JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022
Editor's Letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical Thinking/Difficult Issues
No Laughing Matter
Glenn Adamson
Talking Antiques
Exhibitors at New York’s Winter Show describe some of the exceptional offerings that they will bring to this year’s edition at the Park Avenue Armory
Current and Coming
Van Gogh exhibitions in Ohio and Texas, a soulful acquisition by the Toledo Museum goes on view, photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard in the wild, and more
Digital Doings
Rockefeller vs. Rivera, plus Pedigreed Silver
Sammy Dalati
Personal Space
Collecting Florida: How a couple built—and later donated—a museum-worthy art collection (with a tiny bit of help from The Magazine ANTIQUES)
Henry Adams
Museum Visit
New York’s Merchant House Museum: A slice of nineteenth-century upper-class life on the Lower East Side
Sharon Twickler
On Books
Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Artist Profile
Conjuring a Creole Past: The paintings of Andrew LaMar Hopkins blend romanticized cultural history with a scholarly eye for art and antiques
John Berendt
Object Lesson
Looking at the Past through a Lens of Antique Glass: How small, insignificant-seeming things have important stories to tell
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle
Further Reading
Notable museum catalogues and other books from the past year
Elizabeth Lanza
Events
Elizabeth Lanza
Endnotes
At ANTIQUES, Collegiality Forged by J. R. Ewing and Twizzlers
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
ANTIQUES in the Beginning
Part I: A profile of founding editor Homer Eaton Keyes
Elizabeth Stillinger
Living Large
What our most popular feature series, “Living with Antiques,” tells us about time, taste, and our mercurial rapport with the material realm
Laura Beach
ANTIQUES in the Modern World
A personal journey through a watershed year, 1922
Elizabeth Pochoda
Toasts and Testimonials
On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of our magazine’s founding, curators and scholars, members of the art and antiques trade, collectors, and other readers sent us tributes, memories, comments, and reflections
The Eyes Have It
A young antiques dealer and his peers offer their vision for the future of the trade
Adam Irish
The Onteora Club
At the northern end of the Catskills sits a mountainside social enclave with a peerless artistic and literary pedigree
Jane Curley with photographs by Pieter Estersohn
Women and the Art of the People
As the American Folk Art Museum enters its seventh decade, a salute to the women who made the institution and its collection great
Eileen M. Smiles
Huey, Dewey, and Louis XV
A current exhibition explores the ways the French decorative arts of the ancien régime shaped the animated world of Walt Disney
James Gardner
Arms and the Man
The story of the Worcester Art Museum’s Higgins Arms and Armor Collection, as it embarks on a national tour
Barrymore Laurence Scherer
Underground Modernist
A current exhibition explores the work of E. McKnight Kauffer, whose graphic designs for everything from British rail to book covers brought a dazzling verve to the art of advertisement
Caitlin Condell and Emily M. Orr