The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2006

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2006

A glass building for glass.(Toledo Museum of Art )
September 1, 2006... The encyclopedic glass collections at the Toledo Museum of Art are known around the world, but for the last three years nearly all of the more than seven thousand glass objects--encompassing everything from tablewares and serving pieces to...

William Ranney, versatile storyteller.
September 1, 2006... The nineteenth-century American artist William Ranney has long been held in high esteem for his evocative paintings of the nation's westward expansion. Sometimes these are poignant depictions of settlers on the move, suffering hardships and...

Medieval faces.(Francois Villon)
September 1, 2006... About 1460 the French writer Francois Villon penned his interpretation of how his mother might have responded to the decoration of the walls of her local church: "I'm just a poor old woman/Who knows nothing and can't read./On the walls of my...

Museum accessions.(Florida State University)
September 1, 2006... It is September again, the beginning of the school year in many parts of the country and so a good time to look at some of the recent acquisitions made by college and university art galleries. In 2000 Florida State University in Sarasota...

Universal Leonardo.(Leonardo da Vinci )
September 1, 2006... This autumn a number of exhibitions devoted to Leonardo da Vinci are being held throughout Europe. There is no obvious reason, such as an anniversary, but rather a desire on the part of the Council of Europe to promote Leonardo's legacy through...

Museum reopenings.(Kelvingrove Art Gallery)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Two museums that have undergone extensive refurbishment have now reopened. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow opened on July 11 after a three-year, [pounds sterling]27.9 million overhaul that created modern facilities, services,...

Briefly noted.(Grand Palais to be renovated)(British Art Fair)(Edward Seago's exhibition)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... In 1995 part of the roof of the Grand Palais collapsed, and since then the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires has been held in the Carrousel du Louvre, a subterranean space with low ceilings. The repair work on the Grand Palais has now been...

Creative idleness in the eighteenth century.(Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... When I was a child, the dusty dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City used to hypnotize and terrify me simultaneously. It was a small leap to animate these large animals and send them crashing through the glass....

Calendar.
September 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.(art trade )
September 1, 2006... [Rhode Islanders] are not, however, so scrupulous in keeping up to the terms of their charter, often dispensing with it in some pretty essential points, and taking liberties not only detrimental to the other provinces, but even to the...

The sailor's eye.(Gaston Liebert)
September 1, 2006... On a pleasant day in May 1888, Midshipman Gaston Liebert sat on the deck of the French steam sloop of war the Vire, then at anchor in Tubua Bay, Raiatea, in the French Polynesian archipelago. Looking north, he drew a panorama of the harbor,...

When a collection matures: silver at Colonial Williamsburg.
September 1, 2006... A collection takes on a life of its own. It can seem joyful at one moment, serious another, but there is always one primal quality: life. A collection lives, and in living, it grows, often in unexpected directions but always with a mind of its...

Discoveries in Philadelphia needlework: the Tree of Life embroideries.
September 1, 2006... A new category of colonial Philadelphia needlework has been identified. I have named it the Tree of Life pictorial group because the eight known examples all feature a dominant tree with intertwined branches of flowers or leaves characteristic...

Architectural japanning in an early Newport house.
September 1, 2006... Already in the 1690s, nearly a century before the opening of the American China trade, colonial Americans sailed into the Indian Ocean in search of Asian commodities and wealth. However, in 1698 the English East India Company declared a...

Everything old is new again: Grandma Moses and the colonial revival.
September 1, 2006... Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses is, or was in the 1940s and 1950s, a kind of icon of Americanism as much for who she was and what she remembered as for her paintings. She explained their subject matter in highly personal terms to anybody...

Bow first patent porcelain: new discoveries in science and art.(William Cookworthy )
September 1, 2006... The first recognized discovery and production of a hard-paste porcelain body in England has been attributed to William Cookworthy (1705-1780) of Plymouth. (1) He apparently modeled the composition of his porcelain after the recipe contained in...

French colonial West Indian armoires.
September 1, 2006... The first chronicle of the French West Indies was written by the Jesuit priest Jacques Bouton in 1640 and describes how the colonists slept in cotton hammocks, which sometimes served as couches during the day. The only piece of furniture would...

Calendar of shows.
September 1, 2006... September 10. Grayslake, Ill. GRAYSLAKE ANTIQUE MARKET. Features up to 500 dealers every second Sunday: Upcoming show dates: Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 10. Location: Lake County Fairgrounds, (Chicago area). For information: 715-526-9769,...

This doctor makes house calls.(Michael Waltons antique furniture specialists)
September 1, 2006... Living with antique furniture provides immense pleasure, but it also comes with responsibilities. Whether made by a cabinetmaker working in a rural town in New England in the eighteenth century using indigenous woods like pine or curly maple or...