Two exhibitions showcase the work of overlooked and underrepresented women artists.
Living with Thomas Jayne (From our Archives)
Jayne describes what he does as “collage decoration”
The irrefutable freshness of Thomas Jayne
Taking Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.’s The Decoration of Houses as his starting point, in his new book the master decorator displays the many improvisations he has rung from historic models and classical principles
Re-examining Thomas Cole
A new exhibition explores the global career of one of America’s leading landscape painters.
Thomas Jefferson’s Letter Rack
David Esterly carves our past.
Review: Sanford R. Gifford In the Catskills at the Thomas Cole House
Among members of the Hudson River School of painting, Sanford Robinson Gifford has long been considered one of the most brilliant painters of light and air.
Living with Thomas Jayne
The most surprising interior in London is Sir John Soane’s Museum. The sheer density of paintings, sculpture, furniture, architectural fragments and models, Greco-Roman marbles, and much more appears largely as it did when the renowned early nineteenth-century architect lived there, arranging and rearranging his art, artifacts, and antiquities. What elevates the profusion from an eccentric jumble to a splendid, startlingly …
Thomas Spencer
Figs. 1,1a. Desk-and-bookcase probably by Thomas Spencer (1752–1840), East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1775. Mahogany, chestnut, yellow poplar, and white pine; height 91 ½, width 41 ¾, depth 19 ¾ inches. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, gift in loving memory of Nancy Fraser Parker by her husband William A. Parker Jr., and her children William A. Parker III, Isobel P. Mills, …
Editor’s letter, April 2009
Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Pochoda introduces the latest issue of ANTIQUES
America in 3 by 5
Walker Evans’s ability to locate drama in the matter of fact began with his passion for the picture postcard