Recently added articles from The Magazine Antiques:
Transforming the aesthetic appreciation of paintings.(DEFINING DUMMY)(Interview)(Company overview)
Nov 01, 2008; ... COMPANY BRIEF Founded in 1983 and located on Manhattan's Upper Bast Side, Eli Wilner & Company (www. eliwilner.com) is internationally regarded as a leading dealer, restorer, and collector of 1.9th-and 20th-century European and American frames. The firm, which employs 40 master ...
Editor's letter.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Although the theme this month is international, an annual issue for ANTIQUES, the perspective, quite naturally, is American. Like Henry James, who unwrapped the mystery of our national character by sending Christopher Newman, Lambert Strether, and Milly Theale abroad, we find ourselves ...
Current and coming.('1772 Philadelphia Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work' and 'The Fix on Colonial Philadelphia Furniture: A Secret Guide to Cabinetmakers' Prices' and other art exhibitions in Philadelphia)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Philadelphia--the 1772 price book and Thomas Chambers One of the most exciting episodes in our field in recent years was the discovery in 2003 of a long-lost printed version of the 1772 Philadelphia Prices of Cabinet and Chair Work, which the curator at the Philadelphia Museum ...
Chase nudes.(Museum accessions)(William Merritt Chase's nude paintings)
Oct 01, 2008; ... When thinking of paintings by William Merritt Chase these days, it is more often his expansive Long Island beach scenes with Peconic Bay skies or the large views of his art-laden studio that come to mind. So to see these small almost quiescent nudes reminds us how very broad and eclectic ...
Old masters and more.(Farther afield)(In Remembrance of Things Past)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Several notable exhibitions opening in Europe this October turn to the old masters to reexamine, each in its own way, the artist's role in society, both yesterday and today. In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust described Andrea Mantegna as painting skies of "an almost ...
San Francisco's Jackson Square.(THE SCENE)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Like Times Square in New York, San Francisco's Jackson Square is not a square in the old-fashioned sense, but rather a district of the city. The attractions of the respective squares, however, are poles apart on the cultural spectrum. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A booming ...
Audubon.(Audubon: Early Drawings)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Audubon: Early Drawings. Introduction by Richard Rhodes, Scientific Commentary by Scott V. Edwards, Foreword by Leslie A. Morris. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008. In the realm of ornithology, few works occupy such totemic stature as both scientific ...
Egg and Nest.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Egg and Nest by Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S. Hall, Rene Corado. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008. The three authors of this fascinating book are respectively a world-renowned photographer and writer; the executive director of the Western Foundation of ...
All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins by Valerie Bramwell and Robert M. Peck. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 2008. Early in his career, Hawkins, a British painter and naturalist with a vast knowledge of comparative anatomy, drew illustrations ...
Animal and Sporting Artists in America.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Animal and Sporting Artists in America by F. Turner Reuter Jr., National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia, 2008. From Audubon to Frederic Remington to Andrew and Newell Convers Wyeth, the works of animal and sporting artists have always enjoyed a wide and enthusiastic ...
Antiques.(America's relations with UK and France)
Oct 01, 2008; ... I trust, that our alliance and intercourse with France may enable us, as a nation to shake off the leading-strings of Britain,--the English sternness and formality of manner; retaining, however, sufficient of their gravity, to produce, with French ease and elegance, a happy compound of ...
Indian silver for the Raj.(Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Some categories of objects seem so well researched that it is hard to imagine that there is any new ground to discover. The art of the silvermith has long seemed to be one such area, so it is especially thrilling to be confronted with completely unfamiliar material at Columbia University's ...
Timeless stones and bronzes: the collection of Philip Hewat-Jaboor.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Philip Hewat-Jaboor, who has formed a rare collection of marbles, porphyry, and other hardstones over thirty years, has recently built an extraordinary skylit library in which they are displayed among his extensive collection of books on all aspects of the decorative arts. Since his ...
The collector.(Philip Hewat-Jaboor)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... As he was tracking down the materials for an exhibition on the great Regency collector and decorator Thomas Hope, Philip Hewat-Jaboor was also creating his own magical surrounds in the form of a library buried in a steep bank in the garden of his house on Jersey. This extraordinary ...
The purists Paul Follot and Maurice Dufrene.(on art deco)
Oct 01, 2008; ... At the 1925 Exposition internationale des Arts decoratifs et Industriels modernes in Paris, the unquestioned star of the event was the furniture designer and ensemblier Emile Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933). Critics hailed his showcase pavilion--which he called the Hotel du Collectionneur--as ...
George Harvey's Anglo-American.
Oct 01, 2008; ... The English-born artist George Harvey is primarily remembered for his spectacular watercolor landscapes, although he was also a painter in oils, a miniaturist, architect, poet, and writer. In the 1830s and early 1840s he created a series of forty "atmospherical" watercolor views of ...
The global eye of Sherman Lee.(In memoriam)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Esteemed for his unmatched expertise in Asian painting and sculpture, Sherman E. Lee made the Cleveland Museum of Art into a world class collection thanks to his all-encompassing taste and pioneering belief that the decorative arts are anything but minor The imminent departure ...
Artistic luxury at the 1900: exposition Universelle in Paris.(Dance review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... For the better part of 1900 much of the Western world's attention was focused on Paris, the "City of Light," glowing with as much optimism for the future as with electric illumination. (1) There, against a backdrop of legendary dance, theatrical, operatic, and other musical performances, ...
A newly discovered signature on a piece of Irish furniture.(John Kirckoffer)
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the great advantages of writing a book on an almost unknown subject is hat an abundance of information generally comes to light following us publication. Therefore it was a cause of much celebration for . when during a visit to the European decorative arts galleries at the Art ...
Exhibitions symposiums lectures.(EVENTS)(Calendar)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ALABAMA Birmingham Birmingham Museum of Art: "Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin"; to November 9. * ARIZONA Phoenix Phoenix Art Museum: "One for All, and All for One: The Jumpsuit": to February 1, 2009. CALIFORNIA ...