What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”: Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist, Alethea Hill Platt
Reviewers called Plattʼs landscapes “brilliant in tone but true to the colors found in sky and plain and vale,” and praised her interiors for “quaintness of type and richness of color in shadowy corners and firelit hearths”
“An Unsuspected Man of Genius”
The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck.
Openings and Closings: December 16 to December 22
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
Wandering Eye: It’s all in the eyes
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
William Hodgson of London and Richmond: The Payne Limner Revealed
Hodgson seems to have been a
true jack-of-all-trades. In addition
to portraits, miniatures, and hairwork for jewelry, he supplied composition ornament and carved architectural woodwork for buildings.
Wandering Eye: An eye for giving
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
Object Lesson: Norton Pottery of Vermont
Norton pottery, Jamie Franklin, curator of the Bennington Museum, tells us, predates the state of Vermont itself by six years.
Shop Talk: Adventures in American Art
Dealers describe exciting episodes and exhilarating occasions from their time in the trade.
Openings and Closings: November 11 to November 17
Check out what’s happening online and in person at museums around the country!