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Cranes Rising by Huntington, 1934. Bronze; height 45, width 16, depth 22 inches. Art Properties, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, gift of the artist; photograph by Mark Ostrander, courtesy of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. The energy of some art only becomes apparent with the passage of time. Anna …
Four paintings (three from European institutions and one from a private collection in New York) created by Piero della Francesca for private devotion will be shown together for the first time: St. Jerome and a Donor; Madonna and Child with Two Angels; Saint Jerome in a Landscape; and Madonna and Child. The exhibition follows upon the Frick Collection’s popular showing …
Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C. F. Martin Not for guitar lovers only, some thirty-five instruments from the Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, display the history of the great American guitar firm from its beginnings with the Viennese style instruments of C.F. Martin Sr., who came to this country, encountered Spanish style guitars here, and combined the two styles …
Western in form and Indian in materials and ornamentation, this sumptuous ebony and ivory chair testifies to the artistic, cultural, and political complexities of life in southern India in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Elevated seating was not a typical part of traditional Indian culture. Indians typically ate, socialized, and conducted business on rugs or thin mattresses while …
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, may be this country’s oldest continuing museum…or it may not be. Given its other distinctions, that hardly matters. Founded in 1799 by the wealthy entrepreneurs of Salem whose merchant ships sailed to India, Japan, Africa, China, the Pacific Islands, and beyond, it began with the curious idea of presenting the citizens of Salem …
From The Magazine ANTIQUES November 2006. Bronze sculpture made in the United States between 1845 and 1945 was little studied and largely undervalued until it began to attract interest in the early 1980s. It now continues to gain attention from scholars, museum curators, and collectors. Broadening scholarship has brought recognition to the variety, quality, and importance of this field of American …
From The Magazine ANTIQUES, October 2006
Shows across the country featuring photography, painting, sculpture, textiles, and more Camille Pissarro, Piette’s House at Montfoucault, 1874, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Image © The Clark. On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, beginning December 22. December 6 “Steichen in the 1920s and 1930s: A Recent Acquisition”; Whitney Museum of …
Exhibitions: Across time, across the country In a selection of exhibitions across the country you can find an artistic survey of American history that will take you from the 1760s to 1960s. There’s a lot to learn, contemplate, and enjoy. Start your journey at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, where American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World highlights …
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, November/December 2013 | Fig. 3. Lake George Autumn by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), 1922. Oil on canvas, 15 by 27 inches. © 2013 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Museums are a fairly recent development in human history, dating back scarcely more than two hundred years. But the founding of such institutions has accelerated so …