Nashville Arts Magazine » ANTIQUES http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:22:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 House of Steele http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/house-of-steele/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/house-of-steele/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:13 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=10694 A brave band of architects drew inspiration from figures like Frank Lloyd Wright. They imagined that buildings done right could restore the human connection to nature and create a more harmonious society. Nashville architect Bob Street drew inspiration from Wright…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/06/27/house-of-steele/feed/ 0 Appraise It http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/30/appraise-it-7/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/30/appraise-it-7/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:14:25 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=6622 by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip

Mary Marguerite Porter Zwicker (Canadian, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1904–1993), view of Nova Scotia fishing shacks, watercolor over print on paper, signed “M. Zwicker” in block.

As I struggled in…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/30/appraise-it-7/feed/ 0 The Alfred Stieglitz Collection | At Fisk University http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/29/the-alfred-stieglitz-collection-at-fisk-university/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/29/the-alfred-stieglitz-collection-at-fisk-university/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:27 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=6485 Under the harsh yoke of slavery one of the most powerful American folk traditions was born. From the dense cotton fields of the South rose up a mighty song. The Negro spiritual gave expression and hope to many a captive…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/29/the-alfred-stieglitz-collection-at-fisk-university/feed/ 0 Spotlight | Gas Lamp Antiques http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/28/spotlight-gas-lamp-antiques/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/28/spotlight-gas-lamp-antiques/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:44:08 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=6409 Appraisal Fair

Gas Lamp Antiques Mall will have their second Appraisal Fair on Saturday, August 7, 2010. The first Appraisal Fair, held May 1, was “very successful despite the rains and start of Nashville’s great flood,” according to Gas Lamp…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/07/28/spotlight-gas-lamp-antiques/feed/ 0 Spotlight | Auction to Support Finer Things Gallery http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/29/spotlight-auction-to-support-finer-things-gallery/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/29/spotlight-auction-to-support-finer-things-gallery/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:02:31 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5822 The owners of Finer Things Gallery, Kim Brooks and Rusty Wolfe, lost almost everything in the historic Nashville flood. Their home, studio, workshop, and outside sculpture garden were all destroyed. Several member galleries of the Nashville Association of Art Dealers…

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Master of innuendo and snappy comebacks, wisecracking ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy was the creation of Edgar Bergen. Slow-witted Mortimer Snerd, man-hungry spinster Effie Klinker, and Charlie…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/28/appraise-it-6/feed/ 0 The Golden Age of Couture | Paris and London 1947–1957 http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/03/the-golden-age-of-couture-paris-and-london-1947%e2%80%931957/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/06/03/the-golden-age-of-couture-paris-and-london-1947%e2%80%931957/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:36:32 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=5212

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Imagine a scene so foreign it seems out of a fairy tale. A woman is the center of all attentions in a fashion atelier. The room teams with life: the snip of…

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One of the aspects of dealing with “things” is the wonderment of how they get from point A to point B. Case in point, this Polynesian Island…

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2010/04/23/appraise-it-5/feed/ 0 Spotlight | Temple Arts Festival http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/3789/ http://nashvillearts.com/2010/03/31/3789/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:00:01 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvilleartsmagazine.com/?p=3789 If you love spending a weekend afternoon viewing beautiful art that you can also take home, you won’t want to miss the wonderful variety of art and handcrafted works on display during the Temple Arts Festival (TAF) in Nashville the weekend of…

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Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch.

Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s.

Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide. This panel belt with matching pouch is…

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