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

Historic Rock Ford – A Special Exhibit in the Snyder Gallery
June 1 – October 30, 2022
881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, PA 17602
www.HistoricRockFord.org
717-392-7223

The Circa 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion and the John J. Snyder, Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative Arts
Long Rifles of the American Revolution: How Lancaster County Craftsmen Helped Win the War
Over 35 Long Rifles and Other National Treasures

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

Hess Fine Auctions – Last Days of Summer Fine Jewelry, Wrist & Pocket Watch Auction
Bid now! Lots end August 20 starting at 11 am
www.hessfineart.com
customerservice@hessfineart.com
1-800-922-4377

Featuring Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Rolex, Omega, Patek Philipe & the Iconic Buckeye Pocket Watch Collection. A multi-generational collaboration featuring some of the finest examples of pocket watches from the 18th to 19th Century.

Madison-Bouckville Promotions – Antique Week
August 15-21
Route 20, Bouckville, NY
Madison-Bouckville.com

BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. — Madison Bouckville Antiques Weekend celebrates its 50th year this summer with its June and August shows. Begun by Jock Hengst with one field on one weekend in 1971, all to build business for the historic Landmark Tavern at the Route 20 crossroads, in its first year it drew about 40 dealers on one field. The weekend was so successful that in little more than five years the big field was approaching 1,000 exhibitors and there began a series of satellite fields. In the last year before the Covid-19 pandemic there were more than 14 distinct fields crowding into this small area, between Syracuse and Hamilton, N.Y. Due to the lost Covid summers, 2022 marks the 50th year.

Over the years names have changed, owners have retired and sold to fresh show managers, but the fields continue to be one of the premier opportunities for finding great early American antiques. Among the larger fields, Cider House Antiques has been adding several features since taken over by Jim and Ruth Dutcher a decade ago, including free parking, a large campground and food service.

Out Front Show is across the road, and is among the markets with a permanent building onsite, giving weather protection for the exhibitors. East Expo is only two booths deep from the street but it stretches about a quarter mile long with several multi-dealer tents.

Allan and Rachel Buyce bought Quaker Acres West in late winter this year with plans for at least 150 exhibitors and parking in the rear. In total, there are 14 show fields all with free admission but some do charge for parking. Typically, there are 2,000 dealers exhibiting for the market week in August and just a little less in June.

Specific show days are Friday through Sunday, June 3-5, and August 15-21. The day prior to each listed show date is a setup day for the dealers, with some fields allowing shoppers to visit. Hotels for visitors and dealers are the chains in Utica and Syracuse as well as several in the nearby college town, Hamilton. This country crossroads is about 25 miles south of Syracuse and Southwest of Utica.

For information for the show fields, visit www.madison-bouckville.com with links to the individual show promoters.

NEW YORK’S LARGEST ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

Glass Works Auctions presents Premier Catalog Auction #159
Opens for bidding August 15th – Closing August 22nd & 23rd, 2022
P.O. Box 180, East Greenville, PA 18041
www.glassworksauctions.com
info@glswrk-auction.com
215-679-5849

A ‘Premier Auction’ of over 275 choice selections, many from prominent collections.

Schultz 3-Day Antique Auction
August 18, 19, & 20 at 10 am
11177 Main Street Clarence, NY
www.Schultzauctioneers.net
716-407-3125

Selling Over 1800 Lots at No Reserve of Jewelry, Artwork, Sterling, Coins, Watches, Lamps, Furniture, Oriental Rugs, Porcelain, Pottery, Stamps, Decoys, Vintage Clothing & Hats, Large Group of Quality Linens, Postcard Collection, Musical Instruments, Breweriana, Baseball Memorabilia & Sports Cards, Antique Toys, Trains, Native American Items, Steinway & Chickering Pianos, Victorian Leaded Glass Window, Items from the Strong Museum & Genesee Country Museum, and Much More!
Large Collection of Quality Jewelry & Costume Jewelry
Antique Toys, Cast Iron Toys, Trains
Artwork including Paintings by Claire Shuttleworth, Charles Burchfield, Carl Illig, Early Prints, & More
Pairpoint Lamps
Collection of Guns including WWII Japanese Nambu, Mauser HSC
With Paperwork
Large Group of Oriental Rugs

Cider House Antique Show
June 3-5 & August 15-21
6769 State Route 20 Bouckville, NY
315-825-8477