| Conservation of a Fabled Masterpiece |
Spring 2008
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has in its collections numerous objects with carving attributed to Martin Jugiez (d. 1815), in addition to the historic Mount Pleasant...
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| Discoveries from the Field: MESDA's Barber Family Desk and Bookcase |
Spring 2008
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In June 1960, Frank Horton, founder of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, purchased an elegant desk and bookcase for his growing collection....
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| En Plein Air: Painting and Photography in the Forest of Fontainebleau |
Spring 2008
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Although the history of modern French landscape art is often thought to have begun with impressionism in the 1860s, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art argues that its true origins go back even farther. In the Forest of Fontainebleau:...
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| Fore and Aft: Philadelphia Collects Maritime |
Spring 2008
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Philadelphia has a rich maritime history. Located along the Delaware River, it was a principal colonial port city. In celebration of this past, nautical art and antiques from public...
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| Joe Kindig III: 2008 ADA Merit Award Recipient |
Spring 2008
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Matisse once observed to his friend Pierre Bonnard that it took a combination of extraordinary circumstances for a man to arrive at the age of seventy and still pursue with passion what he loves. If so, it gives quite an edge to Joe Kindig III, this year'...
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| Museum Focus: The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion and National Historical Park |
Spring 2008
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The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion in Woodstock, Vermont, (Fig. 1) built in 1805 as a farmhouse, was the boyhood home of George Perkins Marsh, one of America's first environmentalists....
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| Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show |
Spring 2008
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The 2008 Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show once again featured an outstanding array of top level inventory offered by over two hundred of the most highly regarded international dealers. Now in its fifth year, the quality and variety of the fine a...
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| The Tradition of Teaching |
Spring 2008
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At the beginning of each school term, matriculating students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts gather for an orientation session. Between such nuts and bolts details as locker combinations and studio assignments, Albert Gury, chair of the paint...
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| When Money is no Object |
Spring 2008
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This is the third time we have asked four insiders what they would buy if they found themselves at New York’s Winter Antiques Show with $1 million burning a hole in their pockets....
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| ...Seven Holes: The Story of a Serendipitous Find |
8th Anniversary
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"It's beguiling, it may be American, and it may even be eighteenth century." My wife, Judy, made these comments a number of years ago. She was referring to a portrait of a young man that she saw hanging on a wall in an antiques shop in Woodbury, Connectic...
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