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A CENTURY OF NEW ENGLAND CERAMICS

By Rick Russack At The Custom House Maritime Museum In Newburyport
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. — Run-
ning through April 30, 2020 at the The Custom House Maritime Museum is housed in a stone building dating back to 1835. It was designed by Robert Mills,
Custom House Maritime Museum designer of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, and the US Treasury building. Mills was an early designer of
in Newburyport, is a comprehen- fireproof buildings and even the staircase in this building, as well as the floors, are constructed without wood.
sive exhibition titled “Potters on
the Merrimac: A Century of New
England Ceramics.” This exhibition
will focus on early American pot-
tery production in Merrimacport,
Mass., from 1790 to 1890, with a
focus on the William Pecker pottery
(circa 1790-1820), and the Daniel
Bayley Pottery Company in New-
buryport (circa 1764-1799). It will
cover most of the local pottery pro-
duction before and after the Ameri-
can Revolution.
More than 75 pieces, made by sev-
eral different potters will be includ-
ed in the exhibition, as well as
material recovered from archeologi-
cal digs at pottery sites and large
construction projects. Identification
of pottery made in the Merrimack
River region is difficult, so this
exhibit will provide a guide for
those interested in pottery pro-
duced there. The curatorial team of
the Custom House Maritime Muse-
um, along with guest curator Justin
Thomas, have assembled the exhib-
it, a first for the Custom House.
Many of the pieces are returning
to the Newburyport area two centu-
ries after dispersal, first to consum-
ers needing the pottery, and later to
collectors appreciating the pottery
for its beauty and for what it tells
us about production and distribu-
tion in pre-industrial revolution
America.

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Slip-decorated chamber pot attributed to the Daniel Bayley Pottery Company. Recovered in Pitcher, William Pecker Pottery, Merrimacport, Mass.
Eighteenth Century contexts in Portsmouth, N.H. Courtesy Strawbery Banke archaeology Courtesy Museum of Old Newbury.
department.

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Eve M. Kahn Katherine Lanza photo

From the arresting first words of her new book ­Forever Seeing New
Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907,
forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, journalist and scholar
Eve M. Kahn is a persuasive spokesman for the long-overlooked artist,
diarist and feminist who blazed trails in the United States and Europe
even as she endured the condescension of her male colleagues. Build-
ing on letters, lively in their narrative detail, from the Hartford-born
painter and pastelist to her friend and colleague Henry Cooke White
(1861–1952) of Waterford, Conn., Kahn uses Williams’ own incisive
observations to pen a compelling biography rich in period detail.

What are the most important things for anyone who knew Mary. There were men- As Mary describes them, Dwight Try-
to know about Mary Rogers Williams? tions of her or her family scattered in files at on (1849-1925), her boss at Smith
Smith College, Connecticut Historical Society, College, is monstrous and James Mc-
She crisscrossed Europe from Naples to Norway New York Public Library and Yale. I called and Neil Whistler (1834-1903) is some-
while painting in a foresightedly Modernist manner emailed everyone I could find descended from thing of a fool. Do Mary’s first-hand
and sent home vivid and witty letters about her her relatives or anyone who knew her. Most of observations about other artists alter
adventures and emotions that no one has read in a the time my outreach was a bust, but there were what we knew about them?
century. people who replied with something great.

How exceptional is she for her Some scholars I spoke to who had looked at Tryon’s
time and place? papers in depth said, basically, honestly, well, they
thought he was kind of a jerk, too. Whistler’s fop-
Few other painters of any era can by docu- pishness and self-absorption, that’s been written
mented this clearly day-by-day, and few women about somewhat. I’m just so happy to have added
of her time — let alone on a modest school- Mary’s evolving perspective — that she adored
teacher’s budget like hers — traveled so widely Whistler when she first met him in London and
on their own steam. She had some impressive then later became amusedly appalled in Paris as
art-world successes — exhibiting dozens of women fawned over him during rather useless,
times, from Paris to Indianapolis — although expensive classes. I think I convey what it was like to
the field was heavily loaded against women. And be at the edges of the Victorian art world as Mod-
although I’m sure she didn’t intend her letters ernism crept in and women gained some footholds.
to be published someday, they offer a hilari-

ous feminist take on the pomposity of men in How much work remains to be done
power. on women artists?

You describe the thrill you felt I can hardly believe, in the seven years since I
upon opening a box of Mary’s let- went down the Mary rabbit-hole, how big a wave
ters for the first time. When did of deserved homage is being paid to under-ap-
you know you had a book? preciated dead women artists. Group shows, solo
shows, monographs, museums announcing acqui-

For decades I’d been writing newspaper and Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary sitions with fanfare, even selling work by men to
magazine articles, regular columns and the oc- Rogers Williams, 1857–1907 by Eve M. Kahn will be available buy women’s stuff. Take Hilma af Klint’s show at
casional book essay. People would always ask, the Guggenheim. I went back again and again and
‘When are you going to write a book?’ And I’d in early November in both hardcover and eBook it was never not packed with amazed people.
answer, jokingly, ‘Oh, only when I find some editions from Wesleyan University Press.

forgotten trove of important material that no Will your book be the basis for re-

one has seen before.’ Mary found me. Before lated projects in different media?
I knew it, I was meeting with Wesleyan
University Press. I’ve got lectures coming up: October 6 at the
historical society in Portland, Conn. — that’s

You have a great eye and ear for near where Mary painted at her family’s an-
the telling details of Mary’s life. cestral farm — and October 27 at the Boston
International Fine Art Show. And if anyone is

How did you settle on your nar- interested in Mary’s movie rights, I’m in. It’s
rative approach and tone? [email protected].

The tone, the narration, the vivid detail What’s next for you?
— that’s Mary’s doing! She wrote with no
nonsense, very minimal philosophizing, no Well, I thought I’d never write another book
pretensions or self-aggrandizing, no lies that after this labor of love. But a few months ago I
don’t jibe with other sources. excavated archival material for another under-
appreciated circa 1900 woman innovator, the

Tell us more about your Monhegan Island in Maine inspired some of Mary’s loosest journalist, fiction writer and magazine pub-
sources. You clearly spent artworks during a 1903 trip. Pastel, 4¼ by 5¾ inches. lisher Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914), who
much time mining archives. Private collection, Ted Hendrickson photo. documented New York immigrant life and was
known as the Queen of Bohemia.
I pored through any papers I could find
—Laura Beach

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Continental Furnishings, Art & Egyptian Relics
At Kaminski’s September 21-22 Auction

Nineteenth Century French library desk, having brown
tooled leather top, hardwood banding, floral and swag,
sphinx, and medusa, bronze ormolu mounts with single
drawer, 29 by 44 by 26 inches. Attributed to Paul Sormani.

BEVERLY, MASS. — Kamin- Cristofano Allori (Florence, 1577-1621), oil A Seventeenth Century Italian oil on can-
ski Auctions kicks off its fall on canvas painting of “Judith with the Head vas.
season with a Continental of Holofernes,” in a carved giltwood frame.
auction on September 21 and
22 at 10 am. The auction furniture designer Louis Several paintings in the sale
house was chosen by the Majorelle, including a curio bear old Christie’s labels,
George Ricard family of Villa cabinet, a Majorelle Art Nou- including a Seventeenth Cen-
“Zamir” Cap Martin, on the veau carved wood server and tury Italian Old Master oil on
French Riviera, to offer the a five-piece parlor suite. canvas of “Venus and Adonis”
collection, known as the measuring 78 by 59 inches, as
Arcady Estate, which was The collection boasts several well as an oil on canvas of a
moved in the 1980s to the important timepieces includ- reclining woman by the
Ricard’s home in Montecito, ing a large clock with boulle French painter Ferdinand
Santa Barbara, Calif. marquetry, measuring 70 Roybet (1840-1920) with a
inches tall. Another Eigh- Christie’s East label.
The furnishings include teenth Century French boulle Russian artists represented
exquisite furniture, Eigh- clock is decorated with ormo- in the sale include paintings
teenth and Nineteenth Cen- lu bronze mounts of horses by Nikolay Petrovich Bogdan-
tury French clocks, Meissen and has a matching shelf. A ov-Belsky (1868-1945), Niko-
and Sevres porcelains and an Louis XIV boulle marquetry lai Dimitrievich Milioti (1874-
extensive collection of Euro- cartel clock is signed Lemenu, 1962) and Natalia Sergeevna
pean art. And the crown jewel Paris, and measures 53 by 38 Goncharova (1881-1962). Pair of Louis XIV giltwood
is the historic neoclassical inches and also features a Decorative arts in the sale Gaines d’applique.
pavilion commissioned by phi- matching shelf. include a pair of Nineteenth collectors will take note of an
lanthropist George Owen Century German Meissen 18K yellow-gold Audemars
Knapp and designed by Fran- Fine art highlights include a hand painted covered urns Piguet, for Tiffany & Co.,
cis Underhill. circa 1909, signed, Georges with cherubs throughout and manual wind watch with a
Braque oil on canvas, “L’eglise a cross sword mark on the cabochon sapphire crown.
Continental furniture high- de Carrieres-Saint-Denis.” base ($6/12,000); and a pair of
lights include a pair of late Two landscapes on offer are mid-Nineteenth Century An unusual Chinese Art
Nineteenth Century Louis from the Irish artist Paul French Napoleon II Sevres Deco rug and a Persian Tabriz
XVI-style marquetry inlaid Henry (1876-1958). Best porcelain urns with hand- hand woven rug with silk,
chests, having ormolu bronze known for his post-Impres- painted portraits of young measuring 19 feet 8 inches by
mounts, and thick burgundy sionist-style landscapes of the women, signed “de David” 12 feet 7 inches and a selec-
Seventeenth or Eighteenth and cream marble tops. There West of Ireland, these paint- ($5/7,500). tion of Persian Caucasian and
Century Louis XIV Boulle are also two Nineteenth Cen- ings include a signed, oil on Of special significance in the pictorial rugs will be offered.
marquetry time clock. tury French corner mahogany canvas titled “A Roadside Vil- sale is an Egyptian sarcopha-
display cabinets attributed to lage Connemara,” and the sec- gus. The family is avid Egyp- Previews begin Sunday, Sep-
Paul Sormani, the Parisian ond is signed and inscribed tologists, and this hand paint- tember 15 and continue
furniture maker known for “Cottages Connemara.” ed sarcophagus once graced through Sunday, September
his meubles deluxe. Another the entrance of the Senusret 20, 10 am to 5 pm, and
offering attributed to Sor- European art continues with Collection in Monaco in the throughout the sale days .
mani is a Nineteenth Century a Cristofano Allori (Florence, 1970s.
French library desk — the 1577-1621), oil on canvas Jewelry highlights include a The auction at Kaminski
bureau plat features a tooled painting of “Judith with the loose gem golden sapphire Auctions, at 117 Elliott
brown leather top, banding Head of Holofernes,” in a from Sri Lanka weighing Street, will be in elegant room
with floral and swag, as well carved giltwood frame and 16.55 carats, and a lady’s 18K settings and vignettes with
as sphinx, and medusa deco- another painting depicting yellow gold handmade emer- additions from other estates.
ration. the Mehmed II banquet at a ald and diamond ring. Watch
palace in Constantinople, For additional information,
There are also several pieces attributed to Bellini, of Flor- w w w. k a m i n s k i a u c t i o n s . c o m
of Majorelle furniture by the ence, Italy. or 978-927-2223.
famous French decorator and

Historic 1780 Pardee-Morris House Hosts Friends & Family Day

NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Fall of the 6th Connecticut Regi- the Morris family, willed the
is nigh on the Connecticut coast- ment, in full colonial dress, will property to the New Haven Col-
line, and that means it’s time to portray Revolutionary War sol- ony Historical Society, which
gather kith and kin for “Friends diers and artisans. today is known as the New
& Family Day” at the historic Haven Museum.
Pardee-Morris House. The all- Participatory crafts for chil-
ages, free event will be held on dren will include tin-punch lan- The Pardee-Morris House is at
Sunday, September 22, from tern making and corn-husk-doll 325 Lighthouse Road. For more
noon to 4 pm, rain or shine, and making. Colonial crafters will information, 203-562-4183 or
will be hosted by the New Haven be on hand to demonstrate their www.newhavenmuseum.org.
Museum, which owns and oper- expertise in plant-based wool
ates the historic site. From mus- dyeing and wool spinning. NEW YORK CITY — The Bard
ket demonstrations to colonial Graduate Center presents
games and crafts, the event One of the oldest surviving “French Fashion, Women, and
offers something for everyone. historic structures in Connecti- the First World War” to January
cut, the Pardee-Morris House is 5, which examines the dynamic
Visitors will enjoy a variety of listed on the State and National relationship between fashion,
activities throughout the after- Register of Historic Places. Built war and gender politics in
noon. There will be guided tours by Amos Morris circa 1750, the France during World War I. The
of the circa 1780 Pardee-Morris house was burned by the British Bard Graduate Center Gallery
House, which replaced the origi- during their raid on New Haven is at 18 West 86th Street. For
nal home burnt by raiding Brit- in 1779 and rebuilt and expand- information, 212-501-3023 or
ish redcoats in 1779. Members ed by the Morris family. In 1918, www.bgc.bard.edu.
William Pardee, a descendant of

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Annual Cape Cod Glass Show Coming September 14-15

WEST BARNSTABLE, through Archaeology” by cut and pattern glass; antique
MASS. — The 32nd Annual Mary Cheek Mills, past presi- and contemporary European
Cape Cod Glass Show and dent, National American glass; antique art glass and
Sale will be conducted on Sat- Glass Club. There is also a studio glass; expert glass
urday, September 14, and discounted admission price repair will be offered by Rob-
Sunday, September 15. Spon- (with ad or card) that will ert Lehmann from New Hope,
sored by the Cape Cod Glass attract new and past custom- Penn.
Club (chapter of the National ers to this longstanding event.
American Glass Club), the Visit the Cape Cod Glass Show hours are 10 am to 5
show will once again be locat- Club’s website — www.cape- pm, Saturday, and 11 am to 4
ed at the Cape Cod Commu- codglassclub.org — for a pm, Sunday.
nity College Gym. downloadable discount card.
The college boasts a favor- The Cape Cod Community
able location and attractive The show will feature glass College Gym is at 2240 Iyan-
facilities and hosting services exhibitors of national reputa- nough Road (Route 132 North,
(free parking and handi- tion and glass collectors of exit 6 on the mid-Cape high-
capped services). In addition, many interests — early and way). For information, 508-
the show offers free appraisal collectible American blown, 776-9098 or email bheapg7@
comcast.net.

services; a Saturday presen- Longtime Cape Cod Glass Show exhibitor Julian Rogers of
tation — “Rediscovering Phil- Rose Colored Glass shows a canary cordial decanter with
adelphia Glassmaking stem to interested customers. —Marie Forjan photo

Free Smithsonian Museum Day At
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum September 21

NORWALK, CONN. — The music in this inspiring and illu- mitted per email address. A list mathewsmansion.com, email
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion minating National Historic of participating museums, info@lockwoodmathewsman-
Museum (LMMM) will open its Landmark” said LMMM Execu- which will be continually sion.com or 203-838-9799.
doors free of charge to all Muse- tive Director Susan Gilgore. updated, can be found at Smith-
um Day ticket holders from The Lockwood-Mathews Man- sonian.com/museumday/search.
noon to 4 pm on Saturday, Sep- sion Museum will display sev- The Lockwood-Mathews Man-
tember 21, as part of Smithson- eral Nineteenth and early sion Museum is a National His-
ian Magazine’s 15th annual Twentieth Century music boxes toric Landmark and is at 295
Museum Day, a national cele- and phonographs in the muse- West Avenue. For more infor-
bration of boundless curiosity um’s Music Room drawn from mation and a schedule of per-
in which participating muse- the mansion’s permanent col- formances, www.lockwood-
ums emulate the free admission lection. These musical
policy at the Smithsonian Insti- machines, produced regionally
tution’s Washington D.C.-based as well as in several European
museums. Museum Day repre- countries, will include an
sents a nationwide commitment Orchestral Cylinder Music Box
to access, equity and inclusion. with bells, a miniature drum
More than 450,000 tickets were and wood block, circa 1880; a
downloaded for last year’s Victor 75 RPM Phonograph Graphaphone Type B, circa
event, and Museum Day 2019 is Type E , circa 1910, built by 1897; and a Victor Phonograph
expected to attract more the Victor Talking Machine Type B, the first to use a 78
museumgoers than ever before. Company, Camden, N.J. RPM record, circa 1904; among
ian Year of Music crosses disci- others. Choral music will be
This year, Museum Day will plines, bringing together music- performed in the mansion’s
celebrate the Smithsonian Year related resources in art, history, rotunda by the Serendipity
of Music, an institution-wide culture, science and education. Chorale and the Suffragist
initiative celebrating the Choir of the Unitarian Church
Smithsonian’s vast musical col- “The Board of Trustees and I of Westport, Conn.
lections and resources through are thrilled to join Smithsonian Museum Day tickets are avail-
365 days of music-related pro- Magazine and offer universal able for download at Smithson-
gramming. Music is not only a access to all Museum Day par- ian.com/museumday. Visitors
reflection of human creativity ticipants. Visitors will have an who present a Museum Day
and innovation, but also a key opportunity to take a sneak- ticket will gain free entrance for
method of communication and peek at the museum’s music two at participating venues on
cross-cultural exchange and box collection and enjoy live September 21. One ticket is per-
understanding. The Smithson-

Peabody Essex Opens New Wing September 29

SALEM, MASS. — The Peabody astrolabe from the Seventeenth designing creatures who continu-
Essex Museum (PEM), one of the Century in conversation with ally manipulate, respond to and
oldest and fastest growing muse- Salem’s rich history of maritime mold our changing world. Wheth-
ums in the country,has announced trade and exploration. Immersive er designing for self-adornment or
several opportunities to experi- digital media amplify the compel- for use, this installation unifies
ence its new 40,000-square-foot ling stories behind unassuming two traditionally disparate col-
wing designed by Ennead Archi- objects, like a calendar stick from lecting fields to better understand
tects. The $125 million expansion, 1803 with notches carved to what underlies our motivations
a component of the museum’s record the long days Rhode Island and capacity for designing our-
$650 million Connect Campaign, native, James Drown, spent ship- selves and the world around us.
features 15,000-square-feet of wrecked and left for dead on Ensembles from Iris Apfel’s “Rare
new gallery space, a light-filled Tristan Da Cunha, a remote Bird of Fashion” collection cele-
atrium, an entry for school and speck island in the South Atlantic. brate the exuberant remixing and
group tours, linkages to existing inventive styling of one of the
galleries and a 5,000-square-foot On the second floor, PEM’s world’s most prominent fashion
garden designed by Nelson Byrd Asian Export Art collection, fore- icons, while constellations of
Woltz Landscape Architects. The most in the world, explores cross- unique and culturally significant
new wing and adjacent renovated cultural exchange as a catalyst for works of design, fashion and tex-
galleries will feature fresh instal- creativity and celebrates the tiles explore distinctive and
lations of the museum’s superla- interplay of commerce and cre- resourceful forms of creative
tive collections and exciting new ative expression. More than 200 expression.
commissioned work by contempo- works of art made in diverse
rary artists. When the new wing media by artists in China, Japan A new gallery dedicated to
opens on Sunday, September 29, and South Asia, demonstrate the showcasing works from the muse-
Salem will become one of the beauty and ingenuity of transcul- um’s research library opens with
nation’s largest art museum des- tural objects that are created “The Creative Legacy of Nathan-
tinations located outside of a through blending artistic tradi- iel Hawthorne: Selections from
major urban center. tions, materials and technologies. the Phillips Library Collection.”
Porcelain, textiles, tea, ivory and Hawthorne is integral to Salem’s
On the first floor, PEM’s Mari- silver were the focus of intensive rich history, and PEM’s Phillips
time Art collection, one of the fin- trade activity between East and Library collection includes more
est finest of its kind, frames the West and the legacy of these than 3,000 individual volumes by
sea as an enduring source of exchanges continues today in the author. Focusing on the visual
opportunity as well as peril, a both positive and negative ways. artistry of bookmaking and print-
force that inspires creativity and For the first time, PEM’s Asian ing, from cover designs to typogra-
innovation and encourages Export Art installation will exam- phy, this exhibition highlights the
engagement with the wider world. ine the long tail effect of the full creativity present in books as
The installation offers a global opium trade and how it has con- literature and art objects.
perspective on our relationship to tributed to today’s opioid crisis.
the sea, placing, for example, a The Peabody Essex Museum is
Maori paddle from the Cook On the third floor, PEM’s Fash- at 161 Essex Street. For informa-
Islands and a brass Pakistani ion & Design gallery invites visi- tion, www.pem.org or 978-745-
tors to consider that we are 9500.

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Rarities Abound In New Haven Auctions’ Sept. 28 Event

Rare Fiske elephant weathervane.

Early baroque gold leaf Sol- Rare Henri Matisse painted paper cut and
omnic columns. pasted collage, “La Chevelure,” signed and
dated 1952, with provenance of Pierre Matisse
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Fred Gallery.
Giampietro’s New Haven Auc-
Rare Yale Wonder Clock tions has its next sale on Satur- includes more than 50 photo- board, Chippendale slant front bible box, early carved low chest
coin-op machine. day, September 28, at 11 am. graphs and ephemera. Other desks, candlestands, Washing- and French writing desk with
The live auction will take place paintings include an abstract ton reverse glass ogee clocks, marble top.
at the firm’s gallery and bidding work by Albert Gallatin, paint- pair of bannister back chairs
is also available on three online ing by Robert Natkin, George and marble top tables. Native There will be an early Chinese
platforms. Bruestle, a Guy Wiggins winter American items include a wom- porcelain bowl, large Chinese
scene painting, abstract paint- en’s dress with shells and bead- porcelain vase, Japanese wood-
Items on offer include a rare ing by Rolph Scarlett and a work, early beaded pipe bag, block print, bronze elephant,
Yale Wonder Clock coin-op bronze by Ed Giobbi. Navajo rugs, squash blossom Japanese theatrical mask and
machine, rare Henri Matisse necklace and a collection of stone Buddha.
painted paper cut and pasted Americana includes a cigar arrowheads.
collage, “La Chevelure,” signed store Indian chief, metal Sulta- Early black powder firearms, a
and dated 1952, with prove- na figure, life-size tin man with Antique toys include a Jonah rare oversized JFK photograph
nance of Pierre Matisse Gallery. top hat, ram weathervane, rare and the Whale mechanical bank from the Florida campaign
Other works with that prove- Fiske elephant weathervane, in original paint, other mechani- headquarters, jewelry, coins, sil-
nance, include Glenn Coleman’s rare John Bellamy eagle, large cal banks, Ives clockwork toys, ver and more round out the sale.
“The Circus Family,” 1936, as Thomas Chambers oil on canvas baseball and football still banks,
well as works by Miro, Chagall 1874 painting, Concord Massa- rare French automaton, rare More than 350 lots of estate
and others. chusetts centennial banner, high-wheel bicycle barometer, items, largely unreserved, will
paint-decorated New Hamp- spelter horse and sulky mantel cross the block.
A rare Walker Evans archive shire blanket chest, large carved clock, Sarah Tawney Lefferts
From a rare Walker Evans stone folk art bust of a man, original artwork for her teddy Preview will take place Sep-
archive that includes more large painted barber pole, paint- bear book, early baroque gold tember 25-27, 10 am to 4 pm and
than 50 photographs and ed and gold leaf railroad trade leaf Solomnic columns, religious day of sale from 9 am until sale
ephemera. sign, Jack Tar chalk trade figure Old Master paintings, two time. Earlier previews are by
in original paint, Goddard carved European angels, French appointment beginning Septem-
Townsend Chippendale drop harp, early carved European ber 20.
leaf table, Hepplewhite side- court cupboard, early carved
New Haven Auctions is at 319
Peck Street. For information,
www.newhavenauctions.com,
475-234-5120 or 203-415-8713.

Birds Of A Feather Flock To Rago

Single-Owner Collection Of Martin Brothers Pottery On Offer In Sept. 21 Design Sale

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — On Sep- Tall bird tobacco jar, England, 1900,
tember 21, Rago will bring to auction salt-glazed stoneware, ebonized
a single-owner collection of Martin wood, head and base incised “RW
Brothers pottery. The 27-piece group- Martin + Brothers, London +
ing, which includes more than 20 sin- Southall, 11-1900,” original
gle, double and triple bird-form humi- paper label inside collar, on
dors and vessels, represents one of the base: 13¾ by 6½ inches
largest single-owner collections of ($50/75,000).
Martin Brothers ever offered at auc-
tion and comes to Rago via UK-based ($6/7,000). Bird tobacco jar, England, Tall monk bird tobacco
dealer, AD Antiques. Join Rago and Wright Auc- 1898, salt-glazed stoneware, jar, England, 1899, salt-
ebonized wood, head incised glazed stoneware, ebon-
Martin Brothers (1873-1923) was a tions on September 22 for “9 — Martin Bros. 1898 Lon- ized wood, base and
London-based pottery manufacturer “Postwar Ceramics from don + Southall,” base incised head incised “Martin
owned and operated by four brothers, Autio to Woodman.” This “Martin Bros. London + Bros. London + Southall
Wallace, Walter, Charles and Edwin, standalone session of ceram- Southall” on base: 11 by 6 3-1899,” on base: 13¾ by
whose productions bridged the gap ics features works from inches $50/75,000). 7 inches. Provenance:
between the Victorian design sensibil- masters of the postwar era, Collection of Ed Pascoe
ities of the late Nineteenth Century including Rudy Autio, Rich- ($50/75,000).
and the English studio pottery move- ard DeVore, Waylande Greg-
ment of the early Twentieth Century. ory, Shoji Hamada, Bernard Pillow pitcher by Betty Woodman from curdled white glaze by Glen Lukens
Martin Brothers produced stoneware and David Leach, Cliff Lee, 1985 ($12,5/17,500); a 1957 stoneware ($6/8,000).
pottery, broadly referred to as Martin- Glen Lukens, Gertrud and bottle by Peter Voulkos ($12/16,000); a
ware, including bowls, vessels, tiles Otto Natzler, Lucie Rie, Harri- large flaring vase by Lucie Rie Auction exhibition is set for Satur-
and novelties that were often ren- son McIntosh, Edwin and Mary ($10/15,000); three unique sculptures day, September 14, through Thursday,
dered in a whimsical yet highly skill- Scheier, Toshiko Takaezu, Rob- of nude female musicians from Way- September 19, noon to 5 pm; Friday,
ful style. While all Martinware is ert Turner, Peter Voulkos, Bea- lande Gregory, circa 1935 ($10/15,000); September 20, noon to 6 pm, and by
highly valued on the secondary mar- trice Wood and Betty Woodman, Richard DeVore’s “Vessel #790” appointment. Doors open at 9 am on
ket, it is the manufacturer’s bird-form among others. ($7,5/9,500); a massive Rudy Autio September 21 and 22.
vessels, referred to as “Wally Birds” by floor vessel decorated with nudes and
collectors, that are the most passion- The sale, with more reindeer ($6,5/9,500); and a bowl with Rago is at 333 North Main Street.
ately sought-after. than 150 lots, is princi- For information, www.ragoarts.com or
pally drawn from 609-397-9374.
Rago Auctions has offered hundreds three substantial pri-
of works by Martin Brothers at auc- vate collections, two
tion and privately over the past 35 from New York City
years, including more than 100 Wally and one from North
Birds, which regularly sell for five- or Carolina, each assem-
six-figure sums. In 2018, Rago suc- bled for nearly half a century.
cessfully sold a particularly large
Martin Brothers Wally Bird for Said David Rago, “In no small part
$112,500. because of our merger with Wright
Auctions, represented here is one of
Highlights from the upcoming sin- the best assemblages of postwar
gle-owned collection include a ceramics brought to public auction.”
13¾-inch-tall Wally Bird with original
paper label ($50/75,000); a pair of Among the many highlights: a mas-
Toby Dog vessels ($30/50,000); a sive leopard spot decorated stoneware
6-inch double Wally Bird ($20/30,000); vase by Harrison McIntosh, possibly
and a large grotesque face jug the largest the artist ever created
($18/22,000); an exceptional and large

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 7

Designer Jewels & Fine Estates Top
Litchfield’s September 15 Jewelry Sale

LITCHFIELD, CONN. — emerald and diamond cluster
Litchfield Auctions announces ring ($2/3,000); an 18K gold
its curated auction of impor- scale link Italian choker
tant and fine jewelry. The sale ($2,5/3,500); a 4-carat citrine
is viewable online now, and and diamond ring ($1,5/2,500);
the live auction will take place a striking black opal and dia-
on September 15, at 11 am. mond cocktail ring ($1,5/2,500);
and a lady’s Rolex Oyster Per-
Some collections have been petual DateJust 31 watch
combined to create this distin- ($1,5/2,500).
guished sale, which features Another collection in this auc-
property from the estates of tion includes property from the
Rosalie Coe Weir, Jo Sullivan estate of Ines Bausili. A native Six-carat Kashmir sapphire
Loesser and Ines Bausili. More Seven-carat Burmese sap- Argentinian, Bausili’s father and diamond ring from the
than 350 lots of jewelry, gems phire and diamond ring was ambassador to the United estate of Rosalie Coe Weir
and watches include designers from the estate of Rosalie Nations in the 1950s and her Four-carat diamond engage- ($100/150,000).
such as Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Coe Weir ($20/25,000). grandfather, the Minister of ment ring from the estate of auction.
Van Cleef & Arpels, Schlum- Foreign Affairs at the turn of Rosalie Coe Weir ($50/80,000).
berger, Paloma Picasso, Ange- monds ($20/25,000); a Cartier the Twentieth Century. The mond and emerald cocktail Litchfield County Auctions is at
la Cummings, David Yurman, ruby and diamond cocktail ring New York Times announced ring ($2/4,000). 425 Bantam Road. For informa-
Rolex and others. ($3/5,000); and a Tiffany & Co. that she “went to that big cock- tion, www.litchfieldcountyauc-
emerald and diamond dinner tail party in the sky” in her Online bids may be placed tions.com, 860-567-4661 or sales@
The top lot in the auction is a ring ($2/$4,000). Other high- obituary from February 2019. now through the close of the litchfieldcountyauctions.com.
Kashmir sapphire and dia- lights include a 3.29-carat cush- Highlights from her collection
mond ring, having a 6-carat ion-cut loose diamond include an 18K yellow gold and
medium blue sapphire flanked ($16/20,000); a pair of Cartier pave diamond choker
by 1.20-carat bezel set dia- diamond brooch clips ($1,5/2,500), a Tiffany & Co.
monds. This striking ring ($20/25,000); a French cut dia- sterling silver cuff bracelet
comes from the estate of Rosa- mond and platinum tennis ($250/350) and a wonderful
lie Coe Weir, and is estimated bracelet ($4,5/6,500); and a selection of designer costume
at $100/150,000, with an open- Cartier ruby and platinum ten- and statement jewelry.
ing bid of $50,000. Weir was a nis bracelet ($7/10,000). Other top highlights in this
prominent social figure in Jo Sullivan Loesser was an auction feature an 18K gold
New York society and gener- American actress and star of salamander brooch by Sch-
ous supporter of the arts. Her musical theatre. Nominated for lumberger for Tiffany & Co.,
love of the craft of fine jewelry a Tony Award in 1957 for The adorned with green tourma-
shows explicitly in her collec- Most Happy Fella, she was also lines, pave diamonds and tur-
tion. the widow of songwriter Frank quoise eyes ($4/6,000); an 18K
Loesser who was known for his gold, sapphire and diamond
The Weir collection contains Broadway musicals Guys and watch by Cartier ($4/6,000);
other outstanding rings, includ- Dolls and How to Succeed in and an Art Deco-style dia-
ing a 4-carat diamond and plat- Business Without Really Try-
inum engagement ring with ing. Some of the top lots from
central old European cut dia- her collection include a Cartier
mond ($50/80,000); a 7-carat
Burmese sapphire ring with six
round old European cut dia-

Torrington Historical Society Lecture:
Connecticut’s Indigenous People,
September 25

TORRINGTON, CONN. — colonial courts, 1637-1775.
The public is invited to attend Hermes is a former long-time
a program on Wednesday, Sep-
tember 25, at 6:30 pm, in the resident of Torrington. A mem-
Carriage House Gallery, Tor- ber of the faculty at Central
rington Historical Society. Dr Connecticut State University
Katherine Hermes, professor since 1997, she teaches courses
of history at Central Connecti- in early American history,
cut State University, will pres- focusing on the Seventeenth
ent a program titled “Connecti- and Eighteenth Centuries,
cut’s Indigenous People and Native American history and
Their Use of the Law.” Admis- legal history. Her current work
sion is free for Torrington His- is on the Wongunk (Wangunk),
torical Society members; $5 for a native tribe whose lands
nonmembers. stretched from Hartford,
Conn., to Saybrook, Conn.,
Shortly after the arrival of along the Connecticut river,
English settlers in Seven- some of whom later joined the
teenth Century Connecticut, Brothertown Movement and
conflict among the new settlers moved westward with the
and the native people began Tunxis or went to live near the
and resulted in the Pequot War Schaghticoke. She has been
of 1637. Most conflicts, howev- doing native genealogies from
er, did not result in war and the Seventeenth and Eigh-
were the stuff of everyday teenth Centuries to try to fig-
encounters. The Wangunk, ure out relationships between
Tunxis and other native people Connecticut indigenous peo-
used their own law and the ples.
English courts to argue for jus-
tice, and sometimes they The Torrington Historical
received it. This program will Society is at 192 Main Street.
discuss Native jurispractice For information, 860-482-8260
and demands for justice in or www.torringtonhistoricalso-
ciety.org.

Man Pleads Guilty In Fatal Beating
To Avoid Death Penalty

AKRON, OHIO (AP) — An Mary Kay Wohlfarth of Akron.
Ohio man who fatally beat an Cleveland.com reports the
antiques dealer, left her body
in a storage unit and then con- 35-year-old Olson offered his
fessed, has pleaded guilty in a “deepest apologies” in court.
deal to avoid a potential death He acknowledged drug use was
sentence. a factor in what happened but
said that was his choice and he
Michael Olson, of Coventry blames only himself.
Township, was sentenced to
life in prison without parole Prosecutors say the plea deal
after entering his plea Tues- approved by Wohlfarth’s family
day. The charges included gets justice for her and pro-
aggravated murder and rape in tects public safety by imprison-
the June death of 68-year-old ing Olson for the rest of his
life.

8 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Quinn’s To Auction Fine & Decorative Art On Sept. 14

Featured Are Paintings By Merton D. Simpson, Latin Works De Szyszlo, Mijares & Soriano

FALLS CHURCH, VA. — On
Saturday, September 14,
Quinn’s will present a selection
of Latin American, Asian, Euro-
pean, American and Modern
fine and decorative art in a 437-
lot gallery auction. Absentee
and internet live bidding will be
available.
Many decorative art catego-
ries are represented, including
rugs, bronzes, porcelain, silver
and glass. The Asian decorative
art selection includes Japanese
netsuke, Chinese porcelain,
snuff bottles, silk textiles and
other pieces. Original fine art to
be offered includes works by
such luminaries as Jim McNutt,
Merton D. Simpson and leading
Latin American artists like Fer-
nando De Szyszlo, José María
Mijares and Rafael Soriano.
Ten artworks by Simpson
(1928-2013) will cross the auc-
tion block. Simpson was an Afri- Jim McNutt (American, b 1938), Surrealist colored-pencil-
can American artist, a New York on-paper drawing of a couple and two children flanked by a
City gallerist and a member of clown, titled “Really!? (thump thump!),” 1986 ($20/30,000). Untitled oil on canvas abstract painting by Fernando De Szysz-
the Spiral collective, an alliance lo (Peruvian, 1925-2017), showing dark impasto blocks with
of visionary Harlem artists Simpson’s gallery inventory or trasted with loose, curvilinear brightly colored highlights on ochre background ($20/30,000).
formed in 1963 by Romare his private collection. brush strokes and titled “Uni-
Bearden, Charles Alston, Nor- One lot comprises a series of versal Orchestration (Series A).” The other is a Jim Nutt with metallic thread dragon
man Lewis and Hale Woodruff. seven paintings by Simpson, The set of oil and acrylic on (American, b 1938) Surrealist embroidery and central medal
All ten paintings are either from with thick swatches of color con- board renderings executed in colored-pencil-on-paper draw- and brass studs; and a two-pan-
1981 has an estimate of ing of a couple and two children el wraparound divided skirt
$12/16,000. Each 24-by-18-inch flanked by a clown. It is whim- with matching embellishments
(sight) painting is signed and sically titled “Really!? (thump ($2/3,000).
dated on front and signed and thump!)” (1986). The 14-by-
numbered verso. 16-inch drawing is housed in a Decorative accessories will be
An oil on canvas Cubist still 23¼-by-25¼-inch frame and led by a Paul Storr (English,
life painting by Rafael Soriano was purchased from the Phyllis 1770-1844) footed tureen with a
(Cuban/American, 1920-2015), Kind Gallery in New York in decorated scrolling acanthus
titled “Naturaleza Muerta (Still 1988. A gallery label is affixed handle atop gadrooning and
Life),” is signed at lower right on verso. sides adorned with flowers. The
($3,5/4,500). Also, an early to body of the tureen has reeded
mid-Nineteenth Century oil on An oil on canvas portrait of a handles flanked by lion masks.
canvas by an unknown artist nude boy lying on his stomach The piece is marked on both the
(probably English), depicting by Robert Ryel Bliss (American, lid and the tureen and weighs
the 1818 confrontation between 1925-1981), titled “Young Boy,” about 127.998 troy ounces
the captain and crew of the is signed and dated and mea- ($6/8,000).
Everthorpe of Hull and a polar sures 29 by 49 inches (sight). It
bear in the Davis Strait, is pre- is expected to reach $3/4,000. An 1862 JS Anchor-marked
sented in a 14-by-16-inch frame An untitled monochromatic Confederate import Enfield
($400/600). landscape by Gules Guerin pattern 1853 rifle-musket with
Two paintings with identical (American, 1866-1946), depict- socket bayonet, .58 caliber
estimates of $20/30,000 are con- ing a stream running beneath a ($1,2/1,800) features a lock
tenders for top-lot status. One is stone bridge ($1,5/2,500) is plate marked with an English
a large untitled abstract paint- mixed media on linen applied to Crown proof mark and “Tower
ing by Fernando De Szyszlo board and measures 26 by 19½ 1862.” The stock has a car-
(Peruvian, 1925-2017). The oil inches, sight. touche embossed in wood with
on canvas, painted in the Twen- the words “C.W. James, Maker,
tieth Century, features dark Among the top Asian lots is a Birmingham.” The barrel has
impasto blocks with brightly col- Nineteenth or Twentieth Cen- Birmingham proof marks, while
Series of seven paintings by the African American artist ored highlights on an ochre tury Manchu military officer’s the bayonet is unmarked.
Merton D. Simpson (1928-2013), titled “Universal Orchestra- background. Artist-signed, it ceremonial armor jacket and
tion (Series A),” to be sold as one lot ($12/16,000). measures 38 by 40 inches (sight). skirt of navy blue silk, lined Quinn’s gallery is at 360 South
with light blue silk. The outfit Washington Street. For informa-
consists of a batwing jacket tion, www.quinnsauction.com or
703-532-5632.

Wolfs To Exhibit Watercolors From Cleveland School’s Frank Wilcox

CLEVELAND, OHIO — Wolfs ists of his generation, and whose 1910 and began his teaching 1930s, Wilcox began focusing on fluid line, striking composition
presents “The Dean,” a selling estate is represented by Wolfs. career at the Institute in 1913. research for his first book, Ohio and vivid color.
exhibition of paintings by Frank Works will be available for sale As a student of Henry Keller, and Indian Trails, a New York Times
Nelson Wilcox (1887-1964). The while the works are on view, a teacher to Charles Burchfield, best seller, which led him towards In his autobiography, Wilcox
exhibition provides an opportu- through November 30, as well as Clarence Carter, Carl Gaertner a more historical and archaeo- further acknowledges that his
nity to view and acquire fresh, after the exhibition closes. and Paul Travis, among others, logical mindset. Prior to this shift first trips to Boothbay, Maine,
perfectly preserved examples of Wilcox grew to become one of the in his attention, he was at a pin- greatly benefited his artistic
remarkable work by one of the Known as “the dean of artists,” foremost leaders in the develop- nacle in his artistic career. In a style. He notes that these works
most highly regarded watercolor- Frank Wilcox, was a graduate of ment of the Cleveland School. document in which he details were “full in tone and not depen-
the Cleveland School of Art in great satisfaction with his meth- dent upon a linear support” and
This exhibition includes the ods in watercolor, he describes that he “took great pleasure in
“Reflections along the Ohio River” by Frank Wilcox, circa debut of his masterful modern how he was painting, “light, directly molding the rock forma-
1920, watercolor and graphite on board, signed lower left, watercolors from the 1920s-30s. weather and the sense of space… tions and contrasting them with
22 by 30 inches. Fortunately, these works were seen through the lightness and fluid skies. In his numerous trips
discovered while working with airiness of the watercolor tech- to Gaspé, Canada, Wilcox speci-
the Wilcox estate and the grand- nique.” fied that he needed a “special pal-
son of the artist, who provided ette” for the “extra blues and the
Wolfs with uninhibited access to Wilcox recalls in his writings contrasting keys of sky and
dusty boxes and cupboards filled upon return from his first trip to earth.”
with paintings and ephemera, Paris in 1911 that Keller, the
until now, unseen for decades. Cleveland School’s most revered The dramatic and intense cool
The deep cobalt and shimmering teacher and mentor, pushed Wil- blues continue to triumph in
emeralds Wilcox used in this cox to express himself more these watercolors, which Wilcox
group of seascapes and land- Impressionistically. Although ini- never revealed to the public.
scapes remain as vibrant as the tially resistant, Wilcox began to
day they were painted. The find great value in Keller’s urg- This comprehensive exhibition
estate has also shared a cache of ings — to be more intentional will encompass more than 200
dramatic early oils and stunning and deliberate in using pure works depicting American
watercolors executed throughout color. In addition to the use of scenes, Europe, the Northeast
Europe and North America. bold, pure colors, Wilcox began Coast and American West, span-
abandoning sketching and ning much of Wilcox’s career.
The majority of the works in underdrawing. Instead, directly
this exhibition were completed at applying paint to paper, enhanc- Wolfs is at 13010 Larchmere
a time when Wilcox was solely ing his personal artistic style of Boulevard.
and intensely painting. Into the
For information, 216-721-6945,
www.wolfsgallery.com or email
[email protected].

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 9

Morphy’s Shines Spotlight On Rare Antique Toys & Banks

Postwar Japanese TV Space Patrol futuristic tin friction car Kyser & Rex (Philadelphia) Roller Skating cast iron
with astronaut driver and rotating video camera under plas- mechanical bank ($80/120,000).
tic dome. Original pictorial box and tissue wrap ($3/5,000).

DENVER, PENN. — Morphy’s girl. To compare how this Rare Henry Hart Presto cast iron mechanical bank
next big toy, bank and doll bank’s value has climbed, a ($30/60,000).
event will take place at its gal- Roller Skating bank probably
lery on September 24-25 begin- could have been purchased for Plus, Figural Novelties & Out-Of-This-World
ning at 9 am each day, with all around $2,000 in the 1960s. Space Toys In Sept. 24-25 Auction
forms of bidding available, The estimate on Morphy Auc-
including absentee, by phone or tions’ example is $80/$120,000. numbered “1253” ($3/6,000). A 1959 brunette Barbie is box and original packing tissue
live via the internet. More than Nineteenth Century cast iron beach-ready wearing her sleek ($3/5,000).
1,500 lots are entered, includ- Another bank is the rare black-and-white striped swim-
ing more than 200 mechanical Henry Hart “Presto” cast iron horse-drawn toys will take the suit and cat’s-eye sunglasses. More than 150 trains by Ives,
and still banks, more than 200 mechanical that is the very spotlight as well. A classic Car- The doll comes with a pedestal, Marklin, American Flyer, Lio-
boxed Marx and Buddy L same example shown on Page penter’s “Tally Ho” depicts a original Mattel box and pink- nel and other manufacturers
pressed steel vehicles, more 208 of the reference book team of four horses — two black cover Barbie booklet ($2/4,000). will be parked at Morphy’s and
than 150 trains, 150 advertis- Mechanical Banks, written by and two white — pulling a awaiting new destinations.
ing figures, a selection of more Dan Morphy, president of Mor- coach with seven passengers With eyes to the future, a rare Included in the mix are several
than 100 candy containers and phy Auctions ($30/60,000). ($10/20,000). “It’s an imposing postwar Japanese “TV Space Voltamp productions. A group
more. toy at 26 inches long, and it’s Patrol” is friction-operated and lot comprises three early pas-
An array of antique cast iron beautifully designed. It looks has an astronaut driver under senger cars: a No. 2107 Eliza-
Among the many cast iron doorstops includes animal, like it’s moving even when it’s a sky-blue clear plastic bubble beth Pullman car, No. 2105 din-
mechanical banks in the sale is human and fantasy forms. standing still,” Morphy top. As the sky blue and cream- ing car and No. 2140 Hansa
a circa 1880 Kyser & Rex (Phil- From the animal world, the remarked. Another American colored vehicle moves forward, observation car ($2/4,000).
adelphia) Roller Skating bank. subjects include a stag, squir- cast iron classic, a correctly a video camera rotates under
When a coin is placed in the rel, white owl, rabbit, bear eat- matched Ives horse-drawn the cockpit dome. This toy Morphy’s Auction is at 2000 N
slot on the roof and the lever is ing honey, turkey, penguin, pel- pumper and firehouse, is comes with an out-of-this-world Reading Road. For information,
pressed, skaters glide to the ican and various other birds. expected to make $3/5,000. bonus: its ultra-rare pictorial www.morphyauctions.com or
rear of the rink, and a male fig- Among those depicting humans, 877-968-8880.
ure presents a wreath to a little a leading lot is a Judd Co., pro-
duction titled “The West Wind,”

Bertoldo Di Giovanni, Michelangelo’s Teacher, Debuts At Frick
NEW YORK CITY — The Frick scholars for the past century. the church and convent of San aspects of Bertoldo’s practice is and his concept for the frieze on
Collection presents the first exhi- On view through January 12, Marco and instructed the city’s the process he followed between the facade of the Medici Villa in
bition to focus on the Florentine most gifted pupils who studied design and production. While Poggio a Caiano was rendered in
sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni “Bertoldo di Giovanni: The the sculptures. One such student there are certainly “Bertoldian” terracotta by the della Robbia
(circa 1440–1491). This mono- Renaissance of Sculpture in was Michelangelo, whose creative stylistic elements that unify his workshop. In addition, Andrea
graphic display of more than 20 Medici Florence,” follows a series genius, according to Giorgio Vasa- statues, medals, reliefs, and stat- Guacialoti cast the medals com-
statues, reliefs, medals and statu- of Frick shows on Renaissance ri, flourished under Bertoldo’s uettes, the works are at times memorating the Pazzi Conspira-
ettes will bring together the art- sculptors and is organized by guidance. markedly dissimilar in their exe- cy for Lorenzo de’ Medici from
ist’s entire extant oeuvre and is Aimee Ng, associate curator; cution. Having no known work- Bertoldo’s model. By displaying
exclusive to the New York City Alexander J. Noelle, Anne L. Pou- While his connections to shop of his own, it seems that the these objects together for the first
institution, which owns the only let curatorial fellow; and Xavier F. Donatello, Michelangelo and sculptor enlisted other Florentine time at the Frick, the exhibition
sculptural figure by the artist Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp chief Lorenzo de’ Medici are central to artists to realize his designs. This will elucidate the dynamic role of
outside of Europe. curator; with the assistance of his narrative, Bertoldo and the theory is supported through doc- Bertoldo as designer and collabo-
Julia Day, associate conservator. crucial role he played in the uments and inscriptions on the rator.
This comprehensive exhibition development of Florentine sculp- objects themselves. Adriano Fio-
will offer the first chance to fully Bertoldo is little known today, ture in the second half of the Fif- rentino, for example, cast “Bel- The Frick Collection is at 1 East
explore longstanding questions of often seen merely as a student of teenth Century warrant serious lerophon Taming Pegasus,” a 70th Street. For additional infor-
attribution, function, groupings Donatello, an instructor of attention in their own right. His- statuette after Bertoldo’s design, mation, www.frick.org or 212-
and intended display. The exhibi- Michelangelo, or a confidant of torically one of the most elusive 288-0700.
tion of Bertoldo’s artistic produc- Lorenzo de’ Medici (called il Mag-
tion in bronze, wood and terra- nifico) without deeper consider-
cotta will highlight the ingenuity ation of his own talents. The
of the sculptor’s design across details of his life and artistic out-
media. A number of objects that put, however, indicate a figure
share common iconography will worthy of public attention. Rising
be included, displayed in a way from obscure origins as a child of
that will shed light on his cre- a German immigrant family liv-
ative process, which has puzzled ing in Florence, Bertoldo devel-
Bertoldo di Giovanni “Her- oped his technical skills under
cules on Horseback,” circa Donatello, eventually inheriting
1470–75, Bronze, 10 3/4 inch- the master’s models and complet-
es high, Galleria Estense, ing the pulpits in the Basilica of
Modena. Su concessione del San Lorenzo following Donatel-
Ministero per i Beni e le lo’s death.
Attività Culturali — Archivio
fotografico delle Gallerie Bertoldo went on to gain the
Estensi; Carlo Vannini photo. patronage of the most important
political figure in Renaissance
Florence, Lorenzo de’ Medici.
Their relationship developed over
decades, with Bertoldo becoming
a “familiare” of the city’s de-facto
ruler, eventually moving into the
Medici palace, and creating
numerous statuettes, reliefs and
medals for the Medici family. Ber-
toldo was responsible for much
more than producing works of
art, however; in addition to
designing decorations for festi-
vals, organizing architectural
projects and devising entertain-
ment for the Medici entourage, he
was also the curator of Lorenzo’s
famed garden of antiquities near

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Larry Kagan At Montclair Art Museum

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — “Impossi- existence. took an etching class at the Uni- Larry Kagan, “Ode to Keith,” 2006, steel and shad-
ble Shadows: The Art of Larry Among the thousands of works versity of Albany, and discovered ow, 54 by 41 by 9 inches.
Kagan,” a new exhibition at the the freedom of making art. Here,
Montclair Art Museum (MAM), in the Montclair Art Museum’s Kagan was mentored by art pro-
showcases the veteran artist’s collection, one of the visitors’ fessor and renowned sculptor
provocative sculptures made of favorites is Larry Kagan’s “Box Richard Stankiewicz and earned
twisted steel with seemingly II” (2001). On view in the Ferber a master’s degree in studio arts
impossible shadows, inviting the stairway since 2006, this enig- in 1970. Kagan observed how his
viewer to question the very matic work continues to mystify professor hung his welded steel
nature of reality and the process viewers who wonder how an constructions on the wall, “leav-
of seeing. The MAM exhibition is abstract bronze sculpture can ing their interior elements ener-
Kagan’s first solo exhibition in cast a realistic shadow of an open gized.”
New Jersey and one of his few box with perspective. One guest
museum shows in the tri-state observed, “I was completely Light and shadow have played
region. It will be on view through moved and astounded by it and roles in Kagan’s work since the
January 5. could have looked at it all day.” early 1970s. The artist credits
his dog with reintroducing him
The exhibition will feature 21 Larry Kagan (b 1946) is a pro- to steel during their walks in
of Kagan’s most notable works, fessor emeritus at Rensselaer Tribeca, New York City, in the
each inviting a discussion about Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in early 1980s. These canine inves-
dualities of light and dark, draw- Troy, N.Y. Born two years after tigations of piles of construction
ing and sculpture, abstraction the end of World War II in a refu- debris yielded intriguing colors
and representation and what is gee camp in Germany, Kagan and textures in the found, broken
two-dimensional and three- connects his art to the heavy toll and bent pieces of steel. Kagan
dimensional. Viewed without of the Holocaust on his Jewish gathered materials to weld into
lighting, the pieces look like family from Belarus. free-form shapes that tended to
abstract metal sculptures. With fade into the background when
special lighting, the sculptures’ “It just wiped us out,” he said. exhibited next to colorful paint-
shadows form a range of images “Working with shadows repre- ings in the gallery. Mounting his
from Barack Obama to a man’s sents missing relatives. I grew sculptures on the walls, he dis-
dress shoe. up with a lot of holes in my fam- covered that the gallery lights
ily tree. Something about shad- produced strong shadows that
Kagan sees himself in the Pop ows relates to impermanence and distorted their shapes. By trial
art tradition of working with something that isn’t there.” and error, he figured out how to
popular imagery. He describes incorporate the shadows, as
his creative process as drawing Kagan emigrated to the United active components of his sculp-
in space “by creating structures States at age 13 and dreamed of tures.
that cast inappropriate shad- becoming a NASA engineer.
ows.” These sublime sculptures While he created mostly mechan- The Montclair Art Museum is at
do not fully yield their secrets, ical drawings in his youth, as an 3 South Mountain Avenue. For
and that is part of the mystery undergraduate student at RPI in more information, 973-746-5555
and magic of their creation and 1964, Kagan found that he did or www.montclairartmuseum.org.
not want to focus his career on
engineering or architecture. He

12 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Marc Chagall Portfolio To Lead
Prints & Drawings Sale At Swann

NEW YORK CITY — Swann throughout his career, leads Marc Chagall, “Cirque,” portfolio with com-
Galleries will open its fall sea- the sale with one of his most plete text, 23 color lithographs and 15 litho- Mary Cassatt, “The Crocheting Lesson,”
son on Thursday, September widely appreciated livres graphs, 1967 ($120/180,000). drypoint, circa 1902 ($15/20,000).
19, with a sale of Nineteenth d’artiste, “Cirque” — a 1967
and Twentieth Century prints portfolio with complete text Swann will offer a selection of “Dempsey and Firpo” Fiesta (Miseria),” 1935
and drawings. Replete with and 38 lithographs. The lively works from the collection of ($30/50,000) and Gustave Bau- ($2,5/3,500). Also of note is an
pieces by European and Ameri- work is expected to bring the late print dealers Betty mann’s 1917 color woodcut array of color aquatints and
can visionaries, the auction $120/180,000. Additional port- and Douglas Duffy of the “Mending the Seine (Province- Mixografías by Rufino Tamayo
features work from Nineteenth folios by Chagall include “Ls Bethesda Art Gallery, includ- town)” ($8/12,000). with “Gato,” color lithograph,
Century harbingers of Modern- Sept Péchés Capitaux,” a 1926 ing dizzying portraits of New 1959 ($4/6,000) and “Person-
ism through the major Modern bound volume with complete York City skyscrapers by How- Building on the success of ajes con Pajaros,” color Mixo-
art movements of the Twenti- text and 17 etchings, two ard Cook. Most notably by Swann’s first standalone Latin grafía, 1988 ($3/5,000).
eth Century. signed in pencil ($8/12,000); Cook: the wood engravings American art auction last
and “Regards sur Paris,” 1963, “Skyscraper,” 1928 ($10/15,000) spring, the house is poised to Auction previews are Sep-
Marc Chagall, who held an with complete text and three and “Chrysler Building,” 1930 offer another selection of tember 14, from noon to 5 pm,
avid interest in the circus color lithographs by the artist, ($8/12,000), as well as his 1931 works. Highlights include and September 16-18, from 10
Howard Cook, “Skyscraper,” as well as an additional 30 lithograph “New York Night” Miguel Covarrubias’s gouache am to 6 pm.
wood engraving, 1928, from prints by others, such as Pablo ($5/8,000). Further American on paper “Portrait of Somerset
the collection of Betty and Picasso and Georges Braque artists include George Bellows, Maugham,” circa 1925 Swann Auction Galleries is at
Douglas Duffy ($10/15,000). ($10/15,000). with the 1923-24 lithograph ($5/8,000) and José Clemente 104 East 25th Street. For more
Orozco’s lithograph “Fin de information, 212-254-4710 or
Additional Modern highlights www.swanngalleries.com.
include a complete set of 22
drypoints by Elie Nadelman
from 1951 ($20/30,000); “Odal-
isque au Coffret Rouge,” color
aquatint, circa 1952, by Henri
Matisse ($20/30,000); and
“Femme Nue Pêchant des Tru-
ites à la Main,” color linoleum
print, 1962, by Picasso
($20/30,000).

From the turn of the Nine-
teenth Century come several
drypoints by Mary Cassatt,
including “The Crocheting Les-
son,” circa 1902 ($15/20,000);
“Margot Resting Her Arms on
Back of Armchair,” circa 1903
($10/15,000); and “Margot
Leaning Against Her Mother,”
circa 1902 ($12/18,000). James
Ensor is present with “La Ven-
geance de Hop-Frog,” a 1898
etching, with hand-coloring in
watercolor and gouache, based
on an Edgar Allan Poe short
story ($30/50,000).

Upcoming Programs At Windsor Historical
Feature Free Appraisal Afternoon, Estate Planning Lecture

WINDSOR, CONN. — James ket has shifted from large colo- to look at your family trea- cost is $5 per item, with a limit
Selig of James Selig Estate nial and Victorian-style furni- sures and tell you more about of five items to be appraised.
Jewelry and Antiques will ture to smaller items. The them: their age, condition and Depending on foot traffic, you
offer a program at the Windsor younger crowd is not very value, and how best to care for may have to wait a little, but
Historical Society on Thurs- interested in silver, ceramics them. the society’s 400 Years of Wind-
day, September 19, at 7 pm, and glassware, and more inter- sor Stories exhibition will be
addressing a challenge that ested in things from the 1950s Heather Nadeau of Nadeau’s open for viewing and it is often
many seniors and their adult and 1960s. So how best to find Appraisals will be on hand as enjoyable as well as education-
children face: what to do with new homes for family trea- will James Selig and Sharran al to listen to what experts say
the stuff the kids don’t want? sures no longer wanted by Selig Bennett of James Selig about artifacts others bring in.
In the last few decades, the younger family members? Estate Jewelry and Antiques. Parking is available around
antiques and collectibles mar- They will provide expertise on Palisado Green and in the
The program cost is $6 for fine and decorative arts, furni- Windsor Discovery Center and
adults, $5 for seniors and stu- ture, jewelry, couture, Orienta- First Church parking lots.
dents and $4 for society mem- lia and books and manuscripts.
bers. Tickets are available So if you’ve ever been curious The Windsor Historical Soci-
online or at the door. about family heirlooms such as ety is at 96 Palisado Avenue.
furniture, metal goods, glass, For additional information or
On Sunday, September 22, ceramics, toys, clothing, tex- to register online, 860-688-
from 1 to 4 pm, several tiles and jewelry, here is your 3813 or www.windsorhistori-
antiques experts will be on chance to find out more. The calsociety.org.
hand at the historical society

Harvest Fair At Southamptonfest
September 21

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The Rogers Mansion is at 17 ule of events, www.southamp-
From 11 am to 4 pm on Satur- Meeting House Lane. For more tonhistory.org or 631-283-
day, September 21, the South- information and a full sched- 2494.
ampton Historical Museum at
the Rogers Mansion celebrates Shinnecock Tribe dancing, 2018, Crazy Cow photo.
life during the Nineteenth
Century. Southamptonfest fea-
tures a variety of activities
that harkens back to a sim-
pler, hands-on era when both
adults and children alike
pitched in to make an income
for the family and to make a
sustainable home life.

Activities include outdoor
crafts, tool making demonstra-
tions, Shinnecock Tribe danc-
ing, farm animals, a thrift
shop and an 1850 wedding
reenactment. This event is
free and funded, in part, by
the Suffolk County Office of
Cultural Affairs. The Rogers
Mansion will be closed all day.

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 13

Cohasco’s Sept. 24 Auction—

Will Autographed Music Collection Be A Hit?

YONKERS, N.Y. — One of the Discharge signed by George An 1853 poster for runaway slave Gasaway One of 35 lots of sheet music signed by Ian
largest private collections of Washington, for Pvt. Daniel Greenleaf, seeking freedom at the door of Fleming’s basis for James Bond’s face,
music autographed by the Twen- Wright, who, according to Washington, DC, with manuscript document Hoagy Carmichael. Bond buffs may be
tieth Century’s top songwriters history of his Connecticut of his Maryland slaveholder, authorizing intrigued by 007’s modeling on the writer of
will appear in Cohasco’s Septem- county, “enlisted when a arrest. A pairing of poster and manuscript hit songs “Star Dust,” “Heart and Soul” and
ber 24 auction. Among 73 musical boy.” Among the other sign- document is rarely encountered ($6,5/9,000). “Georgia On My Mind” ($150 per lot and up).
lots are rare signed copies of four ers, Lebb(eus) Loomis had
of the most-recorded songs of all been a 17-year-old at Bun- Vogue look), and Frances “Dia- an 1803 letter referring to the An evidently unrecorded news-
time, “Georgia On My Mind,” ker Hill, his battalion later monds are Forever” McLaughlin building intended to be the presi- paper broadsheet printed by John
“Heart and Soul,” “The Nearness the precursor of the Nation- Gill. Items also include Cadillac’s dent’s house. Purpose-built in Dunlap, one day after the Battle
of You” and “Star Dust.” al Guard ($10,5/13,000). pursuit of the 128-carat Tiffany Philadelphia for George Washing- of Monmouth ended — the lon-
authorizing arrest ($5,5/6,700). diamond, the quest for the perfect ton and successors, it was the first gest action of the war, July 1778
The archive includes three pink diamond, fashion sketches, house so called — but never occu- ($3,5/4,700); a poem in the hand of
dozen signed by Hoagy Carmi- A 450-piece-plus archive of the fabric samples and the file for the pied by any president. The brand- Theodore Winthrop, first Union
chael — Ian Fleming’s stated most expensive print-advertising 1960 Motorama at the Waldorf new structure was part of Phila- officer killed in the first land bat-
model for James Bond’s look — campaign up to its time, the ($40/60,000). delphia’s unsuccessful effort to be tle of the Civil War, eerily pen-
plus music signed by the compos- Cadillac “jewel series” ads of 1955- chosen as the nation’s capital ning, “Grant me young death...”
ers of “Dancing in the Dark,” 62 will cross the block. Portraying Other highlights include the ($325/400). ($1,1/1,400); and a postwar letter
“When You Wish Upon a Star,” “American royalty,” the car was first printed Jewish sermon in of Jefferson Davis, showing the
“Home on the Range,” “Body and presented by the most famous North America, 1773, only record- There is an unusual document lifelong friendship between Union
Soul” and many more. Failing the models and photographers, fea- ed on the market a handful of of Daniel Clymer, who signed the and Confederate ($2,9/3,500) are
bar exam as a young man, and turing the Cadillac crest crafted times in the last century “other” Declaration of Indepen- further highlights.
with little formal musical train- from jewels. In ad history classics, ($38/48,000); a four-page letter of dence: on July 4, 1776, a separate
ing, Carmichael found himself Cartier, Harry Winston, Van Cleef labor leader Samuel Gompers, patriotic meeting was conducted Bids will be accepted up to Sep-
earning $1,000 a week composing and others interpreted the Cadil- 1918, listing his many positions, in Lancaster, Penn. — unaware of tember 24, 9 pm EST. All items
at Paramount in the depths of the lac emblem using spellbinding including the Immigration the epic events taking place 60 are fully described at http://cohas-
Depression. arrays of diamonds, rubies and Restriction League, and Friends miles away in Philadelphia codpc.com. For information, 914-
other gems. The group includes 52 of Russian Freedom ($300/375); ($1,3/1,700). 476-8500.
All signed personally for noted large color negatives by Horst,
high-society orchestra leader Lee Henry Clarke (a creator of the
Maxfield, the songs offer timeless
echoes of American culture.
Preauction estimates are $150
per lot and up.

Among 550 other lots of histori-
cal documents and collectibles in
29 categories are a rare Revolu-
tionary War document paying an
American Indian soldier, James
Nedson at West Point, 1781
($1,3/1,700) and a document in
the hand of American spy Noah
Phelps of Connecticut, here
receiving £342 to pay troops. One
of the first documented espionage
agents of the incipient United
States to spearhead a major mis-
sion, at Ticonderoga, he crossed
paths with Benedict Arnold
($750/950)

A rare pair on offer comprise a
reward poster for runaway slave
Gasaway Greenleaf, escaped to
freedom at the door of the nation’s
capital, 1853 — with manuscript
document of his Maryland owner,

Fine Art Photography Exhibition Comes To The Artists’ Space At The National Bottle Museum

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. — “Taos from the remarkable textural Nicholson studied photographic to the discipline of creative pho- chronicity. He has chosen the
Journey: High Desert Portraits of play of light on adobe structures, science as an undergraduate at tography after a long and suc- image series as his primary
Time” at the Artists’ Space at the awe-inspiring cloud formations, the Massachusetts Institute of cessful career as a corporate means for the delivery of narra-
National Bottle Museum Sep- visions of community, to breath- Technology in the late 1960s graphic designer, Nicholson has tive concepts. His work tends to
tember 13-October 12, offers art taking mountain creek studies. A while majoring in visual design. expanded upon White’s methods, center around themes of personal
enthusiasts a unique glimpse master of the limited timeframe, A chance encounter with the emphasizing the psychological, transformation and the cycle of
into the wide-ranging spectrum serial-photo-shoot, Nicholson’s mystic photographer Minor spiritual dimensions inherent in the seasons, taking the form of
of spirit and wonder of this south- seven-day trek through the high White, then in residence at the the medium and using the cam- books, exhibitions and short
western destination. Photogra- desert harvested powerful, sym- institute and teaching unortho- era as an inner-work tool. films.
pher George J. Nicholson’s lens bolic meditations reflective of the dox approaches to the medium,
alights upon a free-flowing, cross- singular character of the Taos had a profound impact on Nichol- Many of Nicholson’s projects are The gallery is at 76 Milton Ave-
section of subject matter, ranging Valley and its people. son’s creative process. Returning triggered by dreams or by follow- nue. For additional information,
ing the slender threads of syn- www.nationalbottlemuseum.org.

Leland Little Presents Auction Of Fine Art, Furniture & More

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — tative of the firm’s typically An 18K gold “Moon Phase”
Leland Little Auctions will strong offerings in the Ameri- watch by Patek Philippe.
conduct its fall auction on Sep- can fine art and American fur-
tember 21. niture categories. works by important regional
artists, such as Maud Gate-
This live auction is represen- The fine art category includes wood and Claude Howell, as

well as nationally recognized
artists, such as Ludwig Bemel-
mans and Louis Rémy Mignot.
American furniture offerings
are gleaned from several major
furniture collections of long-
standing Leland Little clients.
They include a rare Southern
Queen Anne walnut carved tea
table, a Virginia Federal inlaid
walnut corner cupboard attrib-
uted to Jacob Shinn, a Virginia
Federal inlaid mahogany side-
board, circa 1800-10, and a
Philadelphia Chippendale
walnut chest on chest, circa
1780.
Live bidding will begin at 10
am. Bidding will be available Leland Little Auctions
in-house at the Leland Little is at 620 Cornerstone
Auctions Gallery, as well as by Court.
absentee bidding, telephone
bidding and live internet bid- For additional informa- Virginia Federal inlaid wal-
Louis Rémy Mignot (1831-1870), “Woods in Winter.” ding. tion, www.lelandlittle.com or nut corner cupboard
919-644-1243.



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16 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019 SPECIAL
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

SUSAN GAULT ANTIQUES, Thetford, Vt. — Mickey Mouse box board cut-
outs marked “W.D. Ent for Walt Disney Enterprises” are in good condition.

—Black River Antique Show

WHITE & WHITE ANTIQUES, Skaneateles, N.Y. — Pittsburgh 12-panel
compote, circa 1820-40. —Weston Antiques Show

Vermont Antiques Week
October 3-6

STEPHEN-DOUGLAS ANTIQUES, Walpole, N.H. and Rockingham, Vt. —
Graphic wallpaper covered dome top trunk, circa 1835-40, measuring 10
by 6½ by 5¼ inches. —Antiques in Vermont

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SPECIAL September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 17
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

Vermont Antiques Week !

Join us at Okemo!

STONE BLOCK ART & ANTIQUES, Vergennes, Vt. — Luigi Lucio-
ni’s 1965 oil on Masonite, Shelburne Vt.
—Antiques at Stratton Mountain Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

STEPHEN-DOUGLAS ANTIQUES, Walpo-
le, N.H. and Rockingham, Vt. — Early
wood and tin lantern, American, circa
1840. —Antiques in Vermont

JOHN H. ROGERS ANTIQUES, New Lon-
don, N.H. — Rosewood carved figural
seam rubber.

—Antiques at Stratton Mountain
Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

18 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019 SPECIAL
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

MICHAEL & LUCINDA SEWARD, Pittsford,
Vt. — Top of a yarn sewn and sheared stool.

—Okemo Antiques Show

WHITE & WHITE ANTIQUES, Skaneateles, JOHN H. ROGERS ANTIQUES, New Lon-
N.Y. — Country continuous arm Windsor, don, N.H. — Five-color spatter pitcher, 12½
circa 1790. —Weston Antiques Show inches tall.

—Antiques at Stratton Mountain
Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

THE RED HORSE, Bridgewater, Vt. — Exceptional vendange basket for grape picking harvest
in beautifully aged color and condition, early Twentieth Century. It measures 30 inches wide
by 27 inches high by 25 inches deep. —Weston Antiques Show

SPECIAL September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 19
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

LATCHAM HOUSE ANTIQUES,
Waterville, Ohio — Still life of
apples in a bowl on a bare wood
table, late Nineteenth or early
Twentieth Century. Sight size is
9½ by 14-3/8 inches.

—Okemo Antiques Show

SUSAN GAULT ANTIQUES, Thetford, Vt.
— Watercolor cover for a 1903 Farmer’s
Almanac that is in between the cover that
measures 8½ inches high.

—Black River Antique Show

STEPHEN-DOUGLAS ANTIQUES, Wal-
pole, N.H. and Rockingham, Vt. —
Extraordinary iron and wood food
chopper from the early Nineteenth
Century. —Antiques in Vermont

STONE BLOCK ART & ANTIQUES, Vergennes, Vt. — Gustav Wiegand, circa 1915 oil on board,
“Birches, Blue Mountain Lake” with a Salmagundi label.

—Antiques at Stratton Mountain Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

20 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019 SPECIAL
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

WHITE & WHITE ANTIQUES, Skaneateles, N.Y. —
SUSAN GAULT ANTIQUES, Thetford, Vt. — Trade “Pin Oak Mallards,” oil on canvas, “Richard Bishop
sign for a Cabot, Vt., cafe that was closed in the 1980s. 1952.” —Weston Antiques Show
It is 34 inches tall. The coffee pot is three-dimension-
MICHAEL & LUCINDA SEWARD, al, and the bracket is included.
Pittsford, Vt. — Pipe box with heart
cutout. —Black River Antique Show

—Okemo Antiques Show Vermont
Antiques

Week
October 3-6

GARDINER’S ANTIQUES, South Burlington, Vt. — “Cot-
tage in Moonlight” by Danish painter William Fredriksen.

—Antiques at Stratton Mountain
Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

SPECIAL September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 21
SHOW SECTION
Vermont Antiques Week

LATCHAM HOUSE ANTIQUES, Waterville, Ohio — Double-sided veterinary sign,
American, late Nineteenth Century, reads: “Dr Chas H. Higgins, Veterinary Surgeon
and Physician” in silver block and script lettering on a black sand-painted back-
ground. Sign measures 12 inches high by 36 inches long. —Okemo Antiques Show

THE RED HORSE, Bridgewater, Vt. — Handsomely propor-
tioned black-painted iron urn with ribbed bowl and thumb-
nail edge. It measures 22 inches long by 30 inches high,
circa 1930. —Weston Antiques Show

JOHN H. ROGERS ANTIQUES, New London, N.H. — Pair of Nineteenth
Century Pennsylvania redware plates measuring 6½ inches in diameter.

—Antiques at Stratton Mountain Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

STONE BLOCK ART & ANTIQUES, Vergennes, Vt. — Cast stone NANCY & GENE PRATT, Victor, N.Y. — Mid-Nineteenth Century ice cream
measuring 40 inches tall. soda sign on metal shield. —Okemo Antiques Show
—Antiques at Stratton Mountain Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Show

22 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

INTERNATIONAL

Ryerson African Portrait Exhibition Lyon Contemporary Art
Explores Role Of Women In Photography Biennale’s 15th Edition

TORONTO, ONTARIO — often been overlooked,” Gets New Home
This fall, the Ryerson Image says Colard, a specialist
Centre (RIC) will present a of modern and contem- LYON, FRANCE —
major exhibition exploring porary African art. “By The Lyon Contempo-
African photographic portrai- focusing on female por- rary Art Biennale has
ture through the perspectives traiture and photogra- moved to the more than
of women, both as sitters and phers, the goal of the 31,000-square-foot
photographers. Guest curated exhibition is to account space of the former
by scholar Sandrine Colard for their viewpoints in Fagor factory for the
and organized by the RIC in that history.” first time. This 15th edi-
collaboration with the Wal- The works on view will tion is curated by the
ther Collection, “The Way She be drawn entirely from Palais de Tokyo, which
Looks: A History of Female the Walther Collection has imagined the inter-
Gazes in African Portraiture” (Neu-Ulm, Germany and national exhibition as a
features contemporary works New York City), one of vast landscape of
by female artists alongside the world’s most impor- uneven topography and
Twentieth Century studio tant holdings of photog- unsettled climates. The
portraits and early colonial raphy and lens-based art Lyon Biennale is viewed
images and albums. The exhi- “Zanele Muholi, Miss D’Vine II,” from from Africa. “The Way as one of the world’s
bition continues through the series Miss D’vine, 2007, chromo- She Looks” represents leading contemporary
December 8. genic print ©The artist. Courtesy of the first time photo- art events, and this 15th
Throughout the history of the artist and Stevenson, Cape Town graphs from this signifi- edition will embrace the
photography, African women’s and Johannesburg. cant collection have been Lyon metro area and
bodies have been repeatedly exhibited in Canada. the entire region.
objectified and fetishized. “The Way She Looks” The exhibition is divided chronologically into
shifts the focus instead towards how women por- three parts. The first section showcases Nine- The fair will run Sep-
tray themselves, or are portrayed, that challenge teenth and early Twentieth Century photograph- tember 18-January 5.
the male-dominated narrative of the medium. ic prints, cartes de visite, postcards, albums and
Showcasing more than 100 works by both female books from Southern and Eastern Africa. The sec- The Lyon Biennale
and male practitioners from across Africa, the ond section features women’s portraits since the will take place in the Fagor factory, Lyon, courtesy
exhibition emphasizes the ways women see and 1950s by notable West African photographers, heart of the Gerland Lyon Contemporary Biennale.
present themselves while tracing how they such as Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta. The district — an exception-
moved from being eloquent photographic subjects final section highlights a number of significant al site, emblematic of Lyon’s history. The factory, which operat-
to adopting positions behind the camera. African female and nonbinary artists who have ed here from 1945 until 2015, was among the last big manufac-
“Because the history of photography in Africa emerged since the 1990s. turing plants inside the city limits. In September, this vast
has concentrated on a few famous male photogra- RIC is at 33 Gould Street. For information, brownfield site will host a system of political, poetic, aesthetic
phers, the role of women in photography has www.ryersonimagecentre.ca or 416-979-5164. and environmental interactions through works by 50 or so art-
ists of all generations and many nationalities, selected by the
Brussels Design Market September 28-29 Palais de Tokyo’s curators.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — events in the international vin- Dealers, collectors, profession- The Lyon Biennale’s new artistic director is Isabelle Bertolot-
Ever since its creation in 2002, tage design calendar. als and amateurs from all over ti, art historian and MAC Lyon director. The Biennale has
the Brussels Design Market has Europe come together in Brus- entrusted the curatorship of its international exhibition to the
evolved into one of the largest Maintaining its particular sels to search for fabulous vin- Palais de Tokyo and its team of curators: Adélaïde Blanc, Daria
design markets in Europe. The atmosphere that characterizes tage items, designed in the last de Beauvais, Yoann Gourmel, Matthieu Lelièvre, Vittoria
event, which takes places twice a flea markets, the Brussels Design century. Visitors can discover Matarrese, Claire Moulène and Hugo Vitrani. Together they
year — in March and September Market has continued to increase original and iconic pieces from have envisioned this Biennale as a vast ecosystem where art-
— has become one of the main qualitatively, attracting more Italian, French, American and works and artists cultivate the art of permaculture, at the
and more visitors every year. Scandinavian designers. These intersection of landscapes, be they biological (all interactions
are created by the biggest names with living organisms, whether plants, animals or bacteria);
Brussels Design Market 2018 ©Mélanie Fontaine. in the history of design, such as economic (all interactions with resources and the appetites they
Sottsass, Le Corbusier, Eames, or entail: producing, distributing, consuming); and cosmogonic (all
Jacobsen and Panton. relations with the world’s spirit and our awareness of our place
in the universe).
Between the purchase of
designers both well known and With more than 330,000 visitors in 2017, including 6,500 pro-
anonymous, visitors can enjoy a fessionals from 40 countries, the Biennale is a broad-based
coffee break or a lunch break event that supports new work and the general public’s art edu-
with the original food trucks in cation. It enables artists to make ambitious pieces and show-
place. cases an entire region’s productive and cultural capability in an
international context. Approximately 50 artists of all genera-
To finish off, this event takes tions and many nationalities, with gender parity, have been
place in the historical frame of invited to make site-specific works that draw on the factory’s
Tour & Taxis’ halls, the industri- legacy and architecture as well as its socioeconomic context.
al building that welcomes the
biggest cultural events of Brus- The Biennale connects the areas of the Lyon metro area and
sels. the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region through the Veduta platform.
It thus fosters direct contact between artists and residents,
The Tour & Taxis is at Avenue integrating art into the city and everyone’s daily life. This year,
du port. For more information, the Biennale will again include a strand devoted to regional
www.designmarket.be. and international emerging artists and titled “Young interna-
tional artists/Biennale,” to be held at the Institute of Contempo-
Christie’s To Manage UniCredit Sales rary Art (IAC) in Villeurbanne. This exhibition stems from a
LONDON — UniCredit has ning and day auctions alongside tions not usually served by the collaboration between the IAC, MAC Lyon, the National Fine
appointed Christie’s to manage Thinking Italian, taking place traditional banking sector, Uni- Arts School (ENSBA) in Lyon and the Lyon Biennale.
the sale of artworks from Aus- during Frieze Week. The selec- Credit employees educate
tria, Germany and Italy. The tion will include works by Ger- micro-entrepreneurs, social The Lyon Contemporary Biennale is at 3 Rue du Président
proceeds will be primarily used hard Richter, Yves Klein, Ernst enterprises and vulnerable or Édouard Herriot. For information, www.labiennaledelyon.com.
to support the further rollout of Wilhelm Nay, Enrico Castellani, disadvantaged groups, building
the group’s Social Impact Bank- Sam Francis, Andreas Gursky valuable networks within our Autumn 2019 Decorative Antiques
ing (SIB) initiatives. The and Nam June Paik, among oth- communities. SIB also focuses & Textiles Fair October 1-6
remaining balance will be dedi- ers. Information regarding on monitoring and measuring
cated to other relevant projects, works being offered in future outcomes, essential for sustain- BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON — The Autumn Decorative
including the support of young auctions will be announced in able growth. It is currently Antiques & Textiles Fair returns to Battersea Evolution for its
artists. due course. being rolled out in ten addition- third outing of the year, October 1-6. With more than 160 exhib-
al UniCredit markets, including itors on two floors, the autumn event is a sell-out. The Decora-
The artworks will be offered at SIB is part of UniCredit’s com- Germany, Austria, Serbia, Croa- tive Fair is the interior trade’s favorite period design show, with
various Christie’s international mitment to building a fairer and tia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Roma- a cornucopia of specialist dealers in decorative antiques and
salerooms across a range of more inclusive society. It aims to nia, Turkey, the Czech Republic design, Twentieth Century classics and accessories of every era,
marquee week sales in 2019 identify, finance and promote and Slovakia and Bosnia and from early Georgian to post-modernism. Works of art are offered
and 2020, with the first pieces people and companies that can Herzegovina. dating from antiquity to the contemporary.
being auctioned in London on have a positive social impact. As
October 4-5 as part of the post- well as continuing to provide For additional information, The centenary year of the School of Bauhaus provides the
war and contemporary art eve- credit to projects and organiza- www.christies.com. theme for the 2019 Autumn Foyer Display, where avant-garde
Twentieth Century designs will take center stage. All items in
the foyer display are drawn from exhibitors and are for sale.

Battersea Evolution is on Queenstown Road. For information,
www.decorativefair.com.

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Bonhams To Offer A Rare Vintage Test Model Of The Sputnik-1 Satellite

NEW YORK CITY — On technology and engineering high-altitude air defense sys-
September 17, Bonhams will were totally reworked and tem ($50/70,000); and a hand-
conduct the Air and Space massively funded in the shad- crafted lunar module contrac-
Sale, which is highlighted by ow of Sputnik. The Russian tor’s model marked with
a rare vintage test mode of satellite essentially forced the Grumman and NASA logos,
the Sputnik-1 satellite United States to place a new titled “Lunar Excursion Mod-
($400/600,000). This model is national priority on research ule” ($6/8,000).
one of only a few made to test science, which led to the
ground electromagnetic com- development of microelectron- Public exhibition for the sale
patibility and electromagnetic ics... Many essential technolo- runs September 14-17.
interference. It was used by gies of modern life, including
NII-885, a company under the the internet, owe their early Bonhams is at 580 Madison
Soviet Ministry of the Radio development to the accelerat- Avenue. For information, 212-
Industry, which, along with 644-9001 or www.bonhams.com.
OKB-1, are responsible for the
Sputnik-1 success. This exam- ed pace of applied research
ple had been on loan and was triggered by Sputnik,” (Dick-
displayed at Deutsches Tech- son p.4). Dickson. Sputnik:
nikmuseum in Berlin, Germa- The Shock of the Century. New
ny, and was in the collection of York: Walker, 2001.
NII-885 director Dr Mikhail Additional highlights in the
Ryazansky. sale include a CIAM/NASA
HFL Kholod rocket, once the
The Sputnik-1 artificial sat- fastest vehicle to fly within
ellite was launched into Earth Sputnik-1 EMC/EMI lab model, full-scale vintage test model the earth’s atmosphere
orbit by a R7 Semiorka rocket of the Sputnik-1 satellite, Moscow, February 1957 ($80/120,000); Lavochkin
on October 4, 1957. The satel- ($400/600,000). V-751 surface-to-air missile,
lite had several scientific an experimental missile that
objectives: test the method of check principles of pressuriza- Sputnik-1 sent the United was part of the family of mis-
placing an artificial satellite tion used on satellites. Testing States population into a panic. siles used in Lavochkin’s S-75
in Earth orbit, provide infor- would have been rigorous, as In the midst of a cold war, the
mation on the density of the Sergei Korolov, the lead Sovi- Soviets demonstrated that
upper atmosphere, test radio et rocket engineer who headed they had a rocket powerful
and optical methods of orbital the Sputnik-1 project, insisted enough to send a satellite into
tracking, determine the that the transmission be orbit. “There was a sudden
effects of radio propagation received even by those with crisis of confidence in Ameri-
through the atmosphere and the cheapest of radios. can technology, values, poli-
tics and the military. Science,
The successful launch of

Atlantan Couple Donate Impressionist
Paintings Collection To High Museum

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903), “Pièce d’eau à Kew,
(French, 1796–1875), “La Londres,” 1892, oil on canvas, 18-1/8 by 21-5/8 inches.
bohemiènne à mandoline
assise,” circa 1860s–70s, oil
on panel, 25 by 17 inches.

ATLANTA, GA. — The High Matisse, Modigliani, Sisley, on canvas that is a study for a
Museum of Art announced Maurice Utrillo and Vlaminck larger painting.
that Atlanta-based philan- to enter the High’s collection,
thropists Doris and Shouky the gift includes paintings by Other highlights include
Shaheen have donated their Eugène Boudin, Jean-Bap- Amedeo Modigliani (Italian,
entire Impressionist, post- tiste-Camille Corot, Claude 1884–1920), “Portrait de Bea-
Impressionist and Modernist Monet, Camille Pissarro, trice Hastings,” 1914; Claude
painting collection, totaling 24 Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Monet (French 1840–1926),
artworks, to the museum. The Édouard Vuillard. The paint- “Maison au bord de la route,”
Shaheen gift is one of the most ings’ subjects range from 1885; Camille Pissarro
significant groups of European sweeping landscapes and vil- (French, 1830-1903), “Pay-
paintings ever to enter the lage scenes to intimate por- sanne assise,” 1882; and Alfred
museum’s collection, rivaled traits and figure studies. Sisley (French, 1839–1899),
only by the Samuel H. Kress In recognition of the gift, the “Une rue à Marly,” 1876, an
Foundation donation in 1958, High will establish the Doris early landscape from the
which established the core of and Shouky Shaheen Gallery height of the impressionist
the High’s European art hold- in its Stent Family Wing, movement.
ings. This marks the High’s where the paintings will be on
first acquisition of paintings view starting later this year. The High Museum of Art is
by renowned artists such as Highlights of the Doris and at 1280 Peachtree Street NE.
Henri Fantin-Latour, Henri Shouky Shaheen collection For information, www.high.org
Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani include Jean-Baptiste-Camille or 404-733-4400.
and Alfred Sisley. Corot’s (French, 1796–1875)
“La bohemiènne à mandoline GREENWICH, CONN. —
Atlanta residents since 1965, assise,” circa 1860s–70s, in “Assembling Art: Works by Vin
the Shaheens began to amass which depicts a young girl Giuliani” at the Bruce Museum
their collection in the early holding a mandolin; Henri displays the creations of Vin-
1970s when they acquired Fantin-Latour’s (French, cent “Vin” Giuliani, who trans-
Maurice de Vlaminck’s “Banli- 1836–1904) “Grand bouquet formed scrap wood, trinkets
eue de Paris” (circa 1922) from de chrysanthèmes,” 1882, a and a colorful variety of found
a local gallery. Over the past floral still life and the first objects into artistic assemblag-
50 years, the collection has work by Fantin-Latour to es that represent everything
grown to include paintings by enter the High’s collection; from kitschy Americana to
some of the most recognized and by Henri Matisse (French, questions about the human
artists of the late Nineteenth 1869–1954), “Femme assise psyche. The exhibition is on
and early Twentieth Centu- devant son piano (Margue- view to September 15 at 1
ries. In addition to the first rite),” circa 1924, a colorful oil Museum Drive. For informa-
works by Fantin-Latour, tion, www.brucemuseum.org or
203-869-0376.

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Original 173rd Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale Sept. 20-22

A figured maple, bracket-based, drop-front YORK, PENN. — The Original 173rd Semi-Annual York Antiques Chip-carved folk art will be available,
desk seen at the winter version of the event. Show & Sale is scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sep- such as this elaborately carved case,
tember 20-22, at Memorial Hall East, located within the York which was offered at the winter version
Fairgrounds Convention & Expo Center. of the event.

This event features 96 exhibitors in room settings offering a
breadth of antiques, including Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centu-
ry period American and English furniture, country pieces in origi-
nal paint and decoration, early porcelain and pottery, Oriental
carpets, quilts, hooked rugs, samplers and other textiles, lighting,
vintage holiday items, including Halloween, historic ephemera,
early kitchen and fireplace pieces, Native American artifacts,
pueblo pottery and baskets, estate jewelry, vintage toys and much
more.

Melvin L. Arion, show promoter, assembles the participants,
keeping the variety as broad as possible to ensure that nearly
anyone can find a “new” treasure at York. In addition, all major
credit cards are accepted, making buying as convenient as possi-
ble.

The show has little dealer turnover. For the fall edition of York,
there will be three new exhibitors: nationally known Dallas, Texas,
holiday dealer Betty Bell; Sarah Eastman, Baltimore, Md., who
specializes in jewelry, and Marc Calciano of Clifton Heights, Penn.

Show hours both Friday and Saturday are 10 am to 6 pm, and
Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Parking is free. The building is
smoke-free and air-conditioned, and food will be available.

Admission is $10 per person, $9 with this article or an ad.
York Fairgrounds Convention & Expo Center is at 334 Carlisle
Avenue. For information, 302-542-3286 or www.theoriginalyork-
antiquesshow.com (show phone 717-718-1097).

Auctions At Showplace To Host
NYC Estate Auction On September 22

NEW YORK CITY — On exotic birds and insects, a pair
September 22 at noon, Auc- of Chinese Qing dynasty gu-
tions at Showplace will pres- form celadon vases with blue
ent selections of fine art, fur- and white interlace motif, a
niture, silver, jewelry and Japanese bronze incense
decorative arts from New York burner with dragons and
City estates. phoenixes, a pair of Chinese
Canton rose medallion palace
Coinciding with Asian Art vases measuring 61 inches
Week in New York, the sale high, two famille rose porce-
will feature an Indian Pala- lain garden seats, a Qing silk
type carved black basalt stele embroidery court rank badge
with central four-arm Buddha and a selection of Chinese por-
figure, a Chinese export hand- celain and Japanese bronze
painted gouache on paper six- table lamps.
panel folding screen with
Direct from a private Fifth
PO Bo x 2 90 ; Wh i te P l a in s , N . Y. 1 0 6 0 5 Avenue collection are three
KPM porcelain plaques,
including “La Retour de la Pel- Rolex Tudor Prince Tiger chronograph Indian Pala-type carved black basalt stele
erinage a la Madone de l’Arc” wristwatch ($4/6,000). with Buddha figure ($15/25,000).
after Robert Leopold, “Hagar
and Ishmael in the Desert” include three depicting lush tone stainless steel date watch rendered in enamel.
after Emanuel Krescenc Liska bouquets of flowers, and a and an Omega Constellation Other items to be offered:
and a mother and child scene fourth with verdant land- automatic chronometer gold-
after Emil Teschendorff. Other scape. Another highlight from filled watch. four Daum France pate de
Continental porcelain plaques the same collection is a Nine- verre leaf-form art glass plat-
teenth Century Italian Grand Robust offerings of silver ters; six Spanish Colonial oil
Tour micromosaic plaque include a pair of Puiforcat paintings depicting Mary and
depicting a pastoral scene French two-branch candela- saints; designer handbags by
with a goatherd and his wife bra, a pair of baroque-style Barry Kieselstein-Cord, Cha-
surrounded by animals. Russian silver candelabra, 78 nel and Judith Leiber; and
pieces of Wallace Sir Christo- much more.
Continental furniture hit- pher’ sterling flatware and an
ting the auction block includes assortment of Judaica silver, Previews at Showplace
a pair of Louis XVI giltwood including kiddush cups, meno- Antiques + Design Center run
fauteuils, a pair of Neoclassi- rahs and Shabbat candle- September 9-22.
cal Egyptian Revival parcel sticks. Furthermore, the sale
gilt arm chairs, a set of six will begin with eight silver Showplace Antiques is at 40
Italian rococo-style side chairs cigarette cases decorated with West 25th Street between 5th
ornately carved with masque images of erotic female nudes and 6th Avenues. For informa-
decoration, a Neoclassical- tion, www.nyshowplace.com or
style pietra dura round top 212-633-6063, extension 808.
game table with figural ebon-
ized metal base and a Black KPM porcelain plaque after Robert Leopold ($10/15,000).
Forest carved hall tree with
bear motifs.

Those in search of jewelry
will find a 22K yellow gold
and rubies hinged bangle
bracelet, an opera-length
pearl necklace bearing 18K
and diamond clasp, a pair of
22K yellow gold and amethyst
earrings, a cocktail ring with
large central emerald sur-
round by round and pear-cut
diamonds and an 18K braided
yellow gold necklace with four
diamonds set near the clasp.
Luxury timepieces include a
Rolex Oyster perpetual stain-
less steel chronometer wrist-
watch with champagne dial, a
Rolex Tudor Prince Tiger
stainless steel chronograph
wristwatch, an Omega two-

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Auction Action In Thomaston, Maine

‘It Was Like The Old Days’ At Thomaston’s $3 Million Sale

THOMASTON, MAINE — Three internet platforms were numerous absentee bids had
The three-day “Maine and in use and produced many win- been left. The sale included
Beyond” summer sale at Kaja ning bids, several phone lines more than 1,400 lots. Numer-
Veilleux’s Thomaston Place were active throughout and ous items sold for more than
Auction Galleries drew the
kind of bidding that summer Thomaston Place sales sometimes include vintage automo-
sales in Maine used to bring. It biles and there were a few in this sale. Earning $7,020 was a
doesn’t hurt to have the quality 1919 Mathis Type P, four-cylinder touring car. These cars
of material that Veilleux and were built in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, France. It was
his staff put together for this found in a barn in Searsport, Maine.
sale. A strong assortment of
American paintings, one of Kaja Veilleux, right, and John Bottero, vice president, with
which, a large marine scene by the Indian chief weathervane that sold for $33,930.
John Stobart, topped the sale at
$111,150, included works by
Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Cropsey
and, in a situation that doesn’t
happen often, included a paint-
ing done by the auctioneer’s
wife, Cali Veilleux.

An important collection of fire
memorabilia produced the sec-
ond highest price of the sale,
which also included early auto-
mobiles, tribal material, sculp-
tures, Tiffany items, jewelry
and watches, Asian material
and more.

One of the most interesting items in the One of the highlights of the sale and well “Place de la Concorde, Paris,” a gouache on lightly textured
sale, bringing the second highest price, was promoted by the gallery was a 38-inch-tall paper by Jean Dufy, was bid to $23,400.
an elaborate leather presentation fire hel- Indian chief weathervane with a good old,
met. It had an engraved silver plate, indi- gilt surface. Probably by Mott, it brought
cating that it had been a gift to Captain $33,930.
Charles Carter. It had a gilded three-dimen-
sional greyhound at the top, painted panels, Review and Onsite Photos by
floral designs and was dated 1851. Carter Rick Russack, Contributing Editor
was a member of the Sons of Liberty and a
participant in the Boston Tea Party. It real- Additional Photos Courtesy of
ized $99,450. Thomaston Place Auction Galleries

Selling for $15,210 was a Thai niello legged The extensive collection of firefighting memorabilia includ-
compote with four elephant head legs and ed an unsigned painting, “View of the Great Conflagration
with silver and gold decoration on a black (New York City) Dec. 16th and 17th, 1835, from Coenties
lacquer field. Dated about 1870, it realized Slip.” It sold for $4,095.
$15,210.

Jewelry included a lobster-form brooch One doesn’t often see a desk connected to A pair of Nineteenth Century Chinese Qing dynasty blue
with articulated claws and tail in 18K white Tiffany. This mahogany ladies boudoir desk, and white porcelain low bowls, with a Daoguang (1821-
gold, set with 172 diamonds weighing 2.11 late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century, 1850) seal mark and with figural and landscape decoration
carats and 195 rubies weighing 3.96 carats. was originally designed for Miss Sarah Han- to both the exterior and interior, was one of several Asian
It earned $7,020. ley, Oyster Bay, N.Y. The fall front is inset items in the sale and sold for $14,040.
with five Favrile glass scarabs, the two ser-
pentine front drawers have bronze and
Favrile glass pulls, and the interior is fitted
with two small serpentine drawers with
bronze rosette knobs. Included was a period
photo of the desk, stamped by Tiffany Stu-
dios, New York, stating this is “A Ladies Bou-
doir Desk Designed for Miss Sarah Hanley,
Oyster Bay, New York.” It sold for $12,870.

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A well-weathered circa 1870 eagle plaque with a wing-
spread of more than 6 feet and an American flag in its claws
went for $3,218.

There was only one face jug in the sale. It If you like your eagle weathervanes large,
was 8½ inches tall and signed “L.M.” for this was the one for you. The wingspread was
Lanier Meaders. With stone eyes and five more than 5 feet and the arrow was 90 inches
stone teeth, it sold for $7,605. long. Probably not very old, it earned $2,925.

One of two trade signs in fish forms, this one, perhaps a
tuna, earned $4,388. The other, in the form of a flounder,
brought $3,510.

Selling for $29,250 was “Stranded” by Armin Cali Veilleux has been painting for about 12
Carl Hansen, depicting two fishermen in a years and has had successful solo shows.
small boat in rough seas. Her husband sold “Cadenet Poppies,
Provence, France” for $1,404.

The highest priced item in the three-day sale, realizing $10,000 and, according to the $81,900. The bridge, near sculptures, all from one collec-
$111,150, and titled “New Orleans, 1871” was a large marine gallery, bidders from more than Lanesboro Penn., was complet- tion; one 19 inches tall of a
scene by John Stobart. 30 countries participated. The ed in 1847-48, and at the time squatting woman with her
Thought to be a study for a later work of the same name, sale grossed just under $3 mil- was considered the world’s arms wrapped around her head
Jasper Cropsey’s “Starrucca Viaduct,” an oil on canvas, lion, and some items that were largest stone arch railroad via- earned $25,740. A preening cat
signed and dated 1864, went for $81,900. passed may yet sell. duct in the world. It is still in sculpture by Laurent brought
use today. The painting was $8,775, and a preening dove
Clearly, paintings led the sale. cataloged as “probably a study sculpture finished at $7,605.
There were far more than “New for his 1865 masterpiece by the There were also drawings by
Orleans, 1871” the oil on can- same name.” Each bringing the same artist, as well paint-
vas by Stobart. The painting, $29,250 were “Stranded” by ings by his son, John Louis
signed and dated 1979, depicts Armin Carl Hansen (1886- Laurent (1921-2005). The
large sailing ships and several 1957), depicting two fishermen senior Laurent has been quoted
sidewheel steamboats, one of in a small boat in rough seas, on Wikipedia, saying, “The
which is the Natchez, flying an and an 1860 view of Mount beauty of alabaster is its trans-
American flag. As Veilleux was Washington from North Con- parency. This is what gives it
selling it, he commented that way, painted by Otto Somer life and vibration.” His work is
the consignor had paid (1811-1911). in the Smithsonian and other
$250,000 for it. An ink and museum collections.
watercolor on paper done in It isn’t often that an auction-
1948, titled “Birchwood” by eer sells a painting done by his A significant lifetime collec-
Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) wife, but Cali Veilleux’s “Cad- tion of fire-fighting memorabil-
depicted a pile of chopping enet Poppies, Provence, France” ia included a wonderfully elab-
wood at Broad Cove Farm in sold for $1,404. She’s an accom- orate presentation leather
Cushing, Maine, a property plished artist and a recent solo parade helmet dated 1851. The
owned by the artist’s father-in- show of her work sold more helmet had been kept in a safe
law, Merle James. It brought than 45 paintings. by its owner, an attorney who
$52,650. “Starrucca Viaduct,” just decided it was time to sell.
an oil on canvas by Jasper Fine arts included numerous The helmet was, in fact, the sec-
Cropsey (1823-1900) signed sculptures and other works by ond highest priced item in the
and dated 1864, went for Robert Laurent (1890-1970).
There were several alabaster

Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 ink and watercolor depicting a pile of A Barbizon landscape attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Camille It seemed like a good buy, an
chopping wood, titled “Birchwood,” finished at $52,650. Corot went for $38,025. It showed a solitary figure in a small Eighteenth Century pine
boat. architectural corner cup-
board, with early glass
panes, original whitewash
surface and an unusual pull-
out desk section above the
lower door. It realized
$1,287.

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It was huge and built by inmates of the Maine State Prison. Cali Veilleux and her husband Kaja before the sale started. There were several works
King Neptune, Shannon the Mermaid and the motorcycle by Robert Laurent, includ-
were carved from 834 board feet of native Maine basswood. ing sculptures and paint-
More than 6 feet tall, 5 feet deep and more than 10 feet long, ings. An alabaster sculpture,
the carving sold for $11,170, proceeds going to the state of 19 inches tall, of a squatting
Maine. woman with her arms
wrapped around her head,
sale, bringing $99,450. It was in tration and it had an old gilt the most sought-after item in involved with online-only sales, earned $25,740. Alabaster
very fine condition with an surface. It was one of several this category was a Thai niello with a new division of the com- was a favorite medium of
engraved silver plate reading weathervanes. As for the non- legged compote with four ele- pany, “Vintage Accents.” The the artist.
“Presented to/Capt. Charles traditional, there was a large, phant head legs and with silver first sale will be September 12 be an ongoing project.”
Carter/by the Volunteers of/ colorful life-size carving of a and gold decoration on a black and will really be a continua-
Melvill Engine Co./No. 13/ as a motorcycle with King Neptune lacquer field. Dated about 1870, tion of this ‘Maine and Beyond’ Prices given include the buy-
Token of the Regard and/ and a mermaid that had been it realized $15,210, far over the sale. We had so much stuff that er’s premium as stated by the
Esteem for him. 31 March created by inmates of the estimate. Also bringing $15,210 this made sense for us. It will auction house.
1851.” The helmet was sur- Maine State Prison. It was was a Burmese sandcast head
mounted by a gilded three- inspired by biker culture artist of the Buddha, late Toungoo For information, 207-354-8141
dimensional reclining grey- David Mann’s painting titled period (1347-1593). It was or www.thomastonauction.com.
hound. The front panel had a “Neptune’s Ride.” This one-of-a- bronze, with enameled eyes and
portrait of Boston patriot kind carving was started in wearing a distinctive headband
Thomas Melvill (1751-1832), March 2006 and was completed with squared elongated ears,
who was a prominent merchant in December 2006 with more pierced for missing jewels. A
in Boston, a close friend of John than 1,500 hours of labor by pair of Chinese Nineteenth
Adams and John Hancock, a inmates. Century Qing dynasty porce-
member of the Sons of Liberty, lain bowls, with a Daoguang
a participant in the Boston Tea King Neptune, Shannon the period mark (1821-1850) deco-
Party, a major in the Continen- Mermaid and the motorcycle rated with figural and land-
tal Army and also grandfather were carved of 834 board feet scape scenes, went out at
of Moby-Dick author Herman of native Maine basswood. The $14,040.
Melville. He was fire warden of carving was more than 6 feet
the Boston fire department tall, 5 feet deep and more than A few days after the sale, Veil-
from 1779 to 1821. The helmet 10 feet long. It must be going leux said, “You better believe
had additional painted panels to a large home or a museum, we’re happy. It was like auc-
and decorative painting and and its new owner paid tions used to be with plenty of
bore the label of a Boston man- $11,170 for it. Included was a active bidders. That fire helmet
ufacturer of trunks. Six phone book detailing the construc- was incredible. I’ve never seen
lines were active for the hel- tion from start to finish. The anything like it. I told the con-
met. proceeds from this sale will go signor that it should go for
to the state of Maine, since the $100,000 and I was pretty close.
The collection included sever- carving was produced by The guy was delighted. The
al paintings, folk-art carved fire inmate labor. first day of the sale was primar-
engines, a painted fire bucket ily works by Maine artists and
with a portrait of John Stan- While on the subject of “large,” it was 92 percent sold. My wife,
hope Damrell, chief of the Bos- sitting outside the gallery was Cali, suggested that we should
ton fire department, who was a hollow body, hand hammered get more involved with works
called a hero of the 1872 Boston American eagle weathervane by local artists and she was
fire. It earned $2,340, and there with a wingspread of more than right. The room was nearly full
were also lithographs, badges, 5 feet and standing 7 feet 6 for all three days, and the three
fire-related photographs, fire inches tall. It wasn’t terribly internet platforms and the
horns, paintings of buildings on old but had a nice verdigris phone lines kept everyone busy
fire, including an unsigned one patina and sold for $2,925, and created a feeling of very
of a building in the New York probably a whole lot less than active participation. It was a $3
city fire of 1835, done after a was originally paid for it. As for million sale — gotta love it.
lithograph by J.H. Bufford. where it might go — that’s a We’re going to get more
good question. The traditional
Folk art offerings included pieces included two carved fish
traditional things like weather- market signs that had been
vanes, and decidedly nontradi- used in Manasquan, N.J., from
tional things. One of the tradi- the 1930s through the 1950s.
tional items was a weathervane One in the form of a flounder
with a 38-inch-tall Indian chief sold for $3,510, and the other,
with a headdress and a bow perhaps a tuna, sold for $4,388.
and arrow, which earned
$33,930. It was attributed to Thomaston Place sales often
Mott, based on a catalog illus- include a variety of Asian and
ethnographic items. This time,

The highest priced piece of furniture in the sale was an
ornately carved walnut Irish hall table more than 5 feet
long, circa 1780. It went for $81,900, more than four times
the high estimate and will be going back to Ireland.

28 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Gustave JS White Auction Sells
Items From Four Winds Estate

Auction Action In Portsmouth, R.I.

The second of two George Hays paintings, found in a local PORTSMOUTH, R.I — Mike Newport, and nautical items a customer at the sale.
estate, brought $480. Corcoran conducted one of his from an estate in South Dart- A simple child’s whalebone
auctions at his Newport Coun- mouth, Mass. One of the high-
ty auction gallery on August lights of the auction was an walking stick made $120, and
28, just a few miles from New- ornate sailor’s valentine, an octagonal carved cane with
port, R.I. Corcoran started his which sold to a left bid for an ornate inlaid top achieved
auction company with Gus- $2,700. A whalebone swift in a $480, selling quickly to a cus-
tave White in 1967 and has box opened at $300 and tomer at the sale.
been presenting antiques and achieved $660. A whalebone
fine art auctions ever since. pie crimper brought $240, and A charming pair of light-
The firm is rare in the a well-formed carved bone fist house andirons in old surface,
antiques auction business cane sold in one left bid for which had been found in a
these days — Corcoran has no $1,200. Bellevue Avenue, Newport
website and does not use the estate, opened at just $200
internet for his sales. The An elaborate whalebone pie and went to a customer on the
result is a full auction sales- crimper, which drew much telephone for $360. Antique
room with standing room only. presale attention, achieved a silver offered at the auction
selling price of $3,120 to a left included a three-legged serv-
This sale featured items bid. An ornately carved oval ing tray, which brought $480,
from Four Winds, an estate in balleen box sold for $1,560 to and a sterling silver Tiffany
bowl, which sold for $720.

This ornate miniature inlaid table opened
at $200 and sold quickly for $960.

Review and Photos by
Jackie Sideli

A period oil on canvas brought $1,200, selling to a customer
at the auction.

An oil on canvas by American artist George Hays (1854- Found in a Bellevue Avenue home in New-
1945) bought $1,200 in just one bid. port, R.I., this pair of lighthouse andirons
opened at $200 and sold to buyer on the
telephone for $360.
Antiques dealer Keith Funston of Sudbury,
Mass., previews items.

An animated Mike Corcoran at the auction podium for his
August 28 sale. A view of the crowded salesroom.

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 29

Fetching $1,800 from a customer bidding on the phone was
this pair of carved marble urns that were found in a New-
port, R.I., estate.

Antiques dealer Richard Donnelly from Elsie Lombard has kept things in order for
Barrington, R.I., during the auction pre- Mike Corcoran for 55 years.
view.

An elegant pair of ornately An elaborate sailor’s valentine sold quickly with a left bid The elaborate whalebone pie crimper achieved $3,120, sell-
carved marble urns found in a for $2,700. ing to a left bid.
Newport estate saw action This folky pair of cast iron doorstops in old paint opened at Some of the nautical whalebone canes found in a South
from the floor, phones and $100 and sold for $600. Dartmouth, Mass., estate.
from left bids. The pair went Earning $1,200 on one left bid was a whalebone carved fist This collection of four Buddhas brought $1,920.
to the bidder on the telephone cane. A pair of Modernist chairs drew lots of interest from cus-
for $1,800. tomers at the auction. They opened with a $500 bid, and
A pair of period wicker armchairs brought $240. sold to Newport, R.I., beekeeper Edward Karle for $1,440.
An elaborate sewing box,
with a pin-cushion top in net has created a fierce loyal- bard, his bookkeeper for 55
brown velvet sold quickly to a ty among his customer base, years.
buyer at the auction for $480. and his auction hall is packed
A pair of whalebone knitting with eager customers through- Prices given include the buy-
needles drew interest from the out the sale. He has had the er’s premium as stated by the
customers at the sale, bring- able assistance of Elsie Lom- auction house. For additional
ing $480 after a round of com- information, 401-841-5780.
petitive bidding, and a simple
bone cane achieved $240.

Midway through the auction,
a rolling pin, which was elabo-
rately inlaid with ivory, made
$360, and two oil paintings by
American artist George
Arthur Hays (1854-1945) were
offered. Both were bucolic
scenes of livestock in a field
and both were presented in
gold frames One, the larger of
the two, brought $1,200, and
the smaller achieved $480.

An antique grouping of four
carved wooden Buddhas in old
surface were found in a local
estate. They were offered later
in the sale and, after a round
of competitive bidding, sold
quickly for a solid $1,920.

A delicate and ornate minia-
ture formal inlaid table
opened at $200 and ultimately
achieved $960. Among the sev-
eral decoys offered at the auc-
tion was a simple wooden
example, which sold for just
$240. Antiques dealer Keith
Funston from Sudbury, Mass.,
won a large rose medallion
serving bowl, which brought
just $180.

A pair of stylish Modernist
chairs drew the attention of
eager customers at the sale.
Several attendees at the sale
expressed the opinion that
they might be the work of
Swiss-French architect Le
Corbusier (1887-1965). Open-
ing with a $500 bid, with com-
petition from the floor and the
phones as well as left bids,
they quickly achieved the sell-
ing price of $1,400.

Corcoran’s long experience
in the auction business is com-
plemented by his phenomenal
memory, which allows him to
use first names only when a
customer is buying an object.
Once you have purchased an
item, you will be remembered
— and often during a sale
Corcoran will shout out to a
client, “Hey, how are you
doing, anyway?”

His refusal to use the inter-

30 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

A CENTURY OF NEW ENGLAND CERAMICS

( continued from page 1C ) ware will be the number of
items dug from known archae-
Utilitarian, lead-glazed ological sites. Some from the
earthenware had been a site of the potter’s works, some
household necessity in New from privies in the area, and
England since the earliest some from large scale excava-
days of Seventeenth Century tions such as Boston’s “Big
settlement. Domestic produc- Dig.” The archaeological speci-
tion of these everyday ceramic mens will show the distribu-
wares began not long after the tion of wares made by the
Massachusetts Bay Colony Bayley family, who were locat-
was established in 1630. This ed in Newburyport, to other
local production helped fulfill towns, some as far away as
the needs of the inhabitants of Salem, Mass., and Portland,
the colony, which otherwise Maine.
could only partially be ful-
filled by items coming from An important example of
England. As with all such Bayley’s redware on display is
items of manufacture, these a jug that was made for Oliver
locally made objects were also Noble’s church in Newburypo-
used in trade and commerce, rt, (which at the time was still
and, over time, they became a part of Newbury.) Noble
staples of the local economy became minister of the church
and were traded as far as they on September 1, 1762 and this
could be carried, both by land jug is inscribed “For the Use of
and ship. In Essex County, Mr Noble’s Church, July 10,
Mass., on the banks of the 1763.” There are the remains
Merrimack River, generations of slip-decorated chamber
of families produced these pots, bowls and a slip-script
ceramic vessels of varying pan dated “1770” (recovered in
dimensions and purpose, with Historic Westbrook, Maine),
Kiln furniture used in the production of red earthenware recovered at the site of the varying glazes and decora- among other artifacts. Four
Phineas Chase Pottery in Merrimacport, Mass. tions, utilizing local clay pieces of Bayley pottery were
Sheet music written and published by Daniel Bayley in 1765. Courtesy Hollis Brodrick. deposits to meet the needs of bought at a single-owner John
their neighbors and earn McInnis auction in Newbury
money to meet the needs of last year (See the July 20,
their own families. They built 2018 edition of this publica-
workshops, warehouses, kilns tion for a full report of that
and homes, which they passed auction). Nearly everything in
on to the next generation, the house was early and
along with the knowledge of Thomas believes that the four
their craft. pieces may have been bought
Much of the material will be by the early owners of the
presented in a context that house directly from the Bayley
has not been possible before. pottery.
Several institutions have
loaned important items, Another focus of the exhibi-
including Historic New Eng- tion will be the pottery of Wil-
land, the Lura Woodside Wat- liam Pecker, Merrimacport,
kins collection at Old Stur- Mass., who was known as a
bridge Village, the Museums traditional redware potter,
of Old York, about a dozen and numerous examples of his
other institutions and items redware will be on display.
from the collection of co-cura- But he also produced stone-
tor Justin Thomas. ware, few examples of which
Watkins was the first to seri- have been seen. Only about 15
ously study New England red- examples of Pecker’s stone-
ware and published Early New ware are known and about one
England Potters and Their third of those will be on dis-
Wares in 1950, a book still con- play, along with shards recov-
sidered the “bible” for those ered in the last few years at
interested in New England the site of the pottery.
pottery. Of particular interest
for students of colonial red- Never a focus of an exhibit
until now is the Grecian-style
wares made at the Merrimac
Pottery Company in the 1890s

This pan was likely made at the Daniel Bayley Pottery Company in Newburyport and Handled pot, Merrimacport, Mass., either made at the Wil-
recovered at the bottom of a well at 369 Court Street in Portsmouth, N.H. liam Pecker Pottery or the James Chase Pottery. Courtesy
Old Sturbridge Village.

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 31

Monumental antique-style garden vase made at the Merri- William Pecker attributed stoneware crock with impressed bird on one side and impressed
mac Pottery Company in the early Twentieth Century. fish on the reverse side, together with a sherd impressed with the same bird recovered at
the site of the Pecker Pottery.

and early-1900s. Many of case in this building, as well
these wares were inspired as the floors, are constructed
from pieces in the Museum of without wood.
Fine Arts, Boston. One of the Formerly known as the
more notable examples is a United States Customhouse it
two-piece urn with elaborate functioned as the base of
decoration that was acquired operations for customs collec-
by the Museum of Old New- tions along a large portion of
bury in brand-new condition the New England coast, with
in the early-1900s. Thomas revenue cutters to supervise
stated, “To my knowledge, it shipping, as well as the collec-
has never been displayed out- tion of taxes and duties from
side of the museum before. I outgoing and incoming ships.
don’t know of another piece Revenue cutters also inter-
like this that survives today.” cepted ships involved in the
slave trade. It was the far-
The redware exhibit is co- thest north of the four cus-
curated by Custom House toms houses at that time and
Maritime Museum curator served the area from Ports-
Kevin MacDonald and guest mouth to Salem.
curator Justin Thomas. A col- Newburyport was a major
lector and researcher of red- shipbuilding town, on a par
ware, Thomas had the genesis with both Portsmouth and
idea and wrote the catalog for Salem. The first revenue cut-
the exhibition, noting that ter, the Massachusetts, a two
small museums and historical masted schooner, was built in Locally made pottery all found in the Plumer-Humphries-Barton family homestead in
societies he visited often had Newburyport in 1791 and saw Newbury, Mass. The black glazed jug and the small dish were likely made at the Daniel
collections of locally made pot- service out of Boston but was Bayley Pottery Company. The large pans may have been made at the Bayley Pottery as
tery, but that Newburyport, only in service for little more well.
his home town, did not. Thom- than a year. Newburyport was
as, editor of the CBS Boston also the base of operations for At The Custom House Maritime Museum
weekday morning show, famed shipbuilder Donald In Newburyport
spends most of his time seek- McKay who developed the
ing redware for his collection high-speed clipper ships Custom House Maritime Museum curator Kevin MacDonald has held his volunteer posi-
and researching primary involved in the China trade. tion for nine years.
source material about the For the last nine years, Kevin
makers. His knowledge of MacDonald has been the cura-
form and glaze color allow him tor of the museum, a volun-
to identify much of the red- teer position. The museum’s
ware he comes across. collections relate to the mari-
time history of Newburyport
Thomas’ interest began in and include a number of ship
1999 when his father came models, fine marine paint-
home with an Essex county ings, photos and information
redware jug purchased at a regarding shipwrecks — some
local flea market. He began well-known and some not.
going to flea markets himself, Most importantly, the muse-
as well as local auctions, and um displays artifacts relating
by 2011 was a serious collector. to the Coast Guard and its
His interests have taken him predecessor, the United
beyond New England to visit States Life Saving Service,
museums, collectors and deal- which was created in 1848 to
ers in New York, Pennsylvania aid shipwrecked mariners.
and beyond often with his niece The museum maintains a
and nephew. He posts newly comprehensive research
discovered information and library of materials relating
new pieces being added to his to the history of the Coast
collection on his blog at www. Guard, shipwrecks and New-
earlyamericanceramics.com. buryport’s shipbuilding past.
It was opened in 1975, at a
The Custom House Mari- time when urban renewal was
time Museum is housed in a changing the face of down-
stone building with its mate- town Newburyport, and the
rials quarried in nearby Rock- decision was made to retain
port, Mass. It dates back to this building. They coordinate
1835 and was designed by with the Historical Society of
Robert Mills, designer of the Old Newbury, just a few
first Washington Monument blocks away, in order to avoid
in Baltimore as well as the duplication of collecting
one in Washington, DC, and efforts. Both are well worth a
the US Treasury building and visit.
others. Some claim that Mills The Custom House Maritime
was the first native born Museum is closed on Mondays.
American to be trained as an For more information, 978-
architect, although most 462-8681 or https://custom-
would give that distinction to housemaritimemuseum.org/
Charles Bullfinch. Mills was
an early designer of fireproof
buildings and even the stair-

32 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

A History Of Pottery Production
ALONG THE MERRIMACK RIVER
By Justin W. Thomas (1701-1761), a direct descendent the pottery business that he is Salem, Mass., Historic West- during the siege of Boston in the
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. — of James Bayley (1612-1677) most known for today. Sadly, his brook, Maine, Portsmouth, N.H., early stages of the American Rev-
Settled in 1635, the city of New- who was among the first group wife died two years later, and he possibly Wellfleet, Mass., on olution.
buryport was originally part of of settlers in Rowley, Mass., in quickly married a woman Cape Cod, as well as the site of
the Newberry Plantation (now 1639. It has not been identified named Sarah Stone (d 1792), a Colonial trading posts in Veazie, Some of the Charlestown pot-
Newbury), which was inhabited where Bayley was taught the widow herself and mother to Maine and Saint John, New ters who were around for the
by English colonists from Wilt- pottery craft, but he may have three children. Soon after, they Brunswick. American Revolution relocated
shire, England in the northeast- learned about it from another had four more kids, two of whom elsewhere in New England, such
ern part of coastal Massachu- Colonial Essex County, Mass., also entered the pottery indus- Archaeological evidence recov- as Benjamin Bodge (1747-1822)
setts. Waterways were certainly potter or possibly in Charles- try, William Bayley (1766-1799) ered by Massachusetts author, who moved to Merrimacport
a major draw for these early town, Mass., which is where the born May 9, 1766 and Nathaniel Lura Woodside Watkins (1897- (then South Amesbury), Mass.,
settlers, with the area being earliest red earthenware was Bayley (1771-1849) born June 1982) at the site of the pottery about 1775, a small village locat-
surrounded by the Merrimack manufactured in New England 16, 1771. was published in 1950 in Early ed along the Merrimack River
River and the Parker River. The in the 1600s. New England Potters and Their just upriver from Amesbury and
port city quickly became pros- The Bayley Pottery turned into Wares. A Route 1 underpass was Newburyport. Bodge married
perous as a popular fishing and Joseph and his wife left Row- a family enterprise, but some of constructed through the Bayley Susanna Pecker in Haverhill on
trading center, and it turned to ley in 1735, when they were the Bayley kids also worked for site in 1934, revealing an excel- September 27, 1770, but the
agricultural needs. removed from the church, and Ebenezer Morrison (1741-1803), lent collection of artifacts now extent of his pottery production
With this success came a relocated with their four chil- who established a red earthen- owned by the National Museum in the area is unknown today.
growth in population, and hun- dren to Newbury (Newburypo- ware company next to Old Hill of American History at the
dreds of first period and Geor- rt). Joseph continued to produce Cemetery in Newburyport. As a Smithsonian Institute in Wash- Susanna’s brother, William
gian-style homes were built in red earthenware in Newbury result, it is believed that the ington, DC. The evidence shows Pecker (1758-1820) also born in
the area. A demand quickly until the early 1760s, when his forms were similar at both busi- an emphasis devoted to the pro- Haverhill, and an Essex County
grew for artisans, laborers, son Daniel (1729-1792) became nesses. Morrison continued to duction of slipware, a style of trained potter is found in Merri-
imported goods and household owner of the business. Daniel produce pottery into the early decoration applied with liquid macport in 1784. It seems that
utilitarian wares. must have learned the pottery Nineteenth Century, while the kaolin clay. The known forms Pecker remained employed with
Newburyport was formed in business from his father, but Bayley Pottery declined with decorated in slip include cham- his brother-in-law until the early
1764, when the General Court there is also evidence to suggest Daniel Bayley’s death in 1792, ber pots, plates, pans and por- 1790s, when he established his
of Massachusetts passed an act he operated a pottery in Glouces- and production ceased altogeth- ringers, while other styles com- own pottery. Bodge’s role might
for erecting part of the town of ter, Mass., in the 1750s, when he er when Daniel Bayley Jr and bine various forms of bowls, have also changed, and he may
Newbury into a new town by married Elizabeth Dennen (d William Bayley died in 1799. jugs, mugs and flowerpots. The have now helped Pecker with his
the name of Newburyport. West 1765) from Gloucester on April glazes range from dark colors business.
Newbury set off into its own 21, 1750. The couple spent the Daniel Bayley also employed like black and brown to more
town in 1819, forming the three next decade in Gloucester, where potters who were not immediate colorful glazes such as green. The Pecker Pottery is largely
communities that make up this they had three children, but relatives, such as John Thomas The extent of the colors and slip known today for the lead glazed
area today. While Newbury and only two survived. Elizabeth (1754-1843) in the 1770s-80s, applied at the Bayley Pottery in red earthenware that was pro-
West Newbury remain towns, Bayley was born April 2, 1753, who was a native of Gloucester the 1700s was among the more duced during the circa 1791-1820
Newburyport was incorporated and Daniel Bayley Jr (1755- and later went on to establish decorative wares manufactured period. The most common surviv-
as a city in 1851. 1799) was born July 15, 1755 the industry in North Yarmouth anywhere in New England dur- ing glaze is an orange or reddish
eventually becoming a potter (known as Yarmouth after ing this period. lead glaze with brush strokes of
The Bayley Potteries himself. 1849), Maine about 1791. The Merrimacport Potteries manganese. The skill found at
Almost 90 years after Newbury this business is some of the most
was settled, the first known By 1763, Daniel had relocated The wares made at the Bayley The landscape of the New Eng- refined wares made anywhere in
local pottery was established to High Street next to St Paul’s Pottery were not only intended land pottery industry changed New England. Known forms
about 1723 by Joseph Bayley Church in Newbury, which for the local marketplace. Based drastically with the American include jugs, pitchers, pots, bowls,
became Newburyport the follow- on archaeology, pottery was dis- Revolution. The industry in flasks, pans, chamber pots, por-
ing year. This is where he built tributed throughout New Eng- Charlestown, Mass., had been a ringers and flowerpots. There is
land, with examples found in centralized production center in also some speculation that Peck-
New England in the Seventeenth er or Bodge possibly produced
Century through 1775. Wares some slipware, but that has not
were shipped all over the region been proven in archaeology.
from Connecticut to Cape Cod,
Martha’s Vineyard, all over the Archaeology has shown that
Boston area, Portsmouth, N.H., the wares made at the Pecker
Berwick, Maine, throughout Pottery were sold throughout the
coastal Maine (then part of Mas- Merrimack River region, with
sachusetts) and even into parts Newburyport serving as a major
of Canada, like the Fortress of marketplace. Although, wares
Louisbourg on Cape Breton have also been found throughout
Island in Nova Scotia. However, New Hampshire and southern
this industry was decimated and Maine.
sacrificed in America’s fight for
independence at the Battle of An aspect of the Pecker Pottery
Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, that is somewhat unknown is the
fact that dozens of glaze colors
have been recovered at the site of
the pottery. The colors range from
black to green to vibrant multi-

Pitchers, attributed to the James Chase Pottery, Merrimacport, Mass, circa 1820-49. These
forms could be mistaken for production from the William Pecker Pottery today. Courtesy
the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute.

Six-gallon stoneware presentation jar attributed to William Pecker impressed with two Jug attributed to the Bayley Pottery recovered at the site of
bird and flower stamps on each side, a bust of George Washington and the initials “S.H.” Jonathan Lowder’s Trading Post in Veazie, Maine, within a
This form of handle has also been recovered at the site of the Pecker Pottery. Courtesy circa 1775-79 archaeological context. Courtesy the Univer-
Crocker Farm Auction. sity of Maine.

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 33

Various Eighteenth Century slip-decorated sherds from the Daniel Bayley Some of the artifacts collected in the 1990s at the site of the Merrimac Pot-
Pottery Company recovered by Lura Woodside Watkins during construc- tery Company in Newburyport, Mass. Some of the objects are impressed
tion of the Route 1 underpass in Newburyport, Mass., in 1934. Courtesy of “Merrimac Pottery Company.” The pottery used two types of earthenware
the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institute. clays, one with a white clay body and the other with a red clay body. Cour-
tesy the Museum of Old Newbury.

colored glazes. The couple reportedly met in 1870s-80s, when he focused on Slip-decorated pan attributed to the Bayley Pottery recov-
But Pecker was also a stone- Andover, Mass. We do not know the production of flowerpots and ered within a circa late 1760s and early 1770s archaeologi-
for sure why he was in Andover, vases, some painted and others cal context at the site of a trading post in Saint John, New
ware potter. In fact, it was not but he may have been attempt- decorated in a variety of glazes. Brunswick. Courtesy of the New Brunswick Museum.
identified in publication until the ing to establish a business, mov- He also manufactured tradition-
2004 issue of Ceramics in Ameri- ing back to Merrimacport in al utilitarian forms like pie picture of a sturgeon, a fish accomplished forms, which are
ca that there are known pieces of 1816. plates, custard cups, pans and native to the Merrimack River. represented in major art muse-
marked Pecker stoneware in pots. ums across the country, such as
existence. Archaeologist John Chase took ownership of all red In 1902, Nickerson changed the the Museum of Fine Arts, Bos-
Kile wrote that article based on a earthenware production in Mer- The story of the Bodge, Pecker name of the business to the Mer- ton; the Metropolitan Museum of
2-gallon handled crock marked rimacport in 1820, when William and Chase potteries ended in the rimac Pottery Company. Rather Art; and the Smithsonian. The
“Wm Pecker” found at a Ken- Pecker died from a tragic kiln 1890s, when Phineas ceased pro- than a paper label, an impressed wide variety of glaze colors
tucky flea market. The crock was accident. He owned a house next duction altogether in his 70s. His mark was incorporated on the include variations of green, yel-
decorated on one side with a door to Pecker, and about the obituary reading in 1911, “Mr base of many products that read, low, rose, blue and orange. Nick-
stamped bird perched on a time of Pecker’s death, a kiln was Chase was a man of sterling hon- “Merrimac” with an image of a erson was also recognized for his
branch and the other with a built on his property. Chase con- esty and marked integrity and sturgeon. The company made matte, luster and crackle finish-
stamped flower. Since that article tinued to run the business in the had the respect and confidence of colorful art pottery, exquisite es.
was published, somewhere same way as his mentor. In the the community.” garden pottery and reproduction
around one to two dozen (maybe latter years of the 1830s-40s, Roman pottery taken from actu- Unfortunately, only a few years
more) pieces of Pecker stoneware James’ son, Phineas Chase (1820- Thomas Nickerson’s al 2,000-year-old ancient objects after the company was rebrand-
have been identified, some of 1911) worked alongside his Merrimac Pottery Company owned by the Museum of Fine ed, the Merrimac Pottery Com-
which have been previously father, learning the family busi- Arts, Boston. This new direction pany burned to the ground in
attributed to other locations. It ness. Thomas Nickerson established allowed Nickerson to demon- 1908, never to be rebuilt, and
has also been discovered that the Merrimac Ceramic Company strate his true skill as a potter to ending the longstanding tradi-
Pecker applied a fish stamp, as The forms made at James in Newburyport in 1897, largely a national marketplace. tion of utilitarian and household
well as cobalt used for an aes- Chase’s business are just as well manufacturing floral and garden pottery production along the
thetic blue decoration. made as the wares produced at wares. Nickerson was an Eng- Nickerson’s glazes are often Merrimack River in the greater
the Pecker Pottery, and can be lish-trained potter, who had relo- breathtaking with a variety of Newburyport area.
Nonetheless, Pecker apparently confused for some of Pecker’s pro- cated from Portland, Maine. The vibrant colors that adorned
taught his nephew, James Chase duction today. The Smithsonian pottery was given its name after
(1778-1849) the potter’s craft; Institute owns the best museum the Merrimack River. A condo-
James was born in 1779 to Peck- collection of wares made during minium development now
er’s sister, Hannah, who had this period in Merrimacport, resides in place of where the pot-
married Edmund Chase, and by acquired from the collection of tery business once stood. When
1816 began making his own pot- Lura Woodside Watkins. the condominiums were built in
tery in Merrimacport. He saw the 1990s, former curator of the
how Pecker ran the pottery busi- After James’ death in 1849, the Museum of Old Newbury, Jay
ness; he witnessed Pecker’s business was taken over by Williamson and Chris Snow
secrets on the potter’s wheel; he Phineas, and continued to oper- recovered hundreds of artifacts
knew his glaze recipes; and he ate at the same location in Mer- from the pottery, showing that
even understood Pecker’s won- rimacport until 1863, when he Nickerson was utilizing multiple
derful eye for proportion within a sold the land to the South Ames- types of earthenware clays.
perfectly balanced form. The bury Wharf Company, and moved
Charlestown connection also con- the business to his property Nickerson’s products in the
tinued with Chase, having mar- about one-quarter mile from the first four years were sometimes
ried Olive Lucas of Charlestown. Merrimack River. The forms marked with a paper label, “Mer-
evolved with Phineas in the rimac Ceramic Company” with a

This example features the most common type of glaze that
Pecker is known for today. Jug, attributed to the William
Pecker Pottery, Merrimacport, Mass., circa 1791-1820. Cour-
tesy National Museum of American History at the Smithso-
nian Institute.
Justin Thomas’ niece, Alexis, and nephew, Jason, holding
kiln furniture and kiln bricks recovered at the site of
Phineas Chase’s circa 1863-90s business in Merrimacport,
Mass. Inset Photo: More kiln furniture recovered at the site
of the Phineas Chase Pottery.

34 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Whitney Museum Announces
Two Curatorial Promotions
Transitions NEW YORK CITY —The Panetta is currently an
Whitney Museum of Amer- associate curator and is
The Australian Center for Contempo- ican Art announced that the co-curator (with
rary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne has two of the museum’s cura- Rujeko Hockley) of the
appointed Claire Richardson as its new tors are receiving promo- 2019 Whitney Biennial,
executive director. Richardson currently tions and taking on new now on view at the muse-
manages the visual roles, effective mid-Octo- um. Since coming to the
arts program for the ber. David Breslin will Whitney, she has made
municipal government become the museum’s first important contributions to
of Stonnington, which director of curatorial ini- the museum’s program
is located southeast tiatives. And Jane Panetta and its collection. Her
from the city center of will succeed him as direc- involvement with collec-
Melbourne. She suc- tor of the collection. tion displays includes,
ceeds Linda Mickle- Since joining the Whit- most recently, her curating
borough, who depart- ney in 2016 as Demartini of “Fast Forward: Paint-
ed the center in April, family curator and direc- ings from the 1980s” (2017)
and will assume her tor of the collection, Bres- and serving on the curato-
responsibilities in October. Richardson lin has spearheaded the Jane Panetta. David Breslin. rial team for the Down-
has served as exhibitions manager at the museum’s collection-relat- —Scott Rudd photo — Scott Rudd photo town Whitney’s inaugural
TarraWarra Museum of Art, senior exhibi- ed activities, from curating exhibition “America Is
tion coordinator and acting exhibitions a series of collection exhibitions to overseeing acquisitions. Hard To See” (2015). Panetta has contributed broadly to the
manager at the National Gallery of Vic- Working closely with his curatorial colleagues, he has orga- development of the Whitney’s contemporary program, curat-
toria and as a member of the exhibition nized or co-organized four collection displays, including ing solo projects with Juan Antonio Olivares and Njideka
team, assembled by the Australia Council “Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, Akunyili Crosby, among others. In addition, she has steward-
for the Arts, which worked on the Austra- 1900–1960,” “An Incomplete History Of Protest: Selections ed the acquisition of works by younger artists such as Nina
lian pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017,” and two current- Chanel Abney, Maggie Lee and Jamian Juliano-Villani, as
ly on view: “Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s” and well as historical figures, including Norman Lewis, Rosalyn
Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) ap- “The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965.” In Drexler and Jack Whitten.
points Dr Mark A. Castro its first- 2018, he co-curated (with David Kiehl) the retrospective In her new role, Panetta will lead the curatorial depart-
ever Jorge Baldor curator of Latin Ameri- “David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night.” ment’s collection team and oversee the museum’s acquisi-
can art. Castro steps into this newly In his new role, Breslin will work closely with the chief tions and displays of its holdings. with Kim Conaty, the Ste-
curator on overseeing areas of the curatorial department ven and Ann Ames curator of drawings and prints, she will
created position with and the development of the Whitney’s exhibition program. co-direct a long-term strategic plan for the Whitney’s Collec-
significant expertise Collaborating with departments across the museum, Breslin tion, which launches this fall with the support of the Henry
in the field as a cu- will direct key curatorial initiatives that further the Whit- Luce Foundation. Panetta will continue to curate exhibi-
rator, scholar, critic ney’s broader artistic vision, such as the museum’s Indige- tions, focusing on collection displays, and will co-direct the
and educator, most nous artists working group, on which he is the curatorial Whitney’s emerging artists working group, with Christopher
recently serving as lead. He will continue to curate exhibitions, make acquisi- Y. Lew, the museum’s Nancy and Fred Poses curator.
consulting curator for tions and will remain a member of the senior management The Whitney Museum of American Art is at 99 Gansevoort
Latin American Art at team charged with strategic planning for the institution. Street. For information, 212-570-3600 or www.whitney.org.
the Philadelphia Mu-
seum of Art and as a George Eastman Museum Gets $350,000 NEH Grant
contributor to the cat- ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The George Boyer collection represented one of the
alog for the Whitney Museum of Ameri- Eastman Museum has received a grant Alden Scott Boyer, 1950 finest and most extensive private col-
can Art’s forthcoming “Vida Americana award of $350,000 from the National In 1951, Alden Scott Boyer, a Chica- lections of photography in the United
Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, Endowment for the Humanities, division go-based chemical manufacturer, States and has subsequently become
1925-1945” (2020). He began work at the of preservation and access, humanities donated his private collection of photo- one of the most significant public col-
DMA on September 3. collections and reference resources pro- graphs to the George Eastman Muse- lections in the country for the study of
gram, to support its project of preserving um. At the time of its donation, the Nineteenth Century life, history and
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis Uni- and improving access to the Boyer collec- culture.
versity announced the appointment tion. The grant funds will allow the
of Marie A. Longo as director of devel- museum to catalog and digitize the As a result of limitations on the
opment and external relations. Longo entire Boyer collection, giving the public museum’s resources, its collections
comes to the Rose with a two-decade ca- complete access to images of the objects, database currently accounts for only
reer in development, as well as support the hiring of two proj- 6,000 of these photographs, inhibiting
including leading na- ect staff, a cataloger and an object pho- public access to the entirety of the col-
tional and regional tographer, for the term of the grant. lection. Now, with grant support from
fundraising teams in the National Endowment for the
fields, including the “The Boyer collection is one of the Humanities, the Eastman Museum
arts, education and largest and most diverse gatherings of will be able to catalog and digitize this
social justice. Most Nineteenth Century British photogra- collection in its entirety.
recently she was chief phy outside of the United Kingdom and
advancement officer features photographs by key American The project is being overseen by
at Walnut Hill School figures such as Southworth & Hawes Heather Shannon, PhD, associate
for the Arts, a private and Carleton Watkins,” said Bruce curator of photography, and is expect-
independent boarding arts high school in Barnes, Ron and Donna Fielding direc- ed to be completed by the spring of
Natick, where she led the successful com- tor, George Eastman Museum. “The col- 2022. The project will result in public
pletion of a comprehensive campaign. lection itself had a profound impact on access to complete descriptions and
Past positions include the Museum of the genesis and development of the his- high-resolution images of the objects
Fine Arts, Boston; Gay & Lesbian Advo- tory of photography as a discipline and in the Boyer collection. Researchers,
cates & Defenders; Playworks; and the served as a touchstone for institutional scholars and the general public will be
Human Rights Campaign. Longo earned and private collection-building across able to access the collection online
a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth Col- the continent.” through the museum’s website, east-
lege and a master’s degree in arts man- man.org/collections-online.
agement from American University.
Institute Of Contemporary Art, LA, Aims To
At the American Folk Art Museum Become First Solar-Powered Museum
(AFAM), Emelie Gevalt will become
curator of folk art beginning November. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES — The Institute of Contemporary Art,
Gevalt comes to AFAM from the Art of the —Dominique Vorillon photo Los Angeles (ICA LA) is attempting to become the first
fully solar-powered art museum in the United States.
Americas department Founded in 1984 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the
at the Museum of Fine museum, which rebranded in 2017 and moved into a new
Arts, Boston, where home in downtown LA, is in the process of instituting
she has been instru- green technology and sustainable practices across all
mental in launching areas of its operations.
the museum’s strate-
gic folk art initiative, “Art museums are uniquely positioned to broaden the
including prepara- cultural conversation and explore the most pressing issues
tions for a Henry Luce of our time — including climate change,” said executive
Foundation-funded director Elsa Longhauser. “By undertaking this major ini-
exhibition on works tiative, ICA LA affirms its commitment to reducing its
in the museum’s folk art collection, “Col- own carbon footprint and ensuring a legacy of presenting
lecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art,” groundbreaking exhibitions and programs in a sustain-
opening in May 2020. Prior to that posi- able manner for future generations.”
tion, she served in leadership roles at
Christie’s in New York in the estates, ap- ICA LA has partnered with Kickstarter in order to
praisals and valuations department. crowdsource funds to cover its upfront capital costs. Its
goal is to raise $25,000 through the platform, which will
support the installation of 206 solar panels and six invert-
ers over 12,000 square feet of rooftop space. The panels,
which will produce 100,000 kWh annually, will cost a total
of $156,000. The museum estimates that switching to a
renewable energy source will save it $30,000 in utility
costs each year.

September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 35

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36 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Auction Lewis H. Parker, 93
Previews
FAYETTE, MAINE — World War II veteran outdoorsy stuff. Parker was an avid fisherman
Andrew Jones Auctions Lewis H. Parker, 93, died on August 29 at Franklin and enjoyed hunting.
DTLA Collections & Memorial Hospital in Farmington, Maine. He was
Estates............................ 49 born March 23, 1926, in Lemington, VT, the son of He is survived by his daughter, Linda Starbird,
Auctions At Showplace Lewis and Etta (Lawton) Parker Sr. He attended and her husband Robert of Rockland; grandchil-
Fine Art, Jewelry............. 24 school in Lemington, graduating valedictorian of dren, Melissa Starbird of Warren, Todd Starbird of
Beattie his class in 1944. He immediately went into the Spruce Head and Stephen Starbird of Rockport;
Estates Auction............... 49 Army Air Force and served his country as an aerial great-grandchildren, Kaitlyn and Michael Harvill,
Bonhams gunner on a B-29 bomber during World War II. Julian and Amelia Starbird; a sister-in-law, Eva
Air & Space..................... 23 Upon returning to civilian life in 1946, he went to Parker; the family of Minola Bubier; and several
Bruneau & Co work as a contractor and had a long career in this nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased
Midcentury Modern........ 39 trade until his retirement in the early 1990s. by his best friend and partner, Minola Bubier; two
Clars brothers, Thomas and Stanley Parker; and a sis-
Fine Art........................... 40 In his retirement, he pursued his lifelong inter- ter, Esther Clapp.
Cohasco est in antiques. During the last 15 years, Parker
Autographed Music exhibited in Indian Lake, N.Y., with the Magoun A celebration of his life will be conducted at a
Collection........................ 13 Brothers of South Paris, Maine. His specialty was later date. Donations in his name may be made to
Heritage paper, Jon Magoun said, but all ephemera inter- the Franklin County Animal Shelter, 500 Industry
Asian Art Online.............. 45 ested him. He also collected creels and packs and Road, Farmington, ME 04938, or the animal shel-
Heritage ter of your choice.
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Leland Little Every Tues.............. Coventry, CT.........................Weston’s...................... 74 22, Sept................. Freehold, NY.................... Carlsen Gallery............ 60-61
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September 20, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 39

Bruneau & Co. Hosts Midcentury Modern
Auction On September 14

CRANSTON, R.I. — An eclec- Carved wood jewelry or storage box with a Sofa and ottoman set by Vladimir Kagan (German American, 1927-2016),
tic Midcentury Modern auction curvaceous biomorphic lid by Wendell Cas- with an orange biomorphic serpentine sofa on aluminum feet and a round,
featuring items pulled from tle (1932-2018), incised “WC” and dated “72” tapered ottoman ($6/9,000).
estates across New England — on the right side ($2,5/4,000).
art glass, lighting, figures,
bronzes, furniture by several white tufted bed by Patricia drawers, over two doors open- 361-Lot Auction Will Feature Items
designers and much more — is Urquiola (Italy, 2008) is expect- ing to reveal one adjustable Pulled From Estates Across New England
planned for Saturday, Septem- ed to finish at $3/5,000. The shelf. Flanking doors open to
ber 14, by Bruneau & Co. Auc- bed features a tufted rectangu- reveal four storage shelves on Walter Dornin Teague (American, 1883-1960) for Sparton
tioneers, online and in the lar headrest over matching each side. The piece is 57½ model 557 sled radio, made in the Art Deco style, with cobalt
firm’s gallery at noon. tufted side rails and a foot inches wide. blue mirrors on the front, top and left side ($2/3,000).
board encasing a slatted wood
The event is officially being bed frame. The bed, 96 inches A large semi-abstract Mod- mals along the rim and face in Eastern time.
called an MCM (Midcentury deep by 80 inches wide, is ernist sensual nude painting the center. Bruneau & Co is at 63 Fourth
Modern), art and decor auc- upholstered in white leather by Diane Desmarais (Canadi-
tion. In all, 361 lots will come and has a marked tag inside an, b 1946) should reach Previews will be conducted Avenue. For more information,
up for bid via live, online, tele- the bed frame, below the head- $1,5/2,500. The 84½-by-64¼- Thursday and Friday, Septem- www.bruneauandco.com or
phone and absentee bids. rest. inch work is signed lower left ber 12-13, from 9 am to 5 pm 401-533-9980.
and annotated “And I Say to
A Wendell Castle (1932-2018) A large and rare Gj Neville Myself What a Wonderful
carved wood jewelry or storage canister drum coffee table, World” on verso. Diane Desma-
box with a curvaceous biomor- made in the United States rais is a contemporary artist
phic lid is incised “WC” and from steel, wood and glass in who graduated from the Mon-
dated “72” on the right side. It the Twentieth Century, has an treal Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
measures 9¾ by 14¼ inches estimate of $2/3,000. The 1969.
($2,5/4,000). Castle is consid- squat, cylindrical metal table,
ered the father of the art furni- 40 inches in diameter and 14½ A two-piece, Midcentury
ture movement. His pieces are inches tall, has a removable Modern Surreal glass sculp-
highly collectible. top to reveal storage space. ture by Edward Leibovitz (Bel-
gian, b 1946) ($800–$1,200)
A sofa and ottoman set by A Ralph Lauren (American, includes an etched glass stand
Vladimir Kagan (German Twentieth Century) lacquer with the image of a three-
American, 1927-2016) is a can- high-style duke bar made from headed, six-eyed person deco-
didate for top lot of the auction, rosewood and stainless steel rating the top and base; and a
with an estimate of $6/9,000. ($2,5/3,500) features a remov- decorative, multicolored plate
The orange biomorphic serpen- able stainless-steel tray on a with cameo carved figural
tine sofa rests on aluminum rectangular top over three depictions of people and ani-
feet, while the round, tapered
ottoman rests on a round alu-
minum base. The sofa, 110¼
inches in width, is signed on
the bottom. The ottoman is 36
inches in diameter.

A Walter Dornin Teague
(American, 1883-1960) for
Sparton model 557 sled radio,
made in a streamlined Art
Deco style, is expected to
change hands for $2/3,000. The
radio features cobalt blue mir-
rors on the front, top and left
side, with contrasting black
lacquer finish and chrome
speed lines.

A B and B Italia Maxalto

Gurley’s Boxborough Show Series
Returns For Fall & Winter Run

BOXBOROUGH, MASS. —
Joshua and Rachel Gurley of
Gurley Antiques Shows have
announced the return of the Box-
borough Antiques Show Series at
the Boxboro Regency Hotel. The
show dates are Sunday, Septem-
ber 22, Sunday, October 27, Sun-
day, January 5, and Sunday,
March 8.

The idea for these shows is to
keep them simple, short and
affordable. The Boxborough
Show series has become a pick-
er’s market, running from 10 am
to 3 pm with a focus on Ameri-
cana and folk art, although all
fresh-picked, quality antiques
are welcome.

The Boxboro Regency Hotel is
at 242 Adams Place, just off of
Route 495 at exit 28. For more
information, www.gurleyantique-
shows.com, www.gurleyantiques-
gallery.com or 207-396-4255.

40 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 20, 2019

Rare M.C. Escher Print Headlines Clars September 15 Sale

Also, Work By Helwein, Old Masters & Works By Rockwell, Francis, Lichtenstein And More

The highlight of the print category will be “Metamorphosis II,” 1939-40 by M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) and will be
offered for $80/100,000.

OAKLAND, CALIF. — Clars “Two paintings: Green Lamp,” from “Paintings” series, 1984, From Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein (b 1948) will be
Auction Gallery will present a a woodcut, lithograph, screenprint and collage in colors by this large oil and acrylic on canvas, untitled, (Nightmares
selection of fine art from several Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) will be offered for of a Sleeping Child), 2005, ($40/60,000).
renowned American and inter- $30/40,000.
national artists at its September
15 sale of fine art, decorative art, work in the graphic medium. the prints offerings will be “Two taboo and society’s construction ish, 1568-1625). This painting
furniture, jewelry and Asian art. Upon his return to Holland from paintings: Green Lamp,” from of the childhood fantasy. As an bears the signature “J. Bruegel”
The property to be offered at Belgium, in 1939, Escher creat- “Paintings” Series, 1984, a wood- artist growing up in post-World on the lower center panel
this sale comes from prominent ed a series of motifs for regular cut, lithograph, screenprint and War II Austria, he uses his own ($20/40,000).
California estates as well as division of the plane to form a collage in colors by Roy Lichten- experiences to comment on the
museums, private institutions continuous pictorial story stein (American, 1923-1997). distortions of National Social- A pencil on paper by Norman
and special collections. through metamorphosis and a This work is pencil-signed and ism. Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)
few associations of ideas, ending dated lower right ($30/40,000). will be the highlight of the
The highlight of the print cate- in a memory of Italy (the view of Two Old Masters will be American offerings. Untitled
gory and one of five works by Atrani) and one of Chateau- From Jacques Villegle (French, offered at this sale. The first, (study for Saturday Evening
M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) d’Oex (the chessboard) and b 1926), will be “Le Pape et Les titled “Enthroned Madonna and Post cover: December 6, 1924) is
to be offered is Escher’s most finally in a pattern identical to Freres Miseres — Colonne Mor- Child with Saints and Angels,” a winter/Christmas scene done
ambitious project, “Metamor- that at the start of the print, ris, Cathedrale Saint-Caprais, Arezzo School/Circle of Neri di in his iconic signature style
phosis II,” 1939-40 ($80/100,000). thus suggesting a complete Agen,” 1997. This torn posters Bicci (Italian, 1419-1491), is an ($50/70,000). From artist Sam
This 13-foot woodblock print is cycle. The work is a greater collage is mounted on canvas, oil and tempera on wood panels Francis (American, 1923-1994),
an elaboration of his work, expansion in the concept of tes- signed, titled and dated ($50/70,000). Neri di Bicci was will be his untitled watercolor.
“Metamorphosis I,” from 1937. sellated patterns working to ($25/35,000. the third and last in line of the While associated with the
From November 1939 to March become an altogether different thriving Bicci family workshop. Abstract Expressionist Move-
1940 Escher worked on the pattern, which Escher explored Clars will offer a piece by Aus- Although in his early work his ment, he was also strongly influ-
13-foot-long woodcut “Metamor- in “Metamorphosis I,” 1937. This trian artist Gottfried Helnwein style was virtually indistin- enced by both French and Japa-
phosis II,” a high point of his second iteration of the metamor- (b 1948) The large, untitled oil guishable from that of the work- nese art, which is reflected in
phosis tessellation concept was and acrylic on canvas (Night- shop. By the late 1440s Neri this work ($20/40,000).
only printed upon request due to mares of a Sleeping Child), 2005, began to achieve an autonomy of
the technical challenge of print- was included in a 2005-06 exhi- form, which led to his simple Previews for this sale will be
ing a woodcut in colors on japon bition at Modernism Gallery and clearly identifiable style. conducted Friday, September 13,
paper so large, with so many col- ($40/60,000). It displays the The second Old Master to be from 1 to 6 pm, Saturday and
ors. Therefore, the precise edi- quintessential message of Heln- presented will be “Landscape Sunday beginning at 9 am and
tion size is unknown. wein’s work, the disturbed child. with Figures, Birds and Church,” by appointment the week prior.
Combining elements of hyperre- an oil on panel by the Circle of
Among the other highlights in alism and disrupted innocence, Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flem- Clars is at 5644 Telegraph Ave-
Helnwein comments on the nue. For additional information,
www.clars.com or 510-428-0100.

Philadelphia Museum Announces Admissions
Pricing & Structure Changes Effective October 1

PHILADELPHIA — The Phila- the free admission it has long Art. Membership prices will internationally recognized exhi-
delphia Museum of Art has provided to children 12 and remain unchanged, offering bitions, and the presentation of
announced changes in its admis- younger, now extending it to members free, unlimited general public programs and educational
sions fees that will go into effect youths up to 18 years old for the admission for one year. Likewise, activities. General admission
on October 1. General admission, first time. the general student fee will not provides for a two-day ticket to
offering two-day access to all increase. The Philadelphia Muse- the museum as well as the Rodin
facilities, will increase from $20 The museum is also offering um of Art continues to offer free Museum, and the historic Fair-
to $25 and admission for seniors free admission to Access and admission to all Philadelphia mount Park houses of Cedar
will rise from $18 to $23. At the EBT cardholders and their fami- public and charter school classes, Grove and Mount Pleasant
same time, the museum is modi- lies (formerly $2 per cardholder). and active-duty members of the (reopening in 2020) which are
fying its admissions policy to The museum’s popular Pay- military can obtain free access administered by the Philadel-
broaden access. It will expand What-You-Wish policy on during summer as part of the phia Museum of Art.
Wednesday evenings and on the Blue Star Program.
first Sunday of each month will The Philadelphia Museum of
remain firmly in place and dur- Admissions revenue provides Art is at 2600 Benjamin Frank-
ing all public hours at the Rodin operating support for the care of lin Parkway. For information,
Museum, which is administered the museum’s world-renowned www.philamuseum.org or 215-
by the Philadelphia Museum of collections, the development of 763-8100.

Antiques In Schoharie 44th Annual Fall Show
To Be Conducted September 21-22

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. — Conduct- blanket chests and cupboards to homemade chili, sausage sand-
ed at the Schoharie Valley Rail- quilts, paintings, toys, sets of wiches and hot dogs, as well as
road Complex on Depot Lane in chairs, decorated stoneware, sandwiches made to order,
the village of Schoharie on Sep- spinning equipment, homespun topped off with homemade pies.
tember 21 and 22 is Antiques In linens and lace, jewelry, silver,
Schoharie’s 44th annual fall glass and china, timepieces, This show is run by Schoharie
show. Show hours are Saturday, architectural pieces and more. Colonial Heritage Volunteers
10 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, 11 Visitors can also view the rail- and is one of the group’s largest
am to 4 pm. road museum, which is open to fundraisers supporting ongoing
show-goers free of charge. activities, especially the 1743
Steeped in history, the Schoha- Palatine House — the oldest
rie Valley Railroad Complex will There will also be a special building in Schoharie County
once again be the show’s site. The exhibit with demonstrations and and the Schoharie Valley Rail-
dealers will arrive early on Sat- sales from the Stony Creek road Museum. For information,
urday laden with antiques. Visi- Quilts and Wovens. Visitors can www.schoharieheritage.org, 518-
tors will find everything from also enjoy a country lunch of 295-7505 or 518-231-7241.