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Tel 860-342-2540 1964 – 1967 Original XKE Jaguar Convertible Not a Show Car 508-896-8705 [email protected] Wanted to Purchase WANTED Highest Prices Paid for: lobby cards, 1 sheet, 3 sheets, window cards, glass slides 773-525-9152 email: [email protected] MOVIE POSTERS 207-967-3218 [email protected] WANTED LEROY NEIMAN BUY/SELL 1-800-888-1063 [email protected] 1-860-693-0532 [email protected] Marine Paintings by John Wells Stancliff (1814-1891) WANTED BY COLLECTOR MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Amongst the outstanding items in the respected Arthur and Sybil Kern collection, which was included in the first day offer- ings of Skinner’s two-day Amer- icana sale August 12–13, was a mid-Eighteenth Century overm- antel with leaping stags in a landscape. It is a well-known example, having been removed from a Framingham, Mass., house in 1840 and illustrated and discussed in Nina Fletcher Little’s American Decorative Wall Painting 1700–1850 and also included in the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art exhibition of wall paintings in 1952–53. It sold for $67,650, more than twice its estimate, in a strong sale. Other works that finished well above estimate included a colorful fireboard that brought $55,350 and a pair of portraits by Rufus Hathaway, which took $39,975. A full report will follow. Overmantel With Leaping Stags Brings $67,650 To Lead Skinner’s First Day NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — The book O’er the Wide and Tractless Sea: Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt by Michael P. Dyer, curator of mar- itime history for the New Bed- ford Whaling Museum, is one of three books that has been shortlisted for the Alice Award, presented by Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The book receiving the Alice will be named on October 8. Furthermore received more than 100 submissions for the 2018 Alice Award, including books that have received fund- ing from Furthermore and are automatically considered for the award. The shortlisted books are geographically diverse, and all three have been recognized for focusing atten- tion on subjects that are cultur- ally significant in their various fields and not considered of broad general interest by main- stream publishers. In order to be considered for the award, books must be well-made, illus- trated books that afford a spe- cial sense of intimacy. This year marks the sixth year of the Alice Award, and $25,000 will be given to the winner, while $5,000 will go to each of the other finalists. The other two finalists include Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay, published by Radius Books in Santa Fe, N.M., and Visual Voyages: Images of Latin Ameri- can Nature from Columbus to Darwin, published by Yale Uni- versity Press. Dyer’s book highlights unique artworks that capture the essence of whaling and its cul- ture. The dangerous pursuit of whales has been justly studied and chronicled, but many writ- ers have overlooked a signifi- cant cultural aspect of multi- year voyages wherein day-to-day events were pictori- ally recorded. Buried deep with- in the logbooks, journals and manuscripts of America’s whal- ing heritage are paintings, drawings and representations of the whale hunt rarely, if ever, seen by the public. This compre- hensive examination of whale- men’s art will be the standard reference text for years to come. The New Bedford Whaling Museum is at 18 Johnny Cake Hill. For more information, www.whalingmuseum.org or 508-717-6840. Whaling Museum Curator’s Book Shortlisted For Alice Award To Place An Ad Call 203-426-8036 Subscribe Today CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago presents an exhibition of American portraitist John Singer Sargent, with a focus on his numerous Chicago connections, through Sep- tember 30. Featuring nearly 100 objects from the Art Institute’s collection, private collec- tions and public institutions, “John Singer Sar- gent and Chicago’s Gilded Age” examines Sar- gent’s breadth of artistic practice and the network of associations among the artist, his patrons, his creative circle and the city. Through the lens of Sargent’s work, the exhibi- tion explores the cultural ambitions of Chica- goans to shape the city into a center of art, the development of an international profile for American artists and the interplay of tradi- tionalism and modernism at the turn of the Twentieth Century. John Singer Sargent was the most sought- after portraitist of his generation, creating powerful, striking likenesses of his sitters. Although he is best-known for his portraits, Sargent excelled in a variety of genres and media, including landscapes, watercolors and murals. This exhibition presents the full range of Sargent’s talents, surveying his touchpoints to Chicago while also illuminating the city’s vibrant art scene. Sargent first showed at the Art Institute — at the time located at Michi- gan Avenue and Van Buren Street — in 1890, the year Chicago officially became the nation’s “second city” in terms of population. In the late Nineteenth Century, Chicago lead- ers endeavored to advance the city’s cultural profile to match its already prominent reputa- tion as a center of industry and transportation. Exhibition curator Annelise K. Madsen, Gilda and Henry Buchbinder assistant curator of American Art, describes this study of Chicago through the lens of Sargent: “The Midwest is perhaps an unexpected point of departure for an examination of this thoroughly cosmopoli- tan painter who made his career in Europe, attracted a transatlantic set of patrons and cultivated professional ties primarily on the East Coast. Yet Sargent was indeed a fascinat- ing player in the cultural history of Chicago at the turn of the Twentieth Century. This exhibi- tion presents the scope of Sargent’s talents while also recounting the integral narratives of local collectors, exhibitions and institutions that are part of the artworks’ own histories.” Between 1888 and 1925, Sargent’s paintings were included in more than 20 public displays in the city, among them the Inter-State Indus- trial Exposition, the World’s Columbian Expo- sition and exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chi- cago. The artist’s Chicago story owes much to local businessman Charles Deering, who built an important collection of his works over a life- time of friendship. The Art Institute of Chicago is at 111 South Michigan Avenue. For information, 3120-443- 3363 or www.artic.org. John Singer Sargent And Chicago’s Gilded Age “Portrait of Charles Deering” by John Sing- er Sargent, 1917, the Art Institute of Chica- go, anonymous loan.
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Also, Accepting Consignmentsw/ Generous Cash Advances
631-244-0077 • [email protected]
BuyingComicBooks
I BUY BOOKS
ANDPHOTOS
NY, NJ, CONN.email:
[email protected] call: 845 987-0443
No hassle: I come to you, make best possible offer.
WANTEDAntiques of all kinds. Will buy for cash or will sell on consignment –
no lot too large or too small.
B & S Auction ServiceThomas Barrows
P.O. Box 141Portland, Conn.Tel 860-342-2540
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MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Amongst the outstanding items in the respected Arthur and Sybil Kern collection, which was included in the first day offer-ings of Skinner’s two-day Amer-icana sale August 12–13, was a mid-Eighteenth Century overm-antel with leaping stags in a
landscape. It is a well-known example, having been removed from a Framingham, Mass., house in 1840 and illustrated and discussed in Nina Fletcher Little’s American Decorative Wall Painting 1700–1850 and also included in the Metropoli-tan Museum of Art exhibition of
wall paintings in 1952–53. It sold for $67,650, more than twice its estimate, in a strong sale. Other works that finished well above estimate included a colorful fireboard that brought $55,350 and a pair of portraits by Rufus Hathaway, which took $39,975. A full report will follow.
Overmantel With Leaping Stags Brings $67,650 To Lead Skinner’s First Day
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — The book O’er the Wide and Tractless Sea: Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt by Michael P. Dyer, curator of mar-itime history for the New Bed-ford Whaling Museum, is one of three books that has been shortlisted for the Alice Award, presented by Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. The book receiving the Alice will be named on October 8.
Furthermore received more than 100 submissions for the 2018 Alice Award, including books that have received fund-ing from Furthermore and are automatically considered for the award. The shortlisted books are geographically diverse, and all three have been recognized for focusing atten-
tion on subjects that are cultur-ally significant in their various fields and not considered of broad general interest by main-stream publishers. In order to be considered for the award, books must be well-made, illus-trated books that afford a spe-cial sense of intimacy.
This year marks the sixth year of the Alice Award, and $25,000 will be given to the winner, while $5,000 will go to each of the other finalists. The other two finalists include Debi Cornwall: Welcome to Camp America, Inside Guantánamo Bay, published by Radius Books in Santa Fe, N.M., and Visual Voyages: Images of Latin Ameri-can Nature from Columbus to Darwin, published by Yale Uni-versity Press.
Dyer’s book highlights unique
artworks that capture the essence of whaling and its cul-ture. The dangerous pursuit of whales has been justly studied and chronicled, but many writ-ers have overlooked a signifi-cant cultural aspect of multi-year voyages wherein day-to-day events were pictori-ally recorded. Buried deep with-in the logbooks, journals and manuscripts of America’s whal-ing heritage are paintings, drawings and representations of the whale hunt rarely, if ever, seen by the public. This compre-hensive examination of whale-men’s art will be the standard reference text for years to come.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is at 18 Johnny Cake Hill. For more information, www.whalingmuseum.org or 508-717-6840.
Whaling Museum Curator’s Book Shortlisted For Alice Award
To Place An AdCall 203-426-8036
Subscribe Today
CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago presents an exhibition of American portraitist John Singer Sargent, with a focus on his numerous Chicago connections, through Sep-tember 30. Featuring nearly 100 objects from the Art Institute’s collection, private collec-tions and public institutions, “John Singer Sar-gent and Chicago’s Gilded Age” examines Sar-gent’s breadth of artistic practice and the network of associations among the artist, his patrons, his creative circle and the city. Through the lens of Sargent’s work, the exhibi-tion explores the cultural ambitions of Chica-goans to shape the city into a center of art, the development of an international profile for American artists and the interplay of tradi-tionalism and modernism at the turn of the Twentieth Century.
John Singer Sargent was the most sought-after portraitist of his generation, creating powerful, striking likenesses of his sitters. Although he is best-known for his portraits, Sargent excelled in a variety of genres and media, including landscapes, watercolors and murals. This exhibition presents the full range of Sargent’s talents, surveying his touchpoints to Chicago while also illuminating the city’s vibrant art scene. Sargent first showed at the Art Institute — at the time located at Michi-gan Avenue and Van Buren Street — in 1890, the year Chicago officially became the nation’s “second city” in terms of population.
In the late Nineteenth Century, Chicago lead-ers endeavored to advance the city’s cultural profile to match its already prominent reputa-tion as a center of industry and transportation. Exhibition curator Annelise K. Madsen, Gilda and Henry Buchbinder assistant curator of American Art, describes this study of Chicago through the lens of Sargent: “The Midwest is perhaps an unexpected point of departure for an examination of this thoroughly cosmopoli-tan painter who made his career in Europe, attracted a transatlantic set of patrons and cultivated professional ties primarily on the East Coast. Yet Sargent was indeed a fascinat-ing player in the cultural history of Chicago at the turn of the Twentieth Century. This exhibi-
tion presents the scope of Sargent’s talents while also recounting the integral narratives of local collectors, exhibitions and institutions that are part of the artworks’ own histories.”
Between 1888 and 1925, Sargent’s paintings were included in more than 20 public displays in the city, among them the Inter-State Indus-trial Exposition, the World’s Columbian Expo-sition and exhibitions at the Arts Club of Chi-cago. The artist’s Chicago story owes much to local businessman Charles Deering, who built an important collection of his works over a life-time of friendship.
The Art Institute of Chicago is at 111 South Michigan Avenue. For information, 3120-443-3363 or www.artic.org.
John Singer Sargent AndChicago’s Gilded Age
“Portrait of Charles Deering” by John Sing-er Sargent, 1917, the Art Institute of Chica-go, anonymous loan.
