They called her the “sculptor of horrors.”
Figures in a landscape: sculpture in the British garden (From our Archives)
No English country-house garden would be complete without the well-placed statue terminating a vista
Figures in a landscape: sculpture in the British garden
This article was originally published in the 1987 October issue of ANTIQUES. Pl. XIII. At the end of the beech allée at Chatsworth in Derbyshire is a colossal marble bust of William George Spencer Cavendish (1790 – 1858), sixth duke of Devonshire, on a marble column from the Temple of Minerva Sunias in Greece. No English country-house garden would be …
Wild at heart: Rediscovering the sculpture of Anna Hyatt Huntington
Cranes Rising by Huntington, 1934. Bronze; height 45, width 16, depth 22 inches. Art Properties, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, gift of the artist; photograph by Mark Ostrander, courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. The energy of some art only becomes apparent with the passage of time. Anna …
Double take: A closer look at American bronze sculpture
From The Magazine ANTIQUES November 2006. Bronze sculpture made in the United States between 1845 and 1945 was little studied and largely undervalued until it began to attract interest in the early 1980s. It now continues to gain attention from scholars, museum curators, and collectors. Broadening scholarship has brought recognition to the variety, quality, and importance of this field of American …
The Grand Tour and the Global Landscape
How the artistic representations of classical ruins shaped views of all the world
In Memoriam: Christopher Monkhouse (1947 – 2021)
Friends and colleagues share their thoughts and memories of a beloved scholar and curator
Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way
A visit to the ateliers of the Florence Academy of Art
Openings and Closings: February 10 to February 16
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Critical Thinking Difficult Issues: Unsafe Deposit
Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World, an exhibition at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum tells the story of a desecrated ancient site