The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2005

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2005

More about painted finishes.(Current and coming)
September 1, 2005... Two articles in this issue shed light on the types of paint available to Americans during the nineteenth century. One examines the paints used by fraktur artists (see pp. 128-135), and the other focuses on paints the Shakers employed (pp....

Prague in the Middle Ages.(Current and coming)
September 1, 2005... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has an enviable track record for organizing large shows devoted to the artistic climate of a single place during a single historical epoch. An exhibition devoted to Byzantium comes to mind as one...

Church in sharp focus.(Frederic Edwin Church's paintings)
September 1, 2005... Tightly focused exhibitions and their accompanying publications can be far more revealing than their scope might suggest. Such is the case with a small exhibition centered around Frederic Edwin Church's painting A Country Home (illustrated...

Museum accessions.(college art museums)
September 1, 2005... The impending retirement at the end of this academic year of Frances Daly Fergusson after twenty years as president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, prompted the generous donation of a spectacular painting by Pablo Picasso to...

Moscow art fair.(Moscow World Fine Art Fair)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The second annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair will be held at the Manege from September 20 to 26. The Manege is a cultural complex built in 1817 near the Kremlin. The vetted fair has attracted about seventy-five chiefly European dealers with a...

Russian art in Paris.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... Paris is holding its own major exhibition of Russian art. Entitled L'art russe dans la seconde moitie du XIXe siecle: en quete d'identite (The Quest for Identity: Russian Art in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century), it is on view at the...

Clocks in Geneva.(Musee de l'horlogerie et de l'emaillerie )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The Musee de l'horlogerie et de l'emaillerie in Geneva has been closed for renovation since last year and will not reopen for at least three more years. However, about one hundred highlights from the museum's collection are on view at a special...

Two Margarets.(exhibitions on Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy and Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands)
September 1, 2005... The stories of two women named Margaret who lived in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries are intertwined. Margaret of Burgundy, more commonly known as Margaret of York, was born in England in 1446. She was the daughter of Richard...

Preserving old things.(from William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2005... Preserving old things for the future seems a straightforward objective. However, rarely has anyone agreed on the definitions of "preserving" or even "old things." When, for example, does preserving degenerate into restoring? And how old must...

John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker By Morrison H. Heckscher with Lori Zabar MA-306 Our price $75.00 John Townsend of Newport, Rhode Island, was one of the most gifted of all colonial cabinetmakers. This monograph accompanies...

Birds: The Art of Ornithology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Birds: The Art of Ornithology By Jonathan Elphick MA-307 Our price $60.00 The Natural History Museum in London is the repository for some half a million works on paper and one million books, which are the sources for the...

North American Burl Treen: Colonial and Native American.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... North American Burl Treen: Colonial and Native American By Steven S. Powers MA-308 Our price $125.00 Burl, the knotty outgrowth on a tree, was used by the American Indians to fashion bowls, ladles, and other domestic utensils....

Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection By David Park Curry Paper covers MA-309 $21.95 The McGlothlin collection of important impressionist and realist art was formed...

Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West By Margaret E. Bullock MA-310 Our price $29.95 Hassam was introduced to the American West by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, his patron and a fellow artist. The two men traveled together...

The Origins of L'Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Origins of L'Art Nouveau: The Bing Empire Edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Edwin Becker, and Evelyne Posseme MA-311 Our price $69.95 Siegfried Bing opened his shop. L'Art Nouveau, in Paris in 1895. The influence of this...

May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme By Bruce W. Chambers with Amy Ellis and Emily M. Weeks Paper covers MA-312 Our price $29.95 The American impressionist Willard Leroy Metcalf spent the summers between 1905 and 1907...

A Treasured Inheritance: 600 Years of Oxford College Silver.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... A Treasured Inheritance: 600 Years of Oxford College Silver By Helen Clifford Paper covers MA-313 Our price $22.95 The silver collection in the Oxford colleges dates back to the Middle Ages and includes pieces with...

W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design Edited by Ian Hamerton MA-314 Our price $89.50 A designer in the English arts and crafts idiom, William Arthur Smith Benson is best known for his lighting...

Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania's Bucks County and Brandywine Valley.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania's Bucks County and Brandywine Valley By Margaret Bye Richie, John D. Milner, and Gregory D. Huber MA-315 Our price $45.00 This is a fascinating and beautifully photographed look...

Dutch Delfware, 1620-1850.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Dutch Delfware, 1620-1850 By Jan Daniel van Dam with translation by Lynne Richards Paper covers MA-316 Our price $35.00 Starting in the seventeenth century there were more than thirty factories in the Dutch city of Delft...

On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... On Foreign Soil: American Gardeners Abroad By May Brawley Hill MA-317 Our price $40.00 Notable colonial Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin, began a long tradition of creating gardens in Europe that continues to the present....

Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration By Penny Sparke MA-318 Our price $85.00 Elsie de Wolfe made her reputation through her consummate skill as a designer. Her impressive list of affluent clients, included...

Delftware: History of a National Product: Vol. 3, De Porceleyne Fles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Delftware: History of a National Product: Volume 3, De Porceleyne Fles By Titus M. Eliens, et al. MA-319 Our price $60.00 The Delft pottery called De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles has been producing pottery continuously for 350...

Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800 By Thomas P. and Alice K. Kugelman with Robert Lionetti MA-320 Our price $75.00 (available in late August) This groundbreaking study provides a...

Calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Surrealism USA"; to September 25.* California LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Paper Art: Collecting...

Antiques.
September 1, 2005... Democratic nations... will therefore cultivate the arts that serve to render life easy in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful...

Coloring the past: Shaker painted interiors.(Cover Story)
September 1, 2005... A quiet revolution in the understanding and interpretation of Shaker interiors has taken place over the past ten years, and Shaker museums, as well as private owners of Shaker buildings, have integrated the new findings into restoration work....

Digging for trash and finding treasure at Mount Vernon.
September 1, 2005... When workmen digging to install a sprinkler head for a new irrigation system uncovered fragments of an English tin-glazed earthenware punch bowl, pieces of dark green wine bottle glass, oyster shells, and a wrought nail. Mount Vernon's...

Furniture in the Colchester, Connecticut, style.
September 1, 2005... The town of Colchester is located in the grassy uplands of south central Connecticut, midway between Middletown, on the Connecticut River, and Norwich, on the Thames River. Established about 1700, more than a half century later than the river...

The Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten Island, New York City.
September 1, 2005... From a formidable stone arch (Fig. 3) on the periphery of the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island, a circuitous drive-way leads uphill through an overgrown landscape. Graded for horse-drawn carriages, the one-fifth-mile drive was...

Living with antiques: the Marc and Tracy Whitehead collection.
September 1, 2005... A chicken coop in a Chicago high-rise? Surprising, you might think, but only if you do not know Marc and Tracy Whitehead. For these aficionados of American folk art and country furniture, a sophisticated aerie overlooking fashionable Lincoln...

Inspired fantasy: design sources for New England's whole-cloth wool quilts.
September 1, 2005... The earliest quilts on colonial American beds were made of whole cloth, with the visual interest created by the quilting patterns high-lighted by the gloss of the elegant fabrics, such as silk and glazed worsteds. These quilts were costly...

Materials of the Pennsylvania German fraktur artist.(Henry Chapman Mercer )
September 1, 2005... In 1897 Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) delivered a lecture to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia entitled "The Survival of the Mediaeval Art of Illuminative Writing among Pennsylvania Germans." He described a "rude,...

Travel guide.
September 1, 2005... ALABAMA Fairhope BETTY G. HAYNIE ANTIQUES & FINE ART, 15 North Section St., 36532. Offers a fine selection of American, English, and French furniture, also ceramics, silver and 19th century paintings; located in downtown Fairhope, a...

Calendar of shows.(Antiques Show )(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... September 9, 10, and 11, 2005. Washington, D.C. CHEVY CHASE ANTIQUES SHOW. Celebrating its 45th year, the Chevy Chase Antiques Show will be held September 9, 10, and 11 at the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, 7931 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase,...

Modernist textiles.(design trends)
September 1, 2005... When Raoul Dufy declared that "paintings have spilled from their frames on to our clothes and our walls" he was referring to the increasing number of modern painters who became enamored with textile design in the early part of the twentieth...