in which Napoleon Bonaparte had...

Lacquer and japanning in seventeenth-century Flemish and Dutch paintings.
October 1, 2002... Trade with the Far East had a far-reaching influence on the West. The Portuguese established the trade during the sixteenth century, joined early in the following century by other European nations. The imported luxury goods, such as silks,...

Mahantongo blanket chests.
October 1, 2002... Isolated by mountain ranges to the northwest and southeast, the long, fertile Mahantongo Creek valley in central Pennsylvania is a land where time had slowed. The Pennsylvania Germans who lived there between the late 1820s and the early 1840s...

Calendar of Shows.(antiques shows, related events )(Calendar)
October 1, 2002... October 2002 Calendar of Shows October 5 & 6. Westport, CT. WESTPORT STAPLES FALL HARVEST ANTIQUES SHOW 70 North Ave., Westport, CT. A diversified, well balanced antique show to benefit Staples High School student run radio station....

Conserving a French furniture suite. (Design Notes).
October 1, 2002... The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the fortunate owner of a suite of documented eighteenth-century French furniture with a history of ownership in the Swan family of Massachusetts. These pieces have recently been conserved, reupholstered, and...