ANTIQUES AND THE ARTS WEEKLY

September 27, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 41

the show, too, and they come in Susan Simon Design, New York City. Kimberly Kirker, Leesport, Penn.
many different forms. Loraine Updike Toler, New Haven, Conn., was exhibiting for Ani DiFazio Antiques, Silver Spring, Md.
the first time with vintage apparel for infants and toddlers.
Right from the starting bell,
Martha Perkins, Ashby, Mass.,
sold from her collection of early
handmade quilts. Several appli-
que pieces went first, one with
butterflies in a checkerboard
pattern, another with repeated
flower baskets.

Button Babes are Sharon and
Jennifer Lakovic from Downing-
town, Penn. This was their first
time at the show, but they were
happy after the first hour, as
sales seemed to be good with
their vintage collection of —
guess what — buttons. Just but-
tons.

Susan Simon, Susan Simon
Design from New York City, had
a collection of exotic textiles,
mostly silks but also some other
materials as well. Her pieces
are the style that are most often
wall coverings or bed and furni-
ture covers.

Kay Mertens, East Meadow,
N.Y., was showing her yard
goods. She has been trading and
importing an assortment of
high-grade cottons and silks for
some time, with various sources.

Zukas will be back for her
30th year next year at the Stur-
bridge Host Hotel, on May 11
and Labor Day, September 7.
This unique event is popular
worldwide for what it offers for
antique and vintage style in
the fashion and textile field
and is well worth a spot on your
calendar.

For information, 207-363-1320
or www.vintagefashionandtex-
tileshow.com.

‘Memory Palaces: Inside The
Collection Of Audrey B. Heckler’
Opens Sept. 17 At American Folk Art Museum

NEW YORK CITY — The exhibition, “Memory meticulously and densely composed of architectur-
Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heck- al motifs, portals, floors, columns and friezes. The
ler” is on view at the American Folk Art Museum subjects represented in its isolated alcoves are the
(AFAM) until January 26. Heckler’s collection Virgin and Child and Zeus.
encapsulates the growth of the field of self-
taught art. Untitled by Anna Zemánková (1908-1986) is an
undated work of crayon, pastel and gouache on
There are key selections of European art brut, paper. It shows both a folk art floral motif and the
including works by Aloïse Corbaz, August Klett, spiritual and spiritualist traditions of Moravia,
Augustin Lesage and Anna Zemánková; works by where the artist was raised. It is both sensually
African American artists such as Thornton Dial, half-abstract, half-figurative and completely differ-
Sister Gertrude Morgan and Mose Tolliver; Ameri- ent from the “official” socialist realism of the Czech
can classics by Henry Darger, Emery Blagdon, Wil- Republic at the time.
liam Edmondson and James Castle; and Twenty-
First Century discoveries from around the world The American Folk Art Museum is at 2 Lincoln
by artists such as Guo Fengyi and Christine Sefolo- Square, Columbus Avenue at West 65th Street. For
sha. The presentation includes more than 160 art- more information, www.folkartmuseum.org 212-
works by more than 80 artists. The exhibition is 595-9533.
curated by Dr Valérie Rousseau, AFAM’s senior Martín Ramírez (Mexico, 1895–United
curator and curator of self-taught art and art brut. States, 1963), Untitled, 1960–1963. Gouache,
graphite, and black pencil on paper, 32 1/2
Highlights of the exhibition include “Angel” by by 24 1/2 inches. Collection of Audrey B.
William Edmondson (1874-1951). This sculpture Heckler, © Estate of Martín Ramírez, Pho-
from 1937 is made from the local limestone in Ten- tography © Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the
nessee, where Edmonson worked creating grave Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and
markers and garden sculptures. It is informed by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
the imagery in Nashville’s African American cem-
eteries, with references both to the Bible and Afri-
can-inflected burial customs.

Untitled by Martín Ramírez (1895-1963), a
gouache, graphite and black pencil work on
paper from 1960 to 1963, ostensibly shows a
large sailing ship either floating atop a roiling
sea or grounded on a beach littered with sea-
weed. It has Ramírez’s intricate linear pattern-
ing, repetitive subject and composition and odd
variations in scale.

Untitled by Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964) features
colored pencil and sewn paper cutouts on paper
and is from 1953. It evokes Corbaz’s unrequited
passion for her former employer, Emperor William
II, with its two main figures in an embrace, as well
as a collage commentary about American politi-
cians from an earlier era. The work’s subtitle,
“l’Amérique Stubborn Président,” reflects Corbaz’s
interest in history and politics that runs through
much of her work.

Untitled by Scottie Wilson (1888-1972), pen, ink
and gold crayon on paper work from 1949, cele-
brates irregularity and metamorphosis, enjoining
the viewer to follow a happy game of shape-shifting.

“Composition Symbolique” by Augustin Lesage
(1876-1954), a work in oil and graphite on canvas
from 1928, depicts an intricate structure as a
majestic building, with skillfully drawn interiors

42 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — September 27, 2019

INTERNATIONAL Compiled By
Antiques and The Arts Weekly

Editorial Staff

Gurlitt Trove Makes Israel Debut At Israel Museum
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Con- of four dealers that worked with pointed example of how two goals
tinuing through January 24 at Edouard Manet, French, 1832-1883 (Formerly G. Courbet), the Nazi regime to sell artworks of the Third Reich — control over
the Israel Museum, “Fateful “Still Life with Glass and Fruits,” undated, Oil on canvas, the regime considered to be culture, including the elimination
Choices: Art from the Gurlitt relined, 14 ½ by 21 ¼ inches, Kunstmuseum Bern, Legat “degenerate.” During World War of art that was considered degen-
Trove” brings together approxi- Cornelius Gurlitt 2014. Provenance not yet identified, cur- II, Gurlitt expanded his business erate, and the dispossession, con-
mately 100 paintings, drawings, rently no suspicion of robbery. Attribution: to/after Edouard to the occupied countries of fiscation and looting of Jewish
prints and sculptures from the Manet (formerly attributed to Gustave Courbet) © Mick Europe, particularly France. collections, which ultimately cul-
Gurlitt Art Trove, a vast collec- Vincenz © Kunstmuseum, Bern and the Art and Exhibition minated in their owners deporta-
tion assembled between the Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany. “The historical circumstances tion and extermination — inter-
1930s and the mid-1950s by Dr behind the Gurlitt Art Trove sected.
Hildebrand Gurlitt, a museum lic a poignant and extraordinary Trove was discovered in the make it our responsibility to
director, gallery owner and an opportunity to engage with the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, expose the works and the story to “Any attempt to shed light on
agent for the Third Reich. Featur- detailed provenance of the works Dr Hildebrand Gurlitt’s son, in the public,” says Professor Ido the complex personality of Gurlitt
ing works by Pierre-Auguste on display. Munich in 2012, and in the fami- Bruno, the Anne and Jerome must take into account not only
Renoir, Édouard Manet, Claude Comprising approximately ly’s second home in Salzburg in Fisher director of the Israel his personal narrative and pref-
Monet, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, and 1,590 artworks, the Gurlitt Art 2014. Hildebrand Gurlitt was one Museum. “‘Fateful Choices’ erences but also the cultural and
Max Ernst among many others, describes the fate of art in Europe historical context of his time. This
the exhibition explores Gurlitt’s in the dark years of the Third exhibition gives us the platform
complex collecting practices and Reich regime and generates a to do so and allows the public to
personal narrative, as it places profound discussion about the experience the aesthetic power of
the Trove within a broader cul- connection between art and eth- this significant trove,” said Shlo-
tural and historical context, ics, as well as the difference mit Steinberg, Hans Dichand
examining the impact of the between political preferences and Senior Curator of European Art
Third Reich on aesthetic prefer- personal taste.” at The Israel Museum.
ences in the 1930s and 1940s.
The first part of the exhibition The works on view reflect the
Prepared in collaboration with presents the works that entered broad range of Gurlitt’s interests,
the Kunstmuseum in Bern, into Gurlitt’s collection in the from Seventeenth Century Dutch
which inherited the Gurlitt early 1930s, against the backdrop paintings to Eighteenth Century
estate in 2014, and the of the liberal cultural and societal French and Italian Rococo draw-
Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, climate of the Weimar Republic. ings and Nineteenth Century
which exhibited the works in In contrast, the second part of the landscapes, as well as Impres-
2017-18, “Fateful Choices” marks exhibition focuses on Gurlitt as sionist and German Expression-
the first time works from the an art dealer during the years ist paintings.
Gurlitt collection will be on dis- 1935-44. Supporting ongoing
play in Israel and offers the pub- provenance and restitution The Israel Museum is at Derech
efforts, the exhibition offers a Ruppin 11. For information,
www.imj.org.

Stolen Painting Casts Shadows Over Canadian War Museum
Japanese Museum’s Anniversary Celebrations Receives Major Gift For
Youth Educational Programs
LONDON — The discovery of a Christopher A. Marinello, a onstrate just how seriously mat-
painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, lawyer and the CEO of Art ters of theft will be treated when OTTAWA, ONTARIO — The Friends of the Canadian War Muse-
stolen from a United Kingdom Recovery International, is rep- encountered in its member um has generously given $100,000 to the Canadian War Museum
stately home in 1984 and discov- resenting the theft victims and museums. We call on ICOM to in support of educational programs for the 2019-20 fiscal year. This
ered in the collection of a Japa- is leading a campaign asking intervene with the Tokyo Fuji is the first year since the organization was established in 1985 that
nese museum is casting a shad- ICOM to intervene in the case Art Museum and ensure a quick the majority of the Friends’ gift will support projects dedicated to
ow over the 25th anniversary and demand that its member resolution of a painful mystery educating the next generation about our military heritage.
celebrations of the world’s muse- museum comply with ICOM that has caused untold upset in
um watchdog, the International guidelines. the Price family for more than “The Friends has supported the museum in a variety of ways for
Council Of Museums (ICOM). 30 years. TFAM claims that they many years,” said Caroline Dromaguet, acting director general of
Marinello said, “The timing of acquired the stolen Reynolds in the Canadian War Museum. “Our educational programs are an
In 1984, the portrait of Miss this conference presents ICOM good faith from a dealer who invaluable way for us to keep youth connected with Canada’s mili-
Mathew, later Lady Elizabeth with the perfect chance to dem- purchased it at Sotheby’s in tary history, and this gift enables us to continue to share that his-
Mathew, sitting with her dog 1988. However, ICOM guide- tory in a number of meaningful ways.”
before a landscape, by Sir Joshua lines state that member muse-
Reynolds, was stolen from the ums must conduct independent The Friends of the Canadian War Museum was established to
home of Sir Henry and Lady provenance research on objects support and assist the museum in its mandate to educate, pre-
Price, along with numerous they acquire. A 46-year gap in serve and remember. Members of the Friends donate their time
other old master paintings and the provenance should have been and expertise through their active involvement in the collection of
family heirlooms. a major red flag for any cultural oral histories, in-gallery visitor interaction, and hands-on restora-
institution.” tion projects.
The Reynolds painting has
been tracked to the Tokyo Fuji The Tokyo Fuji Museum has The Friends’ 2019–20 contribution will further the ability of the
Art Museum (TFAM) and is been embroiled in controversy on museum to engage and inspire youth at the museum and all over
being claimed by the experts at several previous occasions since Canada. Within the walls of the museum, the donation will sup-
Art Recovery International on its foundation in 1983. The Muse- port the School Access Program, the World at War International
behalf of the theft victims. um’s founder, Daisaku Ikeda, is Speaker Series and the enhancement of programming materials
the president of Soka Gakkai, a for in-gallery activities. A portion will also fund the creation of a
The timing is opportune. This Buddhist sect with a troubled signature Remembrance Day event for youth groups visiting the
week, ICOM is holding its 25th history, often labelled as a cult. museum.
General Conference in Kyoto, Later, in 2012, the museum was
Japan, designed as a forum for forced to return a Leonardo da The Canadian War Museum is at 1 Vimy Place. For information,
discussions surrounding the Vinci painting to Italy after offi- 819-776-7000 or www.warmuseum.ca.
role of museums in protecting cials determined it had been ille-
cultural heritage while dealing gally exported in World War II. Courtesy Canadian War Museum.
with issues of stolen and looted
works of art.

Fine Art Asia October 4-7
HONG KONG — Fine Art partnership. The Masterpiece Fine Art Asia is the most dis-
Asia 2019, Asia’s leading inter- Pavilion will comprise 25 exhib- tinguished annual fine art fair
national fine art fair, and Ink iting galleries and launches at in the region. Ink Asia, which
Asia 2019, the world’s first art Fine Art Asia 2019. Founded in launched in 2015 as the
fair dedicated to ink art, lead 2010, Masterpiece London has world’s first fair dedicated to
this autumn’s peak art season established itself as a leading modern and contemporary ink
in Hong Kong. The fairs take cross-collecting fair, offering the art, is an acclaimed interna-
place alongside each other in finest works of art, design, furni- tional platform presenting an
the Hong Kong Convention and ture and jewelry, from antiquity impressive array of ink and
Exhibition Centre from Friday, to the present day. The Master- ink-inspired works influenced
October 4, to Monday, October 7, piece Pavilion will both comple- by traditional ink painting but
with a VIP Preview and Vernis- ment Fine Art Asia 2019 and following innovative artistic
sage on Thursday, October 3. widen the scope of the offering to paths.
the Asian audience in Hong
The Masterpiece Pavilion: a Kong, introducing a broader The Hong Kong Convention
New Partnership with Master- selection of the finest Western and Exhibition Centre is at 1
piece London Fine Art Asia is art, including antiques, modern Expo Drive, Wan Chai. For infor-
pleased to be working with Mas- art, decorative art and design. mation, www.fineartasia.com or
terpiece London in a long-term www.inkasia.com.hk.

September 27, 2019 — Antiques and The Arts Weekly — 43

Outsider Art Fair Announces Marsden Hartley Retrospective
Exhibitors, Programming At Louisiana MoMA

PARIS — The Outsider Art Fair (OAF), the premier fair devoted HUMLEBAEK, DENMARK — This fall, Louisi- “Adelard the Drowned, Master of the ‘Phan-
to self-taught art, art brut, and outsider art, has announced the ana Museum of Modern Art presents the largest tom’” by Marsden Hartley, 1938-1939, oil on
exhibitor list and programming for its forthcoming seventh Paris exhibition in Europe to date of the painter Mars- academy board, 28 by 22 inches, collection
edition. OAF Paris returns to Atelier Richelieu in the Second den Hartley, a key figure in American art history. of the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis,
Arrondissement, easily accessible from the Grand Palais. The fair It is also the first retrospective of the artist’s oeu- Minn., Bequest of Hudson D. Walker from
will take place October 17-20, concurrent with the International vre in Europe in 60 years. The works in the exhi- the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection.
Contemporary Art Fair, and showcases the works of 42 interna- bition are on loan from major American museums his home state of Maine. In the last years of his
tional exhibitors from 14 countries with 11 first-time galleries. and private collections. The exhibition will be on life, he returned to Maine where he painted some
view through January 19. of his best works.
New exhibitors for 2019 include James Barron Art (Kent, Conn.);
Les Douches la Galerie (Paris); and Jennifer Lauren (Manchester, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a restless Hartley’s painting was deeply influenced both
United Kingdom).The fair welcomes its first gallery from the Mid- person and artist. In his adult life, he never spent by the European avant-garde, in particular Ger-
dle East, Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Other more than ten months in any one location. man Expressionism, and by his fellow New Eng-
newcomers include BigTown Gallery (Rochester, Vt.); Arthur Borg- Instead, he moved around the United States and landers, the great American philosophers and
nis (Paris); Kunstraum (Nuremberg, Germany); Outsiderville (St shuttled between America and Europe. His rest- writers R.W. Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and,
Petersburg, Russia) and Siniya 28 (Marrakesh, Morocco). lessness was no doubt a way of protecting himself in particular, Walt Whitman. Through Emerson
against loneliness, though he never completely and Thoreau, Hartley arrived at his mission as an
This year’s curated space, Art Brut – Photos, will be organized escaped it. As a gay man, Hartley had limited artist, describing the universal spirit. In Whit-
by Bruno Decharme (Collection abcd) featuring photographs and opportunities for forming lasting intimate rela- man, he found a soul mate who showed him how
photo-collages by artists included in “Photo|Brut: Collection tionships. to express his love and desire for men in his art.
Bruno Decharme & Compagnie,” an exhibition on view at Les
Rencontres d’Arles through September 22, traveling to the Amer- Hartley’s work was far from unaffected by the The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is at Gl.
ican Folk Art Museum (New York City) in summer 2020. people he met, the writers he read or the art he Strandvej 13. For information, www.louisiana.dk.
looked at. He often changed tracks, valuing artis-
On Friday, October 18, OAF will host “Women Collecting Art tic experimentation above all else. In the 1920s,
Brut,” an evening dedicated to the recognition of female self- he scolded his great idols Henri Matisse and Pablo
taught artists as well as, for the first time, female collectors. This Picasso for growing too comfortable and repetitive
unique event will feature a guided tour with iconic creative in their painting. Hartley never settled for any-
Michele Lamy, and a film about women who explore feminism in thing, in art or in life. His ceaseless transatlantic
their art at Centre Pompadour (Ercourt, France), a neo-feminist travels make him a bridge for understanding the
laboratory and artist residency. relationship between the art scenes in Europe
and America.
On Saturday, October 19, aficionados of art brut will gather at
Hôtel Drouot for OAF Talks, featuring a panel on the outsider art In America as well as Europe, Hartley was at
market organized by Melanie Gerlis (Financial Times) and a film the center of the art world and the latest trends.
screening with Collection de l’Art Brut director Sarah Lombardi. In New York City, he was represented by Alfred
Stieglitz at the photographer’s famous 291 gal-
Founded in New York in 1993, the Outsider Art Fair is the orig- lery, alongside other great artists like Arthur
inal art fair concentrating specifically on self-taught art created Dove, John Marin and Georgia O’Keeffe. In Paris,
outside the mainstream, presenting works by acknowledged Hartley associated with Gertrude Stein, attend-
masters, including James Castle, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, ing her salons and meeting artists like Robert
Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Martín Ramírez, Judith Delaunay and Picasso. In Germany, he quickly got
Scott, Bill Traylor and Adolf Wölfli, as well as contemporary fig- to know the avant-garde circle around the maga-
ures like M’onma, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Dan Miller and zine Der Blaue Reiter and had opportunity to dis-
George Widener. cuss his art with artists like Wassily Kandinsky,
Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc. The latter
In 2012, OAF was acquired by Wide Open Arts, a company invited Hartley to participate in the pathbreaking
formed by New York gallerist Andrew Edlin. With its debut edi- Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon in Berlin, 1913.
tion in 2013, the fair established guest curatorial projects and the
OAF Talks program. The 2013 fair enjoyed rave reviews and more As a counterweight to his intense experiences in
than tripled its previous attendance records. Propelled by this Berlin, Paris and New York City, Hartley sought a
success, Wide Open Arts took the fair to Paris for the first time in solitary existence in nature throughout his life —
October 2013, helping to reinvigorate the city’s long tradition of in Southern France, New Mexico and, not least, in
recognizing and championing art brut and self-taught artists.

Atelier Richelieu is at 60 rue de Richelieu. For information,
www.outsiderartfair.com.

Second Edition Celebrates Art World Women—

Harper’s Bazaar Launches Bazaar Art Week

LONDON — Harper’s Bazaar, lerists, collectors and entre- the world. The curator, Flor-
one of the world’s longest- preneurs. ence Ostende, will lead a tour
established luxury fashion, art This year’s line-up of events highlighting the female artists
and literary magazines, will includes: and performers featured in the
launch the second annual edi- *Sotheby’s x Bazaar: a cham- show.
tion of Bazaar Art Week Octo- pagne lunch and barge trip to *Young Masters Art Prize
ber 2-9. The exclusive series of Frieze Masters. Cruising along exhibition is a private view
private views, curator-led the Regent’s Canal, guests will and panel talk. Harper’s
tours, panel discussions and hear from a panel of experts, Bazaar will host a private
masterclasses will celebrate including Frances Christie, view of the tenth anniversary
the remarkable achievements the head of Modern and post- edition of the Young Masters
of women in the art world. war British art at Sotheby’s; Art Prize exhibition, held in
Chloe Stead, a deputy director the Royal Arcade in St James’s.
Bazaar Art Week will take from the auction house’s old Guests will hear from past
place at multiple locations master department; and Katy prizewinners, including
across central London, coincid- Hessel, a curator, art historian Lucille Lewin, the former
ing with Frieze, PAD fair and and founder of the Instagram founder and director of Whis-
other highlights of the city’s account @thegreatwomen- tles, who left fashion to pursue
art season. artists. The speakers will a career in sculpture.
share advice on the women Bazaar Art Week will bring
Harper’s Bazaar has a long- artists to look out for at Frieze to life the pages of Bazaar Art
standing relationship with the Masters, tickets for which are Young Masters June August Oval Office and Justice Pink. magazine, a standalone publi-
art world; its illustrious past included in the package. cation dedicated to women in
contributors include Chagall, *Luchita Hurtado will give a inspiration from the work of the Heist Gallery founder the art world that is distribut-
Giacometti and Andy Warhol. curator’s tour at the Serpen- the artist Judy Chicago’s mon- Mashael Al Rushaid and the ed with Harper’s Bazaar’s
More recently, Cindy Sher- tine. Guests will attend a pri- umental installation, “The MTArt Agency founder Marine November issue. The special
man, Tracey Emin, Gillian vate view and guided tour of Dinner Party.” Tanguy. issue, on sale starting in Octo-
Wearing and Yoko Ono are the first United Kingdom solo ber, will have a series of collec-
among the high-profile artists show of the trailblazing Vene- *A panel discussion titled *“Into the Night” is a cura- tors’ edition covers showcasing
to have collaborated with the zuela-born, California-based “The Future of Art is Female.” tor’s tour at the Barbican. artworks by some of today’s
magazine. artist Luchita Hurtado. Held over breakfast at the Guests will be among the first foremost female artists.
*London Drawing Group Punch Room at The London to see the Barbican’s block- Bazaar Art Week is sponsored
Harper’s Bazaar is the first masterclass at the Henrietta Edition, Harper’s Bazaar will buster autumn exhibition, by Ruinart, the oldest estab-
luxury magazine to have Hotel. This tutored session, led host a lively panel talk on why “Into the Night: Cabarets & lished Champagne house.
launched a program of events by the London Drawing Group women are spearheading art Clubs in Modern Art,” an For more information, www.
dedicated to art. Bazaar Art (a collective of three contempo- as a force for social progress. immersive journey through hearstlive.co.uk/bazaar-art-
Week will connect readers rary female artists) will take Speakers include the multime- the electrifying history of cab- week-2019.
with trailblazers from the art dia artist Charlotte Colbert, arets, cafes and clubs around
world, including museum
directors, artists, curators, gal-

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Club News

Vermont Antique Dealers Association (VADA) age you to make the trip to see the fall colors and to visit Transferware Collectors Club (TCC)
Fall is in the air — cooler mornings and evenings and these fine shops and others throughout the state. 2019 TCC Richards Research Grant Recipients
lovely days. October is Vermont Antiques Week: five Announced
great shows all in one weekend, October 3-6! The shows Finally, we are saddened to announce the passing of The Transferware Collectors Club, a United States-
are filled with great antiques from dealers from all Tom D’Aruda, Paul Decoste, and Nancy Wells this based international nonprofit organization dedicated
over the country. month. The antiques community will not be the same to the study of British transfer-printed ceramics, is
The shows for Vermont Antiques Week kick off with without them, and they will be dearly missed. pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Paul
the Weston Antiques Show, Weston Playhouse, 8 Park and Gladys Richards Charitable Foundation Research
Street, Weston, Vt., preview Thursday, October 3, 5 to 7 Adam Irish Grants for the study of British Transferware. Grants
pm, $75 per person; Friday and Saturday, October 4-5, Decorative Arts Trust totaling more than $13,000 will be distributed to recip-
10 am to 5 pm, $10. ients from four countries.
The Okemo Antique Show, Okemo Lodge, 318 Moun- Loire Valley, Amsterdam, Lexington, and Ireland Fea- Grant Recipients:
tain Road, Ludlow, Vt., preview Friday, October 4, 2 to 6 tured in Decorative Arts Trust Events Tania Manuel (Casimiro, Portugal), project title:
pm, $15; Saturday, October 5, 10 am to 3 pm, $10. “British Transferware in Eighteenth and Nineteenth
The Black River Antique Show, Ludlow Community After completing a successful Fall Symposium in the Century Portugal — An Archaeological Perspective.”
Center, 37 South Main Street, Ludlow, Vt., preview Fri- Berkshires, the Decorative Arts Trust continues their Sandra Guillermo, (Argentina), project title: “A Sys-
day, October 4, 7 to 9 pm, $15; Saturday, October 5, 10 educational outreach with a variety of exciting oppor- tematic Study to Understand Fashion and Consumer
am to 3 pm, $8. tunities. Tastes for British Transferware Patterns Printed on
Antiques at Stratton Mountain, The Vermont Table and Toilet Services in Nineteenth Century
Antiques Dealers’ Association Show, Stratton Moun- On October 4, the trust leads a celebratory tour to Homes in Buenos Aires.”
tain Base Lodge, 5 Village Road Lodge Road, Stratton, mark the opening of the new Leslie P. and George H. George Haggarty, (Scotland), project title: “A Catalog
Vt. Saturday, October 5, 8 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, Hume Yale American Furniture Study Center in New of Transfer-printed Pottery Produced by Scotland’s
October 6, 11 am to 3 pm, $10. Haven, Conn. East Coast Potteries Prior to 1850.”
Antiques in Vermont, Okemo Lodge, 318 Mountain Scott Hanson for TCC 2019 Annual Meeting, (United
Road, Ludlow. Sunday, October 6, 8 am to 2:30 pm, $10. The trust then hosts a study trip abroad where guests States), project title: “Travel Stipends for the 2019 TCC
For more information on all the shows, including plac- experience, “From Château to Vineyard: The Lower Annual Meeting.”
es to stay, restaurants, and area attractions, www.ver- Loire Valley” on October 13-22 and October 24-Novem-
montantiquesweek.com ber 2, with an extension October 22-25. This excursion Greenwich Decorative Arts Society
Our featured dealers of the month are Toni and Greg- combines hidden gems and iconic sites, with a special
ory Prince, The Horse and the Bear Antiques, Norwich, concentration on exclusive private visits that highlight Parlor at Millford Plantation, (1841) in Pine-
Vt. Both Toni and Gregory were exposed to antiques at the region’s superlative architecture, collections, gar- wood, S.C., with original furniture by Duncan
a young age: Toni’s father had a rare children’s book- dens, and wine. Sites include the Château d’Azay-le- Phyfe & Son. Photo courtesy of Classical Ameri-
store in New York City, and Gregory’s grandfather col- Rideau, Château de Villandry, Château du Rivau, Châ- can Homes Preservation Trust.
lected museum-quality pewter and silver, pieces of teau de Cheverny, Cathédrale Saint-Etienne, the
which are now at Deerfield in Massachusetts and the Musée de la Chasse, Cathédrale Saint-Gatien, the GREENWICH, CONN. — The Greenwich Decora-
Hogg Museum in Texas. Toni began collecting antiques Musée des Beaux Arts, Fontevraud Abbey, Château de tive Arts Society presents, from 1:15 to 3 pm at the
while she and Gregory lived in Amherst, Mass., in the Brissac, Château d’Angers, Château du Lude, Cadre Bruce Museum on Monday, October 7, “Classical
late 1980s, when Gregory was president of Hampshire Noir, Château de Mongeoffroy, Château de Noirieux, Americana: The Life and Legacy of Richard Hampton
College and she had to furnish the five-bedroom college and Château des Ducs de Bretagne. Jenrette,” a lecture by Peter M. Kenny, co-president,
president’s home. The first antique she bought was a Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.
gift for Gregory’s inauguration as college president: a More information will be announced soon about the Refreshments will immediately follow the lecture.
large, painted platform rocking horse that resided in trust’s special program with the Decorative Arts Soci- The lecture will tell the story of Richard “Dick” Jen-
the front hall of the house until Gregory retired and ety of Newport County in Southern California, being rette, his love of beauty, passion for historic preser-
they returned to their home and farm in Vermont. planned for fall 2019. vation and Kenny’s relationship with him first as
Toni’s love of horses and antiques continues to this curator of American decorative arts at the Metropoli-
day. Toni has a riding school, The Prince and the Pau- Once 2020 rolls around, the trust will host events tan Museum and later as co-president of Jenrette’s
per, at their farm, where she has 40 students. She and during New York Antiques Weekend (January 24-25), foundation, Classical American Homes Trust.
Gregory do nearly 100 percent of the care of the farm, including an Emerging Scholars Colloquium (January Insights will be offered into the numerous houses
leaving one to wonder when she has time for her 26), a study trip abroad with the theme, An Embarrass- Jenrette restored over his lifetime, his approach to
antiques business! ment of Riches: Tracing the Dutch Golden Age in their interior decoration and his role as a collector of
Toni has been buying and selling antiques since the Amsterdam & Maastricht’s TEFAF (March 8-15); the classical American furniture from the workshops of
1990s, doing many shows and maintaining a booth at spring symposium, “Kentucky Bluegrass: Lexington New York’s premier cabinetmakers of the early Nine-
the Antiques Collaborative in Quechee, Vt. In addition, and Louisville” (April 15-19); and a study trip abroad, teenth Century.
she occasionally holds an Antiques Only Barn sale at The Great Houses of Upper Ireland: The North & Bor- Peter Kenny, co-president and executive director of
the farm. Gregory is an enthusiastic supporter of both der Counties (May 5–13 and May 14–22). the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, is
the antiques business and the farm while also pursu- considered one of the nation’s foremost authorities
ing his own work as an educational consultant, travel- Other programs in 2020 include: “Salem & the North on American furniture. He was the Ruth Bigelow
ing several days a week. Shore” (September 10-13); “La Dolce Vita in Northern Wriston curator of American decorative arts and
Toni never buys anything to sell that she wouldn’t Italy: Genoa, Turin & Milan” (October 5-20 and Octo- administrator of the American Wing at the Metro-
have in their own home or collections. She especially ber 19-28, 2020, Extension October 15-18); a special politan Museum. Kenny is also a noted lecturer and
looks for unusual items to sell. Their own personal col- program in Southern California (November 2020); and the author of various award-winning books on Amer-
lections range from pond boats and Grenfell rugs to old a special program with the arts & crafts Community of ican furniture, including, most recently, Duncan
copper and silver and books. Toni has her father’s Rose Valley, Penn. (November 15). Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York and Honoré
entire first edition Winnie the Pooh signed by both Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris: The Life and
Milne and Shepherd. They also collect large platform In 2021, trips are being planned for East Anglia (May/ Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York. He is
horses, small pull toy horses, doll houses and other June), Philadelphia (mid-September) and China (late a long-term resident of New York’s Hudson River
child-related toys. Toni is always looking for other col- September). Valley and is on the board of directors of the Chip-
lections to start! stone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisc., which pub-
Toni and Gregory share the experience of being deal- As well as these trips, the Decorative Arts Trust lishes annually American Furniture and Ceramics in
ers and love what they do, whether it is doing shows or underwrites curatorial internship grants, provides con- America, the journals of record in their fields; Bosco-
working on the farm. They have no current plans for tinuing educational scholarships, and awards research bel Restoration Inc; the Decorative Arts Trust; and
retiring! They are lucky in that both their grown chil- grants to graduate students. the Classical Institute of the South. He is a graduate
dren have a love for antiques and are collectors them- of Montclair State University (BA) and the State
selves, ensuring that at least some of their collections The Decorative Arts Trust is a nonprofit organization University of New York, Cooperstown Graduate Pro-
will someday be passed along. with the mission of encouraging the study and appre- gram in History Museum Studies (MA).
They enjoy doing small local shows such as the Nor- ciation of material culture through educational pro- Admission for nonmembers of the Greenwich Deco-
wich Antiques Show in Norwich, Vt., where people with grams, collaborations and grant funding. For more rative Arts Society is $25. Space is limited. Reserva-
children can come and interact with the dealers and information, www.decorativeartstrust.org, thetrust@ tions required for members and guests by September
where hopefully an interest in antiques may be passed decorativeartstrust.org, or 610-627-4970. 30. For reservations and information, greenwichdec-
along to the younger generation. You can visit with [email protected], www.greenwichdecora-
them at the Norwich Antiques Show as well as other Stretch Glass Society tivearts.com.
shows. The Bruce Museum is at 1 Museum Drive.
Have a wonderful fall, and enjoy your antiquing, Courtesy Stretch Glass Society.
wherever it leads you. “Stretch Club Souvenirs” will be the topic of our
Vesta Urband ([email protected]). Stretch Out discussion on Thursday, October 10. The
call takes place at 8 pm Eastern.
New Hampshire Antiques All are welcome to join in by calling 415-464-6800, fol-
Dealers Association (NHADA) lowed by ID: 04211974#.
What a summer it’s been. The NHADA would like to All photos will be available on our website, stretch-
thank all of the customers who attended the Manches- glasssociety.org, one week preceding the call.
ter show as well as our great dealers who put together A deluxe edition review of the discussion will also be
wonderful booths. Thank you for making the 2019 New available several weeks after the call.
Hampshire Antiques Show one of the best yet. We hope Many who have joined our discussions are thanking
to see you next year for another show filled with fresh us for identifying their recent purchase.
discoveries and surprises (believe it or not, I and other For more information, [email protected].
dealers I know have already started setting new pieces
aside for August 2020).
We’d like to announce two new members, Route 1
Antiques in Hampton Falls, N.H., owned by Lionel Love-
less and Greg Pruitt; and N. Dearborn Antiques in
Northwood, N.H., owned by Joyce Fontaine. Antiquing in
New Hampshire doesn’t end in August, and we encour-

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National Association of guide for the current Pairpoint Co in Sandwich, Mass., come to the fore during the succeeding Yuan dynasty
& Clock Collectors (NAWCC) she will share insights regarding the growth of Pair- (1279-1368), so did the expanding Song taste for white
National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors in point under the recent management of the Tulman wares foreshadow the development of blue and white
Columbia, Penn., will host a workshop, “Understanding brothers. Everyone is welcome. porcelain in the Yuan. Seemingly, if coincidentally,
Fundamentals of Clocks for Valuation,” October 19-24. developing in tandem, those new modes — literati
The course is designed to provide appraisers, auction- The Morse Institute Library is at 14 East Central painting and decorated porcelains — supplanted the
eers, collectors and anyone interested in horology with Street. For information, www.founderschapter.org. Song aesthetic during the Yuan and would come to
a professional five-and-a-half-day program to enable dominate the later dynastic period. The new antiquari-
them to properly identify the wide range of clock styles Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle anism exerted a profound influence on the arts of the
and to learn techniques to determine their value. Rec- Song, with potters imitating the forms and decorative
ognition of certain traits and subtle characteristics Chinese small bowl with decoration of two quail motifs of ancient bronzes and with painters seeking
that affect value will be a prime consideration to avoid in a garden, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period inspiration in the works of the more recent past, par-
costly errors in the sales room, appraisal report, or per- (1723-35). Enameled ware: porcelain with decora- ticularly of the Tang (618–907 CE) and Five Dynasties
sonal collection. Basic mechanics will also be covered to tion painted in overglaze polychrome enamels; (907–960 CE) periods. Thus, the arts of the Song repre-
enable the participants to recognize proper function with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading Da sent a complex dynamic, seeing the culmination of
and how defects, modifications, and repairs impact Qing Yongzhengnian zhi. The Asia Society, New long-evolving traditions while also witnessing develop-
value. York City, Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller Third ments that, once they took hold in the Yuan, would
The course will use the facilities and resources of the Collection. dominate the arts of the later dynastic era; indeed, they
NAWCC, the National Watch & Clock Museum and the would forever change the course of the history of Chi-
Library & Research Center. The NAWCC is the world’s GREENWICH, CONN. — The Connecticut Ceramics nese art.
largest museum, research library and international Study Circle presents a lecture at the Bruce Museum
community dedicated to clocks, watches, time and time- on Monday, October 14, from 1:15 to 3 pm. The lecture, Named the Alan J. Dworsky curator of Chinese art
keeping. There will be behind-the-scenes tours of both. “The Arts of the Song Dynasty (960–1279): Culmina- emeritus on his retirement early in 2013, Mowry
The museum staff and Dr Jabbour will assist the stu- tions, New Beginnings and Newfound Antiquarian- worked at the Harvard Art Museums for more than 37
dents with research projects using the Library’s vast ism,” will be given by Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. years, most of that time as a senior curator.
archives and horological material. Dworsky curator of Chinese art emeritus, Harvard Art
The NAWCC Museum is at 514 Poplar Street. For Museums, Cambridge, Mass. Refreshments will imme- Admission for nonmembers of the Connecticut Ceram-
information, www.nawcc.org/nawcc/events/event. diately follow. ics Study Circle is $25. For information or for reserva-
Connecticut State Button Society tions, www.ctcsc.org.
PLAINVILLE, CONN. — The Connecticut State But- The Song dynasty (960-1279) witnessed the culmina-
ton Society will hold its annual fall show and meeting tion of the celadon tradition in all its permutations; in The Bruce Museum is at 1 Museum Drive.
at the Grace Lutheran Church on Saturday, October addition, it saw the maturation of brown- and black- Cape Cod Glass Club
26. The program is “Scoville History.” Showroom hours glazed wares, just as it also welcomed into the canon
are 9 am to 3 pm. Contact Laurel Durso, 860-283-0525, the recently developed white porcelains. Evolving over SANDWICH, MASS. — The Cape Cod Glass Club
[email protected]. Dealers contact Rachel Mercu- a period of nearly 1,000 years and maturing in the will begin its 20th season on Tuesday, October 1, with
rio at 203-375-6421 or [email protected]. Song dynasty, the celadons — those ceramics with sub- a meeting and lecture at the Sandwich Public Library
The Grace Lutheran Church is at 222 Farmington tly hued, pale bluish-green glazes — were favored by beginning at 1 pm. The speaker will be James Poore,
Avenue. For more information or weather cancella- the imperial court and stand as an enduring symbol of son of Edward Poore, a famous glass cutter. The title
tions, www.connecticutstatebuttonsociety.org that cultured age, as do the naturalistic landscape of his talk will be “The Accomplishments of My Father,
National American Glass Club paintings, which also claimed their finest hour during Ed Poore.” At the completion of his talk, participants
NATICK, MASS. — A free meeting of the Founders that era of supreme artistic refinement. will carpool to the Sandwich Glass Museum for a spe-
Chapter of the National American Glass Club at the cial guided tour, “A Cut Above: Tribute to Edward
Morse Institute Library begins at 11 am with a mem- As experiments with literati painting during the Song Poore,” which will be a private tour of the works of his
ber-led discussion of salt, nut and candy dishes on heralded the new, abstract style of painting that would father. Poore will give a guided tour of the exhibit and
Wednesday, October 2, and will be followed at 1 pm by share interesting stories about his father. The tour is
a lecture by Maria Martell, “The Pairpoint Story.” Mar- only open to members who have attended the entire
tell is the current president of New England Society of meeting.
Open Salt Collectors and has served in this position for
more than ten years. Prior to that, she held various Founded in 2000, the Glass Club is a not-for-profit
board positions in the club as a dedicated member. She chapter of the National American Glass Club. It is ded-
has been a collector for more than 30 years, with spe- icated to the study and appreciation of glass, with an
cial interests in Heisey Glass and Pairpoint Glass, in emphasis on American glass. The club meets from
addition to her passion for open salts. She will take us October-December and from March-June. Activities
through the history of Pairpoint and its evolution from include formal lectures, study sessions and visits to
the Mount Washington Co, to the present day. As a tour museums and working glassmakers.

The club is always open to new members, and mem-
bership is not limited to Cape Cod residents. For fur-
ther information, contact the membership chairman
Brenda Hayes at 508-385-4893 or by email at 2indi-
[email protected].

Barbara Adams, publicity

Art Glass Forum Lecture Season
Debut October 8
NEW YORK CITY — A long-dispersed set of debut lecture on October 8.
spectacular stained-glass windows has been The windows’ demanding original client was
reunited and will be the subject of the Art
Glass Forum (AGF) New York’s 2019-20 season the philanthropist, sculptor and museum
The restorers Thomas Venturella (left) and founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The win-
Jim Murphy will speak October 8 for the dows’ charismatic designer, Robert Winthrop
Art Glass Forum | New York about Robert Chanler, had a varied career painting and
Winthrop Chanler’s newly reunited set of sculpting murals, folding screens, wall reliefs
seven windows made between 1918 and and portraits while using up his inheritance
1923 for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s from Astor ancestors and occasionally serving
sculpture studio on West 8th Street in as a county sheriff. Between 1918 and 1923, for
Greenwich Village. Laura Drapala photo. Whitney’s sculpture studio on West 8th Street
in Greenwich Village, which was later adapted
into the Whitney Museum of American Art’s
first home, Chanler designed seven windows
with jewel-tone swirls of constellations, flames
and real and imaginary beasts.

The set was removed decades ago from the
building — now home to the New York Studio
School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture —
and the seven were dispersed in various own-
ers’ hands. Newly reunited, they will be the
subject of an AGF lecture on October 8 at St
Michael’s Church on West 99th Street. The
evening’s speakers are renowned historian
Lauren Drapala, who has comprehensively
documented Chanler’s works, and stained-
glass restoration experts Thomas Venturella
and Jim Murphy, who are restoring the set for
new owners.

The October 8 event, which includes a wine
and cheese reception at 6:30 pm and a 7 pm
lecture, is at St Michael’s church.

AGF, a nonprofit founded in 1999, supports
scholarship about glass, from ancient shards to
contemporary experiments.

The entrance to St Michael’s Church is on West
99th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam
Avenue. For additional information, www.art-
glassforumny.org.

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Surreal Pop Art By Jim Nutt &
Gladyss Nilsson At Hindman
CHICAGO — Hindman’s tesque and exemplifying an
postwar and contemporary art artist who has mastered his
auction on September 26 at 10 craft.
am will feature a selection of “I have spent my life sur-
rare paintings by the Hairy rounded by Chicago art and
Who? and the Chicago Imag- artists and have had the good
ists. Included in this presenta- fortune of bringing numerous
tion are examples by Art stellar examples of Chicago
Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Imagist material to market
Nutt, Ed Paschkeand and Karl over the last decade here at
Wirsum. Hindman,” said Zack Wirsum,
senior specialist in postwar
Their work was known for and contemporary art. “I can
grotesquerie, surrealism and say with full confidence that
complete separation from the this selection of paintings is
art scene in New York art or among the best batches of
world trends. Hairy Who? and Imagist work
Jim Nutt, “Plume,” 1989 to come up at auction in one
Jim Nutt’s “Plume” from 1989 ($200/400,000). setting that I have ever seen. I
($200/400,000) offers a unique detailed fantastically imagined anticipate the excitement over
opportunity for collectors to women were influenced by the these works from the collecting Gladys Nilsson, “Dipdick...Adam and Eve after Cranach,”
acquire an early work from his formal constructs of Renais- world to be absolutely fren- 1971 ($20/30,000)
period of portraits that sance portraiture, balancing zied.”
emerged as his preferred paint- between the beautiful and gro- One such highlight is the scale diptych by Gladys Nils- This pair of paintings illus-
ing product in the 1990s and uncharacteristically large- son, “Dipdick...Adam and Eve trate Wirsum’s evolution from
has held a continued place in after Cranach,” 1971 more open spaced akimbo psy-
his practice. These stylized and chedelic abstraction to a full
frontal frenetic symmetrical
($20/30,000). This work play- figuration that became his sig-
fully riffs on Lucas Cranach nature approach through the
the Elder’s similarly titled rest of the 1960s and beyond.
Northern Renaissance master- Other Chicago artists of note
piece. Engaging the same ener- featured prominently in the
gy as her more intimate water- auction are Leon Golub, Rich-
colors but on a grander scale, ard Hunt, George Cohen and
the work employs high key col- Gertrude Abercrombie.
ors, dynamic patterns and
whimsical interwoven bodies to Hindman is at 1338 West
reinterpret and reinvigorate a Lake Street. For information,
classic. www.hindmanauctions.com or
Two paintings from Karl Wir- 312-280-1212.
sum’s seminal “Doggerel”
series of vibrantly electric col- SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS.
ored and graphically edged — The Cultural Center of Cape
anthropomorphic dogs will be Cod is filled with an extraordi-
reunited for the first time since nary exhibit of Harley Davidson
the late 1960s. With estimates motorcycles and motorcycle art
of $40/60,000 and $50/70,000 from the collection of David
each, “Doggerel,” 1966, and McGraw, who has worked for
“Doggerel III,” 1967, interest- decades to acquire and restore
ingly come to market from two iconic Harleys and other fine
different collections. Originally machines, including some so
purchased from a group exhibi- rare that even Harley Davidson
tion at Dell Gallery in 1966 does not own them. The exhibit
and the second Hairy Who? is on view to November 24 at
exhibition at the Hyde Park 307 Old Main Street. For infor-
Art Center in 1967 respective- mation, www.cultural-center.org
ly, the works have remained or 508-394-7100.
with the original buyers since.

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