Editor’s Letter, September/October 2013

Editorial Staff Opinion

Like most editors I am interested in everything, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have opinions. I have, in fact, far too many of them, so I like it when some of my prejudices get rearranged, as they were early last spring when Eleanor Gustafson and I visited the Philadelphia home of John Whitenight and Frederick LaValley featured here. Ten …

Upcoming Symposiums 2013

Editorial Staff Calendar

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 2013 shows and fairs

Editorial Staff Calendar

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

Editorial Staff Calendar

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 …

June 2013 shows and fairs

Editorial Staff Calendar

    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

Editorial Staff Calendar, Exhibitions

  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)

Editorial Staff Opinion

  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

Editorial Staff Opinion

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

Editorial Staff Opinion

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 …