The Magazine Antiques articles from October 2008

The Magazine Antiques archives from October 2008

Editor's letter.(Editorial)
October 1, 2008... Although the theme this month is international, an annual issue for ANTIQUES, the perspective, quite naturally, is American. Like Henry James, who unwrapped the mystery of our national character by sending Christopher Newman, Lambert Strether,...

Current and coming.('1772 Philadelphia Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work' and 'The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers' Prices' and other art exhibitions in Philadelphia)
October 1, 2008... Philadelphia--the 1772 price book and Thomas Chambers One of the most exciting episodes in our field in recent years was the discovery in 2003 of a long-lost printed version of the 1772 Philadelphia Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, which...

Chase nudes.(Museum accessions)(William Merritt Chase's nude paintings)
October 1, 2008... When thinking of paintings by William Merritt Chase these days, it is more often his expansive Long Island beach scenes with Peconic Bay skies or the large views of his art-laden studio that come to mind. So to see these small almost quiescent...

Old masters and more.(Farther afield)(In Remembrance of Things Past)
October 1, 2008... Several notable exhibitions opening in Europe this October turn to the old masters to reexamine, each in its own way, the artist's role in society, both yesterday and today. In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust described Andrea...

San Francisco's Jackson Square.(THE SCENE)
October 1, 2008... Like Times Square in New York, San Francisco's Jackson Square is not a square in the old-fashioned sense, but rather a district of the city. The attractions of the respective squares, however, are poles apart on the cultural spectrum. ...

Audubon.(Audubon: Early Drawings)
October 1, 2008... Audubon: Early Drawings. Introduction by Richard Rhodes, Scientific Commentary by Scott V. Edwards, Foreword by Leslie A. Morris. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008. In the realm of ornithology, few works occupy such...

Egg and Nest.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Egg and Nest by Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S. Hall, Rene Corado. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008. The three authors of this fascinating book are respectively a world-renowned photographer and writer; the executive...

All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.(Brief article)
October 1, 2008... All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins by Valerie Bramwell and Robert M. Peck. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 2008. Early in his career, Hawkins, a British painter and naturalist with a vast knowledge of...

Animal and Sporting Artists in America.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Animal and Sporting Artists in America by F. Turner Reuter Jr., National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia, 2008. From Audubon to Frederic Remington to Andrew and Newell Convers Wyeth, the works of animal and sporting artists have...

Antiques.(America's relations with UK and France)
October 1, 2008... I trust, that our alliance and intercourse with France may enable us, as a nation to shake off the leading-strings of Britain,--the English sternness and formality of manner; retaining, however, sufficient of their gravity, to produce, with...

Indian silver for the Raj.(Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj)
October 1, 2008... Some categories of objects seem so well researched that it is hard to imagine that there is any new ground to discover. The art of the silvermith has long seemed to be one such area, so it is especially thrilling to be confronted with...

Timeless stones and bronzes: the collection of Philip Hewat-Jaboor.
October 1, 2008... Philip Hewat-Jaboor, who has formed a rare collection of marbles, porphyry, and other hardstones over thirty years, has recently built an extraordinary skylit library in which they are displayed among his extensive collection of books on all...

The collector.(Philip Hewat-Jaboor)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... As he was tracking down the materials for an exhibition on the great Regency collector and decorator Thomas Hope, Philip Hewat-Jaboor was also creating his own magical surrounds in the form of a library buried in a steep bank in the garden of...

The purists Paul Follot and Maurice Dufrene.(on art deco)
October 1, 2008... At the 1925 Exposition internationale des Arts decoratifs et Industriels modernes in Paris, the unquestioned star of the event was the furniture designer and ensemblier Emile Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933). Critics hailed his showcase...

George Harvey's Anglo-American.
October 1, 2008... The English-born artist George Harvey is primarily remembered for his spectacular watercolor landscapes, although he was also a painter in oils, a miniaturist, architect, poet, and writer. In the 1830s and early 1840s he created a series of...

The global eye of Sherman Lee.(In memoriam)
October 1, 2008... Esteemed for his unmatched expertise in Asian painting and sculpture, Sherman E. Lee made the Cleveland Museum of Art into a world class collection thanks to his all-encompassing taste and pioneering belief that the decorative arts are anything...

Artistic luxury at the 1900: exposition Universelle in Paris.(Dance review)
October 1, 2008... For the better part of 1900 much of the Western world's attention was focused on Paris, the "City of Light," glowing with as much optimism for the future as with electric illumination. (1) There, against a backdrop of legendary dance,...

A newly discovered signature on a piece of Irish furniture.(John Kirckoffer)
October 1, 2008... One of the great advantages of writing a book on an almost unknown subject is hat an abundance of information generally comes to light following us publication. Therefore it was a cause of much celebration for . when during a visit to the...

Exhibitions symposiums lectures.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
October 1, 2008... ALABAMA Birmingham Birmingham Museum of Art: "Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin"; to November 9. * ARIZONA Phoenix Phoenix Art Museum: "One for All, and All for One: The Jumpsuit": to February 1, 2009....

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
October 1, 2008... October 3-8 New York, NY. THE HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL ART + DESIGN FAIR, 1900-2008. New York's Finest. All exhibits for sale and all strictly vetted. International dealers presenting furniture, paintings sculpture photography, jewelry,...

Clearing house.
October 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...

Revivals.(Endnotes)(on the replanting of magnolias in New Orleans, and the inauguration of the New Orleans Antiques Forum)
October 1, 2008... Among the many devastating losses suffered by New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina three years ago, the magnificent magnolia trees that lined streets and ornamented parks and private properties are rarely mentioned. But the brackish waters that...