A full-length portrait by the celebrated Revolutionary-era painter John Trumbull of Alexander Hamilton, then secretary of the treasury under President George Washington, has joined the permanent collections of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, thanks to a gift from the painting’s former owner, the global wealth manager and investment bank Credit Suisse. Each …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2013. Early photographs of American folk paintings constitute a unique archive of works by both recognized and unknown artists,1 frequently even preserving a visual record of otherwise unknown paintings. A large number of early daguerreotypists practiced this lucrative work at a time when photography afforded Americans their first opportunity to have accurate copies of works …
Photography by Alan Kolc | from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September/October 2013. The brick house, handsomely trimmed in brownstone, dates from 1866, one of six identical buildings in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic district. Situated a few streets away from Independence Hall, it was once the home of Brevet General Henry Harrison Bingham (1841-1912), a Congressional Medal of Honor laureate for …
Clock by Asa Munger (1777–1851), 1817, Herkimer, NY. Click to listen: Courtesy of Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques. Video by Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller. For more information on musical clocks, see our September/October 2013 issue for an article by Gary R. Sullivan and Kate Van Winkle Keller.
On a recent afternoon at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, Jake Spetalieri, the proprietor of Catskill Coydog Vintage furniture, was offering a few rainy day specials, including a blue nubby vinyl-covered late 1960s settee for $345 (normally $450) and a sleek, surfboard-shaped white-topped coffee table for $250 ($100 off). The sky was threatening to open any minute, but a …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2013 | IN HER FIRST ANNUAL REPORT, in 1948, Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of Shelburne Museum, expressed her desire for “a building or adequate space in one for educational programs and loaned exhibits.” The new Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, which will hold exhibitions, lectures, films, concerts, and workshops, even during the challenging months …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, July/August 2013. The arcane logic that unites the naked human form with a metal fan, a duck decoy, and an inflatable King Tut effigy may not seem self-evident to the average art lover: but for the past generation, these two subsets of creation have come together in the paintings of Philip Pearlstein. An avid collector of …
October 5, 2013 “Collecting with a Vision: Shelburne Museum and the Emergence of the Americana Movement”; Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt. September 6, 2013 – September 7, 2013 “Foundation for Appraisal Education Seminar”; Quinn’s Auction Galleries, Falls Church, Va.
July 19-21 7th Annual East Hampton Antiques Show, East Hampton, NY easthamptonhistory.org July 25-28 Newport Antiques Show, Newport, RI newportantiqueshow.com July 26-29 New York Antiques Jewelry & Watch Show, NewYork, NY nyantiquejewelry.com July 27-28 39th Annual Antiques & Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, VT vermontada.com August 1-5 The Antiques & Design Show of Nantucket, Nantucket, MA nha.org August 7-8 Antiques in …
July 20 “Beyond the Great Wave: Hokusai’s Images of Mount Fuji”; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Oscar Niemeyer”; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL July 23 “The Poetry of Paper”; J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA July 24 “Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt”; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY July 27 “Piecing Together History: Civil Rights Quilts by Yvonne …