A letter from our September/October 2025 issue’s guest editor, Pieter Estersohn ⬬
When Edith Met Electra
A New York gallery maven and a forward-thinking collector, both women, drew the boundaries of the new field of American folk art collecting. ⬬
September/October 2025
Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025Guest Editor’s Letter Pieter Estersohn In ConversationLessons from the disaster and subsequent restoration at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York. ObjectsThe Birth of the Travel Memento: The Grand Tour began as a way for young men of means to see Europe, and resulted in the invention of …
Windows to the Soul
A collection of Federal American vernacular portraits demonstrates the intimate allure of the genre. ⬬
Luminary: Infinite Iterations
A Tribute to the Remarkable Bernard L. Herman. ⬬
Valley Culture
Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬
The Patient Collector
With modest means and fifty-five years of persistence, a Maine state employee built a remarkable collection—and a legacy— one or two objects at a time.
Guest Editor’s Letter – Anna Sui
Hear from our March/April guest editor, in her own words.
An American Chorus
Visitors who stop by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing will be greeted not only by the exciting, challenging newness of the reinstallation—undertaken to mark the Wing’s hundredth anniversary—but given the opportunity to look beyond surfaces, with the help of two many-voiced audio guides that unravel the foundational myths of American art history object by object.
Good Ordinary
In a picturesque Dorset village, a celebrated architect and designer lives amid polished Georgian tables, curious Victorian chairs, and romantic Edwardiana.