| Show Review: Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show -- Presidents' Day Weekend -- February 16-20, 2007 |
Spring 2007
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This year's Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show built on the steady momentum it has gained since its first appearance in 2004. Clearly it has become one of the most important shows in the country. Two hundred and five dealers from the U.S., Canada......
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| Winterthur Primer: A Timely Discovery -- The Story of Winterthur's Jacob Graff Clock |
Spring 2007
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A chance discovery has enabled curators at Winterthur to reconstruct the history of one of the most treasured clocks in the museum's collection (Fig. 1). The clock, made by Jacob Graff between 1745-1755, was acquired in 1946 by Henry Francis du Pont.......
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| A Southern Backcountry Perspective: The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at the Winter Antiques Show |
7th Anniversary
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Nestled in the historic town of Salem, North Carolina, and one of four museums collectively known as Old Salem Museums and Gardens, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) has entered its fifth decade as a center for the study of the.......
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| Antiques Council Focus: Good, Better, Best in Antique Oriental Rugs |
7th Anniversary
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The concept of good, better, and best is difficult to apply in the world of antique Oriental rugs because personal taste is so much a part of what makes one rug more interesting than the next. For the purposes of this article I will use the following......
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| Art Focus: Early American Still Life -- Part 1 |
7th Anniversary
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Still life -- the representation of inanimate objects -- is an early and enduring artistic theme. Yet when compared with portraiture, landscape, and history painting, still life has generally been relegated to the lower rungs of the thematic hierarchy......
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| Daniel Garber: Romantic Realist |
7th Anniversary
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In the second decade of the twentieth century, artist Daniel Garber (1880-1958) emerged as one of leaders of the New Hope School, also known as the Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painters. This handful of artists was tied together more by the location.....
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| Destinations: New York City Antiques Shows and Fairs |
7th Anniversary
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The eighth annual New York Ceramics Fair is the premier ceramics fair in the country. Featuring at least 40 leading international exhibitors who will offer exquisite examples of antique ceramics, glass, and enamels from the earliest Classical periods......
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| Discovery: Richard Clague (Southern, 1821-1872) |
7th Anniversary
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Referred to as the "the father of southern landscape painting," Richard Clague brought the academic traditions of Geneva and Paris to Louisiana. Trained abroad, his debt was to Theodore Rousseau and the Barbizon school. In 1862 he opened a studio in......
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| Eric Gill at the Victoria and Albert Museum: New Sculpture Display |
7th Anniversary
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The V and A's unique collection of work by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), given to the museum by the artist in 1914, dominates its new sculpture display in the same way his revolutionary approach dominated the development of European sculpture from the late.....
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| Fine Art as an Investment: Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870-1937) |
7th Anniversary
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A pioneering modernist painter whose work won prizes at major international expositions and is included in major museum collections, Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870-1937) remains largely undiscovered among the wider collecting public.......
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