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FRIDAY MARCH 11, 2022 • VOL. 52, NO. 10
“Out Of The Heart: The Life And Art Of David Ellinger” Arcadia University Exhibition Is Open Until April 17 Arcadia Exhibitions is pleased to present “Out of the Heart: The Life and Art of David Ellinger.” Featuring a selection of 60 works and related documentation and ephemera, this survey explores the creative production of Pennsylvania native, self-taught artist, and antiques dealer David Y. Ellinger (1913–2003), who helped popularize Pennsylvania German culture in the mid-1900s. Curated by Lisa Minardi, executive director of Historic Trappe, the show was developed in conjunction with “Polly Apfelbaum: For the Love of Una Hale,” a concurrent exhibition of new ceramic works and site-specific wallpapers referencing the influence of Pennsylvania German craft traditions on Apfelbaum’s hybrid sensibility. “Out of the Heart” features nearly two dozen paintings as well as prints, drawings, theorems (paintings on velvet), and examples of fraktur, cut paper, and painted wood (a chest and boxes). The range of media and diversity of approaches—from impressionistic landscapes to interpretations of the more graphic idioms of Pennsylvania German folk art—
demonstrate Ellinger’s evolution as an artist as well as his other career as a successful antiques dealer. Divided into three sections: early life, focusing on Ellinger’s earliest known artworks and his involvement with the Works Progress Administration; farm life, which explores his paintings of Pennsylvania German farmsteads and barns; and home life, delving into Ellinger’s paintings of household interiors, Amish quilts, and flower gardens. Highlights of the exhibition include silkscreen prints made in collaboration with Frances Lichten taken from Ellinger’s experience drawing objects in museum collections during the 1930s while working for the WPA, a sketchbook containing nearly 400 drawings, and wallpaper designs made in 1927 when Ellinger was 14 years old. The exhibit is in the Harrison Gallery, University Commons at Arcadia University until Sunday, April 17. About the Artist A Pennsylvania native and selftaught artist, Ellinger helped popularize Pennsylvania German culture in the mid-20th century. He drew on his personal experience growing up in the vicinity of Trappe, in
One-Day New Oxford Show Set For March 20 The one-day New Oxford Antiques Show and Sale will take place on Sunday, March 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. Early buyer’s can come in at 8 a.m. during set-up for $12. The quality show is held in the heated Social Club Pavilion at 200 W. Golden Lane, New Oxford, Pa. Signs will be posted. There are 35 dealers at the show. For further information, call manager Bob Conrad at 717-250-6899.
Mildred Keyser (1892-1950), Montgomery County, Pa., made Pennsylvania German redware, ca. 1930s and 40s. A selection of Keyser redware will be available at the show.
This is David Ellinger’s “Out of the Heart Comes the Fissure of Life,” from 1943, oil-on-canvas, from the collection of Dr. David Bronstein, photo courtesy Michael E. Myers, Steadfast Imaging. Montgomery County, where he worked on a dairy farm as a teenager. He also incorporated antique furniture, quilts, chalkware, and other objects into his paintings, taken from his experience drawing objects in museum collections during the 1930s while working for the WPA, first as part of the Federal Art
Project and then for the Index of American Design. Ellinger was also an antiques dealer, buying and selling antiques to major collectors such as Albert Barnes, Titus Geesey, and Donald Shelley. He also revived the 19th-century art of theorem painting and made hundreds of Continued on page 2
Advertising Collection And 14 Zook Dioramas To Take Center Stage At PA Auction Center Two-Day Sale Set For March 25 and 26 In East Earl, Pa. PA Auction Center is pleased to announce the dispersal of Richard Graham’s extensive sign and advertising collection. Graham has been an avid collector of advertising memorabilia for many years. This quality sale will be held Friday and Saturday, March 25 and 26. Day Continued on page 7
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . starting on page 2 David Ellinger’s “Garden Path,” ca. 1940s, is an oil-on-canvas, from the collection of Dr. David Bronstein, photo courtesy Michael E. Myers, Steadfast Imaging.
David Ellinger’s “Tobacco Barn or Yellow Barn,” ca. 1945, is an oil-oncanvas, from the Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pa., photo courtesy Michael E. Myers, Steadfast Imaging.
SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 4 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 5 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . starting on page 6 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 6
FEATURED AUCTION: Pook & Pook Coin And Jewelry Sale - March 23 - Page 3
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . .on page 7