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Keystone Auctions To Present Fine Antiques And Art Sale On Oct. 29 FRIDAY OCTOBER 28, 2016 • VOL. 47, NO. 44

“Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City”

Keystone Auctions LLC will present its Quarterly Fine Antiques and Art Auction on Saturday, Oct. 29, beginning at 9 a.m. The auction will be held at its gallery, located at 218 E. Market St., in York, Pa. Preview times will be Friday, Oct. 28, from noon to 6 p.m. and at 8 a.m. the day of auction when doors open. This sale will boast nearly 600 lots, with highlights such as a rare

Civil War Chinese Export bowl presented to Confederate Captain William G. Welch commanding the Gano’s Guards, 29th Texas Cavalry, estimated at $1,500-$3,000. A George IV Sterling silver Love/Trophy cup and cover by Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard will hold an estimate of $4,000$8,000. Also, a signed Tiffany

“End of the Parade, Coatesville, Pa.,” 1920, by Charles Demuth (1883-1935) is a tempera and pencil-on-board in the collection of Deborah and Ed Shein.

“The Drowning,” 1936, by N.C.Wyeth (18821945) is an oil-on-canvas at the Brandywine River Museum of Art. It was a bequest of Carolyn Wyeth, 1996. exhibition, I sought to connect the mainstream American modernists with both their well-known counterparts in American Regionalism and other artists of the period deserving of attention. Through the conceptual framework of ‘rural modernism,’ a new paradigm for investigating the modernization of American art is offered,” said the exhibition’s curator Amanda C. Burdan. Included are artists such as Marsden Hartley and N.C. Wyeth, working in Maine, and Horace Pippin and Charles Demuth, working in Pennsylvania. Each Continued on page 2

“Spring Turning,” 1946, is an oil-on-canvas by Dale Nichols (1904-95) from a private collection. Image courtesy of Joan Nichols Lenhart.

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Hunting Knife Presented To President Theodore Roosevelt Sells For $414,000

Keystone Auctions is located at 218 E. Market St. in downtown York, Pa., across the street from First Presbyterian Church.

This Chinese Export bowl was presented to Confederate captain William G. Welch, who commanded the Gano’s Guards with the 29th Texas cavalry. It is estimated at $1,500$3,000.

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New Exhibition At Brandywine River Museum Of Art To Open Oct. 29 “Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City,” a major new exhibition opening at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, will provide an innovative view of avant-garde art from the 1920s through the 1940s, exploring the surprising contribution of artists working outside major urban centers in the expansion and acceptance of modernist styles in the United States. Modernism spread outward from New York, Boston, and Chicago-the first points of contact-to coastal New England, small-town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms, and other rural regions. On view from Saturday, Oct. 29, through Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, the exhibition will feature more than 60 works by iconic artists such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Grant Wood, along with Ralston Crawford, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, N.C. Wyeth, and Andrew Wyeth. These stunning paintings are drawn from renowned private and museum collections such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. “In selecting the works for this

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This George IV Sterling silver love cup and cover trophy by Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard engraved, “Presented to George Dewey Montagu Esq. by his friends and neighbors in token of their appreciation of the unwearied exertions of his sportsmanlike abilities displayed in him in hunting the south berks hounds from the year 1846 to 1850,” will be estimated at $4,000-$8,000.

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Curator Karl Kusserow To Discuss The Legacy Of American Portraiture Lecture Will Be Held At Rago On Nov. 1 Karl Kusserow is an author, lecturer and curator who has spent much of his career studying the meaning and influence of portraits in American culture. On Tuesday, Nov. 1, Kusserow will speak at Rago Arts and Auction Center on the history of American portraiture. Karl Kusserow joined the Princeton University Art Museum in 2005 and was appointed its inaugural John Wilmerding Curator of American Art in 2013. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his doctorate from Yale University and has worked at the Yale Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as art advisor to several major corporate collections. His exhibitions and related publications include “Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton’s Faculty Room at Nassau Hall” (2010) and “Picturing Power: Portraiture and its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce” (2013), both of which explored the changing uses and meanings of institutional portraiture and the dilemma of portraying portraits of power in a democracy. Kusserow’s lecture, titled “Pride

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New Exhibit At Colonial Williamsburg Explores German Toys In America of Place: Self and Surroundings in Early American Portraits,” will explore how portrait settings of the early 18th through the mid-19th centuries reflect Americans’ changing relationship to nature. A wine and cheese reception will begin at 5 p.m. Kusserow’s talk begins at 6 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to make reservations to the open house. For more information, call 609-397-9374.

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In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 8 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8

FEATURED AUCTION: Morphy Auctions - October 29 in Denver, Pennsylvania - Page 9

AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 12 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19


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