The 62nd Annual New Hampshire Antiques Show 2019 SHOW PROGRAM
August 8 - 10, 2019 Thursday & Friday, 10am - 7pm • Saturday, 10am - 4pm DOUBLETREE BY HILTON (formerly Manchester Downtown Hotel) Manchester, NH nhada.org MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, I would like to extend a hearty welcome to our 62nd Annual Show. Our dealers strive hard and save their finest for this show. In addition to seeing us here at the show, you can follow us all year long on our Social Media platforms as well as our website (nhada.org). This year we have a new account on Instagram (instagram.com/nhantiquesdealers) where you can view antiques from our featured dealers. Our organization is entirely composed of volunteers who work tirelessly to present the best of what New Hampshire and the antiques world has to offer. Please take time to scan the brochure and after visiting the show, try to visit some or all of the non- exhibiting members’ shops. Most are located within an easy drive from Manchester and would more than appreciate a visit. Our members’ shops are filled, especially during Antiques Week, with lots lots of merchandise from which to choose. We hope you enjoy the show as much as we all enjoy putting it together. Enjoy your stay in New Hampshire. We thank you for making The New Hampshire Antiques Show what it has evolved to become. Thomas M. Thompson, President New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association
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American, circa 1850 half figure architectural ornament with traces of original paint. Height: 70”
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Published by The Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, Connecticut INDEXES ON PAGES 36 & 37 Newsstand Rate $2.00 artistic. Unlike many of the performers that ome his closest friends, Lautrec was would bec born to a life of great affluence. His parents TOULOUSE-LAUTRECwere the Comte and Comtesse de Toulouse- THE ART OF AND THE STARS OF PARIS Lautrec-Monfa, and “he grew up moving from ikin outhier one château to another,” according to Helen r r skwire t g essica Burnham, the MFA’s curator of prints and By J - drawings, during a recent gallery tour. The AFRICAN S BOSTON — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte and Comtesse were first cousins who has long been known for his graphic depic I may have passed on a genetic disease to their tions of Paris nightlife. The works are - - son: by the time Lautrec was a teenager, he “graphic” in several senses of the word — had broken both of his legs, and his weakened r not only are they masterworks of lithogra bones failed to heal properly. As a result, he BLACKSMITHS - - phy; they also unflinchingly showd Instagram the seam suffered near-constant pain, had an uneven ier side of cafés, brothels and cabarets. gait, and was dramatically shorter — about - o Unlike today’s airbrushed an only four foot eight inches — than the aver mable images of celebrities, in Lautrec’s - age man of the time. world, the stars are — like he himself was Unable to participate in the athletic pur — flawed, eclectic, even downright odd. And suits that would have been common for a yet, in Lautrec’s prints, paintings and draw young man of his class, Lautrec gave himself n - ings — and in the works of several other over to his art — his ability had been noticed - WASHINGTON,By J DC — In one of the many action artists featured in the show — it is not at all and encouraged when he was still a very ames D. B difficult to see the appeal of these subver scenes in the hot new novel byalestrieri Marlon James, young child — and, an observer, also to the taking practice in every of sive characters and to appreciate how their flâneur Leopard, Red Wolf “Orchid and Hummingbirds near a Mountain Lake” by Martin Johnson Heade, about 1875- being a Tracker, finds himself in a library on90. fire, Oil fighting on canvas. Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Photography by Bob Pack- very oddities contributed to their lasting thing that he saw in the visually rich world of , the protagonist, known only as stardom. “Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of alongside a new ally, Mossi, who is ert/Peabodylosing a battleBlack Essex of Museum. Belle Époque France. One of his long-term blades with Mazambezi, one of a cohort of prefects Paris” is on view at the Museum of Fine fascinations was the horses he saw on the Arts (MFA) in Boston through August 4. sent to make sure the scrolls don’t give up their racetracks and the polo grounds. Even though secrets. Tracker jumps between them:SALEM, MASS. — EvenB if they do not know him by name, many The exhibition is a collaborative effort the riders’ faces are obscured in Lautrec’s Americans will recognize Petery Laura S. Lynch as the former television - “Mazambezi swung his sword a hair’s length Beach between the MFA and the Boston Public print “The Jockey,” their taut poses and the spokesman for Fidelity Investments, where he was best known for - from my face, and I caught the blade. It shocked the Library (BPL), a marriage of two enviable clattering, soaring gestures of their horses managing the company’s wildly successful Magellan Fund between collections of Lautrec graphics. The exhibi pulled his sword to cut my fingers but drew no blood. Mazambezi stood there, convey the same sense of movement and stunned. Two swords went straight 1977through and his1990. back In collectingand came circles,out his the belly. wiry Mossi Bostonian with a dis- tion offers a rare opportunity to see so many tinctive shock of white hair has long been admired for the trove of Selections expression that Lautrec brought to his depic yanked his swords back, and the prefect fell. of Lautrec’s famed prints and posters tions of performers. - American paintings andprefect. decorative He arts he gathered over half a together at one time, as well as quite a few - “I would ask how, but do I —” century with his wife, Carolyn, who died in 2015. But such watering holes of the well-heeled “A Sangoma. An enchantment. He would have killed me with a wooden sword,” I from the of his much rarer paintings and drawings. It only had so much allure for Lautrec; it seems The Lynches’ collection and the way they lived with it in their resi said. (James, p. 339) dences in Marblehead, Boston and Scottsdale are the subject of “A also gives visitors the chance to immerse clear from his work that he was not predis Carolyn and themselves in the world of fin-de-siècle - By Laura Beach Black Leopard, Red Wolf Passion for American Art: Selections from the Carolyn and Peter One of the first things the Lynches collected was Chinese posed to a life of remote, dignified nobility. He before contact with Europe, where magical and political powers align and collide. Paris, in all its decadent glamour. Here you - - Lynch Collection.” Selec export porcelain, shown here on shelves in the East Room signaled this early on with paintings like “At In this world, Tracker — an is amalgam set intions an ofalternate fromShaft, the Strider, sub-Saharan trove are and Snape Africa, rolled an Africa into one will find films by the Lumière brothers, pho- - Peter Lynch of their Marblehead Neck house. Top, an enameled hookah the Café de Mie” and “The Hangover,” both of — possesses not one, but three supernatural,publicly on superheroic view for the powers:- he can see and tographs of cabaret performers in costume, , crumb, is slang for base from about 1710; below, a pair of armorial decorated which feature his friendsmie in seamy cafés, pos discern scents over great distances,first and, time because at the of Peabody a gift from a witch, the San bowls made for the Williams and Warcup family; and six corsets and hats and gowns that demon - SANTA FE, N.M. — “There are collections within my collection that reflect my per ing as prostitutes ( goma, he is impervious to iron. Essex Museum (PEM) pieces of underglazed blue porcelain dating from the late strate the era’s taste for extreme silhouettes sonal passions. My favorite is undoubtedly the grouping I call ‘The Ladies.’ These Collection prostitute) or drunkards. Their vacant affects The new exhibition “Striking Iron:through The Art December of African 1. Blacksmiths,” at the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. © Peabody Essex and luxe fabrics, musical instruments, elec hand-built beauties represent a vanishing ceramic tradition of figurative work,” says - - are of a type that Lautrec was “particularly National Museum of Art at the SmithsonianDean Lahikainen, Institute in the Washington, dovetails Museum. Photography by Kathy Tarantola. tric lights, postcards, menus and more. The Judith Espinar, the pottery goddess who is the animating spirit behind the exhibition perfectly with museum’s Carolyn and exhibition is less about Lautrec than it is “A( continued Gathering on ofpage Voices: 30 ) Folk Art from the Judith Espinar and Tom Dillenberg Collec -Lautrec (French, 1864–1901), sub-Saharan culturesBlack Leopard, through Red the ingenuityWolfPeter Lynch and Curator artistry of of African black - about the world of extremes that he inhab tion,” on view at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) through September 8. smiths from prehistory to the presentAmerican day. “Striking Decorative Iron” Art, exemplifies what all ited: the alternately fabulous and debauched “The Ladies” might also be Espinar’s sly nod to her adopted home. From Georgia recalls,, illustrating “The Lynches the hadcrucial role of iron in “Jane Avril” by Henri de Toulouse who learn of Tracker’s gift come to know — though some of them learn it the demimondaines of turn-of-the-century long been involved in the 1899. Lithograph, Albert H. Wiggin Collection. Boston Public O’Keeffe and Mary Cabot Wheelwright to Agnes Martin and Ali MacGraw, northern hard way: to be impervious to iron is to come near to godhood, and to go against Montmartre that were both his adopted - institution. Carolyn joined Library. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. New Mexico has long attracted artistic, independent women who leave their cultural anyone who has this gift is a one-way ticket to the afterlife. family and his favorite artistic subject. PEM’s board of overseers in mark. Espinar — who lives in a low-slung adobe residence styled by the early Twenti If we’re being honest, most of us come1994 to before African becoming art through a Picasso and other- The exhibition begins with a gallery dedi eth Century restoration architect Kate Chapman, across from the former home of early Twentieth Century artists, through works they did that were inspired by cated to Lautrec’s origins, both personal and trustee in 1997. My Leonora F. Curtin, who sponsored Santa Fe’s Native Market when it debuted in 1934 African art. Sometimes that brings association us to the African with them works that these artists admired and collected. But these, for the most part, are works that depict the — is conscious of the lineage. “Corridor #2” by- Lucas Samaras, 1970. Mirrors on wood frame, 7 by 3.063 by 50.281 feet. Denver Art Museum Collection: really began when “A Gathering of Voices” features more than 200 examples of ceramics, woodcarvings, Gift of the artist in honor of Dianne Perry Vanderlip. ©Lucas Samaras. human form in some way: masks, fetishes,PEM asked statues. Carolyn textiles and metalwork selected from the much larger collection formed over the past The works in “Striking Iron” are lessto form well the known first tovisiting us, though they are more magazine, Kate Nelson called the show “an amuse-bouche for ubiquitous in Africa: hoes, axes, sickles, currency, spears, throwing knives, half centuryNew by EspinarMexico with the blessing of her former husband, TomB y Dillenberg. Kristin nord North Building is in the midst of a major renovation. to help the visitor to consider artworks in new ways. committee for the Amer DENVER — Light. It bathes us, nurtures us, sets Through early May 2020, DAM visitors will have a A visitor begins with light as a physicalstaffs, element, bells. and Practical everyday items and implements that, by virtue of the Writing for ( continued on page 12C- ) our circadian rhythms. It is employed as both symbol chance to sample some 250 paintings and objects drawn then soon is off into symbolic and metaphoricalveneration realms. of their utility, are adorned and made ceremonial or repurposed and the full collection,” a promised gift to MOIFA, known andfor itsmetaphor joyful incelebration poetry and ofliterature. global In fine art, it from the museum’s vast holdings — and with 70,000 “Religious text, sacred objects and ritualsgiven newhelp life wor and- immanence. The Rocking meaning ofchair an iron by Sam hoe transmutes as it craft traditions. has been harnessed to great effect since ancient times works on hand, there have been plenty to choose from. shipers find a righteous path,” the curatorsbecomes note,a medium in of exchange thatMaloof has value with as Mike a work of art, a tool and as a “This show is all about collecting, about how you liveand with across folk cultures. art,” says Light the can muse be something we see The co-curators have set a table for a summertime wall text that has been provided. “Whilemalleable those deemed raw material. Thus, the exhibitionJohnson, featuresLarry White spear currency, throwing um’s director, Dr Khristaan D. Villela, placing the display within MOIFA’s tradition knife currency, hoe currency, whileand a pair David of hoes, Wade, having 2005. outlived their usefulness of “collector’s eye” presentations. “Our exhibitionsand dispenseare generally with every rich day, in context,or it can be a spiritual smorgasbord, and throughout the year carefully cho- saints and prophets in many religions serve as inter- torch, leading us to enlightenment. Some have experi- reographed other works will be substituted. Their sur- mediaries between believers and thein divine, the fields, or follow are -heated, hammeredWalnut. and reshaped Collection into a of clapperless bell. That the but this is context of a different kind. It’s about the social life of these objects Carolyn A. and Peter as they circulate in the world of collectors,enced outside light as their divine communities revelation; indeed, of as the pres- vey is organized by theme, and draws upon works from ers and an ideal. Such messengers oftensound model the bell virtues makes recapitulates the sound of hammer on anvil connects the origin.” music to its creation, its creator, to theS. Lynch. beating © of Peabody the human heart, and to the Espinar’s folk art affair, as sheence calls of deity it, began itself. in Pittsburgh, the museum’s nine curatorial departments. or behaviors that inspire, elevate and move.” Essex Museum. Pho ( continuedCo-curators on page Rebecca 30 ) Hart, the Vicki and Kent Logan The exhibition has been designed to appeal to visi- A brilliant example of this can be foundearth thatin the yielded DAM’s its riches. A beautifully rendered sickle in the hand of a Congo lese king is a symbol, not only of thetography ruler’s power by Stephen over life and death, but of his Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Jorge tors of all age and includes a number of interactive Tibetan Mandala, a work that was commissioned in Petegorsky. - Rivas Pérez, the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of stations located on levels 3 and 4 of the museum’s 1996 from the Seaje monastery in connectionsouthern India. to the The fire of the earth, the forge, and the fire that creates human cul ture. Indeed, sub-Saharan Africa is replete with origin stories of fire stolen from Spanish Colonial Art, have opened a door for us on this Frederic C. HamiltonOnce Building. kept inExploration the Kuba kits treasury, have thisproject male brought figure sand is mandala master Losang Lun- the gods that find their echoes in the Greek Prometheus. In some cultures, a tra subject, and it would appear they had a great deal of been fashioned foramong families, the one artworks titled Puzzles attributed and bygrig; oral Sonam traditions Woser andto the Geshe Thubten Sonam to Den- dition of blacksmith kings lives on toP this EA day. B O D Y E S S E X M U S E U M “Boston Harbor” by Thomas Chambers, about 1843-51. Oil on canvas. Collection of Carolyn fun selecting art for “The Light Show,” an exhibition Play provides a mixrenowned of games, riddles blacksmith and a namedsketching Myeel. Remembered for - A. and Peter S. Lynch. Photography by Bob Packert/Peabody Essex Museum. that will run while the Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) opportunity, another,his called uncommon Slow Looking, skills inis designedforging sculptures and combin( continued on page 30 ) ing iron with copper and other metals, he is believed to - have resided at the Kuba royal court in the Seventeenth This scepter belonged to( continued a Mangbetu on page king. 30 Its ) sickle-shaped Century. The figure’s most distinctive and prominent - At t he Denver Art Museu- blade (alsoM suggestive of a throwing knife) shows how a lethal features are its hands, each with separate fingers and - weapon could become an extension of a king’s grasp, communi “Divan Japonais” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec thumbs meticulously forge welded onto sturdy palms. -Lautrec cating his power. The handles of such prestige objects were (French, 1864–1901), 1893. Lithograph. Lee M. Figure by Unidentified Kuba artist, Democratic Repub often enhanced with wrapped copper, pewter or iron wire. Friedman Fund. Photograph ©Museum of Fine lic of the Congo, possibly —Gabriella Seventeenth Marks Century. photo Iron, Among Mangbetu, copper was deemed even more precious “Loïe Fuller” by Henri de Toulouse Arts, Boston. red pigment. Collection of the MAS, Antwerp, Belgium. (French, 1864–1901), 1893. Lithograph. Albert than iron, and the use of this softer metal underscored a blade’s H. Wiggin Collection. Boston Public Library. symbolic rather than violent purpose. Sickle knife (mambele, - - - “The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge” by Henri Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. trumbash, nambele) by Mangbetu artist, Democratic Republic de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901), 1892. Judith Espinar’s Colorful World In Santa Fe At The Museum Of International Folk Art of the Congo, late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century. Cop Lithograph. Bequest of W.G. Russell Allen. Photo per allow, wood. Felix Collection. graph ©Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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