March/April 2026

Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MARCH/APRIL 2026GUEST EDITOR’S LETTER Lisa Minardi THE OBSCURE CONNOISSEUR Part IV: In which the author copes with his collection of chipped Meissen figurines. Ralph Gardner Jr. Illustrated by Colleen Bayley Harrington AUCTIONSRecent and upcoming sales of blue-and-white porcelain. OBJECTSChewed Paper: How papier-mâché bridged affordability and elegance, carrying centuries of innovation …

Winslow Homer’s The Life Line: A Narrative of gender and modernity

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from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2012 | Bringing a suspenseful story of danger and heroic rescue to an audience that never seems to tire of courageous knights and fainting maidens, Winslow Homer’s The Life Line (Fig.1) has been popular since the day it was completed in 1884. Homer’s themes of human frailty, bravery, and romance in the context of the overwhelming power …

Editor’s Letter, September/October 2012

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Our country’s regional wars may be over, but in the 1960s when the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) began, they were very much alive. Southern writers for instance were still working through the story of loss while northerners remained dubious about the value of southern culture. MESDA took a different path. The idea that the South did not …