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Alderfer Auction Turns Up The Heat At Summer Auction For The Hellyer Collection Paul Cadmus Painting Sells For $30,000 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 • VOL. 49, NO. 38
“Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor” Opens At The Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition Presents The First Major Retrospective Of An Artist Born Into Slavery
As the temperatures were rising, so where the prices at Alderfer Auction’s sale on Aug. 23, with the top lot soaring to $30,000. The 1956 signed painting by Paul Cadmus, “Male Nude TS12,” was a highlight of the single-owner Hellyer collection auction. James “Jay” Hellyer Jr. of Wyndmoor, Pa., was the founder of Hellyer Lewis Inc., an architectural and interior design firm in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Rittenhouse Club and Franklin Inn Club, as well as an avid gardener who kept an impressive English garden on his grounds. Hellyer was a bibliophile and a supporter of the Pennsylvania SPCA. The 320-lot catalog sale featured paintings from various artists and collections including books, decorative arts, sterling, clocks, decorative furnishings and fine art.
This painting by David Adel sold for $8,400.
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A Martin Schreiner, Lancaster, Pa., walnut tall-case clock (detail of hood) realized $10,200. Among the larger groupings included over 80 tall case and mantle clocks, which attracted a global audience. Alderfer reported a record number of both phone and absentee bids. American, English and French timepieces such as an 1810 French Allegorical seated figure bronze mantel clock (lot 49) sold for $6,600. An 1800 French Hercules fighting the Nemean Lion mantel clock (lot 119) went for $6,300, and a Martin Schreiner, Lancaster, Pa., Continued on page 3
“God Bless America” (And Irving Berlin) on page 12
Pierre Auguste Renoir Painting To Take Center Stage At Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers on page 14
Bill Traylor’s “Untitled” (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog), from July 1939, is a colored pencil-on-paperboard, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen endowment, photo by Gene Young. Bill Traylor (ca. 1853–1949) is among the most important American artists of the 20th century. Born in antebellum Alabama, Traylor was an eyewitness to history, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration and the steady rise of African-American urban culture in the South. In the late 1930s, a decade after leaving plantation life and moving to the city of Montgomery, Ala., Traylor took up pencil and paintbrush and created a visual autobiography,
Bill Traylor’s “Untitled” (Basket, Man, and Owl) is a ca. 1939 colored pencil-on-cardboard, from the collection of Victor F. Keen, image courtesy of Bethany Mission Gallery, Philadelphia. images on discarded cardboard extracted from his memories and experiences. When he died in 1949, Traylor left behind more than 1,000 works of art, the only known person born enslaved, and entirely selftaught, to create an extensive body of graphic artworks. “Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor” brings together 155 drawings and paintings to provide the most encompassing and in-depth study of the artist to date. This major retrospective is drawn from public and private collections across the country and abroad and Continued on page 2
Bill Traylor’s “Blacksmith Shop” is a ca. 1939-40 pencil-on-cardboard, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Eugenia and Charles Shannon, image copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, image source: Art Resource, N.Y.
Winterthur Publishes New Book About Newport Clockmakers Volume Is An Important Contribution To The History Of Rhode Island Craftsmanship Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is pleased to announce the publication of “Claggett: Newport’s Illustrious Clockmakers,” the newest classic by curator emeritus Don Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, with an introduction by curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at MFA, Boston, Dennis Carr. Published by Winterthur and distributed by Yale University Press, the volume presents an in-depth study of 18th-century clockmakers William Claggett, James Wady, and Thomas Claggett, addressing their lives, their trade, and life in Newport. It is an important contribution to the history of masterful craftsmanship in Rhode Island. The book will accompany exhibitions on Claggett opening in December 2018 at the Newport Historical Society and Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
I.M. Chait’s Auction Highlights Confirm Quality on page 16
Dutch Golden Age Of Rembrandt, Hals, And Vermeer To Be Highlighted In Exhibition on page 18
“Claggett: Newport’s Illustrious Clockmakers,” hardback, 268 pages, 321 color illustrations, is $65. Purchases made at the Winterthur Bookstore benefit the museum. Readers can visit the bookstore online at www.winterthurstore.com or call 800-448-3883, ext. 4741, to order.
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 6 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 8 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8
FEATURED AUCTION: Swann Auction Galleries - September 27 in New York, N.Y. - Page 4
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 10 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19