The Magazine Antiques

America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. Each bimonthly issue includes regular columns on current exhibitions, personalities in the field, notes on collecting, book reviews, and more.

The Magazine Antiques

EDITOR'S LETTER

Talking antiques • We asked exhibitors at the Winter Show to highlight one exceptional object in their booths and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are the things they chose, along with their comments.

The Road to Redemption

Current and coming

Re-united Old Masters at the Frick

Lalique drawings in New York

Scholars seek information on a Cleveland jewelry designer

Gallic Bred • NOW NEARLY FORGOTTEN, NEW YORK FURNITURE MAKER AND FRENCH EXPATRIATE LÉON MARCOTTE WAS THE TOAST OF TYCOONS INTHE GILDED AGE

Wake Up the Echoes • THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME'S NEW ART MUSEUM IS A BEAUX-ARTS THROWBACK

Book of Hours • A NEW TREATISE ON THE EARLY AMERICAN POLYMATH DAVID RITTENHOUSE DRAWS ATTENTION TO HIS ELEGANT TIMEPIECES

Further | reading

Living with Antiques TOY STORY • Antique playthings are the core of a charming and eclectic Texas collection that also includes important Eastern Woodlands Indian artifacts, nineteenth-century furniture, and folk paintings

The Truth-Teller • A current exhibition charts the career of photographer Dorothea Lange, whose work captures the human condition with uncommon candor

LOOKING BOTH WAYS • The New-York Historical Society unveils Kay WalkingStick's view of Hudson River school landscapes

Edwin Booth's Curtain Call • Founded as a members’ club for his peers by nineteenth-century America's greatest actor, The Players has won a reputation for its historical stewardship—and irrepressible bonhomie

“We're selling it, not renting it” • In this excerpt from a forthcoming memoir, an auction house veteran looks back on his beginning days in the trade

Venice on the Gulf Coast • John and Mabel Ringling's fantasy palazzo in Sarasota is a testament to the romantic power of architecture

EVENTS • EXHIBITIONS SYMPOSIUMS LECTURES

An Overdue Roll Call • The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked America's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality, and selfgovernment. To that end it has recently launched a partnership with Ancestry.com, through which nearly two hundred rare documents bearing the names of Black and Native American soldiers who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War are now accessible online free of charge. The documents form the Patriots of Color Archive, which the museum acquired in 2022 from a private collector, and which Ancestry digitized as part of its commitment to preserving history that is at risk of being forgotten.