| Destination: Newport, Rhode Island |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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Rich in both natural and cultural resources, Newport, Rhode Island, has long appealed to travelers. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Newport became notable for its grand summer residences built by industrial tycoons. Many of America's great artist...
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| Discoveries: A Forum that Highlights Important Finds, Significant Objects, New Research, and Museum Acquisitions |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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This dramatic centerpiece was originally created for display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Though orders could be placed with various styles of ornamentation, this Tiffany and Co. swan may be the only example in existence. Decorated.....
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| Fine Art as an Investment: Stuart Davis (1892-1964) |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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A leading member of the first generation of artists who put a distinctly American spin on the modernist ideas then percolating in Europe, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) is celebrated for his lively and colorful canvases that incorporate imagery from the America...
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| Great American Folk Art at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum: Part 2 |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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Colonial Williamsburg's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum moved into new, state-of-the-art quarters in February 2007. With 11,000 square feet of gallery space, the museum currently features eleven exhibitions drawn from its permanent collections. T...
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| Green Your Home with Antiques: Antiques -- In Vogue with Green Design |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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Lately, one cannot pick up a magazine or tune into a favorite home improvement show without noticing a feature on the movement toward green design. What exactly is green design? Green means environmentally responsible. It addresses the impact of building...
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| Hands On: Portsmouth Lolling Chair |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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he lolling chair is one of the most distinctive American furniture forms of the Federal period (ca. 1790-1815). Produced throughout the new republic, the form reached its zenith in style and form in the coastal regions of Massachusetts and Southern New Ha...
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| Highlights: News, Events and Trends |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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Portsmouth-born native John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835) is the focus of an exhibition that showcases the artist's 1821 sketchbook. Sketchbooks of this age are rare for any American artist -- and virtually unique for Portsmouth. The artist's descendants have...
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| Historic Opinions: How Critics Shaped American Tastes in Furniture |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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All styles eventually go out of fashion. Colonial hoop dresses, Victorian handlebar moustaches, and 1960s shag carpeting all enjoyed great popularity before falling out of favor. Similar cycles of taste have governed the history of furniture design. Going...
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| Investing in Antiques: Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries the Chinese catered to the almost insatiable European demand for porcelain. Made specifically for the western world with distinctive forms and decoration tailored to this market, the "designs and styles [...
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| Jules Tavernier at Red Cloud Agency in 1874 |
Summer/Autumn 2007
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"I am about to cross one of the wildest regions [of the West], where no artist has gone yet," Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) wrote his mother from Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 7, 1874. The next day he was to embark on a dangerous month-long journ...
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