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American museums grow
For the past ten years or so, it seems as if every museum in the country has been either putting up new buildings or undergoing renovations. Some...
Magazine Antiques, 06/01/09 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Serves extraordinaire in Detroit
The Sevres tea and coffee service recently acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts, and featured here, is extraordinary in style, design,...
Magazine Antiques, 05/01/09 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
A Wedgwood revival: a nineteenth-century mantel joins the Birmingham museum's stellar collection
The mantelpiece featured here is one of twelve designed for a large neoclassical Georgian house on the estate of Buckminster Park in Grantham,...
Magazine Antiques, 01/01/09 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Joshua shaw
In 1954 John I. H. Baur, then curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, wrote of "a group of obscure American artists" who...
Magazine Antiques, 11/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Chase nudes
When thinking of paintings by William Merritt Chase these days, it is more often his expansive Long Island beach scenes with Peconic Bay skies or...
Magazine Antiques, 10/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Texas style
Among the many legacies that Ima Hogg left to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, along with her house Bayou Bend, was a small pioneering collection...
Magazine Antiques, 09/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Museum accessions
Old Ironsides Old Ironsides Portraits of well-known men were the first category of paintings done in the American colonies; but not far behind...
Magazine Antiques, 08/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Fraktur art of western Pennsylvania
Fraktur is the term used in North America for the decorative and embellished documents that were produced mostly by teachers and ministers in...
Magazine Antiques, 07/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
Rare Godwin vases
The recent acquisition of a pair of lively and amusing nineteenth-century vases by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is a harbinger of the...
Magazine Antiques, 06/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication -
In the shelburned tradition
Of all the important early collectors of Americana, Electra Havemeyer Webb was the one who most valued prosaic things, beginning with her childhood...
Magazine Antiques, 05/01/08 by Kathleen Luhrs · More from publication
