The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2001

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2001

Myer Myers, New York silversmith.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Myer Myers of New York City is one of the most deservedly esteemed colonial American silversmiths. Now thanks to meticulous research by David L. Barquist, Myers and his considerable surviving output have been placed in the context of...

Kensett in Connecticut.(nineteenth-century American landscape painter John Frederick Kensett)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Nineteenth-century American landscape painters traveled constantly to find new and challenging subject matter. Frequently an artist would find a location to which he returned again and again over the years, painting landscapes that in many...

Delft and dress at Deerfield.(tin-glazed earthenware exhibition)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... T in-glazed earthenware originated in the Near East around the ninth century and was being made in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Delft was a center of production, and after 1567, when the Flemish potters Jasper Andries and...

A restored room at the Gardner Museum.(fresco paintings of Paolo Veronese)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Paolo Veronese was one of the most gifted easel painters and fresco artists working in Italy in the sixteenth century. His exquisite, highly illusionistic frescoes that adorn some of Andrea Palladio's villas in the Veneto region are marvels of...

Museum accessions.(English silverwork collection)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... About twenty years ago Alan and Simone Hartman began collecting English silver, focusing on works in the baroque and rococo styles. The net result, one of the finest such private collections in the world, has recently been acquired by partial...

The golden age of watercolors.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Private collections most often reflect the taste and purse of a single person, unanswerable to anyone else. Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon (1855- 1945) is an excellent example. A wealthy businessman and philanthropist, he collected some four hundred...

Hieronymus Bosch.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Hieronymus Bosch was born Joen van Aken in 's Hertogenbosch, a member of a family of Netherlandish painters. He remained in the town all his life and took a shortened form of the town's name as his own. It is known that he was a devout Catholic...

French cathedrals.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The long and distinguished history of cathedrals in France is the topic of an exhibition entitled 20 siecles en cathedrals (Twenty Centuries of Cathedrals) on view at the Palais du Tau in Reims, France, until November 4. It charts both the...

Rembrandt's women.(exhibition at National Gallery of Scotland)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn painted many women, some of them members of his family and household and others commissioned by the gentry. His first models were his mother and his sisters, followed by his wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, his...

The Decorative Arts Deconstructed.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Denis Diderot did it first in his magisterial Encyclopedie in which, as this worthy successor states, "the clear beam of the Enlightenment was shone on the gloom of the medieval workshop, dispelling many of the mysteries that surrounded the...

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.(diet of American colonists and Puritans)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Abundance and the variety and quality of raw ingredients have been basic to American cookery from the beginning. As early as 1630 a traveler remarked that the coast of Maine "had the smell of a garden." The vision of a land where hunger seemed...

Careswell.(history of Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass)
September 1, 2001... The Historic Winslow House in Marshfield, Massachusetts The Pilgrims came to America just to keep their religion pure but also to win fame and fortune. In 1620 Edward Winslow (1595-1655) arrived in America on board the Mayflower with his...

THE FINE ART OF SARAH CHOATE SEARS.(nineteenth and twentieth century photographer and painter)
September 1, 2001... When asked to provide biographical information for an exhibition of her photographs in 1900, Sarah Choate Sears (Pl. 1) of Boston wrote simply, "I am interested in artistic things." [1] Sears was too humble about her talents. She became an...

Queen Anne and Chippendale chairs in Delaware.
September 1, 2001... "Written records document furniture makers working in Dover, Odessa, New Castle, and Wilmington, Delaware, throughout the eighteenth century. Windsor seating furniture branded by Sampson Barnet (w c. 1776-1 795) and George Young, working at the...

Seventeenth - century English cutlery for the rich man's table.
September 1, 2001... Ritual and display on the dining room table has played on important part in the coolution of so-called polite society, with a great deal of attention given to how people eat in company! Prior to the sixteenth century it was rare for people to...

TREASURES FROICHUAN.(bronzes found in Sichuan Basin, China)
September 1, 2001... Surrounded by a barrier of high mountains and plateaus, the Sichuan Basin of southwestern China was long considered a cultural backwater that developed only after travel to and from China's central region became easier. So it was all the...

Christopher Dresser, the Centennial Exhibition, and the Anglo-American dialogue.
September 1, 2001... The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia launched a period of extraordinary artistic activity in the United States. Centered on the decorative arts and architecture, the American aesthetic movement, as it came to be called, evolved...

Reproduction wallpapers.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As John Hermanson relates in his article "Careswell, the Historic Winslow House in Marshfield, Massachusetts," in this issue (pp. 312-319), the preservation movement in this country started in New England at the turn of the twentieth century....

Correction.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2001... Unfortunately, in "Design notes" for July 2001 we gave incorrect telephone and fax numbers for the New York showroom of the French firm Prelle. The correct telephone number is: 212-683-2081 and the correct fax number is 212-683-2142. We regret...