The Kimbell Art Museum’s director discusses a fine specimen from George Stubbs’s Mares and Foals series recently added to the collection.
Exhibitions: White Line Moderne
Upon her death in 1956, a portion of the work and personal ephemera of American artist Blanche Lazzell was sent to the Art Museum of West Virginia University (AMWVU) in Morgantown: brightly colored paintings and prints, along with charcoal drawings, personal diaries, and letters to her family and friends.
Best in Glass
Two longtime friends and colleagues in their passion for American decorative arts discuss a major acquisition to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Met’s American Wing.
Field Notes: Sniffing the Zeitgeist
On visiting the Old Print Shop in New York, where lessons for the present abound in printed images from America’s political past.
Guest Editor’s Letter
It is an honor to serve as guest editor for this issue of The Magazine ANTIQUES while my long-time friend Mitchell Owens is on the mend. I suppose I got the gig because I am an antiquarian and decorator who weaves history into people’s lives—which I think is much the same goal as this magazine’s.
Exhibitions: Immortal Thread
The venerable tradition of French tapestry weaving, which has provided adornments for palace walls since medieval times, is brought to contemporary life in a new exhibition at the Clark Art Institute.
Art of the Deal
One among only a handful of European woman art dealers, Berthe Weill assisted in establishing the careers of some of the towering figures in modern art.
Masterworks at the Fenimore Art Museum
Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new paintings by American nonpareils. Thomas Eakins. Childe Hassam. John Singer Sargent. James McNeill Whistler. These are just some of the artists whose work is now included in the …
In Depth: Childe Hassam
A project already nearly fifty years in the making, the Hassam catalogue raisonné, spearheaded by the president and director of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, is, we feel, sure to reset scholarly opinion of the American impressionist.
Sisters in Stitching
An exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art sheds new light on the intimate and enduring bonds formed through the quilts sewn by Black women in the South.