If you are reading this letter, chances are you’ve already caught the collecting bug—or perhaps, like me, you were born ill with it. If that’s you: welcome. You are among friends.
Eyre Hall on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
September 2009 | Photography by Langdon Clay | “Eyre Hall…all through its venerable existence but another name for everything elegant, graceful and delightful in Old Virginia life.” Fanny Fielding’s nostalgic reminiscence of Eyre Hall during the ownership of John Eyre depicts a place we would recognize today.1 Still to be found are “the timely-clipped hedges of box and dwarf-cedar,” “the …
Changing Times, Changing Art
A current exhibition examines American realist art as a mirror on sweeping societal transformations in the early twentieth century.
Magazine November/December 2023
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023 Editor’s LetterGregory Cerio Field NotesSerious Fun Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingImpressionism and 1930s art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexican modernism in Dallas, Parisian modern art in Detroit, and Marie Laurencin’s portraits of the Paris demimonde at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia Object LessonLights from the Dark …
Low key, high impact: The collection of Tim and Pam Hill
Photography by Jesse Hill | August 2009 | From one point of view, the story of Pam and Tim Hill is a by-the-book American success story. From another, it is a highly individual account of a quest for identity in the field of American art and antiques—a forty-year chronicle of a complex and evolving art world seen through the lens …
Silver is Dead: Long Live Silver
Silver still seduces—its art, craft, and stories exposing power, identity, and desire in every gleaming surface.⬬
Refugees in the Parlor
How one household in the Philadelphia countryside reveals the domestic upheaval, resilience, and material culture of war-torn Revolutionary America.⬬
NYC Antiques Week: A Novice Tells All
Last Thursday, I was formally baptized into the world of antiques at New York City’s Antiques Week, anchored by its headlining event: The Winter Show. ⬬
1876: Inventing the Colonial Revival
In celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence, The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 was America’s coming-of-age party. ⬬
When Edith Met Electra
A New York gallery maven and a forward-thinking collector, both women, drew the boundaries of the new field of American folk art collecting. ⬬