The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2006

The Biedermeier style.(biedermeier exhibitions )
October 1, 2006... The clean lines and purity of form that characterize decorative and fine arts created during the early nineteenth century in central and northern Europe, particularly in Austria and Germany, in the style known today as Biedermeier, has been an...

Two new museum buildings.
October 1, 2006... Two recently completed building campaigns that answer completely different needs and represent entirely different philosophies open this month at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia and at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado. The former...

Presidential china.(chinese porcelain)
October 1, 2006... Starting with George and Martha Washington, almost every American president and first lady has had distinct opinions about the type of porcelain on which they and their guests dined. Thus, the White House collections contain both enormous...

Arts and crafts from the Cotswolds.
October 1, 2006... The hilly region of Gloucestershire in the west of England known as the Cotswolds has been a destination for writers, artists, architects, craftsmen, and tourists for centuries. The numerous quaint villages that dot this largely agricultural...

A silver anniversary in San Francisco.(silverware exhibition )
October 1, 2006... Twenty-five years ago, a ramshackle pier in San Francisco Bay, empty, save for some enterprising seagulls that had taken up residence inside, hardly seemed an auspicious location for an antiques show. Nonetheless, Mrs. Benjamin H. Rose III...

Museum accessions.(Hispanic Society of America)
October 1, 2006... From its founding in 1904, the Hispanic Society of America in New York City has been a leader in exhibitions and publications on Spanish culture in the old world and the new. Its collections, which are unparalleled in their scope and quality...

Fanfare.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Fans are the focus of two current displays in Britain, one in the Manuscripts Room at Waddeson Manor near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire until October 29, and the other at the Wallace Collection in London, from October 18 until November 14. ...

Rodin in London.(Auguste Rodin)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... It could be argued that Auguste Rodin heralded the modern age of sculpture, in part because he was most successful at the turn of the twentieth century, but mainly because in his monumental public sculpture he broke with traditional and...

The theater of painting.(artist David Teniers)
October 1, 2006... Catalogues are something we take for granted in the twenty-first century. After all, these days temporary exhibitions as well as permanent collections are well documented with detailed and profusely illustrated volumes. The origins of this...

Briefly noted.(Staatliche Kunstsammlungen exhibition )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Over the last few years many improvements have been made to the museums of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden. Most recently, the restored Historic Green Vault (Grunes Gewolbe) in the Royal Palace (Residenz Schloss) was opened. Built in...

Ruins along the Hudson River.(Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... When artists of the Hudson River school, starting with Thomas Cole, set off from a young United States for Italy to witness at firsthand the wonders of ancient civilization, they found the ruins of temples, aqueducts, and civic buildings to be...

Calendar.
October 1, 2006... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures California LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Greene & Greene in Long Beach: Furniture for the Homes of Jennie A. Reeve and Adelaide Tichenor"; to...

Antiques.(renaissance arts)
October 1, 2006... Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant, "Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltburgerlicher Absicht" (Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitian Purpose), 1784 The...

Rene Lalique and French modernism in Canada.
October 1, 2006... Rene Lalique was one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. He began his career as a sculptor and designer of unique pieces of jewelry. He then became a designer and manufacturer of art glass for the consumer market. His...

New Mexico from a car window: Stuart Davis and the search for a modern American art.
October 1, 2006... Art historians commonly remark on the dismissive attitude the painter Stuart Davis developed about the Southwest. And why not? As quoted on the opposite page Davis's own assessment of what he accomplished artistically in New Mexico was fairly...

The Palais Beauharnais, Paris.
October 1, 2006... The interior of the Palais Beauharnais, the residence of the German ambassador to France, is considered a unique art historical and cultural ensemble. (1) There are indeed very few interiors of such quality from the Empire period left in Paris...

Speculative carving: an undocumented practice of seventeenth-century workshops.
October 1, 2006... Carved lengths of timber are occasionally found in the undersides of pieces of English seventeenth-century furniture for which they were obviously not intended. David Knell illustrates a gateleg table and a chest of drawers with this feature,...

The fancy paperweights of the New England Glass Company: "throughout the Victorian era the fancy glass worker found in the paper-weight an object for the exercise of his ingenuity. It was particularly suitable for gift-giving and he could make it an expression of his individual fancy.".
October 1, 2006... The allure of fancy paperweights as described by Lura Woodside Watkins as early as 1930 remains with us today. The term "fancy glass" that she used describes intricate and technically remarkable glass objects, including paperweights, that...

A monument to Antoine Louis Barye.(Antoine Louis Barye, Eugene Guillaume )
October 1, 2006... On June 18, 1894, a crowd gathered in the small park on the southeastern tip of the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris to listen to Eugene Guillaume (1822-1905) dedicate a monument (Fig. 3) to Antoine Louis Barye, the French sculptor and painter who,...

A Ludwigsburg breakfast service with a puzzle.
October 1, 2006... At the beginning of April 1945, after the United States Army had taken the Rhineland and Hesse against very little resistance, their vanguard, the 1107th Combat Engineer Corps, advanced toward Thuringia and the city of Eisenach. A few miles...

Calendar of shows.
October 1, 2006... October 5-9. New York, N.Y. THE FALL ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS FAIR. Location: St. Paul the Apostle Church, Columbus Avenue and 60th Street. Information: 310-287-1896, www.theosatco.com October 6-11. New York, N.Y. THE HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL ART...

French gilt-bronze.
October 1, 2006... Centuries ago, as day turned into night and darkness descended, flickering candles and the soft glow emanating from fireplaces were the only sources of illumination available. To maximize this limited amount of light, objects were made to be...