Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i Art & Antiques

Artist Jennifer McCurdy has been working with porcelain for more than 40 years and has received acclaim for her masterful technique and the simple, pristine beauty of her pieces. She has always loved porcelain for it’s beautiful surface and how it conveys the qualities of light and shadow that she wishes to express. Her porcelain and gilded sculptures are at once fragile and durable, taking inspiration from the surrounding natural world. A resident of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts McCurdy says, “Emotion fills me when I see perfect forms in nature. The ordered symmetry and asymmetry of nature’s forms reveal the growth of life — the movement of life.” “Gilded Lotus Nest” is made of high fire porcelain and 24-carat gold leaf and palladium and measures 8”x12”x12”. With the three-dimensional interplay…

COALESCING IN intimately scaled, jewel-toned paintings, art historical memory and present-day experience form an in-between space in the work of Nora Sturges. A painter who lives in Baltimore, and teaches at Towson University, Sturges approaches her practice with a searching eye that finds source material in her surroundings, recollections and a particular devotion to the relationship between medieval and contemporary art. Receiving a BA in studio art from Bowdoin College, and an MFA in painting from Ohio University, her work has been exhibited internationally, at venues including The Painting Center in New York City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin and Galerie Youn in Montreal. She is the recipient of three Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and her work has been included in the publication New American Paintings.…

JOSEPH AND Nancy Keithley’s journey into the world of fine art did not start out with the aim to create a museum worthy collection, but hundreds of acquisitions and decades later that is where their passion has led them. In March 2020, the Keithleys gifted much of their carefully curated private collection to the Cleveland Museum of Art. For the first time, the museum will display the collection in its entirety in its latest exhibition, “Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection”, which will be on view through January 8. The Cleveland couple’s gift of more than 100 works is the largest donation to the museum since the 1958 bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. (1919-1936), a Cleveland philanthropist. “The Keithleys’ gift was nothing short of transformative,” states William Griswold, Cleveland…

An exhibition with artworks of over 300 years, and showing side-by-side paintings of masters like Brueghel, Bosch, Patinir and Rubens, always presents a unique opportunity to reflect on the changes of taste and attitude of a society in the process of becoming. Such opportunities for insight are so precious today because they are increasingly rare. And when that society is such a defining one for our modern sensibility, as that which emerged in the Southern Netherlands, and the works so exquisite and first class, as those of The Phoebus Foundation, it is destined to make a unique contribution to the thought and education of art and history. “Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks” at the Denver Art Museum is just such an opportunity. It showcases masterpieces…

Woven in wools and silks, a Berlin Chinoiserie Tapestry depicting The Audience of the Emperor, by either Jean Barraband or his son, Jean II Barraband, has surfaced at Adrian Alan antiques in London. The elder Barraband was born around 1650 and grew up in Aubusson, France, training with his father at a tapestry workshop run by his family. With the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, Barraband fled France with other Aubusson tapestry artists and settled in Berlin. In Germany, he soon established a tapestry workshop with his brother-in-law, Pierre I Mercier. After Barraband’s death in 1709, his son Jean II Barraband took over his duties and began working with Mercier. The first recorded delivery of an Emperor of China tapestry from the Barraband and Mercier workshop is in 1713 and…

WHEN THINKING about the art and life of Matthew Wong, it is difficult not to compare him to Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh struggled with depression most of his life, and Wong had major depressive disorder. Both were incredibly prolific, solely dedicated to their craft in the final phase of their short lives. They experimented with various approaches to art making in search of their own unique voice, often painting over old paintings creating new work in a single day. Each left us with vaunted legacies, and both committed suicide in their mid-30s. The difference, of course, is the time they lived in, and the fact that Wong’s life and education was spread between Eastern and Western culture, while Van Gogh solely lived in Europe, although he would eventually be…

Florida Favorites MIAMI, Florida, is an art mecca every December with an array of fine art events that attract collectors and dealers from all over the world. Two of the mainstay fairs are “Art Miami” and “Art Basel Miami Beach” that this year will take place November 29 through December 4 and December 1 to 3, respectively. Both focus on contemporary and modern art and will have thousands of works for collectors to explore. “Art Miami”, which is being held alongside its sister fair “CONTEXT Art Miami”, will have booths from more than 155 leading dealers across 17 countries that will showcase paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photograph and prints. Its two-tiered VIP preview on November 29 will benefit the Pérez Art Museum Miami for the 12th consecutive…

FOR FAR TOO many historic women artists, marriage tended to signal an end to their careers. For women who married other artists, they often continued to produce but were overshadowed by their husbands’ work. Others gave up their work for child rearing; some were relegated to the status of “amateur.” There is a set of unfortunate conventions that reappear across the history of art—but in “A Marriage of Arts and Crafts: William and Evelyn De Morgan”, an exhibition at the Delaware Art Museum, we finally witness an example of an artist-couple that defies such norms. “A Marriage of Arts and Crafts” is the first retrospective exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn Pickering De Morgan (1855-1919) and her husband, the craftsman, William Frend De Morgan (1839-1917). Living and working through the…