Magazine March April 2023

Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! MARCH/APRIL 2023Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesBackground Check Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingThe Spanish sojourns of Sargent in San Francisco; Berenice Abbott at the Met; and the storied Forten family of Philadelphia Museum VisitChapultepec Castle in Mexico City: The country’s Museum of National History has traveled a long, strange road from …

On Books: New and Noteworthy

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Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J. M. Olson (New-York Historical Society in association with D. Giles). 376 pp., color and b/w illus.  There’s nowt so queer as folk,” according to the venerable English comment on the vagaries of human personality. Indeed, when the Polish-born American sculptor Elie …

Modern sculptors and American folk art

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“Do not bore. Do not be obvious.” That was the advice given by painter, teacher, and critic Hamilton Easter Field (1873-1922) to his students in the Ogunquit (Maine) School of Paint­ing and Sculpture, which he opened in 1911 with his protégé, the French-born sculptor Robert Laurent.1 For Field, Laurent, and their colleagues who passed through Ogunquit and who shared similar …