The Magazine Antiques articles from September 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from September 2007

Ashcan artists depict leisure.(Current and coming)(Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925)
September 1, 2007... Around the turn of the twentieth century a group of American artists (Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, Maurice B. Prendergast, and Everett Shinn) were disappointed by the conservative...

Tiffany stained-glass windows.(Current and coming)(Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate)
September 1, 2007... One could not help but notice when walking through the important and beautiful exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate, held recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, that Tiffany had...

American landscape painting.(Current and coming)(Entitled Hudson River School Trilogy: A Focused Collection; Drawings from Dia; and Selections from the Permanent Collection)
September 1, 2007... Among the most American expressions of all the various movements in American art, works by Hudson River school landscape painters truly stand apart. While it was a landscape style practiced by many, each artist had his own interpretation of the...

American watercolors.(Current and coming)
September 1, 2007... Because they fade when exposed to light for long intervals, works on paper, including watercolors, should not be exhibited for long periods of time. Thus, when a museum chooses to place a selection of watercolors from its collection on view, it...

Museum accessions.(Theophilus Wheeler Walker building)
September 1, 2007... In 1891 Harriet and Sophia Walker commissioned Charles Follen McKim of the noted New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White to design a building to be used exclusively for the display and study of art at Bowdoin College in...

The first emperor.(Report from Europe)(Qin Shi Huang)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In 221 BC the king of Qin, later Qin shi huang, unified various warring states into the country we now know as China. Known as the first emperor, he created an impressive military machine; presided over the standardization of currency, script,...

Turner watercolors.(Report from Europe)(Joseph Mallord William Turner)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Clore Gallery forms the wing of the Tate Britain in London that houses the Turner Bequest--oils, watercolors, sketchbooks, and documents related to Joseph Mallord William Turner. Next month many of the works of art normally on view there...

Joachim Patinir.(Report from Europe)(Flemish painter)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Few biographical facts are known about the Flemish painter Joachim Patinir. He was born between 1480 and 1485, had joined the Antwerp Guild by 1515, and died in that city in 1524. In 1521 he met Albrecht Durer, who described him as a "good...

Renaissance silver.(Report from Europe)(exhibit)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Renaissance princes, both temporal and spiritual, commissioned works in silver, silver-gilt, and gold. Since these objects served a number of roles including diplomacy, bribery, and as status symbols, practicality was not always at the...

Arts and crafts pottery.(Books about antiques)(Art and Reform: Sara Galner, the Saturday Evening Girls, and the Paul Revere Pottery)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... When the eight members of the Gainer family were finally reunited in Boston's North End following their immigration from the region of Galicia that is now in Ukraine, they settled in an overcrowded slum populated mostly by southern Italians and...

Calendar.(art exhibits)(Calendar)
September 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Classic New Mexico, 1898-1950: Paintings from Valley Collections"; to September 23. [??] "Mexico and Modern...

Antiques.(Shenandoah Valley of Virginia)
September 1, 2007... The interior parts of America afford the fairest prospect of advantage to settlers.... These parts of Virginia and the Carolinas are the paradise of America. Richard Champion, Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine, October 1787 At...

Painted boxes and miniature chests from Shenandoah County, Virginia: the Stirewalt group.
September 1, 2007... In 1973 the first exhibition of Virginia painted furniture was presented at what is now the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. (1) Several groups of furniture included in the show have since been discussed in...

The legacy of Herman Marcus and Marcus and Company: Part II, the Marcus and Company years, 1892-1941.
September 1, 2007... Following the retirement of George B. Jaques (c. 1843-1910) from Jaques and Marcus in 1892, Herman Marcus (1828-1899) and his sons William Elder (Fig. 1) and George Elder renamed the firm Marcus and Company, remaining at the same New York City...

Living with antiques: Charming Forge Mansion near Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania.
September 1, 2007... The gently rolling hills of Berks County in central Pennsylvania paint a picturesque landscape. They also hold iron ore and support ample tree growth, respectively the raw material and source of fuel necessary for making iron. (1) By the third...

Gorham's Japanese flatware pattern.(Gorham Manufacturing Company)
September 1, 2007... The objects made in the United States in the nineteenth century that were influenced in their decoration or form by the arts of Japan ranged from metalwork to ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, wallpapers, jewelry--even gravestones and...

Two arts and crafts houses: paradigms in Pasadena and Boston.(David Berry Gamble House and Everett D. Chadwick house)
September 1, 2007... Two houses built in opposite corners of the United States between 1907 and 1909--the David Berry Gamble House in Pasadena, California (Fig. 2), and the Everett D. Chadwick house in Winchester, Massachusetts (Fig. 3)--look very different from...

After Augustus Saint-Gaudens: his memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(sculptor)
September 1, 2007... This year marks the centenary of the death of the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. His passing on August 3, 1907, at age fifty-nine, after a seven-year struggle with cancer, drew international notice. Lengthy obituaries in newspapers and...

Calendar of shows.(antique festivals)(Calendar)
September 1, 2007... September 9. Grayslake, IL. GRASLAKE ANTIQUE MARKET. Features up to 500 dealers EVERY SECOND SUNDAY MONTHLY: Additional dates: October 14, November 11, and December 9. Location: Lake Country Fairgrounds. For more information: 715-526-9769,...

Restoring and conserving stained-glass windows.(Design notes)(Femenella and Associates)
September 1, 2007... In the Middle Ages noblemen, church dignitaries, and craft guilds all commissioned artisans to create stained-glass windows for churches. Then for more than two hundred years this medieval art form was neglected until it was revived in England...