Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., United States. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including two Fabergé eggs.
Steinberg Museum of Art, formerly known as Steinberg Museum of Art at Hillwood and as the Hillwood Art Museum, is affiliated with the Long Island University's School of Visual and Performance Arts institution in Brookville, New York. It is located at the B. Davis Schwartz Library at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
The example in the collection of the Hillwood Museum, in Washington, D.C., was donated by Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1973. [10] The Hillwood clock is unfinished; it lacks the musical organ and movements to activate the numbers in the eyes, and the eyes are wooden rather than of porcelain as with the other examples.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Hillwood (Washington, D.C.): now operates as a private museum since Post's death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of Fabergé, Sèvres porcelain, French furniture, tapestries, and paintings. [18] Camp Topridge, Upper St. Regis Lake, New York: a "rustic retreat" in the Adirondack Mountains. [22]
A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum. ISBN 9780965495820. Odom, Anne; Salmond, Wendy R. (2009). Treasures into Tractors: The Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938. ISBN 9781931485074. Rubin Stuart, Nancy (1995). American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. New ...
Hillwood Museum, Washington, D.C. A Boyar Wedding Feast [ nb 1 ] was painted in 1883 by Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915). [ nb 2 ] The painting shows a toast at a wedding feast following a boyar marriage, set in the 16th or 17th century, where the bride and the groom are expected to kiss each other.
It forms part of the Marjorie Merriweather Post collection at Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C. [2] Its Easter 1914 counterpart (presented to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna) is the Mosaic Egg, now in the Royal Collection in London. The stand in four colour gold has four legs ending in lion's feet and crossed arrows joining legs to each other.