The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum Exhibition Making It Last: Sustainable Fashion in Victorian America
May 19 – November 6, 2022
295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT
www.LockwoodMathewsMansion.com

Florence Griswold Museum Presents Dana Sherwood:
Animal Appetites and other Encounters in Wildness
May 21 – September 18
96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut
FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org

860.434.5542
Dana Sherwood, The Confectionery Lives of Artists and Other Organisms, 2021.
Resin, clay, glass bell jars with snails, natural material, and cake.
Courtesy of the artist and Denny Dimin Gallery, New York.
Photograph by Paul Mutino

Wolfs Gallery – Richard Andres Selected Works 1950 – 1975
June 09 – August 20
wolfsgallery.com

CLEVELAND, OHIO — Wolfs will present the exhibition and sale “Richard Andres: Selected Works 1950-1975,” featuring the early works of American abstract expressionist Richard Andres (1927-2013). The show will be on view June 9-August 20.

Richard Andres was an odd combination of an artistic hermit and a figure on top of the latest developments on the contemporary scene. After studying at the Cleveland Institute of Art on a National Scholastic scholarship, Andres immersed himself in painting, spending off-hours at the Cleveland Museum, focusing on artists such as Van Gogh and Matisse. When asked to describe his art, Andres struggled. “It’s hard to describe art. Art is something that’s there, to look at. So, words are very difficult. Essentially, the closest I can come is to say I’m a 1950s painter. The ‘50s was sort of an attitude toward art. It was going to be big. It was going to be strong. This great big group of painters had this attitude toward painting and it’s hard to pin it down because each painter was different. It really is a style that’s hard to define but the term ‘abstract expressionism’ is often used.”

According to 60’s critic Helen Borsick, “Technically, his paintings are abstractions, but that is only part of the story. Andres’ complex style of composition — strong in design and drawing — involves compartmentalizing the canvas with favorite signs, figurative allusions and symbols. Any degree of familiarity with his canvases develops recognition of his painting language and repeated forms as well as of the endless nuances of color tints and overpaint and underpainting methods.”

Some of Andres’ inspiration came from other artists, once stating that Edward Munch, Emile Nolde and Max Beckmann ranked within his top ten most admired painters. While often being his own worst critic, Andres grew content and more relaxed later in life, saying, “For years, I’d do a painting and say, ‘But it’s not good enough. You try to achieve something and you overachieve it but it’s still not good enough. I finally did a painting and looked at it and said, That is good enough.’ From that point on, the older paintings got better in my own mind.”

While with his finger always on the pulse of his more famous contemporaries, Andres was content to simply produce, preferring to avoid the limelight.

Director Michael Wolf of Wolfs describes his discovery of this trove of “masterful abstraction expressionist works” as “a rare and wondrous event,” and comments that it evokes “the heady times of the midcentury American art world.”

A fully illustrated catalog with more than 50 works, including an essay by Dr Henry Adams accompanies the exhibition and can be purchased for $20 post-paid.

For additional information, www.wolfsgallery.com or 216-721-6945.

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) L.S.F., acrylic on canvas, 48.5 x 70 inches

McMurray Antiques & Auctions Catalogued Auction #78
Closing July 23 at 10 pm
www.mcmurrayauctions.com
mcmurrayauctions@aol.com
607-775-5972

Patent Medicines, Pills, Tins, Apothecary/Drugstore and Advertising items. Featuring many items from the Extensive Jerry Phelps Collection!
Labeled Patent Medicines: Warner’s = Safe Rheumatic Cure, Safe Cure and Small Size Log Cabin Extract. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, Rheumatic Remedy and Cough Syrup. Dr. Miles Heart Treatment and a Grand Dispensary Special Personal Treatment. Yager’s Sarsaparilla, 2 Different sizes = Radium-Radia, Wheeler’s Nerve Vitalixer, Dr. Kline’s Epileptic Remedy, Papillon Cough Cure, Rhodes’ Fever & Ague Cure, Quaker Oil of Balm, Kickapoo Cough Syrup and Kickapoo Oil, Life Plant, R.S. Co. Rheumatic Syrup, Constitution Life Syrup, Dr. Lyon’s Cough & Croup Syrup, Unusual, Mother Putnam’s Blackberry Cordial. Labeled Bitters: Peychaud’s, Hostetter’s, Prickley Ash, Poor Man’s, Aimar’s Sarracenia Bitters. Many of the above with Original Boxes Also!!!
Part 2 of a Dr. Kilmer Collection Featuring Bottles, Paper & Advertising: Early, Indian Cough-Cure Consumption Oil = Double Ring Neck with Embossing on 3 Sides, Rare, 4 3⁄4” Small Size Indian Cough-Cure Consumption Oil, Medium Size, Dr. T.J Kilmer’s Special Remedies from Schoharie, NY. Labeled Examples (Some With Boxes): Large Size (Embossed Heart) Ocean-Weed Heart Remedy, 7” tall Dr. Kilmer’s Ocean-Weed Remedy and a Tonic Compound, 7” tall Dr. Kilmer’s Cough Syrup, and 2 Sizes Cough Medicines, Female Remedy, 2 Sizes Swamp-Roots, Dr. Kilmer’s Herbal Extract for Vaginal Injection, Autumn Leaf Ext. for Uterine Injection, 2 Sizes = U&O Anointments With Boxes, U&O Anointment Sample Tin, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root Pencil, Complete set of Dr. Kilmer Almanacs from 1906 Thru 1943 etc…
Also, Check the Advertising Section for 2 Different Dr. Kilmer Advertising Signs!! Tins: Jayne’s Expectorant Tablets W/Opium, Make Man Tablets, Mosco’s Catarrh
Cure, Parke, Davis & Co. Hypodermic Tablets tin, Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder, Dr. Hobson’s Arnica Salve and Itch Ointment, Dr. Pierce’s Lotion Tablets and Suppositories. Group Lots etc…
Tooth Powders: Rare, Burwall Tooth Powder tin, Kal-Pheno Tooth Powder, Painless Parker, Unusual Pylora tin, Colgate’s Dental Powder, Hovey’s Dental Polish etc…
Pills: Dr. Kilmer’s Purilla Pills, Morrow’s Ked-Ne-Oids, Dr. Miles’ Little Pills, Dr. Fenner’s Blood & Liver Pellets, Dr. Ross’ Life Pills, Kickapoo Pills. Wood Pill Ovals = Herrick’s, Wright’s, Dr. Morse’s, Schenck’s. Dr. Shoop’s = Restorative Nerve Pills, Catarrh Remedy and Green Salve. Munyon’s & Humphreys Homeopathic Medicines, Group Lots etc…
Apothecary: Large Size, Advertising Rx Ceramic Mortar & Pestle Counter Display. Label Under Glass Jars in Amber, Green and Cobalt Blue! Nice, Early Amethyst Drug Jar, Blue Porcelain Ointment Jar, Wooden Pill Silverer, Nice Selection of labeled Poison Bottles, Arthur Suppository Machine, Lg. Size Tin Merck Inverted Jar, Complete Smiths Homeopathic Medicines Case, Brooklyn Glass Works Nipple Shield W/box and more!!
Veterinary: Labeled Bottles = Champion Colic Cure, Bavarian Horse Liniment, Pratt’s Distemper and Pink Eye Cure, Glover’s Eye Lotion, Clayton’s Diarrhoea Tablets. Sealed Packages: B.A Thomas’ Improved Poultry Remedy, Lg. Size Dr. LeGear’s Hog Prescription, Dr. LeGear’s Stock Powders and Poultry Worm Powder, Peoples Poultry Remedy, Salvet Poultry Tonic, The Mexican Condition Powder, Pratt’s Heave, Cough and Cold Remedy. Soule’s Veterinary Ointment tin etc… Nice, Dr. A.C Daniels’ Wonder Worker Healing Lotion Sign, Dr. Claris’ Mange Remedy Broadside and more!!!!
Books: 1886 Peter VanSchaack & Sons Catalog, Max Wocher & Sons Veterinary Instrument, Medicines, and Turf Goods Catalog.
Advertising: Signs: 28” x 42” Large Poster Size Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, Tin Litho = Warner’s Safe Yeast & Log Cabin Sarsaparilla signs. Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant Poster Picturing Andrew Jackson, Dr. Dana’s Sarsaparilla, Dr. Haynes’ Arabian Balsam, Tin Litho Kennedy’s Medical Discovery in Original Frame!! 2 Different = Tin Litho Lemon Chill Cure signs, Nice, Colorful & Graphic Ingram’s Carbolated Witch Hazel Salve Celluloid Sign, Dr. Kilmer’s = Swamp-Root – Old Friends are Best and a Dr. Kilmer’s Kidney Bladder Diuretic – A Fine Tonic. Dr. Hartshorn’s Bitters, Our Standard Remedy, Lydia Pinkham Advertising items including a Cardboard Thermometer and Hotplate. Rare, Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain- Pills Tin Litho Wall Dispenser. Nice, Stanton’s Household Remedy Advertising Clock. Selection of wood shipping crates and more!!!
For a fully illustrated catalog with color pictures send $15.00 to: McMurray Antiques & Auctions, P.O. Box 393, Kirkwood, N.Y. 13795.

Litchfield County Auction – Summer Antiques Art & Design
July 19-20
LitchfieldCountyAuctions.com
CapsuleAuctions.com

Kodner Galleries
July 20 at 6 pm
45 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach, Florida 33004
www.Kodner.com
954-925-2550

Important 61.0 ct Diamond and Platinum Necklace