The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2003

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2003

Early photography.
September 1, 2003... The invention of the daguerreotype was announced in Paris in 1839, four years after the process had actually been invented. The earliest daguerreotypes date from 1837, but it took two more years for Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and his...

Ceramics in Maryland.(Homewood House Museum.)
September 1, 2003... In the early eighteenth century affluent American colonists were ordering household goods and luxury items made all over the world. More specifically, archaeological findings and period documents confirm that as early as the mid-seventeenth...

French artists in Eternal City.
September 1, 2003... Two hundred years ago the Academic de France a Rome (French Academy in Rome), which had been founded by Louis XIV in 1666, moved into the Villa Medici above the Spanish Steps on the Pincian Hill, where it remains today. The aims of the academy...

Chinese landscapes.
September 1, 2003... Throughout China's long history, capital cities were seats of culture in which literature, calligraphy, theater, and the fine arts flourished. This was especially true of the walled city of Nanjing, in former times called Jinling (meaning gold...

Women artists in New York City.
September 1, 2003... The National Academy of Design in New York City is one of the country's oldest continuously operating arts organizations. Loosely modeled on the Royal Academy of Arts in London, it was founded by a group of artists late in 1825, and the...

Museum accessions.
September 1, 2003... September--traditionally the opening month of a new school year--seems a fitting time to look at acquisitions made by some of the many fine museums on college campuses. The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in New Haven,...

European fairs.(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... Four fairs are being held in three countries this month. The first, a new event being held at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris from September 12 to 18, is called Le Salon du Collectionneur--Paris and is organized by the Syndicat National des...

Andrew Lloyd Webber collection exhibition.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the twentieth century's most successful composers of stage musicals, owns a significant collection of art, much of it British of the Victorian era. He also has eighteenth- and twentieth- century works encompassing...

Scottish Colourists in London.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... In the early twentieth century, four Scottish painters, much later dubbed the Colourists, shared the influence of France, where they spent considerable time. They were Samuel John Peploe, Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, George Leslie Hunter,...

A Wellcome at the British Museum.(Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Solomon Wellcome.)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... Henry Solomon Wellcome was born in 1853 in Wisconsin into a poor family. From his earliest years he was fascinated by science, particularly medicine. This interest caused him to travel all over the world collecting artifacts, instruments, and...

The artist Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) was born in Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2003... The artist Herman Wendelborg Hansen (1854-1924) was born in Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein. In 1877, drawn by tales of the American West, Hansen immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City for a year. He then moved to Chicago...

The American sculptor Sally James Farnham (1869-1943) will be the subject of a forthcoming biography.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The American sculptor Sally James Farnham (1869-1943) will be the subject of a forthcoming biography. In 1896 she married Paulding Farnham, the chief designer and director of the jewelry division at Tiffany and Company in New York City. Five...

The Corning Museum of Glass in Coming, New York, is seeking the whereabouts of a cut-glass stand in the form of a temple (illustrated above) made in the second half of the nineteenth century most likely in France or England for use in India.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2003... The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, is seeking the wareabouts of a cutglass stand in the form of a temple (illustrated above) made in the second half of the nineteenth century most likely in France or England for use in India. The...

Irish and Scottish painting.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Brian O'Doherty, the artist and critic, has described Irish art as 'the gate lodge beside the big house of Irish Writing.' This still remains true, but we hope that we have been able to push the squeaking hinges of the gate a little further...

Calendar: the arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures.(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... Alabama MONTGOMERY Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: "Nostalgic Journey: American Illustrations from the Delaware Art Museum [Wilmington]"; September 6 to December 7. * Alaska JUNEAU Alaska State Museum: "Case and Draper...

Antiques.
September 1, 2003... Every Town ought to have a Minister[.] New York has first a Chaplain belonging to the Fort of the Church of England; Secondly, a Dutch Calvinist, thirdly a French Calvinist, fourthly a Dutch Lutheran--Here bee not many of the Church of England;...

Silver from the First Church of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
September 1, 2003... In 1810 the members of the First Church of Deerfield, Massachusetts, voted that "a new blank book be procured for the use of the church" into which the church records would be transcribed. The Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859) noted that the...

The Coke-Garrett House Williamsburg, Virginia.
September 1, 2003... While some historic houses endure as monuments to a specific moment in the past, the Coke-Garrett House in Williamsburg, Virginia, symbolizes change over time (Pl. II, Fig. 1). It demonstrates how dwellings can be adapted to different...

Pacific Coast waterfowl decoys.
September 1, 2003... Curiously, the first collectors of American bird decoys early in the twentieth century failed to acquire examples from the Pacific Coast, which were among the most creative designs ever wrought. This omission can be traced to Joel Barber...

The decorative hardware of Enoch Robinson.
September 1, 2003... Boston dealers consider that the best locks in the country are the hand-made goods turned out by such firms as Enoch Robinson's," wrote Clarence Howard Blackall (1857-1941), the founder and first president of the Boston Architectural Club. (1)...

Charles Dickens's first visit to the New World.
September 1, 2003... He was the darling of the media on both sides of the Atlantic, and who can wonder? While still in his twenties, Charles Dickens had conceived five novels teeming with new ideas and bulging with characters as colorful as they were original. Who...

A short history of the Tennessee sugar chest.
September 1, 2003... The Tennessee sugar chest was first introduced to readers of The Magazine ANTIQUES nearly seventy years ago in the first serious article on the subject ever to appear outside the South. (1) So it seems appropriate that new discoveries of this...

Travel guide.(Directory)
September 1, 2003... COLORADO Denver ERON JOHNSON ANTIQUES, 451 Broadway, 80203. Offers a vast collection of period furniture, lighting, accessories and architectural items from the 17th-19th centuries. View over 6,500 items from around the globe online...

Calendar of shows.(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... September 3-7. Brimfield, MA. HEART OF THE MART. Opens 9am, Wednesday, September 3rd for over 600 dealers of antiques and collectibles from across the USA and abroad. Part of Brimfield's famous 4,000 exhibitor outdoor extravaganza which...

Cutting edge and retro, simultaneously.(Design notes)
September 1, 2003... Pierre Pozier (1880-1952), who joined the fabric house F. Schumacher and Company in 1899 as a textile designer (later serving as president and secretary), possessed that rare combination of a gifted aesthetic eye and a sharp intuition for...