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from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | About 1736 John Lewis (1678-1762) of Ulster, County Donegal, Ireland, killed his impetuous young landlord, “cleaving in twain his skull,” and then fled to Philadelphia in the American colonies. The following year his wife Margaret Lynn Lewis (1693-1773) and their four sons joined him. Informed that he was still a wanted man, Lewis …
June 7 Fine Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewelry auction at Michaan’s Auctions, Alameda, CA michaans.com June 9 “American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists” at Freeman’s Auction, Philadelphia, PA freemansauction.com June 9 Anniversary Spring Fine Estates auction, Schwenke Auctioneers, Woodbury, CT woodburyauction.com June 12-13 Fine and Decorative Arts auction at Heritage Auctions, Dallas, TX ha.com June 13-15 The summer catalogue …
The exhibition opening today at the Neue Galerie in New York City focuses on the decorative arts, furniture, and graphic design of Koloman Moser (1868-1918), beginning with his co-founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and culminating with his departure from the Wiener Werkstätte in 1907. Poster for “Frommes Kalendar,” 1899 by Moser. Execution: Albert Berger, Vienna. Colored lithograph …
Basket weaving is one of the most ancient of all decorative crafts. It is thought that the idea to create vessels by interweaving twigs was conceived around the same time as the idea to chip shards of flint into arrowheads. Fragments of Neolithic-age pottery reveal that long before the invention of the wheel, potters molded clay around woven basket forms, …
May 10-12 52nd Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, VA heritagepromotions.net May 10-12 Wayside Inn Antiques Show, Sudbury, MA waysideantiquesshow.org May 15 Brimfield’s “Heart-O-The-Mart,” Brimfield, MA brimfield-hotm.com. May 17-18 Greater York Antiques Show, West York, PA jimburkantiqueshows.net May 25-26 Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, Rhinebeck, NY rhinebecksantiquesfair.com May 30-June 2 Las Vegas Antique Jewelry and Watch Show, Las Vegas, NV vegasantiquejewelry.com June 6-16 Olympia International …
By Katrine Ames Here in this shell of a house, This house that is struggling to be, Hope must have been The first to move in, And waited to welcome me. But hope isn’t easy to see. This lovely tribute to the White House in Leonard Bernstein and Allan Jay Lerner’s 1976 musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would make a perfect anthem for …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | At some point during the 1800s, when nobody was looking, an institution passed away that for centuries had been a fixture of the visual arts: the artistic dynasty, the family of painters who, across several generations, maintained a consistent aesthetic profile. One is put in mind of this institution, and of its demise, …
By Cynthia A. Drayton Mikhail Romanov was crowned Czar in 1613. The Romanov family then ruled Russia for the next three hundred years until the 1917 assassination of Nicholas II. To mark the four hundredth anniversary of the Romanov’s ascension to the throne and the family’s patronage of both Fabergé and the decorative arts, there are exhibitions, an auction, and …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | Sharon Corwin remembers her first introduction to Maine in 2003. It was April. And dark. “Moose Crossing” signs punctuated the indistinct landscape as she headed north on I-95. In the light of day, Corwin, a Berkeley-trained art historian who came to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville as its first Lunder …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, May/June 2013 | The story of Marica and Jan Vilcek is the story of one couple’s long pilgrimage into the cultural heart of this country. It begins during the mid-1960s in the wake of the Kennedy assassination and just when the most volatile decade of the American century was coming to a boil. In some ways …