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EXHIBITION
Art, science, and the Second Great Awakening
By Stacy C. Hollander
The American Folk Art Museum examines the work of Orra White Hitchcock, scientific illustrator and minister’s wife
The Magazine ANTIQUES and MODERN Magazine's Memorial Day Weekend in Hudson
THE LATEST
An early American art entrepreneur at the Speed - Let the Thomas Coles and Sanford Giffords of the world woo rich patrons, the artist Thomas Chambers went after aspiring members of the middle class, eager to have tokens of refinement in their home—a sweeping vista of Niagara Falls or the Bay of Naples, or a stirring depiction of a battle at sea.
New Life for a Renaissance Woman from Brooklyn - Back in January, a painting at Skinner Auctions’ sale of American and European Works of Art caught the eye of journalist and historian Eve M. Kahn. It was striking: a seated, semi-nude woman wearing a long, flowing train, tightly cropped and rendered with deft, impressionistic brush strokes. Kahn was eager to learn more about the artist, Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881–1962), but the facts of the Brooklyn native’s life proved elusive.
Eda Lord Dixon Rediscovered - In 2014 the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art received a gift from devoted patron Jacqueline Loewe Fowler of a stunning Arts and Crafts silver and enamel hand mirror by Eda Lord Dixon. At the time, Eda was virtually unknown, even among Arts and Crafts silver scholars, principally because she rarely signed her work.
Folk art from the post office - Philately is a subject that has rarely, if ever, been covered in the pages of ANTIQUES, but when we saw these “Waterbury fancy cancellations” in the announcement of an upcoming postage stamp auction, we couldn’t resist.
Art
A portrait takes shape
By Eve M. Kahn
The artist Annie Traquair Lang begins to emerge from the shadow of her mentor and paramour, William Merritt Chase.
EXHIBITIONS
Take the 3 train (or the 2)
By Diana L. Linden
On 135th Street in Harlem, one of New York’s most remarkable public art collections can be seen and studied at the Schomburg Center.
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2017 HIGHLIGHTS
SPOTLIGHT
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
- Connector.
Gregory Cerio, Editor-in-Chief
Not long ago someone asked me how I became interested in antiques and I didn’t have a ready answer. I may as well have been asked: “How did you become interested in breathing?” more...
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- A long time gone: Art, the Kennedy years, and the Hotel Texas
- Curious Objects: David Webb archivist Levi Higgs and the company’s storied Zebra bracelet
- Local color, global appeal
- Great Estates: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire
- Grandma Moses comes home to Galerie St. Etienne
WHERE TO GO,
WHAT TO SEE
To celebrate the publication of Life Along the Hudson: The Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, written and photographed by Pieter Estersohn, our friends at Hudson Hall, the venerable arts center in the city of Hudson, NY, have organized a series of tours and lectures. Learn more by clicking here.
