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By Robert McCracken Peck Originally published in June 1996 At a time when many house museums have difficulty keeping their doors open, a small cottage in the English Lake District can barely manage to close its doors at all. Hill top (Pl. VII), the two-hundred-acre farm where Beatrix Potter lived for the last thirty-eight years of her life, is so …
Originally publsihed in June 1979 By Virginia Reed Colby Stephen Parrish, a well-known painter and etcher, and his son Maxfield,1 one of the most popular artists of the early twentieth century, both moved to New Hampshire in the 1890s. Stephen came to Cornish in 1893, following the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and other artists, writers, and musicians who made up what …
Comings and Goings Joshua W. Lane has been named the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at Winterthur Museum. Lane, curator of furniture at Historic Deerfield since 2000, assumes the post on April 14. He directed Historic Deerfield’s Summer Fellowship Program between 2005 and 2012. Lane replaces Wendy Cooper, who retired last year. Malcolm Rogers, director …
Ornately designed and die-cut, the golden chalice is interspersed with jewels and heraldic images; unfolding a series of eight flaps reveals several beautifully detailed vignettes depicting “Legends of the Middle Ages” (see Figs. 3a, 3b at left). The Krewe of Proteus presented this paper chalice as the invitation to their 1888 ball, an exquisite display of their chivalric theme that …
Founded in 1918, the British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) has long been the gold standard for such organizations and may be the most difficult to gain entrance to. It has, however, recently struggled with how best to refresh itself without compromising its strict requirements for quality and ethics. On the heels of the election of Michael D. Cohen of Cohen …
February 28 – March 2 Maryland Antiques Show, Towson, Maryland marylandantiquesshow.org March 6 – 9 The Armory Show New York thearmoryshow.com March 7 – April 20 Biggs Museum of American Art: Delaware Sampler Symposium: “‘Wrought with Careful Hand’: Ties of Kinship on Delaware Samplers”, Dover, Delaware March 11 – June 29 Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Carpets of the East in Paintings …
Yale University Art Gallery: “Byobu: The Grandeur of Japanese Screens”; to July 6 (New Haven, Connecticut) Delaware Art Museum: “‘Bessed are thePeacemakers’: Violet Oakley’s The Angel of Victory (1941)”; to May 25 (Wilmington, Delaware) Nova Southeastern University’s Museum of Art: “William Glackens”; to June 1 (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Ballet Dancer Seated on a Stool by Henri Matisse, French (1869-1954), 1927. Oil on canvas, 32 …
In 1989 Lawrence Steigrad and his wife and business partner, Peggy Stone, began dealing in Old Master paintings backed by only a thousand dollars and a few credit cards. For the first year, in case things didn’t work out, Stone continued to work as a cataloguer at William Doyle, returning home to help with research and cataloguing late into the …
The Italian Renaissance taste for classical art fostered a revival of bronze statuary, wealthy connoisseurs collecting both antique statuettes and new works by artists like Donatello and Verrochio. Likewise, the nineteenth-century fascination with Renaissance art created an even larger market for bronze sculpture. Post-Civil War American sculptors, many European-trained, followed suit. Cupid by Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937), 1895, balances gracefully on a …
A mid-twentieth-century Chinese carved ivory double wrist rest sold at Cincinnati’s Cowan’s Auctions’ first Asian art sale on August 26 for the handsome price of $47,000 (including premium) off a presale estimate of $15,000 to $20,000. Designed as an aid for scholars in the painstaking arts of calligraphy and brush painting, wrist rests were long made in China in carved …