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A full-length portrait by the celebrated Revolutionary-era painter John Trumbull of Alexander Hamilton, then secretary of the treasury under President George Washington, has joined the permanent collections of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, thanks to a gift from the painting’s former owner, the global wealth manager and investment bank Credit Suisse. Each …
On a recent afternoon at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, Jake Spetalieri, the proprietor of Catskill Coydog Vintage furniture, was offering a few rainy day specials, including a blue nubby vinyl-covered late 1960s settee for $345 (normally $450) and a sleek, surfboard-shaped white-topped coffee table for $250 ($100 off). The sky was threatening to open any minute, but a …
By Helen McKearin; from The Magazine ANTIQUES, August 1941. FOR MOST STUDENTS and collectors “early American glass” is a comprehensive term indifferent to the factors of time and foreign influence. It bridges the widening stream of American glass manufacture from colonial days well through the mid-nineteenth century, covering all the various types and designs of glass which collectors have netted from that …
Buncheong bottle Bottle, Korean, Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), fifteenth to sixteenth century. Stoneware with iron oxide underglaze decoration; height 11 inches. WHY Kang Collection, Manhattan specialists in Korean art, sold this pear-shaped wine bottle during New York’s Asia Week in March. Priced at $25,000, it is an example of buncheong, a brushed white-slip stoneware mainly made …
By RICHARD WOODWARD; from The Magazine ANTIQUES, September 1978. Paintings by America’s first artists afford an informative and entertaining view of the nation’s early years. Many of these painters received academic instruction at home or abroad, while others were either wholly untutored or obtained their training from nonacademic sources. The work of this latter group, the “folk painters,” provides an insight into …
The Winter Antiques Show in New York City comes to a close this weekend. Here is an inside look at one booth: Peter Pap of New York, San Francisco, and NewHampshire. Winter Antiques Show * Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue * To February 3 * winterantiquesshow.com
BY REKA NEILSON FISHER, Curatorial assistant, Saint Louis Art Museum THE CREAMICS COLLECTION of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Rosborough Jr., of Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, is mainly devoted to English earthenware of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Initially they collected early nineteenth-century yellow-glazed earthenware, but then they turned to earlier wares, particularly delftware, which attracted …
December 18 is the last day to visit the Treasured Weavings: The Mae Festa Textile Collection exhibition, housed at 1stdibs@NYDC, located on the 10th floor of the New York Design Center at 200 Lexington Avenue. Watch the video below for more information and beautiful images.
June 10, 2012 SCOTT ANTIQUE MARKET Atlanta Expo Centers Held the second weekend of every month at the Atlanta Expo Centers, is open Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. Admission is $5. For more information about the shows go to http://www.scottantiquemarket.com/antiqueshows_dates.html ! (LAST DAY) …ISMS: UNLOCKING ART’S MYSTERIES Florence Griswold …
Last Chance Exhibits It’s the last chance to see these exhibits! May 27, 2012 GREENWICH LOST AND PRESERVED May 27, 2012 Greenwich Bruce Museum Address: Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 Phone: 203.869.0376 For more information go to http://www.ctvisit.com/events/summary?eventid=14714 DRESSING UP, STANDING OUT, FITTING IN: ADORNMENT & IDENTITY IN MAINE, 1750-1950 May 27, 2012 Maine Historical Society …