| Highlights: Clement Massier -- Master of Iridescence |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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The inspiration behind Louis Comfort Tiffany’s celebrated iridescent favrile glass, Clément Massier (1844–1917) belonged to a family of potters in the south of France dating back to his great-grandfather Pierre Massier in the eighteenth century.......
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| Highlights: Collecting Modernism |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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"To have the finest work of Mondrian, Picasso, Kandinsky, among others, on display at the Museum of Fine Arts is a dream come true," says curator Tim Rodgers. The works, representing significant examples from all the major European modernist movements.......
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| Highlights: Country Living American Glassware -- What is it? What is it worth? |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Many people do not understand the value of glass. This book provides readers with historical and comparative information that will help them learn the difference between those objects that can have value and those that do not. Types of glass covered......
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| Highlights: Courbet and the Modern Landscape |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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The landscapes of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) are radically innovative, yet they have been largely overlooked for more than a hundred years. Today Courbet is best known for his monumental figurative works, but he also defied the traditions of European......
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| Highlights: George Inness -- A Catalogue Raisonne |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Michael Quick, former curator of American art at the LA County Museum of Art and one of the foremost George Inness authorities provides a detailed look at the artist's long career. Includes commentary on individual works, Inness's stylistic and......
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| Highlights: George Ohr, Art Potter -- The Apostle of Individuality |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Named the "the Mad Potter of Biloxi" for his eccentric personality and radical potting forms, George Ohr (1857-1918) from Biloxi, Alabama, anticipated abstract expressionism by at least fifty years. Earning only minor success in his lifetime and......
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| Highlights: Hyde Park Antiques Celebrates 40 Years |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Reflecting recently on his long career, gallery owner Bernard Karr had this to say, “Like most collectors, I had set out simply to furnish my own home with beautiful objects. But the more I looked and learned, the more......
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| Highlights: John Long and John Boyer -- 19th-Century Craftsmen in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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The work of metal craftsman John Long of Sporting Hill and woodworker John Palmer Boyer of Brickerville, Lancaster County, exemplifies the skill and design of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania German craftsmen. The recent discovery of the identity of.......
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| Highlights: Luminist Horizons -- The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Luminism, characterized by the effects of light on landscapes and the absence of visible brushstrokes, has tended to be described as an esthetic of solitary isolation, but this exhibit reveals that it was a gregarious experience for collector and......
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| Highlights: Nancy Lancaster -- English Country House Style |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Swagged curtains, a blazing fire, and the family dog lolling on an impeccably upholstered couch; the studied carelessness of what we know as "English country house style" was in fact the brainchild of the Virginia-born Nancy Lancaster (1898-1994), who.......
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