August 31, 2010 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • he Emperor Private ParadiseOpens At Peabody Essex Sept 14
    August 31, 2010

    When the last emperor of China, Puyi, left the Forbidden City in 1924, the doors closed on a secluded compound of pavilions and gardens deep within the palace. Now for the first time, 90 objects of ceremony and leisure †murals, paintings, furniture, architectural and garden components, jades and cloisonné †will be on view at the Peabody Essex Museum.

  • Northeast Auctions Sells Foster-Lemmens Collection
    August 31, 2010

    The Foster-Lemmens Collection, 537 lots gathered together by three generations of antiquarians, was the last of three sessions of the Annual Summer Americana Auction conducted by Northeast Auctions August 6‸.

  • Newport Antiques Show Upholds Reputation For Luxury
    August 31, 2010

    It is hard to imagine a better managed event than the Newport Antiques Show, which opened for its fourth consecutive year at St George⁳ School in Middletown on Friday, August 13, and continued through August 15.

  • El Greco entecostOn Loan To DallasMeadows Museum
    August 31, 2010

    El Greco⁳ monumental masterpiece ⁐entecost†will be installed September 9 at the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, marking the beginning of a multifaceted three-year partnership with the Prado Museum in Madrid.

  • Maine Antiques Festival Attracts Fresh Audience
    August 31, 2010

    About 200 antiques dealers gathered August 13‱5, traveling from as far away as Iowa and Wisconsin, to exhibit at Maine Antiques Festival.

  • Gustav Stickley And American Arts & Crafts Movement
    August 31, 2010

    As patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) helped transform concepts about the ideal early Twentieth-Century household. Riding a wave of concern about spreading industrialization that treated workers like machines and turned out cheaply made goods that exacerbated the excesses of Victorian décor, he offered plain, strong furnishings that were aesthetically pleasing, utilitarian †and affordable. Moreover, Stickley⁳ emphasis on good workmanship, simple design and the rewards of honest hand labor influenced US craftsmanship to this day. In an excellent overview, ⁇ustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement†offers a comprehensive examination of this subject. Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and curated by Kevin W. Tucker, that museum⁳ curator of decorative arts and design, the exhibition is on view at the Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., through January 2, 20ll.

  • Fine Art And Decoys Attain 4 Million At Copley Auction
    August 31, 2010

    A baker⁳ dozen of paintings by Frank W. Benson offered in the first hour of Copley⁳ sporting art auction July 22′3 at the Radisson Hotel set the tone for this annual event that brings decoy collectors and sporting art enthusiasts out in droves. The auction attained more than $4 million in sales.



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