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 2013 exhibition openings
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 …
Editor’s Letter, July/August 2013
Is it so surprising that New York has long been a center for folk and outsider art? From Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of the Shelburne Museum, who started out in the glossy precincts of Park Avenue in the 1940s to Monty Blanchard, current president of the American Folk Art Museum, whose Tribeca loft is a geyser of the self-taught, the …
June 2013 shows and fairs
June 6-16 Olympia International Art and Antiques Fair Olympia-art-antiques.com June 13-19 Art Antiques London, London, UK Haughton.com June 14-15 Antiques in the Valley, Oley, PA oleyvalleyantiqueshow.org June 26-July 3 Masterpiece London, London, UK masterpiecefair.com Green Lacquer Bookcase Circa 1710, Apter Fredericks . See more exhibitions, auction dates, and shows and fairs…
June 2013 exhibition openings
June 6 “Lethal Beauty: Samurai Weapons and Armor”; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hololulu, HI June 8 “Charles M. Schulz: Pop Culture in Peanuts”; Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL “Charles Sydney Hopkinson (1869-1962)”; Vose Galleries, Boston, MA “Luminous: 50 Years of Collecting Prints and Drawings at the Blanton”; Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin “Maine Sublime: Frederic …
Nina R. Gray (1956-2013)
We at ANTIQUES are saddened by the death of Nina R. Gray, an independent curator of American decorative arts, on May 20, at home, after a brave battle with cancer. Nina’s contributions to our field were legion, ranging from her early meticulous cataloguing talents, which allowed other scholars access to long-overlooked material-and provided Nina with what Margi Hofer, Curator …
Editor’s letter, May/June 2013
Our cover shows an early and uncharacteristically jaunty painting by George Ault, part of the Lunder Collection featured in the article about the Colby College Museum of Art. Elsewhere in the issue an example of Ault’s later, more hard-boiled style can be seen in Marica and Jan Vilcek’s collection of early American modernism. Ault was by most accounts an impossible …
Editor’s letter, March/April 2013
A few weeks ago the Connecticut congressman Joe Courtney registered dismay at one of the more significant departures from historical fact inSteven Spielberg’s Oscar-bound Lincoln. To dramatize the narrow margin by which the Thirteenth Amendment passed, the film’s screenwriter Tony Kushner shows two members of the Connecticut delegation voting against the abolition of slavery. As it happened, all four voted …
Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue (1931-2013)
© Lucy Dickens / National Portrait Gallery, London The noted authority on eighteenth-century French furniture and Sèvres porcelain, Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Surveyor Emeritus of the Queen’s Works of Art died on January 4, 2013. The pinnacle of Sir Geoffrey’s research and study was the three-volume catalogue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, published in 2009. …
Wendell D. Garrett, 1929-2012
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, January/February, 2013 | The editorials that Wendell Garrett wrote for this magazine over forty years radiate a quiet confidence in American democracy. But if you read a great many of them alongside the notebooks of quotations he kept throughout his life you begin to see a man who was actually turning over the topsoil of our …