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“Nostalgia Illustrated: N. C. Wyeth, Advertising And American Cultural History” Lecture At Brandywine River Museum Of Art Will Be Held Sept. 12 FRIDAY AUGUST 16, 2019 • VOL. 50, NO. 33
The 46th Annual Zoar Harvest Festival And Antiques Show Show Draws Nearly 2,000 People: A Lot Of Business Done By Karl Pass Zoar is a small historic town in Tuscarawas County, Ohio (east-central part of state), founded in 1817 by roughly 200 immigrants fleeing religious oppression from the Germanic region/kingdom of Wurttemberg, where they disagreed with the state-sponsored Who doesn’t like an antiques show in a cornfield? The horse Lutheran church. They was $125; the table, also $125; and the corn sign, $140 (upper sought to create a right), from Lancaster, Pa., dealer Francis Crespo. utopian village in America. Quakers in both Great Festival, started 46 years ago. Today, the festival includes a Britian and Philadelphia financed large outdoor antiques show (60 the group. They were known as the Society dealers) and an artisans show (30 of Separatists of Zoar. The Biblical artisans). This year, it was held July meaning of Zoar refers to “place of 27 and 28. There are also crafters refuge.” An early economic boon to and vendors throughout the village, the community was the Ohio and along with other activities such as Erie Canal. The Zoarites had many horse-drawn wagon rides, a small cottage industries along with pros- antique car show, sheep dog perous flour and wool milling busi- demos, baking demos, and chilnesses. Furniture made by the dren’s activities. The big draw is the Separatists (primarily ca. 1830-60) antiques show, managed by Steve has a healthy market today and is Sherhag, and the separate artisans show that is run by Early American not just locally collected. The community began to Life magazine. The antiques show is decline in the early 1850s and dis- about double the size and is set up banded at the very end the 19th under two massive tents in a field century. Today, there is an active located next to the Zoar UCC Continued on page 6 community association dedicated to preserving the town. They put on events throughout the year and take care of 12 historic buildings. The group’s big event, the Harvest
Steve Sherhag of Canfield, Ohio, successfully manages the Zoar Antiques Show.
Jack Adamson II asked $5,500 for the rare and original Zoar wardrobe. It sold. The fulllength lower drawer is a desirable and unusual feature on these ca. 1830-35 wardrobes. “It is as original as original gets,” proclaimed Adamson, the son of the late Jack Adamson. Jack Sr. authored several books on Zoar history and was a well-known dealer in town.
Douglas B. Dowd, professor of Art and American Culture Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and director of the university’s Modern Graphic History Library, will discuss N. C. Wyeth’s commercial images and how the artist situated American consumers in a golden past to meet the needs of a nascent, modern advertising business on Thursday, Sept. 12 The lecture will be held at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pa. The museum will open at 5:30 p.m., with the program at 6 p.m. A reception will follow. The cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Professor Dowd received his B.A. in history from Kenyon College and an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work as a Continued on page 2
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N. C. Wyeth’s “On the October Trail (A Navajo family),” from 1907, is an oil-on-canvas, 41.75-by-29.25 inches, at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, museum purchase, 1983.
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Temple On A Rock Sparkles At Skinner Sale
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers Sells Painting To Help Resale Shop/Charities on page 4
Vase And Cover Goes To The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, For $61,500 Skinner held an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts with ceramics and fine silver in Boston, Mass., on July 13. The sale saw active participation from bidders in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia competing for items online, by telephone, in the room, and via online platforms. This Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre Temple on a Rock vase and cover sold for $61,500, going to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The vase and cover from England, ca. 1920, shape 2046, pattern Z4968, with printed mark, is 19.25 inches high. Wedgwood ceramics ruled the day, comprising seven of the top ten achieving lots. The highest-priced Wedgwood piece was a Fairyland Lustre Temple on a Rock vase and cover, which sold to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for $61,500. A John Northwood model of a Portland vase reached $18,450 to a private buyer in Australia. Many of the Wedgwood lots in the auction were from the Spak Collection of Wedgwood, with
the sale proceeds going to Florida International University. Items fresh to the market and with interesting provenance fared well, with many institutional deaccessions selling well beyond pre-auction estimate. A Japonisme gilt and silvered bronze figural gueridon sold for $23,370, attributed to Eugene Cornu and cast by G. Viot & Cie., the wonderfully modeled stand with shaped inset onyx supported by a phoenix bird, garnered heavy telephone competition from the U.S. and abroad. Another institutional deaccession, an elaborately decorated Japanned Cabinet on Stand realized $14,760. A seven-piece Tiffany & Co. Sterling silver tea and coffee service sold for $8,610. Other silver highlights included an extensive Gorham “Paris” Pattern Sterling silver flatware service that sold for $6,765; a group of Shreve & Co. Sterling silver tableware that sold for $5,228; and a Victorian Sterling silver flatware service that brought $4,305. To learn more, readers may visit www.skinnerinc.com.
Pre-Columbian Gold Drives American Indian And Tribal Art Auction on page 5
The Career, Research And Collection Of Frederick H. Norton on page 11
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 7 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 8 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8
FEATURED AUCTION: Cordier Auctions And Appraisals - August 17 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - Page 2
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 15