14 VOLUME 17 PUBLISHED by J. RUSSELL JINISHIAN TH COMPLIMENTARY ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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An Insider’s Guide to for Collectors and Historians

What’s Inside: • Latest News from Today’s Premier Marine Artists • Latest Marine Art Sales and Prices • Insights into the Art Market at Large • Marine Art Exhibitions Across the Country • Upcoming Auctions • Book Reviews Don Demers (b. 1956) Nantucket Afternoon, c. 1910 Oil on Canvas 20”x 36” $ 35,000

Don Demers (b. 1956) Traffic, New York Harbor, c. 1920 Oil on Canvas 18”x 28” $30,000

Information on purchasing the artwork pictured in the Marine Art News may be obtained by contacting the Publisher, J. Russell Jinishian at (203) 259-8753 or [email protected] News From the Artists s always in the creative world of today’s Picasso. Wow! Most recently they acquired ASMA past President Russ Kramer will dis- marine artists, there are a great num- the gigantic (17x21 feet), symbolic painting cuss the 17th National Exhibition itself; while ber of exhibitions, events, and exciting of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” Sergio Roffo and Gerry Smith will lead two Aprojects happening all over the globe, and this by German-American artist Emanuel Lutze, workshops for artists to paint “en plein air” on year is no exception. Here are a few painted in 1853 in the West Wing of the White the historic Jamestown Settlement waterfront; highlights. . . House, where it had hung for many years. This Society past President Peter Egeli and his We’ll begin with the American Society of would be considered the crown jewel in any daughter Lisa will discuss and illustrate what Marine Artists (ASMA). Now in its 38th year, American museum’s collection of paintings. it is like to be a member of a three-generation boasting membership of over 500 artists from Another version, painted by the artist, is in the family of artists. The weekend will culminate 40 states, it continues to evolve in its mission collection of the Metropolitan Museum of in a special dinner at Colonial Williamsburg to “recognize, encourage, and promote marine Art. You can find more about the Minnesota with a keynote address given by John Stobart, art and maritime history,” and to fulfill an edu- Museum of Marine Art and their fantastic col- the most influential marine artist of our time. cational role in the field. This year is shaping lection, and ambitious exhibition schedule on For more information, visit americansocietyof up as a busy one under the leadership of new their website at mmam.org. marineartists.com President, Colorado sculptor Kim Shaklee, The museum was founded by two Minnesota In Britain, where the 90th birthday of Her Managing Fellow Lisa Egeli, and Deputy collectors. Mary Burrichter and Robert Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is being cel- Managing Fellow Neal Hughes. It includes Kierlin, whose private collection formed ebrated, 2016 also marks the 50th anniversary the opening of their 17th National Exhibition the basis of the museum. They will be pre- of granting of the Royal Charter to the Royal at the Muscarelle Museum at the College sented with the first American Society of Society of Marine Artists (RSMA). This will of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Marine Artists Lifetime Achievement Award be celebrated with an even larger than usual Virginia set to run from Annual Exhibition from September 8 to November September 28 to October 8, 11 when it will travel to the held at the Mall Galleries Academy Art Museum in in London. This year, it Easton Maryland, then to will include an astonishing Quinlan Visual Art Center 400 works of art by today’s in Gainesville, Georgia, leading British marine art- then onto the Minnesota ists! More information can Museum of Marine Art be found at rsma-web.co.uk. in Winona, Minnesota, We spoke with RSMA past and finally Mystic Seaport President Geoff Hunt recent- Museum in Mystic, ly. Geoff is best known for Connecticut October 17, his paintings for the cov- 2017 to January 2018. ers of the American edi- The exhibit will showcase tions of the 21 Napoleonic 100 works of art from the Era (1799-1815) nov- “Signature” members of the els of Patrick O’Brian. In Society, displaying the vast fact, Geoff continues to be range of subject matter and sought after for his extensive styles being employed by knowledge of the British and today’s marine artists. French Navies during that Of course, if you can’t time. He tells me that for wait until September, you the third year he and Naval can visit the Minnesota historian Brian Lavery, Museum of Marine Art in author of 30 books including Winona between now and Jim Griffiths (b. 1947) Fleeting Colors, British Tea Clipper Taitsing, 1866 Nelson’s Navy (1989), Royal July 24th where there will Gouache 12 1/2” x 19” $4,500 Tars: The Lower Deck of be a smaller, but equally diverse exhibition the (2010), and Churchill Goes at the opening of the Society’s 17th Annual of marine art from the members of ASMA. to War (2007), were the guest lecturers on Exhibition in Williamsburg in September 2016. On display will be 50 works of art by art- a Naval History cruise through the Western ists like Ian Marshall (New Hampshire), This opening event is more than simply an exhi- Mediterranean aboard the Sea Cloud. Geoff Steve Lush (Massachusetts), David Bareford bition opening and presentation ceremony. This said that while the Naval History in general (Connecticut), Mary Erickson (North year the Society has made the 2016 National was the theme, there was so much interest in Carolina), Robert Akers (Illinois), and Guy Marine Art Conference a powerhouse gath- the Patrick O’Brian novels that he dusted Morrow (Texas). ering of top marine artists. The 3-day event off his presentation on the them and gave it Neal Hughes Whether or not you’re able to visit this exhibi- includes artist demonstrating to the crowd. These maritime-themed Sea Len Tantilo tion, the museum and its collection are worth plein air painting; , who spent the Cloud cruises have all been organized by a visit at any time of the year. Especially last 15 years researching and recreating the New York-based tour organizer Annemarie designed and built from scratch, this unique Colonial Era in America (1607-1763), discuss- Victory, who specializes in organizing “one- Peter Trippi Fine Art museum opened 10 years ago on the banks of ing his work; , editor of “ of-a-kind luxury tours throughout the world.” Connoisseur the Mississippi River, with acquisitions rang- ” Magazine, leading a panel dis- Visit annemarievictory.com for more informa- ing from the best contemporary marine artists, cussion on “Marine Art in America”; painters tion. Lavery is no slouch in the Patrick O’Brian C.W. Mundy, Len Mizerek, William Duffy, like Christopher Blossom, Don Demers, Tim arena either. He was the advisor to director Thompson, Keith Reynolds, Louis Dodd, and Mike Killelea discussing various technical Peter Weir for the 2003 Russell Crowe movie John Stobart, and many others, to the marine- aspects of painting; the world’s leading sculp- “Master and Commander: The Far Side of Kent Ullberg themed art by the world’s greatest artists, tor of monumental wildlife, , dis- the World” based on the novels and for the John including Painters Thomas cussing his fascinating career, along with construction of the replica of Captain James Barber Moran, Frederick Church, Impressionists , who will detail his 40+ years studying Cook’s exploring ship HMS Endeavour. Chesapeake Bay Muscarelle , Vincent Van Gogh, America’s and painting the . Lavery and Geoff even worked together to Museum Aaron H. De Groft , Paul Gaugin, and even Director and produce a book The Frigate Surprise: The Continued on page 5 3 the scene by an old that included unusually shaped grist mill with odd doorway at end of its roof. In his painting, the beauty of golden morning light, still low in sky, conveys Stobart’s love discov - ering and revealing often overlooked settings. Every object, regardless of its importance, is given careful attention. Like the sun’s warmth, Stobart’s enjoyment of recreating a world from such small relics past pervades every corner of the composition and brings this piece history to life appreciate today. Although the artist has become internationally known for recreating ports and harbors of world in the 19th century, this is only painting he has ever made of Greenwich, Connecticut. Greenwich, Connecticut, A View of the Lower Landing in 1895 Oil on Canvas 22” x 34” $350,000 Greenwich, Connecticut at the turn of 19th century was a farming community supplying produce to markets of New York. At that time all cargoes were shipped on coastal sloops from landings like this, up and moreafter on, later originally was potatoes, though The principle crop Sound. Island sides of Long down both land had been well cleared, the variety of crops shipped out Cos Cob Landing widened to include hay and grain, poultry, butter, cattle, sheep and hogs. After the Civil War, apples were extensively raised in area. Although the Mianus River still flows through same spot today, this landing has become nearly invisible due to the four concrete pylons that support I-95 highway overhead. However, Stobart’s painting reminds us of a simpler time when communities were connected by their access to the sea. The artist was drawn John Stobart (b. 1929)

4 Russ Kramer (b.1960) Malabar X Off Bermuda, 1930 (Detail also shown on cover) Oil on Panel 18” x 24” $15,000

This dramatic painting by the Past President of the American Society of Marine Artists will be included in the 17th National Exhibition of members of the Society which will be traveling to museums throughout America from 2016-2018 (See Exhibition pages for information).

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Design, Construction, and Career of Jack the Pacific Ocean being our common thread.” of the 40,000 men and women on active duty. Aubrey’s Favourite Command. It is a 501(c)(3) organization and the brain Recently, the Coast Guard artwork was includ- Bob Bryant Geoff tells me that he’ll be having the first ret- child of two Seattle-based artists, ed in exhibitions in diverse locations from the Austin Dwyer rospective exhibition of paintings from his long and . Says Bob, “Maritime art- U.S. Space Museum in California, to the Door career in March 2017 in London at a gallery on ists of the Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean in County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay, St. James Street. We’ll keep you posted. When the world, which covers half the earth, have Wisconsin, Custom House Maritime Museum we spoke, he was hard at work on a painting been underrepresented.” He and Austin used as in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the Hull American Society of Marine of Nelson’s flagship the HMS Victory, his 19th their model the Lifesaving Museum in Hull, Massachusetts, Artists painting of Victory—a commission for a col- , but set things up slightly differently. and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in lector. While ASMA has “Regional Representatives,” Dayton Beach, Florida. This July 3-15 the PRIMA has an Artist Representative in each Salmagundi Club in will dis- Down under, past President of the Australian country or state who is responsible for the play the latest additions to the collection. If you Society of Marine Artists, Robert Carter, artists in that country. They currently have are interested in this program, you can obtain tells me that his new 210-page book Paint Me representatives in six areas: in , information by contacting the Coast Guard Art a Ship, detailing his fascinating career which Louis Gadal; in Australia, Ian Hansen; in Program Coordinator directly, Maryann Bader led to him founding the Society in 1996, is just Hawaii, Suzie Anderson; in Canada, John at [email protected] or 202-372-4643. being published. In fact, part II of his book con- Horton; in China, Steve Hu and; in New If you are in the Northwest between July 9 tains a history of the Society, and includes 40 Zealand, A.D. Blake. They are looking for and September 24 of this year, you will want illustrations by its members. The book will be representative artists in Pacific countries and to visit the 23rd Annual Coos Art Museum’s officially released at the opening of their 20th locales like Japan, Singapore, Alaska, Guam, Maritime Exhibition in Coos Bay, Oregon. Anniversary Exhibition scheduled to be held at Peru, Chile, Mexico, Marshall Islands, and This year it features over 85 works of art in the Royal Art Society of NSW in Sydney from American Samoa. The Kelton Foundation, conjunction with the American Society of October 14-30. (See our book page for details.) and the COGAP, Coast Guard Art Program, Marine Artists and co-sponsored by Oregon This year’s exhibition will be officially opened have also signed on as sponsors. We wish them International Port of Coos Bay, and a grant by the ex-Governor of the State of New South all the best, and we’ll continue to report on their from the Coquille Travel Community Fund. Wales, Marie Bashir. (Visit marineartistsaus- activities. tralia.com.au) TripAdvisor calls this 5560 sq. ft. museum COGAP, or the Coast Guard Art Program, now a “converted post office from the Art Deco 2016 has also seen the announcement of the for- in its 35th year, is itself a fascinating program. Era, Coos Art Museum is an unexpected trea- mation of a brand new Marine Art Society. Four It was founded by military artist George Gray, sure.” Jurors for the exhibition will be West years in the making is PRIMA, an acronym in partnership with the venerable Artist’s Club, Coast artists Jeffrey Hull from Oregon and for Pacific Rim Institute of Marine Artists. the Salmagundi Club, in New York City. In Debra Huse from California, and the field’s Their mission is to “celebrate human diversity the program, artists are given direct access to most highly respected marine painter, Don through the lens of fine art, with specific atten- all the Coast Guard activities on land and sea, Demers. Featured Artist in the exhibition will tion to artists living on or near the Pacific Rim, to capture every aspect of the daily missions be William A. Selden. A number of awards

Continued on page 6 5 Continued from page 5 will be presented. In 2015 the Best of Show information on this year’s show can be found at paintings particularly interesting is that he went to Harold Johnson’s painting “Down to [email protected]. was the ship’s carpenter on the first replica the Sea and Ship.” Other award winners includ- MGM Speaking of new books, historic ship paint- of the Bounty built for the 1962 movie ed Austin Dwyer, Lina Tutwyler, Richard Marlon er Paul Garnett stopped by recently and “Mutiny on the Bounty”, starring Boyer, Don McMichael, and Paul Mullally. Brando dropped off a copy of Three Strands of an . He has worked on the ship from the More information can be found at Coosart.org. Unraveling Rope: A Small Taste of the History inside out, and knows it as well as anyone alive Each year the biggest exhibition of Marine Surrounding the Mutiny on the Bounty. It was today. To research his paintings, he not only Art takes place at the Maritime Gallery at written by Kiwi Wayne Greig and recently consulted with historians and scholars, but also the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, published by The Copy Press in Nelson, with Bligh’s own meticulously kept logbooks. Connecticut, and this coming year is no excep- New Zealand. This unconventional publication When I asked Paul about his remarkable series tion. The 37th Mystic International Exhibition includes everything from reproductions of 18th of paintings, he said simply, “My purpose was will take place from October 1 - December century charts to recent satellite photographs to turn Bligh’s words into paintings.” See our 31. While hundreds of works from artists of harbors as they appear today, all to tell the book page for more details on this fascinating from all over the world in the fields of paint- story the 1787 voyage of the HMS Bounty book. ing, drawing, sculpture, and scrimshaw are under the command of William Bligh. It also Marine artists in America had a chance last year reviewed, only one hundred or so are chosen follows Bligh on his legendary voyage with 18 to study the replica of the tall ship L’Hermoine, for display. The most prestigious awards in the of his crew after the infamous “mutiny on the which visited the East Coast to commemorate field are presented. Last year’s winners includ- Bounty” on April 28, 1789, when they were the 1878 voyage that brought the 32-gun frig- ed: Rudolph J. Schaefer Maritime Heritage set adrift off Tonga in a 23 ft. ship’s boat with ate, with the Marquis de Lafayette aboard, Award to Patrick O’Brien; Maritime Gallery only enough food for one week. Amazingly, to Boston with the news that 5,500 French Yachting Award to Gary Gowans; Marine Bligh sailed that small boat for 47 days, eventu- and five frigates were on their way to assist Environmental Wildlife Award to sculptor ally landing at the Dutch settlement in Timor. the colonists in their “American Revolution.” Robert Lagasse for his sculpture “Sting Ray”; Greig calls this, “Possibly the greatest feat of Lafayette’s arrival began an enduring friend- Thomas Wells Award to watercolorist Jim seamanship and endurance ever recorded.” He ship between the United States and France Griffiths for “Dangerous Weather”; Museum also tells of the fate of the mutineers led by that continues today. While L’Hermoine was Purchase Award to Jonathan McPhillips Fletcher Christian, who settled on Pitcairn in Philadelphia to take part in the Tall Ships for “View through the Boatworks”; Rudolph Island, a small uncharted island in the Pacific, Parade, artist Neal Hughes was invited to paint J. Schaefer III Emerging Artist Award to and the Royal Navy’s dispatching of the HMS her, so he slapped a “Go Pro” camera on his Laura Cooper; and the Awards of Excellence Pandora to the South in an effort to head and went to work for a couple of days. He to Donald Demers, Ronny Moortgat, Patrick find them. Grieg’s book marries a lively and said he was a little overwhelmed by the num- O’Brien, (yes, two awards!); Leif Nilsson, amusing narrative with an astonishing array of ber of people who kept stopping and talking to and Kenichi Takahashi. The two judges for photographs, portraits, ship models, and memo- him while he was trying to paint, and he was 2015 exhibition were Douglas Hyland, now rabilia from historic to modern. Included are photographed hundreds of times. In fact, he former Director, The New Britain Museum 27 paintings by Paul Garnett and paintings by eventually ended up, through a representative of American Art and Abigail Starliper, two other New Zealand artists Gordon Miller of the French Department of Tourism, on Christie’s expert in American Folk Art. More and Frank Allen. But what makes Garnett’s the L’Hermoine Facebook page. This is what

Christopher Blossom (b. 1956) Calm in the Atlantic Oil on Canvas 22” x 38” $ 40,000

In this tour-de- painting Blossom demonstrates why he is so highly regarded by his fellow marine artists. His ability to draw convincingly in perspective all the gear and crew aboard a 100-foot schooner on just 27” of flat canvas is astonishing. He then places the darkest parts of the painting in deep shadow right alongside the brightest colors of a magnificent sunset, creating a striking and unforgettable portrait of this quiet moment in the middle of the vast .

6 A.D. Blake (b. 1951) Ranger Leads the J-class fleet off Marblehead, 1937 Oil on Canvas 30” x 40” $55,000

After winning the 1937 America’s Cup, Ranger joined 4 other “J” Class yachts in the New York Yacht Club’s cruise of 1937. The cruise finished at Marblehead where the 5 J-Class raced a series of 5 races between August 28th and September 2nd, 1937.

This stunning painting depicts the fleet racing downwind under spinnaker. Ranger, in the fore- ground, leads Yankee, Endeavour II, Rainbow and Endeavour I, further back in the middle background. Ranger won all five races and in fact, she was the most successful J-Class yacht in history winning 32 of the 34 J-Class races of the 1937 season.

he had to say about the overall experience that Captain Cook and his HMS Endeavour sail- Store. To order, visit nytimes.com/store/art/ seems the most revealing to me: “All in all I ing into Ship Cove, New Zealand, January paintings-prints/john-stobart.html. really enjoyed myself. And once again, I’ve 15, 1770. The Cove, sheltered by Motuara The popularity of John’s paintings just never come to realize what an awesome job I have. Island, was ’s “go-to” place in seems to wane. Last year he was feted at an Being a painter is a very special vocation, and New Zealand. Here he hoisted the Union exhibition back in his hometown of Derby, at times like this I feel that I am extremely Jack and named the inlet Queen Charlotte’s England, where he attended the Derby blessed to be able to do this to make a living.” Sound, taking formal possession of it and all College of Art, and this year a similar ret- Painting outdoors with large numbers of people the adjacent islands in the name of His Majesty rospective exhibition was held at the Lyme around is a far cry from sitting alone in your George III. According to the local Marlboro Academy of Art in Lyme, Connecticut where studio, and not everybody can thrive in those Museum, “He then drank His Majesty’s health his Foundation gives a $1,000 scholarship conditions. It’s obvious that Neal is one who with a bottle of wine, and then gave the empty annually. Remember that last year John’s paint- can and has. bottle to a local chief, for which he was highly ing of the Aircraft Carrier George H. W. Bush pleased.” This celebration will be a huge event Speaking of tall ships, artist Peter Arguimbau (signed not only by John, but also by former in New Zealand. On a recent visit from New tells us he was commissioned to paint the President Bush) was sold for a cool $1,000,000 Zealand artists Alan and Marie Sanders, we nation’s first tall ship built in America in the in Cincinnati to benefit the USO—a tribute to learned that Alan’s portrait of Captain Cook is last 100 years, the Oliver Hazard Perry, as the unique staying power of John’s Art in the being used in the poster that has already been she will appear on her maiden voyage from marketplace. her homeport of Newport, Rhode Island to published to begin to attract interest in this Of course, as we all already know, age is sim- Portland, Maine in the summer of 2016, major maritime event. To make plans to attend ply a “state of mind.” We recently heard from in time for the Rose Festival Week which visit mch.govt.nz. North Carolina artist Bob Dance, well known dates back to 1907. Visit rosefestival.org for Of course, it’s Anglo-American artist John for his rugged working boat paintings, par- details. This ship was named after Rhode Stobart, who’s traveled the world at large and ticularly those of the Jonesport lobster boats. Island native son Commodore Oliver Hazard shown us through his paintings what famous He attributes the unique clarity and finish of Perry (1785-1819), who is known as the hero ships and seaports looked like in the 19th cen- his paintings to the use of alkyd paint, a fast of the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of tury. Today, at the age of 86 he shows no signs drying oil paint developed in the 1970s. The 1812. His famous battle flag read “Don’t Give of slowing down. You may have seen his new- first painting he made with alkyd, of a North Up the Ship,” and he wrote the classic mes- est edition of prints “New York, Towing Out Carolina open working boat in a heavy sea, was sage to General William Henry Harrison, from South Street, c.1863” in a full page, color recently reproduced in a two-page spread in which read in part, “We have met the enemy, advertisement by the New York Times Store Soundings Magazine, the premier East Coast and they are ours. . .” Spearheaded by Rhode in conjunction with the J. Russell Jinishian boating magazine. He let me know it was also Islanders Retired Admiral Tom Weschler and Gallery. Proceeds from the sale of these prints used on the cover of Irish folk singer D.D. Bart Dunbar, owner of Bowen’s Wharf in go to support the Stobart Foundation, which Max’s new CD called “Rickety Ship.” As Bob Newport, the Oliver Hazard Perry is designed offers grants to young artists after their school- observed, “It’s odd that this 45-year-old paint- to be a sailing school vessel, where all 49 peo- ing and just at the beginning of their career ing has become popular recently. At this rate, at ple aboard (including 17 professional crew) are when they need it the most. This print is of a my age of 81, I should be enjoying great suc- expected to work. In a sailing ship of this size, brand new original painting of John’s, which cess when I’m 126 years old!!!” the rigging uses 7 miles of rope, there are 160 sold this winter as quickly as it was exhibited belaying pins, and 14,000 sq. ft. of sail! More at the Naples Art Fair in Naples, Florida. The Bob is not the only painter to have his painting information can be found at ohpri.org. print image measures 14”x22” and is published included in Soundings Magazine. In addition to their usual offerings of practical advice, In the Pacific, New Zealand will be in the in a limited edition of only 250, and is available updates on gear, and events related to modern center of maritime news in the coming years, unframed for $495, and framed for $895. It is day boating, for the past two years they have with 2020 marking the 250th Anniversary of only available through the New York Times Continued on page 16 7 INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE ART WORLD AT LARGE s always, the Art Market is a fascinat- in all we do.” AAP was founded in March ally come with a pledge to pay the consigner, ing place full of passion, intrigue, and of 2014 by Allan Schwartzman and Amy in this case the family, a certain percentage of shenanigans, jaw-dropping prices, and Capellazzo, former Chairman of Post-War and anything taken in over the guaranteed amount. Acriminal behavior you won’t believe. Here are Contemporary Development at Christie’s. Will The negotiations were so close that, according some of the highlights and issues that came to these moves pay off? That remains to be seen. to the Wall Street Journal, the night before the fore in the last year. As Mr. Schwartzman, a long-time private art Mr. Taubman got on a plane to New York, he A good way to take the of the art advisor, has said, “I haven’t been an employee called Sotheby’s CEO Smith and said, “I’m world is to take a look at how the major auction since 1983.” As Ms. Capellazzo accesses the coming to New York tomorrow. When I land houses are faring in the $64 billion global art situation, her feeling is, “Sotheby’s is on the I need to know if I’m coming to York Avenue market. For the fiscal year 2015, the two major upswing, with their lowest behind.” (the headquarters of Sotheby’s) or 49th Street” auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s You can actually log on to the year-end confer- (Christie’s New York location). The next morn- reported a slight decrease in sales from 2014, ence call held by CEO/President Tad Smith ing, Mr. Taubman reportedly received an email marking the first year for both auction houses each year (usually in February) for sharehold- on the plane from Mr. Smith that said simply, to fail to show an increase in overall sales. Here ers and investors. He gives a small report, “Come to York Avenue.” are the numbers. and then takes questions. You do it by calling Ultimately, Sotheby’s guaranteed the Taubman Christie’s, a privately held company, owned 888-371-8897 if you’re in the United States; or family a whopping $515 million for the right by François Pinault and his Groupe Artémis, internationally by calling 970-315-0479; or on to the entire collection. That, for Sotheby’s. reported sales of $7.4 billion for the year. the Web at http://investor.shareholder.com/bid/ was quite a gamble. How did it pay off, you Where Christie’s has events.cfm. wonder? Well, the final auction, of three, seen a contraction is took place in January, in what the auction and included Mr. houses call “private Taubman’s collec- sales.” These are tion of Old Masters. deals made outside That night over $24 the auction room, million was taken essentially dealer in. The total gross sales. Last year for sales for Sotheby’s Christie’s these were for the Taubman down 43% at $851.2 Collection were $462 million. million. A fairly seri- ous overall shortfall. Sotheby’s, a public- When the remaining ly traded company, unsold works from reported 2015 gross the various auctions sales of $6.72 bil- have eventually been lion, which includ- sold, Tad Smith ed private sales of has told sharehold- $673 million, (up ers that he expects 8% from 2014). the total loss to The 2016 first quar- Sotheby’s to amount ter results have just to $6,000,000. Such come in. Sotheby’s are the vicissitudes of announced a $25.9 guaranteed payouts million loss—not Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921) Steamer Amerique, 1874 (Signed lr- Jacobsen 257 8th Ave NY) to consignment. unusual, they say, Oil on Canvas 22” x 36” $15,500 given the cycle of How did all this their big auction seasons: spring and fall. They affect Sotheby’s have actually posted losses in 22 of the last With so much at stake, there’s obviously keen stock prices? Well, in 2016 Stifel Nicolaus 25 first quarters. Christie’s has not announced competition between the two auction houses analyst David Schick downgraded Sotheby’s their first quarter results as of this writing. not for just sales, but primarily for art to sell, stock from “buy” to “hold.” He says he worries the key to their business. How stiff is the com- that “auction houses will keep winnowing their Both auction houses made some strategic petition and how does it impact the bottom line? fees to attract coveted consignments, a move moves in 2016. Sotheby’s reduced its staff by Well, let’s take a quick look “under the hood” at that could erode profits.” 80 people, closed its regional offices in Boston, the competition that garnered the rights to sell However, there were some bright notes in Philadelphia, and Palm Beach, and opened the collection of former Sotheby’s Chairman, 2015 overall. Nearly 60% of all the total dollar one in Beverly Hills. In 2015 they acquired a A. Alfred Taubman, who died in April 2015 amount taken in at auction came from works 25% ownership stake in the world’s largest Car at the age of 91. He was the principal owner that sold for over $1,000,000 each, with 8% Auctioneer, RM Auctions, then spent $85mil- of Sotheby’s for 22 years, and in 2001 spent of works selling for over $18 million each. lion, a surprising amount to many, to acquire the 9 ½ months in prison convicted, along with As Heinrich zu Hohenlohe, Berlin art dealer, private art advisory firm Art Agency Partners Christie’s CEO Dede Brooks, of price fixing. said, “There’s plenty of money around at the (AAP). This move, according to President and Yet in 2015, his massive collection was so very top of the market. The middle range is Chief Executive Tad Smith, who took over the sought after that his youngest son William was softer – if you can call $10 million the middle helm at Sotheby’s in April 2015 after a career at negotiating with both Christie’s and Sotheby’s range.” In fact, in 2015 two paintings sold for Cablevision and one year as CEO of Madison at the same time. They each reportedly offering over $100 million each. A Pablo Picasso paint- Square Garden, “helps improve our leader- guarantees to the family of between $350-450 ing, “The Women of Algiers” 1955, sold for ship position at the high end of the fine-art mar- million, meaning that regardless of how much $179.4 million. And in November, a work by ket, bolstering our private sales capability. This the artwork in the collection sold for, the family 20th century Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, brings new growth in opportunities and advi- would be “guaranteed” to receive at least that “Nu Couché” 1917, sold for $170.4 million to sory services, and reinforces client first culture amount of money. These guarantees also usu- 8 a Chinese collector. A Pop Art work by Roy 2011 during an avalanche of Lichtenstein entitled “Nurse” hammered in at lawsuits accusing the gallery Upcoming Auctions a close of $95.4 million. of selling forged paintings for The owner of the Modigliani painting, Laura a profit to the tune of $70 mil- July 26-27 August 24, 25 Bonhams Rossi Gianni lion. By 2015 there were ten 600 Investment Annual Summer Edinburgh, , daughter of Italian collector 44 (0)13 1225 2266 Mattioli, was guaranteed $100 million by individual lawsuits pending, Quality Decoys Fine Art Auction Guyette & Deeter James D. Julia Christie’s who sold the painting. It is interesting brought against Knoedler and its former director by collec- Portsmouth, NH Fairfield, ME October 19 to note that over the winter of 1918-19, not long 410-745-0485 207-453-7125 The Sporting Sale after the picture was painted, Modigliani was so tors, including Domenico De Sole, Chairman of the Board at Guyetteanddeeter.com jamesdjulia.com Bonhams broke that he offered to sell the entire contents Edinburgh, Scotland of his studio in Paris for $300 to British writers Sotheby’s and former Gucci CEO. His case was brought August 2 September 8 Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, who report- California and 19th Century October 19 edly couldn’t raise the cash in time. How the to trial in January 2016, and provides a good microcosm of Western Paintings European Paintings Travel, Science, world turns. . . and Sculpture Christie’s Natural History the issues. London, South While many auctions of art and collectibles Bonhams Christie’s The back story is that between Los Angeles, CA Kensington London, South around the world include marine related items, 323-850-7500 44 (0)20 7930 6074 Kensington there are really only a few auctions regularly 1994 and 2009 a mysterious stash of 60 previously undis- bonhams.com dedicated to maritime art and artifacts. Charles September 19 November 2 Miller (Charles Miller, ltd.), a former Christie’s covered paintings by leading Contemporary Abstract artists August 3 Explorations and Travel 19th Century man, has run the only auction firm in the UK Vintage Posters Bonhams European Paintings specializing in the sale of maritime and scien- Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning, and others (each work worth Swann New York Bonhams tific art and collectibles, and has held marine New York 212-644-9001 New York auctions twice a year in West Kensington in the millions of dollars) sud- 212-254-4710 denly came to light and made since 2008. Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s swanngalleries.com September 19-23 November 8 hold maritime auctions regularly in London, their way to Knoedler Gallery Americana Week Maritime and Scientific usually twice a year. In New York, Bonhams is through a private dealer on August 6 (Chinese Export Art, Models, Instruments the only auction house with annual marine auc- Long Island, one Glafira Americana, Fine Arts, American Furniture, and Fine Art tions usually in June and January. Northeast Rosales. They came from a Estate Jewelry, Marine Folk Art, Silver) Charles Miller, Ltd Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire mysterious Swiss collector Rafael Osana Auctions Christie’s London holds its marine auctions in August, and Boston who was referred to as only Nantucket, MA Rockefeller Center Harbor Auctions (bostonharborauctions.com) Mr. X, and whom Knoedler 508-228-3942 212-636-6000 November 9-10 rafaelosanaauctions.com christies.com run by the Lannan family holds theirs in later called the “Secret Santa.” Decoy Sale the spring and fall. On Cape Cod, in East Knoedler Gallery took them in Guyette & Deeter as the real thing and sold them August 13, Sept. 3, September 21-22 Easton, MD Dennis, Eldred’s, a third generation family Oct. 8, Dec. 3 The Private Collection 410-745-0485 firm, has run marine auctions in March and as such. By 2013, the Federal Prosecutors had discovered Nantucket Antiques of President and guyetteanddeeter.com July/September for many years. This year, they Rafael Osana Auctions Mrs. Ronald Reagan announced the opening of an office in Mystic, that these million dollar paint- ings were actually the work of Nantucket, MA (Furniture, Art Books, November 15 Connecticut where they will be evaluating and Paintings, Drawings, (Bidding begins) accepting items for consignment and sale in Chinese artist Pei-Shen Qian, who had painted them in a con- August 14 Sculpture, Prints, Old Masters and their facility on the Cape. Visit eldreds.com for Memorabilia) verted garage in Queens, New Americana 19th c. Art more information. Skinner Christie’s (Including Dutch York. Armed with this infor- Marlborough, MA Rockefeller Center Impressionist Art) One area that auction houses and private deal- mation in 2013, the Feds went 617-350-5400 Christie’s ers are jumping into with both feet these into action against Rosales, skinnerinc.com September Online days are online sales—using a dizzying array who pleaded guilty of know- Nautical Antiques & of companies and formats to achieve these. ingly selling fake paintings to August 18 Maritime Art November 16 There’s too much information to fit here, so Knoedler for approximately Contemporary and Boston Harbor Auctions Australian Art please visit our online version of Marine Art $26 million. In turn, Knoedler Post-War Art Boston, MA Christie’s News “Art World at Large” article (jrusselljin- sold the Rosales paintings for (Some marine related) bostonharborauctions.com London, King St. ishiangallery.com/marineartnews.htm) to read $69.7 million, putting $32.7 Lyon & Turnbull an extensive rundown of the options available. million in their own pocket. Edinburgh, Scotland September November 17-19 0131 557 8844 This past year has seen the curtain drawn back The artist, Qian, speaking from Maritime Art Americana auctions.lyonandturnbull.com Eldred’s East Dennis, MA on the problems of fraud and dealer deceit in China, to where he fled to avoid prosecution, said he was East Dennis, MA 508-385-3116 the art world like never before. The case that August 20-21 508-385-3116 eldreds.com has garnered the biggest headlines in America paid several thousand dollars for each painting. American Furniture, eldreds.com has taken place in New York City, with even Folk Art, Marine November 22 a segment on “60 Minutes,” and it involves, As the Knoedler books were & China Trade October 5 Scottish Art in no particular order, the country’s oldest art opened as the case progressed, Northeast Auctions The Marine Sale (19th and 20th century gallery, a prominent auction house, a Long experts calculated that it was Portsmouth, NH Bonham’s paintings, drawings, and Island art dealer, the United States Marshal the sale of fake paintings 603-433-8400 London, Knightsbridge watercolors, some with Service, a Chinese artist working out of a keeping the Knoedler Gallery northeastauctions.com 44 20 7393 3300 marine themes) garage in Queens, the former CEO of Gucci, a afloat, and that between 2009 Sotheby’s Spanish businessman and his art dealer brother, and 2011without the income August 22-25 October 12 London and abstract artists Jackson Pollock, Mark from the Rosales paintings, Inuit Art Scottish Sale Rothko, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline Knoedler ran annual deficits Waddington (Many maritime- February 1, 2017 and Robert Motherwell, and millions, and between $1.5 million and $2.3 Online themed paintings) Travel and Exploration millions of dollars. 877-504-5700 Bonhams million. London, Knightsbridge The simple story, if there is a simple story here, So how did this play out, for is this: The Knoedler Gallery (which began example, for Mr. De Sole? as a branch of French dealers Goupilnsie in Well, a very public trial cen- 1846, was sold to Michel Knoedler in 1857, tered around the purchase by the De Soles of lion. Knoedler had purchased the painting from and has operated continuously in Manhattan an abstract painting by Mark Rothko entitled Rosales for $950,000. At issue at the trial was since then) was forced to close its doors in “Untitled 1956” from Knoedler for $8.3 mil- whether Knoedler knowingly sold a fake paint- ing. When Mr. De Sole was asked why he pur- Continued on page 22 9 RECENT SALES at AUCTION and ELSEWHERE

$179,365,000 Pablo Picasso “Les Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural $573,600 Sandy Kofax’s 1955 $200,000 James Bard (1815-1897) Femmes d’Alger” Address Brooklyn Dodgers “Schooner Norma” 1858 oil Version O 1955 $2,200,000 Ringo Starr’s Ludwig drum $550,000 Samuel Anderson Robb $197,000 Charles Darwin Letter $170,405,000 Amedeo Modigliani “Nu kit “Baseball Player” wood- expressing lack of belief in Couche” 1917-18 Oil $1,990,000 1894-S Barber dime coin carving c.1840 50”h God Nov. 23, 1880 $47,514,000 Andy Warhol “Mao” 1972 $1,985,000 (1882- $501,000 Mickey Mantle’s 1952 $192,000 Ruddy Stoner tall cherry silkscreen, ink, pencil 1925) “The Dock” 1913 oil Topps Rookie baseball case clock c.1762 82”x57” card $1,810,000 Winslow Homer “The $191,200 “Maltese Falcon” movie $45,500,000 Blue Moon of Josephine Summer Cloud” 1881 oil $495,600 (1859- poster 1941 12.03 carat diamond 1935) “Walking the Pier, Edward Redfield (1896- $1,805,000 Pair of French silver-mount- Gloucester Harbor” 1895 $190,400 Andy Warhol first painting 1965) “Boothbay Gardens” $32,800,000 ed rifled flintlock pistols by Oil of a one-dollar bill Nicholas-Noel Boutet oil George Harrison’s 1963 $490,000 Brooklyn Atlantics team $1,800,000 Mastersound electric guitar $179,250 Michael Jackson’s 1860 baseball card Henry Remmey 7-gallon “Thriller” video $483,000 West Troy, NY 4-gallon stoneware water cooler $166,750 jacket stoneware jug with cobalt $1,700,000 $449,000 Matthew Brady’s photo por- elephant, pottery trait chair c.1864 Janis Joplin’s $164,700 Musgo Indian Head metal 1964 Porsche 356 $437,000 King George II’s armchair gasoline sign C1600 SC Cabriolet $413,000 Golden Chalice from $162,500 James Gale Tyler (1855- Atocha wreck 1622 1931) “New York Yacht $1,445,000 Club Racing Boats in New Samuel Loomis John Jay (1745- $408,000 York Harbor” 1829) Federalist Chippendale shell carved Papers folio Chest on Chest $153,400 William Trost Richards (1833-1905) “Coastal Margaret Thatcher’s confi- $1,330,000 $367,630 Cornwall View of Tintagel dential dispatch briefcase Angel Gabriel 19th Castle” oil 1883 c. molded copper $365,000 Nazi Enigma M4 machine weathervane 36” $152,362 William Aiken Walker $358,500 1931 “Frankenstein” movie (1838-1921) “The Cove at $1,200,000 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Les Femmes d-Alger, 1955 poster 6’h Ponce Park (Florida)” oil 6 Keith Richard’s 1/2”x12 1/2” Oil on Canvas, Bentley 53 $348,000 Marilyn Monroe’s dress Sold at Christie’s for $179,365,000 Continental Flying from “Somethings Got to $149,500 Gus Wilson oversize Spur Give” 1962 Mohegan Island-style $30,335,698 Sunrise Ruby 25.59 carat carved wooden drake ruby and diamond ring $1,100,000 Tiffany oriental Poppy floor $310,000 Roberto Clemente’s 1955 decoy 1890 (world record) lamp 1910 77”h Rookie card $149,500 Holland and Holland four- $17,600,000 1964 Ferrari 250 LM $1,000,000 Charles Russell (1864- $303,000 William Bradford (1823- bore double elephant rifle 1926) “As Cochrane and 1892) “Boston Harbor” $14,400,000 Lucas Cranach the Elder Pard leaped into their sad- 1859 Oil $149,000 Sylvester Stallone black (1472-1553) “La Bocca dles, Cochrane shot the leather “Rocky” jacket della Verita” 43 4/3”x39 3/8” $300,210 Leica MP black paint cam- Indian” watercolor 14”x17” era $146,256 Tiffany Studios Copper Thomas Moran (1837- $13,600,000 $1,000,000 Reward offered for return of enamel fish nestled in sea- 1926) “Cattle Rock, Green $264,500 Colonel Jim Corbett’s W.J. weed box Dorothy’s Ruby Red Jeffrey and Co. double River, Wyoming” 1907 oil Slippers from the “Wizard 20”x30” 450/400 caliber rifle $132,600 China Trade painting of Oz” stolen from Judy “Praya Grande at Macao” $13,200,000 1953 Jaguar C-Type Works Garland Museum in 2005 $258,000 Elvis Presley’s 1976 Tour c.1860 lightweight racing car Bus $1,000,000 Ringo Starr’s #1 “White $131,000 Tiffany leaded glass peony $7,150,000 Patek Philippe Reference Album” $256,000 Marlon Brando’s Harley boarder floor lamp 1910 5016 A-010 white gold Davidson motorcycle $965,000 Gustave Le Gray (1820-84) Wristwatch $125,475 Green Bay Packer Jerry “Boats in Port of La Harve” $237,300 Batman #1 comic book Kramer’s 1967 Super Bowl Spring 1940 $5,850,000 $956,000 Mohammed Ali’s gloves I ring (1819-1904) “The Great from Sonny Liston fight $233,000 Edward Weston (1886- Florida Sunset” 1887 oil $121,875 Elvis Presley’s Las Vegas 1958) “Shell”, 1927 silver penguin suit 1975 54”x96” $850,000 N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) gelatin photograph “The Boy Columbus on the $5,178,000 Andrew Wyeth “Flood $120,000 Paul Revere “The Bloody Wharf at Genoa” 1917 Oil $228,800 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7 Massacre Perpetrated in Plain” 1985 tempera GTE four-speed $738,000 Winston Churchill’s post King Street Boston on $4,197,000 Set of 4 Huanghuali carved World War II “Victory” pock- $221,000 Boston Bay Psalm Book, March 5, 1770 by a Party of wood armchairs c.1700 et watch 1863 the 29th Regiment” engrav- Lunch with Warren Buffet ing $3,456,789 $689,680 Alfred Bricher (1837-1908) $213,500 Mills Roulette 25 cent slot Muhammad Ali’s 1975 $3,260,000 Original “Laws of Baseball” “Calm Inlet (Bailey’s Island, machine c.1901 $119,500 1857 Maine)” oil 18”x29” “Thrill in Manila” white $212,500 Marilyn Monroe’s grave leather boxing shoes $3,100,000 Gospels of Queen $658,000 Cassius Coolidge “Poker marker Theutberga illuminated Game” (4 Dogs Playing $118,500 Fitz Henry Lane (1804-65) $210,000 Elmer Crowell (1862-1951) “Bark Mary” oil 19 1/2”x27” manuscript c.825 Poker), 1894 oil preening black duck wood- Jasper Francis Cropsey $2,400,000 John Lennon’s 1952 $650,000 One parking space at carving $112,500 Gibson guitar Beacon Hill Garage, Boston (1823-1900) “Early $203,150 William “The Refrigerator” Morning” 1871 Oil 12”x20” $2,350,000 Quarter Eagle $2.50 gold $625,000 Mario Puzo Godfather type- Perry’s 1985 Super Bowl coin 1808 writer, manuscript and ring $111,150 (1830- screenplay archive 1902) “Cathedral Rocks, $2,200,000 Handwritten Text of $201,250 Colt Model 1875 Gatling gun Yosemite Valley” oil 4”x6”

10 $109,250 Tucker’s Naval Brigade $47,500 Muhammad Ali signed box- Rocky and Rocky II $18,400 Elmer Crowell semi-palmat- Northern Virginia Battle ing gloves $32,400 Pair of Shield-Back Federal ed Plover with open beak Flag from the Battle of wood carving Cy Leonard’s “Happy side chairs Sailors Creek $47,300 Hazard” ventriloquist $31,980 Ralph Cahoon (1910-82) $18,075 Snow White life-size cutout $106,250 Montague Dawson (1895- dummy “Hot Air Balloons, cardboard display figure 1973) “The Flying Clipper New England 1932 Tavern Mermaids and Whales” oil Elisha Taylor Baker (1827- Sir Lancelot” oil 24”x36” $47,150 $17,450 sign $31,200 John Haley Bellamy (1836- 90) “Steam Yacht Stranger” Ringo Starr’s blue stone 1889 oil $106,250 Folk Art of “Capture of 1914) “Don’t Give Up the pinky ring $46,125 American Frigate President Ship” carved eagle plaque $16,250 Geronimo’s deer hide $104,490 Michael Jordan signed by British Frigates, War of 26” pouch Bulls home Jersey 1812” over fireplace man- $27,781 Signed Beatles “It’s a Hard Cunard Line to telpiece $15,600 $103,400 Shang Wheeler pair of old Day’s Night” album cover New York and Boston post- squaw decoys 1925 $45,000 Cast Iron Roller Skating $27,500 Elvis Presley “Can’t Help er mechanical bank c.1880 $100,000 E. Simms Campbell “A Falling in Love” 1961 gold $15,405 Solon Badger (1873-1919) Nightclub Map of Harlem” $45,000 Cigar Store carved wooden record “Four-masted Schooner 1932 pen and brush Indian chief 75”h $25,200 Cast Iron Packard eight-cyl- Charles K. Schull” oil 27”x45” $96,000 Bat Masterson’s Colt 45 $43,700 Chip-carved Book shaped inder toy sedan Revolver 1882 19th c. game board $25,000 Frederick John Mulhaupt $15,000 Lady Gaga’s latex bodysuit $95,600 Italian “Casablanca” poster $43,125 Boston Blackfront Cuban “Grey Day and Guinea $15,000 Wyeth Earp signed docu- 1948 mahogany dressing table Boats” 1924 oil ment 1870 c.1745-1795 $93,750 Beatles 1st recording con- $23,855 Montague Dawson (1890- $14,812 Copper Pig 35” tract $42,000 Navajo second phase 1973) “Tall Ship Port Weathervane late 19th c. Chief’s blanket c. 1880 Jackson” watercolor $89,625 Babe Ruth rookie card 17”x27” $14,760 A.D. Williams set of 6 Georgia Tech football from swing handle Nantucket Titanic lunch menu $40,388 $88,000 222-0 win $22,862 Pilot Biscuit from Titanic Lightship baskets Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) lifeboat 17”x24” $87,500 Ira Hudson swimming Silver wine cooler trophy “On the Hudson River $40,250 $14,760 Canada goose decoy $22,020 Keith Townsend working Morgan Cup won by schoo- Palisades” 1900 oil 15”x17 scale steam radio con- ner Sachem August 8, 1/2” James E. Buttersworth $40,000 trolled model of Steam 1887 (1817-1894) “A Race Shirley Temple’s 1st movie Launch, 1985 plank on $85,500 Between Mayflower, Joseph Stannard (1797- dress frame 47” l $14,680 Volunteer and Thistle Near 1830) “Off Yarmouth” 1830 $75,330 Babe Ruth 1921-31 bat Portland” oil 8 1/4”x12 1/2” $21,250 Oil Painting by Frank oil 12 1/4”x16 3/4” Sinatra $74,750 Joe Lincoln old squaw hen $39,550 Batman #2 comic book $14,400 Att. to Nathaniel Sylvester carved decoy Summer 1940 $21,240 Buddy L pressed steel Toy Finney (1815-79) scrim- Tugboat c.1928 shaw walrus tusk with clip- $72,000 Cast Iron mechanical bank $37,200 Lynn Bogue “The Bread Winners” J.E. Hunt “Big Horn Stevens Co. 1886 Rams” oil $68,750 Montague Dawson (1890- $36,900 William Gray 1973) “Clippership Sir Yorke (1817- Lancelot” oil 24”x36” 1892) “Bark Monrovia” oil $67,200 Fred Pansing (1844-1912) “Fall River Line Steamer $36,650 Ward Brothers, Puritan” oil Crisfield, Md., canvas back $65,725 “Wizard of Oz” movie post- male and er 1939 female wood $65,000 van Rijn Self- carvings 1936 Portrait with a Cap and $35,700 Charles Schulz Scarf, bust etching, 1633 (1922-2000) $61,250 One 3.93 lb. Italian truffle original 1958 Peanuts comic $60,000 James E. Buttersworth strip pen and (1817-94) “America’s Cup ink Race 1886, Volunteer vs. Thistle” oil 12”x18” $35,100 John J. Audubon “Fish $59,750 N.Y. Yankee 14” bobble Hawk” hand head doll colored aqua- $57,120 Baleen and Silver inlaid tint First Havell knitting swift c. 1850 edition, 1930 $56,160 Masonic Order glass flask $35,000 Lock of James E. Buttersworth (1817-1894) c. 1875 Racing Off Sandy Hook Oil on Canvas 26” x 40” c.1820-30 John Sold at Christie’s for $425,000 Lennon’s $51,750 Theodore Roosevelt’s pre- hair from 1966 $20,655 Greek 500 B.C.E. bronze sentation saddle helmet per ship and portraits of $35,000 “The Union is Dissolved” women 17 1/2” long $51,380 Tim Thompson “HMS Charleston, S.C. “Mercury $20,000 General Stonewall Jackson Victory and Agamemnon Broadside,” Dec. 20, 1860 letter $13,762 Ship’s Figurehead from Cruising in Company off the Grace Salcombe, 1860 Coast” oil 22”x30” $35,000 Warren H. Harding and $20,000 JFK’s back brace painted wood 36” h Calvin Coolidge campaign $49,335 Martin Luther King, Jr. pin 2 1/4” $19,200 R. Lalique Coty “Cyclamen” $13,200 Judy Collins 1898 Steinway Stride Toward Freedom perfume bottle c.1920 piano Model A 1958 first edition $34,500 Shang Wheeler Duck Drake carving 12” long $18,750 Civil War .44 caliber Henry $13,145 James Bond “Thunderball” $48,000 Bing Jupiter Gauge III repeating rifle poster 1965 enameled toy train $32,500 Rubber handball used in

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$12,500 Rod McKuen’s piano “Gloucester Sky” oil $2,583 Fitz Henry Lane (1804-65) $896 Pele’s 2015 Brazil Team “New Bedford from the Fort Jersey Buddy L pressed steel toy $6,070 Jimi Hendrix “Experience” $11,800 Near Fairhaven” hand-col- tugboat 27” Washington, DC concert Mahogany and brass ored lithograph $720 poster 1968 ship’s wheel 32” dia. Norman Rockwell “Norman $11,589 Michael Jackson’s Signed Rockwell Visits a Country $6,000 Creek Chubb Musky $2,500 12 Block of 24 cent Curtis Bed Pillow $690 Editor” 1946 Oil 33”x63” Wigglefish fishing lure biplane airmail stamps A.L. Ripley pastoral water- Edward Moran (1829- $6,000 Military Cannon Bank $2,250 Dom Deluise’s Pool Table $11,250 color $625 1901) “Passing Squall” oil Hubley Mfg. Lancaster, PA Brass Double T Sextant in 26”x36” c.1915 Morris Rosenfeld (1885- $562.50 $2,250 box c. 1830 Troughton and 1958) “Flying Spinnaker” $11,000 Titanic Turkish bath ticket $6,000 Signed Abraham Lincoln Simms, London Carte de Viste photograph silver gelatin photograph $10,800 Civil War Double Breasted 20”x16” $550 Childe Hassam 1910 Letter Union officer’s frock coat $5,505 Ship’s Bell from HMS Mars, 1805 $2,200 WW II U.S. A-2 flight jacket $540 New York Harbor Herreshoff Manufacturing Navigational Chart 1875 $10,625 Reynolds Beal (1867-1951) Co. Bronze yacht winch c. $5,138 William Lionel Wyllie $1,875 “Mackerel Seining,” 1937 Christening Gavel for Ship 1900 15” h (1851-1931) “The Pool of $525 London” oil 28 1/4”x16 1/8” watercolor 12”x16” Lady Hayter c. 1888 Revolutionary War $9,720 Clark Voorhees carved kill- Mercury Stick Barometer c. engraved powder horn 15” $4,500 Maine toy cast $1,840 $500 iron bank c.1898 er whale 18”l 1910 Negretti and Zambra, Doors 1967 concert poster London 36”l $9,336 “Whale Hunting in the Susquehanna University $3,840 Signed studio photograph $1,725 portrait of Adolf Hitler Bering Sea” scrimshawed $500 Sammy Davis Jr’s Cowboy $9,175 Charles Pears (1873-1958) walrus tusk c.1890-1910 Boots “Southern Railway Paddle $3,645 Late 19th Century painted 24”l Chelsea Bulkhead bronze Steamers in Royal Navy Barber Pole 30” h $475 Pair of Beatles’ Concert clock c. 1965 7” dia. Review” oil 32 3/4”x 50” $1,600 $3,510 Jose Formoso Reyes Tickets Alan Shepard Autographed British Cutter Yacht water- Nantucket basket pocket- $460 $8,750 Burt Reynolds’ 1952 Palm NASA Moonwalk photo- line model 19th c. book with carved bone $1,600 Beach High School graphs 30”x17”x29” seagulls on top Football Trophy Jerry Lee Lewis’ Bible and Thomas Buttersworth $3,000 Club Handbook for the $448 $8,750 Pair of Port Starboard Hymn Book (1768-1828) “The Fleet Royal St. Georges Golf $1,560 Meteorite lanterns with Making for Open Sea” oil Club Fresnel lens $240 Four champagne bottles 18”x24” $3,000 Victoria 1861 builder’s half from wreck of RMS Eight-Day Chronometer in Republic 1909 Silk Civil War sailor’s shirt model 63” l $1,500 $8,505 box Brockbank & Atkins, Pair of Eames Fibergass Montague Birrell Black $2,750 Pair of British Copper London 4” dia. $188 $8,450 Shell Side Chairs White Star Line – Olympic Runnng Lights, early 20th Half Hull Model of small and Titanic poster 1910 century $1,000 schooner late 19th c. 20”l $144 Five Color Peking Glass Snuff Box $8,257.50 Nicholas Pocock (1740- 1821) “Battle of Trafalgar” pen and ink wash 13”x21 3/4”

$8,257.50 Nicholas Pocock (1740- 1821) “Battle of Trafalgar” pen and ink wash 13”x21 3/4” $8,257 Charles Brooking (1723- 1759) “A Vice Admiral of the Red’s Flagship Running Before the Wind” oil 11 1/4”x16 1/2” $8,257 Charles Edward Dixon (1872-1934) “(Thames River) Opposite Somerset House” watercolor 19 1/2”x29 1/2” $7,800 Peter Libbey carved wood- en eagle $7,707 Jack Spurling (1871-1933) “HMS Sandwich Laying Her Mooring at Sunset” watercolor 14 5/16”x 20 1/16” $7,150 Tomahawk peace pipe $6,875 14 Strands of Thomas Jefferson’s hair snipped at the time of his death $6,600 Desco U.S. Navy Mark V Emile Gruppe (1896-1978) $6,490 Montague Dawson (1890-1973) Packetship of the Enoch Train Line Running Before the Wind Watercolor/Gouache 21” x 28” $25,000

12 Upcoming Marine Art Exhibitions and Events Around the Globe

Marine Art at the Historic Ocean House Resort September 6 - December 5, 2016 The 5th Annual Exhibition and Sale of over 30 Paintings by the World’s Leading Marine Artists from the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery at the Historic Ocean House Resort, America’s # 1 Resort Hotel (Travel and Leisure, 2014). Watch Hill, RI – 401- 584-7000 – oceanhouse.com

Ed Parker (b. 1946) Croquet Players out to Sea, Ocean House Resort, Watch Hill, Rhode Island, 1898 Oil on Panel 16” x 22” $6,500

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST: ANTIQUES AND CLASSIC BOAT A BROAD REACH: Museum Child Hassam and the RENDEZVOUS 50 Years of Collection Cold Spring Harbor, NY Isles of Shoals On view and on parade are 40 classic Artwork, objects, watercraft, tools, 631-367-3418 More than 40 plein air oil paintings vessels, including sailboats, , ship models and artifacts preserving cswhalingmuseum.org and watercolors from the late 1880s and runabouts displaying excellence and capturing the rich history, tradi- Ongoing to 1912 inspired by the rocky islands in restoration. tions and culture of the Chesapeake in the Gulf of Maine. Mystic Seaport Bay are on display in celebration of DEPARTURES: Mystic, CT the Museum’s 50 Year Anniversary. Nine New Paintings by Robert Salem, MA mysticseaport.org • 860-572-6322 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Claiborne Morris 978-745-9500 • pem.org July 23-24 St. Michaels, MD Abstract and representational oil July 16 – November 6 410-745-2916 • cbmm.org paintings portraying departures of ARTSHIP OLYMPIA Through February 28, 2017 vessels to distant places, as well as AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MARINE 16 art installations by 16 artists aboard inward looking, imaginary departures. ARTISTS, NORTH REGIONAL Olympia representing each CLOSE TO THE WIND: Our Maritime Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum EXHIBITION artist’s interpretation of the vessel and History Savannah, GA 50 works of art by members of the its history. Through paintings, photographs, 912-232-1511 • shipsofthesea.org Society from the Northern United Independence Seaport Museum maps, charts, and instruments the Through July 24 States and Canada depicting the vari- Philadelphia, PA nearly 400-year maritime history ety of today’s marine art. 215-413-8655 • phillyseaport.org of Greenwich, CT is explored and THE FACE OF NELSON Minnesota Museum of Marine Art Through October 2 brought to life. A humanizing look at Admiral Horatio Winona, MN Greenwich Historical Society Nelson (1758-1805) is revealed via 866-940-6626 • mmam.org BEACH LIGHT: Greenwich, CT his 1798 life mask, accompanied by Through July 24 Paintings by Eileen Dawn Skretch 203-869-6859 • greenwichhistory.org period paintings, and prints from the Seaside paintings featuring sub- Through September 4 Naval War College Museum, the Navy ANNUAL TRAIN SHOW tle color and sharp contrasts by Art Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Steve Cryan’s new, state-of-the-art Salmagundi Club member Eileen COLD SPRING HARBOR WHALING Museum, and Anne S. K. Brown exhibit of the miniature world of model Dawn Skretch. MUSEUM Military Collection at Brown University. trains. Southampton Historical Museum A fully equipped whale boat is the cen- Naval War College Museum Connecticut River Museum Southampton, NY terpiece of their permanent collection, Newport, RI Essex, CT 631-282-2494 accompanied by an extensive collec- 401-841-4052 • usnwc 860-767-8269 • ctrivermuseum.org southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org tion of scrimshaw, artwork, artifacts, Through September 30 Mid November – Mid February 2017 Through October 22 whalebone, and whale teeth. Continued on next page 13 INAUGURAL EXHIBITION OF 2016 THE MINIATURE SHIPS OF COAST GUARD ART COLLECTION WINNIFRIED & AUGUST F. New paintings of the highest merit, CRABTREE depicting the U.S. Coast Guard in A remarkable miniature fleet of ship action, selected by jury to be exhib- models ranging from a primitive raft to ited and accepted into the USCG an exquisite Venetian galleon created Permanent Collection. by August Crabtree with the assis- Salmagundi Club tance of his wife. New York, NY Newport News, VA 212-255-7740 • usscg.mil/art 751-596-2222 • marinersmuseum.org July 3-15 Ongoing

INK AND WATER: MODEL YACHT REGATTA Sailors’ Tatoos J Class and East Coast 12-Meter 19-21st century tattoo ephermera, class race in waters off the North equipment, designs and advertise- Dock. ments. Mystic Seaport Museum Minnesota Museum of Marine Art August 5-7 Through December 14 150 YEARS OF MARINE ART INNER LIGHT: Selections from the most extensive The World of William Bradford collection of 19th and 20th century Oil paintings, watercolors, and sketch- European and American marine art books offer a retrospective on the in the Midwest, including Winslow career of William Bradford (1823- Homer, James E. Buttersworth, 1892), an influential Hudson River Abraham Hulk, Alfred Bircher, Keith School artists, known for his paintings Reynolds, Tim Thompson, and others. of ships and . Minnesota Museum of Marine Art New Bedford Whaling Museum Through November 3 New Bedford, MA 508-997-0046 • whalingmuseum.org OVER EAST, AN ARTIST’S Through July 2017 JOURNAL: Paintings by Robert Beck of MAINE: A CONTINUUM OF PLACE the Contemporary Maritime Vintage photographs and postcards Community of coastal Maine from the Museum’s Over 40 paintings of the artist’s best Collection are juxtaposed with images work portraying the working life and Carl Evers (1907-2000) East River, New York, Showing the Con Edison Steam Plant and the Coca -Cola Plant, 1949 Watercolor 16” x 12” $8,500 of the same locations painted by 17 of Maine’s coastal towns. contemporary Maine artists. Maine Maritime Museum Penobscot Marine Museum Bath, ME FIFTY YEARS OF MARITIME ART 212-873-3400 • nyhistory.org Paintings by the museum founder, Through August 21 Searsport, ME 207-443-1316 Hervey Garrett Smith, scrimshaw from Addison Gallery of American Art 207-548-2529 mainemaritimemuseum.org Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, Andover, MA penobscotmarinemuseum.org September 17 – January 22, 2017 and nautical handicrafts commem- 978-749-4000 Through October 16 orate the 50th Anniversary of the andover.edu/museum/Addison PAINTING 70 YEARS Museum. Opens in September MARINE ART OF TODAY AND Bert Wright and Trevor Chamberlain Long Island Maritime Museum YESTERDAY celebrate their long careers with an West Sayville, NY FROM INSIDE THE COLLECTION 35 paintings from yacht racing and exhibition of oils and watercolors 631-447-8679 • limaritime.org Art and artifacts from the museum’s naval battles to port scenes and painted on location in the Americas, Through July 31 collection of Great Lakes shipwrecks. coastal by leading marine Far East, Middle East, Europe, Door County Maritime Museum artists, including J. E. Butterworth, London, and along the Thames. Christopher Blossom, Roy Cross, Mall Galleries FIVE CENTURIES OF MARINE ART Sturgeon Bay, WI 72 marine paintings and 81 ship mod- 920-743-5958 • dcmm.org Don Demers, Jim Griffiths, Antonio London, ENGLAND els from across the centuries by lead- Through November 6 Jacobsen, Patrick O’Brien, Tim 020 7930 6844 ing artists like Ludolf Backhuysen, Thompson, and many others. October 17-22 Boudin, Thomas Hoyne, Willem van A GOOD SUMMER’S WORK: Union League Club de Velde the Younger, John Stobart, J. Alden Weir, Connecticut 37th St and Park Avenue PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SEA BY Roy Cross, Charles Brooking, John Impressionist New York, NY MICHAEL KAHN Wilson Carmichael, and Montague Over 40 paintings of, or inspired by 203-259-8753 Photographs of seascapes and mag- Dawson. Connecticut by J. Alden Weir (1852- jrusselljinishiangallery.com nificent sailboats by world renowned Channel Islands Maritime Museum 1919) and friends, John Singer September photographer Michael Kahn. Oxnard, CA Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Emil Maritime Gallery 805-984-6260 • cimmvc.org Carlsen. MARINE AND FISHING ART Mystic Seaport Ongoing The Lyman Allyn Art Museum By the leading artists from America, July 23 – September 25 New London, CT Europe and New Zealand. Paintings, Lymanallyn.org • 860-443-245 sculpture, ship models and scrim- PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF AMERICA: THE FOLK ART COLLECTION OF ELIE shaw by Anthony Blake, Christopher AND VIOLA NADELMAN Through September 11 30th Anniversary Exibition and Over 200 objects dating from 1770, Blossom, Don Demers, Flick Ford, 100th National Parks Anniversary including paintings, ship models, THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE: James Griffiths, Ian Marshall, Victor Exhibit sculpture, tapestry, and stoneware A Sketchbook of Drawings by Mays, John Mecray, Stanley Meltzoff, 50 paintings by members of the Plein from the 15,000 item collection of Stuart Davis Leonard Mizerek, James Prosek, Air Painters of America including John American Folk Art of sculptor and Mrs. Drawings from sketchbooks of the Keith Reynolds, Arthur Shilstone, Cosby, Gill Dellinger, Don Demers, Elie Nadelman, are presented along- working waterfront, upland moors, John Stobart, Robert Weiss and others. and West Fraser. side significant sculptures by the col- and neighborhoods of Gloucester, MA J. Russell Jinishian Gallery Steamboat Art Museum lector to illustrate the nexus between by an iconic 20th c. American artist. 1899 Bronson Road Steamboat Springs, CO Folk Art and modernism. Cape Ann Museum 203-259-8753 970-870-1755 New York Historical Society Gloucester, MA jrusselljinishiangallery.com steamboatartmuseum.org New York, NY 978-283-0455 • capeannmuseum.org Ongoing August 1 – September 30 Ongoing

14 THE PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF THE With over 400 works of art, this is the 757-221-2700 • muscarelle.org Nautical tattoo art, scrimshaw and MARITIME GALLERY largest annual exhibition by some of September 9 – November 11 other sailor art, and archival and con- An exhibition and sale of new works the most distinguished marine art- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum temporary photographs. painted during the month of June on ists working today in celebration of St. Michaels, MD Santa Barbara Maritime Museum the grounds of the Maritime Gallery the Society’s 50th Anniversary, with November 25 – January 25, 2017 Santa Barbara, CA and along the Mystic River. demonstrations during the first week Academy Art Museum 805-962-8404 • sbmm.org Maritime Gallery by members of the Society. Easton, MD October 31 Mystic Seaport Mall Galleries 410-822-2782 • academyart.edu Through September 25 London, ENGLAND February 8, 2017 – April 1, 2017 37TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL 020 7930 6844 • mallgalleries.org.uk Quinlan Visual Art Center MARINE ART EXHIBITION AND SALE POSTERS OF WORLD WAR I September 28 – October 8 Gainesville, GA A juried show of paintings, drawings, Artwork and illustrations portraying 770-536-2575 • quinlanartscenter.org sculpture, scrimshaw, and models by the war front, women’s role in the SEA FAIRE April 13, 2017 – June 3, 2017 over 100 award-winning marine artists war, new technologies,, and American Arts and crafts fair celebrating Long Minnesota Museum of Marine Art from around the world. allies and enemies during World War I. Island’s maritime heritage. Winona, MN Maritime Gallery Art and Space Museum The Whaling Museum June 26, 2017 – September 15, 2017 Mystic Seaport Washington, DC Cold Spring Harbor, NY Mystic Seaport Museum Mystic, CT 202-633-1000 • airandspace.si.edu 631-367-3418 • cswhalingmuseum.org Mystic, CT October 1 – December 3 Opens April 2017 October 2 October 2, 2017 – January 20, 2017 TRAILBLAZING: 100 Years of RAVEN’S MANY GIFTS: SELECTIONS FROM THE A SINGLE GOAL: Our National Parks Native Art of the Northwest Coast PERMANENT COLLECTION, The Art of Trumpy Yacht Building Original art for postage stamps featur- Native American art from the Pacific Spring 2016 Wood boat building as an art form is ing America’s national parks. Northwest Coastal communities, cre- On view are paintings by Thomas explored through models, paintings, Postal Museum ated over the past 200 years, including Eakins, Winslow Homer, John Singer historic photographs, artifacts, and the Washington, DC ceremonial regalia, trade goods, and Sargent, , John Sheeler, drawings of John Trumpy, Sr., famous 202-633-1000 • postalmuseum.si.edu artwork. and Jackson Pollock are among the naval architect. Through May 25, 2018 Peabody Essex Museum most well-known and best loved paint- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Salem, MA ings in the Museum’s collection. August 6 – November 27 20TH ANNIVESARY EXHIBITION 978-745-9500 • pem.org Addison Gallery of American Art Paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Through December 31, 2017 Andover, MA SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM the members of the Australian Society Through July 31 Paintings, drawings, scrimshaw, of Marine Artists in celebration of this RIVER PERSPECTIVES: prints, photographs, navigational milestone anniversary. Paintings by Tom Maakestad and 17TH NATIONAL EXHIBITION instruments, and historical objects Royal Art Society Don Schmidlapp OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF are among the 30,000 objects of the Sydney, AUSTRALIA Paintings exploring the unique envi- MARINE ARTISTS museum’s collection documenting 02 4757 2218 ronment of the Mississippi River by Juried exhibition with nearly 100 New York City’s rise and prominence marineartistsaustralia.au two of Minnesota’s plein air painters. new works of art by members of the as a world port. October 14-30 The third Museum Exhibition in its American Society or Marine Artists South Street Seaport Museum Mississippi River Series. including John Atwater, Del-Bouree New York, NY 23RD ANNUAL MARITIME Minnesota Museum of Marine Art Bach, Jim Griffiths, Don McMichaels 212-748-8600 ART EXHIBITION Through December 23 and others. southstreetseaportmuseum.org Juried exhibition of artwork by the fin- Ongoing est marine artist working today, as well ROYAL SOCIETY OF MARINE Muscarelle Museum TATOO & SCRIMSHAW: as a “Plein Air/Paint Out for marine ARTISTS ANNUAL EXHIBITION Williamsburg, VA The Art of the Sailor artists, sponsored by the American Society of Marine Artists. Coos Art Museum Coos Bay, OR • 541-267-3901 Coosart.org July 9 – September 24

WASHED ASHORE: Art to Save the Sea 17 larger-than-life marine wildlife sculptures, from sea urchins to sharks, made of plastic debris from the ocean highlight the perilous conditions of the world’s oceans. National Zoo Washington, DC 202-633-4888 si.edu/museums/national-zoo Through September 5

WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED: Art from MotorBoating Magazine Covers 1914-1935 30 MotorBoating Magazine covers commemorate the fashionable motor boats of a bygone era, and honor the execution of fine artistry, which made them visually appealing and histori- cally significant. New Hampshire Boat Museum Wolfboro, NH 603-569-4554 • nhbm.org Through October 10

Tim Thompson (b. 1951) Astra, Yankee, Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert III, Endeavour I, and Westward Off the Needles, Isle of Wight Oil on Canvas 12” x 16” $12,500 15 Continued from page 7 devoted a two-page spread in each issue to driving force behind the whole symposium. and one of Kenya’s leading conservationists representing the magical beauty of being on the But the subject on everyone’s mind, and the says, “We shouldn’t have to burn 105 tons of water through the eyes of leading contemporary topic of most interest this year, is the intense ivory and 100 and a half tons of rhino horn. It’s artists, including Christopher Blossom, Don debate going on within the field of scrimshaw, a disgraceful shame this continues.” Demers, Sergio Roffo, John Barber, Keith the wildlife world, and legislatures in states and The real debate is taking place on a state by Reynolds, William Duffy, and Sally Fisher countries around the world on the potential ban state and country by country basis, where leg- among others. (soundingsonline.com) of the sale of ivory to help stem the tremendous islation is being introduced to simply ban the Of interest to both marine art collectors of worldwide ivory poaching. The current sale of all ivory as a to the problem. and historians was this year’s 28th Annual approach both in the U.S. and abroad is to Currently in the United States where the law is Scrimshaw Weekend held in May at the apprehend the poachers, confiscate the ivory, set by a combination of U.S. Fish and Wildlife New Bedford Whaling Museum in New and destroy it. In the U.S., that means stock- Service regulations, Executive Orders, and Bedford, Massachusetts, sponsored by piling the ivory in a warehouse in Colorado International Conservation Treaties, it is Northeast Auctions, Antiques Digest, Arts Springs, Colorado and crushing it to dust essentially illegal to sell or import any African and Antiques Weekly, and the New England (after taking one ton of it to Times Square in elephant ivory that cannot be proven to have Antiques Journal. This event, the only event New York in 2015 and publicly destroying it been “harvested” before 1976. Asian elephant of its kind anywhere in the world each year, there). Recently in Nairobi, the Kenyan gov- ivory must be at least 100 years old, and features a Nautical Antiques Show of scrim- ernment burned $100 million worth of ivory imported before 1982. Whale ivory must be at shaw, instruments, tools, books, ship models, (approximately 105 metric tons) from 7,000 least 100 years old and/or have been registered paintings, prints, etc. by private dealers, and elephants. The street value of just one kilogram with the Feds before 1973. Individuals who seminars and the presentation of papers by of ivory is about $1,000. It is mostly being sold can prove that a piece of ivory, whale tooth, or experts on subjects of interest to people in the in Asia, especially China where they use ivory elephant ivory has been in the family for a long field. The feature presentation in 2015 was to make everything from combs and trinkets to time can sell it, but no ivory, except in special entitled “Totem Poles Palaoa Moai Meet Mutt high class frames. As Kenyan President Uhuru cases, can be traded or sold across state lines. and Jeff, Scrimshaw in the Pacific Souvenir Kenyatta put it, “No one, and I repeat, no one However, these laws and regulations are com- Trade, 1783-1940” by Stewart M. Frank, has any business in trading ivory, for this trade plex and hazy. If you call the Fish and Wildlife PhD. Director of the Scrimshaw Forensic means death – the death of our elephants and Service in Washington five times, you’ll get Laboratories and Senior Curator Emeritus at the death of our national heritage.” Richard five slightly different answers. the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the Leakey, son of archeologist Louis Leakey, The proposal to ban the sale of all ivory would

16 mean that, for an example, it would be illegal using fake documents to legalize illegal ivory. and get a “Certificate of Possession,” which to sell an antique brooch that your grandmother The problem in Japan is that there is no reg- will allow you to keep the ivory, but would had given you, a hair brush with an ivory istration requirement for elephant tusks, and not allow you to sell it or trade it. Anyone who handle, or even a piano with ivory keys. To the tusks are not marked in any way to docu- moves to Connecticut after the law was passed many this seems like going way too far. Even ment them. According to “Arts and Antiques with ivory in their possession is simply out of the National Rifle Association has objected Weekly,” over 1.1 million people have already luck. saying, any owners of antique guns have stocks endorsed an online petition to compel Yahoo Many state and federal versions of these laws that are inlaid with ivory. The League of Japan to stop its sale of ivory products. were scheduled to go into effect in the sum- American Orchestras is complaining because Perhaps you all will remember the case of the mer of 2016. New York and New Jersey are currently there is a ban on travel with musical Ohio dentist who became a worldwide pariah debating their own ban, with caveats saying instruments purchased after February 25, 2014 for shooting to death Cecil the Lion in Africa. that “ivory that was taken before February that contain any inlaid elephant ivory. For its In the State of Connecticut this led directly to 26, 1976 and is a fixed component of a larger part, the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service bill SB227, now known as Cecil’s Law, which manufactured item, and is not in its current has proposed an amended rule that “Prohibits makes it a felony to own any object made of ele- form the primary source of total volume for the interstate commerce in ivory with specific phant ivory, punishable by two years in prison each item”—the total volume of aggregate limits and exceptions for certain preexisting and a $10,000 fine. In addition to paying hom- components less than 20%—it might be con- manufactured items, such as musical instru- age to Cecil the Lion, Cecil’s Law is an acro- sidered exempt. Then there’s Cartie Chan, ments, furniture pieces, and firearms that con- nym for Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing Active Chairman of the Department of Land tain less than 200 grams of ivory.” the Importation of Large Animal Trophies, and Natural Resources in Hawaii, who said At issue is more than just one person wanting to focusing on five African species, including simply, “Whenever you start to exempt a par- carry a gun or an instrument. In Japan, Yahoo elephants, rhinos and tigers. This law will ticular item, for some reason it becomes a has been criticized for the large scale sale of apparently even sanction searches and seizures slippery slope. . .an outright ban is a lot more ivory and ivory items online. In Japan, a 1989 in people’s homes based on the probable cause efficient.” In Hawaii, if they pass a ban, they treaty bans the sale of raw ivory or ivory prod- that you own a piece of ivory. Hidden in there say they won’t enforce it for two years. “So ucts, but the Environmental Investigation is an exception, where if you own ivory, and people will have two years to get rid of the Agency in Washington, D.C. says that more lived in Connecticut before the law was passed, jewelry they want before it becomes illegal,” than 12 tons of ivory products were sold on you can go to the Connecticut Commissioner says Representative Ryan Yamane, Chairman Yahoo Japan between 2012 and 2014, many of Energy and Environmental Protection of the Committee.

John Mecray: Poetry in Motion...

Since 1977 John Mecray has devoted his consider- able talents to depicting the remarkable beauty of the classic yachts from the Golden Age of Yachting. Here is one of the art- ist’s most iconic paintings depicting the pure thrill and speed of big boat racing.

John Mecray (b. 1937) America’s Cup 1934 Winner J-Boat Rainbow Powering Ahead Acrylic on Canvas 21” x 49” $135,000

17 Paul Garnett (b. 1951) A Rare Peace, The English Fleet by Moonlight, Portsmouth Harbor, 1802 Oil on Canvas 22” x 30” $ 9,500

After nearly 20 years of constant war the British and French signed a peace treaty in 1802, one that proved to be as fragile as Lord Horatio Nelson had earlier predicted. This painting shows the British warships in Portsmouth Harbor at the Spithead Anchorage during this period of truce. The Artist reflects: “I thought that it would make an interesting subject to have these ships of war – England’s ‘wooden walls’ – idle and somewhat out of their element. During such times the navy was partly in ‘ordinary,’ the men by and large not allowed even shore leave for fear that they would ‘run’ or desert. There is, to me, something almost haunting about an image of vessels, cre- ated to wage war, sitting idle and awaiting the orders that will send them to do what they were built to do – keep England free from enemies and invasion.” From left to right you can see a 24-gun frigate sailing out, probably on channel patrol, the flagship to her right, in the center a 36-gun frigate coming to anchor under short sail, and to the right and in the foreground, a 74-gun ship of the line. Also, the boats pass between the 74 and the flagship, whose cabin windows are aglow in the pale moonlight.

Even legislators are confused. The State of throughout the exhibition working on models, ing, the original base for the ferry service from Virginia first passed a ban then rescinded it. discussing their projects, and sharing tips and Los Angeles Harbor to Terminal Island. This Connecticut Representative Mitch Bolinsky techniques of the trade. Of special interest was massive 75,000 sq. ft. facility features more has said, “This is bad legislation. The problem highly regarded ship modeler Rob Napier, than 700 ship models and changing exhibitions. is not with antique ivory items, but with the known throughout the field as the former edi- Their big news is that renovations on their poachers in Africa. That’s where enforcement tor of the Nautical Research Guild Journal, massive Navy Hall will be completed in time efforts should be directed.” He points to a the author of Valkenisse, Retourschip of 1717 for the Labor Day Fleet Week in Los Angeles Washington Post article that says that 23 of the (Seawatch Books, 2008), who also refreshes Harbor. The centerpiece of the renovation is the biggest ivory seizures between 2009 and 2011 and restores models for the New York Yacht massive 11 ½ ft. model of the aircraft carrier proved that the route for illegal ivory is directly Club, the Forbes Collection, the Museum of Nimitz. The museum is also one of more than from Africa to Southeast Asia. And in fact, Fine Arts, Boston, the Thomson Collection at 2,000 museums across the country known as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario). He was on Blue Star Museums, which offer free admis- not uncovered a significant shipment of illegal hand throughout the exhibition with one of his sion to military personnel and their families ivory coming into the United States since 2004. current projects, cleaning and restoring a late in a collaborative program with the National With California’s ban set to take effect in June 19th century model of the USS Constitution Endowment for the Arts and the Department 2016, Bolinsky observes that they are budget- which had been built by one of her crew mem- of Defense. You can a list of all these museums ing $1.7 million to enforce their version of a bers during that time. The USS Constitution as arts.gov/national/blue-star-museums. ban when “that money would be better spent Model Shipwright Guild is the largest ship For modern ship fans, there’s a fascinating Web going after the poachers.” As of this writing, model association on the East Coast, meeting site www.shipspotting.com where you can see the bills to ban ivory sales outright beginning the first Tuesday of every month at the USS photographs of over one million commercial in 2016 in Connecticut and Vermont has fallen Constitution Museum. More information on the and pleasure vessels which you can track in short in the legislature. We’ll see what next Guild can be found at usscm.org. real time, and get up-to-date industry shipping year brings. Builders and enthusiasts of model sailing news, and even watch live videos of commer- What’s the marine industry perspective on yachts will also be interested in the U.S. cial traffic and harbors from around the world! whale ivory, and scrimshaw in particular, which Vintage Model Yacht Group, whose Web site Past President of the American Society of would also be barred under a total ban? As features a written history and photographs of Marine Artists Russ Kramer, continues his aforementioned scrimshaw authority and histo- model yacht racing from its earliest days in the passion rendering the great yachts of the world rian Stewart Frank noted, “It’s not as if whales late 19th century right through to the present. in dramatic fashion (see page 5). Recently these were killed for ivory at any time, yesterday or Visit their Web site usvmyg.com. have included paintings of Tamerlane 1906, today. Whales teeth and skeletal bone were The Scale Ship Modelers Association of North Malabar X 1930, and Finisterre 1956 and the strictly and exclusively byproducts of a com- America was founded in 1988. It encourages New York Yacht Club Herreshoff 40 Class from mercial hunt long gone.” all types of model boat building from static to 1916. He said his ability to depict huge seas History and fans had their own radio controlled models. Their site lists model comes directly from his firsthand experiences treat this past winter when the 37th Annual member clubs from across the country, models in the Gulf Stream aboard Harvey Howalt’s Ship Model Exhibition was held at the USS made by individual members, and even offers 40-meter sailing yacht Islandia, which Russ Constitution Museum, sponsored by the USS an opportunity to purchase insurance for model has helped sail each year from Newport to Constitution Model Shipwright Guild where club exhibitions. The Web site is ssmana.org. Jamaica, and on which he happily serves as 50 models of all types and sizes were on If you are on the West Coast and interested in “political foil, card partner, and ballast.” display complimented by paintings by mem- seeing ship models, you may want to pay a Another art collection only a selected few get bers of the American Society of Marine visit to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum to see is that which hangs on the walls of the Artists. Members of the Guild were on hand in San Pedro, housed in a 1941 WPA build- White House in Washington, D.C. When a

18 new First Family moves in, the curator’s office preference was for paintings by New Mexico Speaking of Don Demers, he has kept up his selects pieces to display—paintings and sculp- artist Georgia O’Keefe. Although I don’t think usual peripatetic schedule this year. Running tures—in both the public and private spaces. we’ll find that on the Democratic National sold-out workshops from Maui, to Boothbay, But Presidents and their families of course have Committee platform. Maine, , Florida, and Provence, final say. George W. Bush, for example, dis- France Of course, the big news out of Washington , he tells me that after years of sold-out played a cowboy painting by W.H.D. Koerner this year is, what else, a monetary one. It was workshops, he’s actually been rethinking his called “A Charge to Keep” in the Oval Office. announced by the U.S. Treasury Department approach, and rededicating himself to teaching (In fact, he liked the title so much he named that a picture of 19th century anti-slave activ- in a new way. He told me that he realized that his campaign memoir after it.) Among George ist Harriet Tubman would replace that of the normal five-day workshop is not enough to Bush’s other paintings were also naval paint- Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill try to impart the essence of a body of knowl- ings of marine artist Tom Freeman (1952- in 2020. In Britain, at just the same time, the edge that it took him years to accumulate. “It’s 2015). The Obamas apparently have an interest Bank of England announced that it is switch- just like getting to know somebody. You don’t in modern art. The Oval Office for example, ing 8th century economist Adam Smith’s get to know them in a few days. It takes time.” includes two paintings by Edward Hopper; one portrait on its new £20 note to that of painting Now, instead of asking his students to come in, from the Whitney Museum of American Art; J.M.W. Turner, one of the greatest marine art- sit down, and walk away in a few days with and abstract paintings by Mark Rothko and ists of all time. The new bill will feature a 1799 a finished painting or two, he’s calling his Robert Rauchsenberg. This is something new self-portrait of the artist; the quote, “Light is approach “Holding a visual conversation with for the White House staff. William Allman, therefore Color”; and a small image of Turner’s the outside world.” He’s having his students longtime curator of the collection, said, “There most famous naval painting “The Fighting first spend time just observing nature. He says was a discussion about the President and First Temeraire.” The new note will be introduced in that if you want to paint trees, first observe Lady liking more abstract art. Our collection (of 2020. Hey, maybe there’s hope for one of our the branches, how the tree grows, and sketch 500 paintings) doesn’t really have any of that.” guys on the $50 bill or the $100 bill. It could various aspects of the tree at different times of What’s in store art-wise if Hillary Clinton happen. . . Wouldn’t you like to say, “Give me day, at different angles etc., slowly building a is elected President? Well, as First Lady, her 3 Demers,” meaning 3 100 dollar bills? rapport with the subject until you’ve begun to understand it. Only then, he feels, are you ready Continued on page 23

Geoff Hunt (b. 1948) HMS Surprise in the Adriatic Oil on Canvas 18” x 24” $15,500 Readers of the epic Patrick O’Brian series of Napoleonic sea stories will recognize this handsome frigate HMS Surprise as Captain Jack Aubrey’s favorite command. In the real Royal Navy the HMS Surprise began life as the French Corvete Unite, which was captured by the British in 1798 and gained notoriety for cutting out and re-capturing the HMS Hermione. 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21 Richard Loud (b. 1945) Racing to Windward, 1907, Aurora (K-19) and Winsome (K-29) Oil on Canvas 24” x 40” $38,000 These Herreshoff-designed K-Class yachts regularly raced against each other at regattas held by yacht clubs like Indian Harbor, Larchmont and Seawanhaka on Long Island Sound. Here Loud captures the timeless beauty of these large, elegant yachts making their way upwind in a stiff breeze.

Continued from page 9 chased the painting, he said, “I thought it was It’s little known, except to a small circle, How did these works of art fare at Gastone and beautiful. “I had complete trust in Freedman but down in the small central Texas city of Sheehan compared to, say, the $8.3 million De (the gallery president at Knoedler). It never Pflugerville is Gaston and Sheehan Auction Sole paid for the supposed Rothko? Well, the crossed my mind that these guys were in the House, a family owned business used by the highest price paid at this auction was $325,100 business of selling fake art.” Federal Marshals Service to sell many of the for an oil by Richard Pousette-dart, and a Knoedler and Freedman, for their part, denied things it seizes in criminal cases. These have grand total of approximately $5 million was they knowingly trafficked in forged goods. In included jewelry, cars, wine, and antiques, but taken in in the auction. How does that get divid- fact, Freedman’s defense said that she herself never, before 2015, had it included the stash ed up? Well, after Gaston and Sheehan takes Andy was duped into paying almost $300,000 for a of 236 works of art by luminaries like their commission, it is apparently up to a judge Warhol Robert Motherwell fake Jackson Pollock drip painting and hang- , , etc. Where did to decide how that will be dispersed. Rosales ing it in her apartment as a real Pollock, even these come from, you ask? Well, it turns out is free after posting a $2.5million bond, and though the artist’s name was misspelled in the they had all been seized from the Long Island is now considered a cooperating witness. Her Glafira Rosales signature! home of, yes, you guessed it, Nissan and Mercedes Benz automobiles were during a raid prior to her own trial. This begs sold at a subsequent auction in New Jersey. At the trial, it came out that scientific tests the question, of course—could any of these You just can’t make this stuff up. showed that the paintings were made with have been fake? Well, according to Lynzey Well, how tricky is it to know if a painting is pigments that were not even available when Donahue, spokesman for the United States authentic? Can’t you just, for example, look the paintings were supposedly made—between Marshals Service (USMS), and, “During the back in a vintage catalogue of an artist’s work, 1949 and 1959. De Sole’s lawyer, Emily appraisal by a Houston Art Appraiser no issues and if you see the painting illustrated, you’ll Raisbaum wondered aloud at the mysterious arouse that indicated the need for a detailed know it’s by that artist? Well, let’s not forget surfacing of previously “unknown” paintings, authentication. If any artwork had been found to the self-proclaimed forger, Elmyr De Hory and Rosales’ willingness to sell them at far be counterfeit, the USMS would not have sold (1906-76) (Okay, his real name – Elemér below market price didn’t raise some red flags. it, but would rather have destroyed it.” She said, “Your common sense will tell you Albert Hoffman), who was said to have sold such a treasure trove of never-before-seen mas- Curiously, given the notoriety of the case, the over a thousand forgeries to reputable galler- terpieces by America’s most famous artists was U.S. Marshals Service did not identify the paint- ies all over the world. His career was noted in too good to be true.” ings at auction as coming from Ms. Rosales’ Clifford Irving’s famous book Fake (1969), collection. They say they rarely make identi- Orson Welles documentary film “F for Fake” So what happened? Well, the De Soles were fications like that. Except in the case of, say, from 1974, the 2012 book by Mark Forgy, The seeking $25 million in damages, but before Bernie Madoff, whose notoriety they thought Forger’s Apprentice: Life with the World’s the case could go the jury, it was settled out of would increase the value of his possessions Most Notorious Artist. Among his tricks appar- court. In fact, six of the ten civil suits against (including his socks and slippers—really?). But ently was to find old, rare catalogues of artists, Knoedler have been settled out of court. But Bob Sheehan, one of Gaston and Sheehan’s like Matisse where the color photos of paint- that’s not all that’s related to this one incident. principals and auctioneers observed that most ings were literally glued in onto a page. He’d As we write, dealer Rosales’ Spanish boyfriend, of the 50 or so people who attended the paint- simply remove the glued-on photo in the book José Carlos Bergantinos Diaz, is on his way ing auction—many of them knowledgeable and substitute it with a photograph of his paint- to stand trial in New York, and his younger dealers looking for a bargain to resell—knew ing, giving it instant “credibility.” brother Jesus Angel Bergantinos Diaz, an art where the artworks had come from. As Sheehan Or take the case of the portrait of “The Bella dealer, is sitting in a Spanish prison awaiting said, “The people who came down here from Principessa,” reportedly painted by Leonardo extradition to the United States for fraud and New York, they knew what it was.” Some of da Vinci in about 1496 to depict thirteen- money laundering for their part in the scheme the works of art still even actually had the mark year-old Bianca Forza, daughter of Da Vinci’s to defraud collectors. from Knoedler & Company! 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to compose, edit and design it into a work of bished galleries in the Salmagundi Club in de West Award, to being voted by his fellow art reflecting how you “feel” about the subject. New York City, one of the leading Artist clubs artists the most favorite artist in the Show He’s employing this unique approach in in America since 1871. More information can numerous times. Last year was no exception. his Master’s Oil Painting Workshop, “The be found at theautry.org and americanmaster- Chris’s painting received the award as the Best Ascending Landscape: How to Reach Your Next sart.com. Oil Painting in the Exhibition and a 10”x12” oil Level in Plein Air and Studio Painting,” to be In our latest conversation with Chris Blossom, sketch of a San Francisco wharf scene was pur- held at the Falmouth Art Center in Falmouth, he had just returned from a five-day passage at chased at a fundraising auction at the Awards Massachusetts from September19-21 this year. sea helping his pal move a 47-foot Aerodyne dinner (annually attended by over 1,000 peo- Jackson Hole, Don is asking prospective students to submit Sloop (one of only three built) from Fort ple) for a cool $30,000 by Wyoming Foster Lynn Friess images and an essay about their interests, which Pierce, Florida to Essex, Connecticut, or as collectors and . he will review before selecting students for the Chris will tell the taxman, he spent five days They’re best known as early and substantial Rick Santorum workshop. (See falmouthart.org.) doing “research.” Coming exhibitions of his backers of ’s presidential run. Obviously they’re also fans of great art. Don’s been selected to be one of 10 paint- work will include the 30th Anniversary of the Plein Air Painters of America ers in an exhibition to benefit the Island for their exhi- Down in Charleston, South Carolina fans of Steamboat Springs Art Museum Conservancy on Catalina Island, “Wildside bition at the the beautiful Low Country landscape have been Steamboat Springs, Colorado Art Show and Sale,” to be held at the Newport in , celebrating, following the paintings of West Fraser for National Yacht Club in Newport Beach, California and the 100th Anniversary of the years. Growing up on Hilton Head Island as Park Service in October. The subject is the wildness of the from August 12 through October it was being developed by his father and uncle, 42,000 acres of land under the stewardship of 15. More information can be found at steam- the legendary Charlie Fraser, West has a rela- the Catalina Island Conservancy. More infor- boatsartmuseum.org. tionship and feeling for the Low Country that mation can be found at catalinaconservancy. Chris will also be participating for the 25th very few artists can match. This year his paint- org. year in the largest art exhibition held west of ings are being celebrated in a variety of ways. Garden and the Mississippi. It’s the Prix de West held at There’s an article in the June/July Other exhibitions where you have the chance Gun the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Magazine where the writer accompanies to see the work of Don and marine artist Botany Bay Wildlife Management Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. him to the Christopher Blossom each year include Area Edisto Island Chris, along with John Stobart, is one of on to watch him paint in the Masters of the American West Fine the field. Of his approach observing the land- Art Exhibition and Sale held at the Autry the maritime artists who have been invited to exhibit each year. But not only has he been scape West says to the writer, “I paint to learn, Museum in Los Angeles in February/March of rather than learn to paint.” each year, and American Masters Exhibition invited to exhibit, he’s won virtually every Prix held in October each year at the newly refur- award there is to win, from the prestigious His second coffee table size book Painting the

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Robert Salmon (1775-ca. 1845) Merchantman Entering the River Clyde (Signed lr - RS 1814) Oil on Canvas 23 1/4” x 37 1/4” $225,000

23 Patrick O’Brien (b. 1960) USS Constitution vs. HMS Java, December 29, 1812 Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $13,500

The USS Constitution was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1797, one of the first of the original six frigates that made up the U.S. Navy. She carried 44 guns and a crew of more than 450. During the War of 1812, the Constitution won several important victories over the British, demonstrating that the new American Navy could stand up to the greatest sea power in the world. This painting depicts her second victory—over HMS Java, a frigate of 38 guns, 30 miles off the coast of Brazil on December 29, 1812. The Constitution’s captain, Commodore William Bainbridge, maneuvered for position and opened fire from about a half a mile away. The two ships traded broadsides, and Java had the better of it at first, but after three and a half hours, the Constitution’s overwhelming firepower and superior gunnery had reduced the Java to a hulk, her masts shot away and her Captain mortally wounded. Java was too badly damaged to be saved, so after taking the remaining British sailors as prisoners, and replacing his own shattered wheel with Java’s wheel, (now on display in the King’s Point Museum in New York), Commodore Bainbridge burned and sank the British ship. The Constitution returned to Boston, where there was great rejoicing over the victory. Bainbridge and the crew were awarded medals and prize money in recognition of their spectacular triumph over the Royal Navy.

Continued from page 22 patron Ludovico Forza, on the eve of her mar- destination. It was a simple shipping depot, sion. What actually followed is under debate riage. Historian and Leonardo Da Vinci expert if you will. Over the years it grew to be very and is being adjudicated in the courts as we Martin Kemp believes this is so as he details large. Its first tenant was the firm of Natural write. Essentially, the Russian oligarch turned in his 2010 book La Bella Principessa: The Le Coultre. Over a hundred years they shipped over all responsibility for sourcing, negotiating, Profile portrait of a Milanese Woman. everything from fruit to machinery, and even shipping, advising, etc. to Bouvier – different Red Cross But wait, not so fast. According to British food to the for prisoners of war tasks, requiring different skills and knowledge forger Shaun Greenhalg, in his memoir The during World War I. This all changed in 1997 usually performed on behalf of a major col- Forger’s Tale, he describes his role in this however, when Yves Bouvier at the age of 34 lector by a number of different specialists. For painting. “I drew this picture in 1978 when I took over the firm from his father. Since then his part, Rybolovlev agreed to pay 2% of the worked at the Co-op Supermarket. The sitter the firm has handled only works of art. It now price he paid for a painting to Bouvier. In one was based on a girl named Sally, who worked occupies over 60,000 sq. ft. of storage space deal in 2004, for example, Bouvier brokered on the checkouts. Despite her humble posi- and has way over a million works of art in its a Picasso painting, “Les Noces de Pierriette,” tion, she was a bossy little bugger, and very care. from William Aquavella for Rybolovlev, who self-important.” According to Scotland Yard, What else has changed? Well, it seems that very paid $43.8 million. Bouvier’s 2% fee would Greenhalg, along with his brothers and parents often items that now come into the “freeport” have been in the neighborhood of $900,000. are known to have sold a large number of forg- never actually leave. It’s become sort of a tax Not bad. But soon it became clear that some- eries to museums, auction houses and private free holding ground for objects of value, from thing wasn’t adding up. First Bouvier started Moscow buyers. As the Yard describes them, they’re cars, jewelry, artwork for the wealthy around an art fair in , then in 2008 spent $100 possibly “the most diverse forgery team in the the world. Young Bouvier for his part, early million to build a gigantic “freeport” next to the Singapore world, ever.” In 2010 the Victoria and Albert on saw the value in the artwork he was receiv- International Airport, and in 2014 in Luxemburg Museum even included a number of Greenhalg ing, storing, and occasionally shipping, and , attracting top quality tenants like Christie’s forgeries in an exhibition. For its part, the began dabbling in buying and selling. In one the auction house . Metropolitan Police Services Investigation deal buying a painting from Peintres Hermes, But funding for these massive, lush storage says that for the “Bella Princepessa” Greenhalg a Wildenstein gallery, for $9.5 million and areas had others in the trade puzzled. Natural used a document dating from 1589 as his selling it two weeks later for $11.3 million Le Coultre’s profits had historically been canvas and painted the painting on the top of to Mandarin Trading, a Bahamas-based art known to be a few million dollars a year. As a Victorian school desk. But a French labora- fund. (He later sued the Wildensteins for fraud one rival said, according to The New Yorker tory tested the chalk pigment, and said the and overcharging.) But it turns out this was just Magazine, “Of course we wondered. We’re not artwork is at least 250 years old. So who do you small time dealing for him. billionaires, and to build “freeports” you need believe? The cops? The experts? The scientists? Enter now one Dimitry Rybolovlev, who to be a billionaire.” Or the forger? Wow! moved to Geneva in 1995 after taking over Well, it turns out that it was Rybolovlev’s And then there’s the fascinating case of HSBC Uralkali, a state-owned potash mining com- money funding all of this expansion. After get- and one of its major clients, Russian billion- pany at the age of 29. But even Swiss residency ting divorced from his wife, and being forced aire Dimitry Rybolovlev, Rybolovlev’s wife’s couldn’t protect Rybolovlev from spending to cash in his Uralkali stock for $5 billion, dentist’s friend, a Bulgarian publisher, Tania eleven months in custody in Russia, accused of he went on a buying spree between 2000 and Rappo, and Swiss art shipper Yves Bouvier, ordering a contract killing of a rival business- 2008, buying 28 artworks from Bouvier. It who has been accused of overcharging the man, for which he was ultimately cleared. But doesn’t necessarily sound like a lot, but it’s Russian collector on the sale of art to the tune back in Geneva, Rybolovlev, who only spoke the numbers that are astounding. He bought a of $1,000,000,000, and then laundering pro- Russian, decided that he and his wife should Modigliani privately from New York hedge ceeds of the sales through Ms. Rappo. purchase some art to fill the walls of their new fund manager Steve Cohen for $93.5 million; Tania Rappo It all started back in 1888 in Geneva, mansion. Enter , a friend of the a rediscovered Leonardo Da Vinci for $127.5 Switzerland, when a small storage area near wife of Elena Rybolovlev’s dentist, who became million; a Gustav Klimt (a piece that had been the waterfront was set aside as a “freeport” a family friend and all-around confidant. Soon originally seized by the Nazis) for $183 mil- where goods could be brought in, tax and duty Rappo introduced Elena to Bouvier who agreed lion. That would amount to a pretty good profit free, temporarily on their way to their final to pay Rappo a sort of “finder’s fee” commis- to Bouvier if he was just taking his 2% off the

24 top. But this is where this story takes its turn. Einstein.” But it turns out, it may not just be the love of According to Rybolovlev’s lawyer, Bouvier While the cases against Bouvier rattle on, art that keeps billionaire collectors buying and was not just brokering the paintings, but was (the ones in Singapore and Hong Kong have selling art. According to some, like Senator Ron Wyden Oregon agreeing to one price with the seller and a recently been dropped), Rybolovlev is also cur- of , the tax provision different price with Rybolovlev, reaping an rently suing the police for a botched investiga- known as “like-kind exchange,” set up in the additional profit unknown to Rybolovlev. How tion. It will be interesting to see who prevails. 1920s to help ease the burden for farmers who much? Well, reportedly he sold Rybolovlev a Is this truly a case of caveat emptor in a mar- wanted to swap properties, has become a “tax Picasso painting for $25 million that he had ket that is essentially unregulated? And from avoidance” tool for high-end buyers and sellers purchased the day before for $3.5 million, a Bouvier, the final word on the deals that put a of art. Wyden wants to see that come to an end. cool $21.5 million profit! But it took a casual cool billion dollars in his pocket, “It’s always a Here’s how it works. . . A collector/investor can conversation for things to really unravel. . . question of what I will earn on the deal.” actually delay, or even avoid paying the 28% This conversation took place on the island of Collectors in the United States looking to ware- capital gains tax on the sale of art and other col- St. Barts where, according to The New Yorker, house art, no longer have to look to Switzerland, lectibles by using the profits from one sale to New York art consultant Sandy Heller, Steve but only to the small state of Delaware, where make a purchase of a similar collectible. Sellers Cohen’s art advisor, met Rybolovlev and the its own “freeport” area has recently been can actually sell a work, buy another with the subject of the Modigliani painting (sold by opened. Delaware is one of only five states proceeds, and hold the new purchase until they Cohen and bought by the Russian) came up. without any sales or use tax, and its proximity die, or lend it to a museum, and can avoid Along the line it came out that Cohen had to large auction houses in Manhattan make it capital gains taxes altogether. Detractors have actually sold the painting to Bouvier for $93.5 an ideal place to ship and warehouse art with likened this to basically receiving a no interest Josh million and the Russian, thinking that Bouvier all the tax advantages and none of the hassles loan from the government. As art adviser Baer was negotiating on his best behalf, had actu- of shipping to the “freeports” in Europe. A said, “You can defer millions of dollars of ally bought from Bouvier (not Cohen) for $118 number of companies are currently operating in taxes if you’re doing transactions over 25 years, million. Delaware, including Atelier, the Philadelphia each time buying something more expensive. Manhattan Each time you don’t pay the capital gains tax This opened a “Pandora’s box,” which art storage company, and -based Crozier Fine Arts who has nearly 50,000 sq. along the way, at the end of the day, you’re today includes lawsuits against Bouvier by way ahead.” Rybolovlev, charging him with profiting for ft. of warehouse in Delaware. The “freeport” over one billion dollars! The Monaco police also includes the largest international art ship- There are some restrictions to qualify under Delaware Freeport arrested both Bouvier and Rappo in February per, started by Austrian this provision of the law, officially known as Fritz Dietl 2015, and the U.S. Justice Department opened émigré in 1991 with a fax machine the “1031 Exchange”: All purchases must be an inquiry into money laundering and fraud and rented room at Kennedy Airport. For inves- strictly for business, not for personal enjoy- charges against Bouvier and Rappo. Rappo’s tors, these warehouses have exactly the same ment. This is where “freeports” as storage areas take in the whole operation has been estimated tax advantages as those overseas. A collector come in for art purchased for investment. The to be over $100 million. purchasing a work of art in New York, can purchase must be a “like-kind” item, although have it shipped to Delaware and pay no sales while not clearly defined, is generally under- For his part, Bouvier, who now controls over 40 tax. Once there, a work can be bought and sold stood to mean you can sell a painting to buy companies worldwide, is apparently unapolo- in the storage space and have no tax or transac- another painting, not to buy a sculpture. The getic. As he told the New Yorker, “If I tricked tion fees. Dietl expects that by later this year he exchange must be completed with the help of him (Rybolovlev), I’m not only the best art will have about $100 million of artwork stored an independent intermediary or agents, and dealer in the world, I’m also a genius. I’m in his facility. take place within 180 days. Continued on page 29

Harry Heine (1928-2004) USCGC Mellon in the Puget Sound Watercolor 20” x 28” $4,800 The first ever National Coast Guard Museum, a state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot facility, is now under con- struction and scheduled to open in New London, Connecticut in 2020. It will showcase the 2,000 works of art done by the maritime artists who have partici- pated in the Coast Guard Art Program started by artist George Gray in 1980. For more information, visit coastguard- museum.org.

25 Sporting Art News Arthur Shilstone – A Lifetime Of Drawing & Painting. The book is a fasci- nating look at the distinguished career Shilstone has led as both a commer- cial illustrator and today’s foremost Sporting Art watercolorist. The story starts with the earliest years of Shilstone having to endure the aftermath and hardships of the Great Depression, then goes on to chronicle his expe- rience in WWII as part of The Ghost Army and The Korean Conflict as an illustrator during the Pacific Airlift and Evacuation. The story continues on to his illustration career, working for more than 36 national magazines, and countless companies throughout the world, and finally culminates with extensive coverage of his 35-year career in the Sporting Art field. The book has been very well received by art enthusiasts and collectors and admirers of Shilstone’s work and has had some very good coverage in such publica- tions as Gray’s Sporting Journal, Shooting Sportsman and Classic Angling. The book, written by Fred Polhemus, the Nation’s foremost authority on Shilstone’s work, is offered as a Trade Edition for $44.95. Additionally, a few of the 100 limited-edition books are still available which include a signed & numbered book and signed, limited edition giclée at $150 To order your copy of Arthur Shilstone – A Lifetime Of Drawing & Painting, contact the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery at sportingartnews@gmail. The Runner Watercolor 18” x 25” $8,800 Arthur Shilstone (b. 1922) com, or call the gallery at (203) 259-8753. 2015 had some milestones in the sporting art arena. The first of mention Mike Stidham has launched 2016 with a series of new Flats paintings that is a sad note with the passing of sporting art legendary great Al Barnes. Al are filling the void left by Al Barnes. Mike’s brilliant renderings of the grand fought a long, hard, courageous battle with leukemia for many years and Flats seascapes are nothing short of breathtaking and collectors have been finally succumbed to the disease. While he will be missed by family, friends grabbing them as soon as they are off the easel. Mike is as proficient and and admirers of his brilliant painting – most notably in the last decade as skilled at painting subjects “above water” as he is painting fish in their natu- the premier Flats painter – his legacy will live on through his artwork and ral environments sub-surface (in situ). With this recent series of paintings, with those who were fortunate enough to have acquired one or more of his Mike has been thrilled to approach “The Flats” from an angler’s perspec- works during his career. Over his 50-year career, he was celebrated and fea- tive. Mike is planning a trip to either Belize or the Bahamas in the coming tured in countless magazines and with a myriad of organizations that hon- months to gather more material for additional works. That’s the kind of ored him along the way. As recently as last year, Al’s work was prominently “work research” we would all enjoy! Mike has made several trips in the last featured in Anglers Journal Magazine, in which he was profiled as one of the year to Jackson Hole WY, fishing and studying the masters of painting and finest sporting artists of his time and the premier Flats painter in the mar- wildlife art – Rungius, Aspevig and Christensen, to name just a few. Mike ket. In the past year, Al had been bestowed with many great honors in addi- has been greatly influenced by these landscape painters and others and they tion to his many previous awards, including having one of his Flats paintings have all influenced how Mike approaches his execution. These external accepted into the American Museum Of Fly Fishing Permanent Collection influences have allowed Mike to redefine and expand upon his techniques - a rare honor indeed – which puts him in company with many of Sporting as a painter. Stidham’s latest works have been featured at the J. Russell Art’s Legends. The Harvey Weil Foundation of Corpus Christi, TX (an Jinishian Gallery and at the Orvis Sandanona Sportsman’s Palette Exhibition organization supporting ongoing sportsman conservation efforts) presented and Sale. Along with fellow artists Arthur Shilstone, Al Barnes and Stanley Al with the distinguished ‘Living Legend’ Award and Al was recognized Meltzoff, one of Mike’s paintings was recently accepted into the American for his 40+ years of constant and active conservation support for organiza- Museum of Fly Fishing’s Permanent Collection and will be on display in a tions such as The Billfish Foundation, The Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, The major exhibition on saltwater flyfishing slated for 2017, presented by the International Game Fish Association, Coastal Conservation Association, Museum, in several locations throughout the US. Ducks Unlimited and countless other smaller, regional organizations. We all Stanley Meltzoff’s artwork continued to have a very busy 2015, with more hope that, wherever Al may be, he is busy chasing fish on some beautiful events coming in 2016. The Meltzoff exhibition in Green Bay at the Neville Flats setting somewhere and having great luck with this endeavor! Public Museum was met with great enthusiasm and was a resounding suc- On a happier note, 2015 marked Arthur Shilstone’s 93rd year and more cess. The Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, KS will host an than 70 years as a professional artist with the official release of the book: exhibition of his work that will be open to the public at the time of this printing. In the fall, this exhibition returns east to the Museum Of The Earth at Cornell in Ithaca, NY where it is expected to run for as long as Sporting Art at six months. The Bight Magazine will feature an article on Stanley’s work (including cover art) coming out in the Fall 2016 issue – Keep an eye out for it! Additionally, two more premium Meltzoff paintings will be included in the Jackson Hole Art Auction in September 2016, after the resounding success of his previous auction results Orvis Sandanona in Millbrook, NY in collaboration with in 2015 & 2014. J. Russell Jinishian Gallery in Fairfield, CT present an ongoing Exhibition and Sale featuring 50 new paint- Additional strong exposure for Stanley’s work ings from today’s premier Sporting Artists and is open comes through a recent joint venture in which National Geographic Creative announced its to the public. For exhibition information: jrusselljinishi- Roger Blum (b. 1950) Morning Flight angallery.com and orvis.com/sandanona Oil on Canvas 9” x 12” $2,900 partnership with Silverfish Press in the Stanley Meltzoff Fine Art Collection. This collection

26 – an extensive cross section of Stanley’s entire he will be headed south again Upcoming Exhibitions and portfolio – both in the fish-painting as well in the coming season, so stay as his extensive illustration career – is now avail- tuned for what may arrive from Events of Note able to the public exclusively through National Harley after this next trip! Sporting Art News Geographic Creative. This joint venture, many The Orvis Game Fair and Country CONTEMPORARY SPORTING Mark Susinno’s work was fea- years in the works, is now officially launched! Sporting Weekend ART MASTERS tured in this year’s Virginia Harley Bartlett has been busy creating new Fly Fishing & Wine Festival Sandanona Shooting Grounds in Featuring over 150 original works for many of his galleries and has been par- this April in Doswell, VA fol- Millbrook, New York, on September paintings and sculptures ticularly busy with the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, lowed by the 2016 Art & The 17 & 18, 2016 between the hours of by leading artists. Fairfield CT on a series of southern waters Flats Animal Show at The Canton 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Sportsman’s J. Russell Jinishian Gallery paintings. Following a trip south Harley made Museum Of Art in Canton OH, Palette exhibition will be on full Fairfield, CT this past year in search of Bones and Permits, which runs through mid-July display during the two-day event 203-259-8753 Harley returned with a fresh data collected while 2016. Simultaneously, Mark and will continue through the year, jrusselljinishiangallery.com down there and a host of ideas for a number of is exhibiting two paintings at with 30 paintings on display from Ongoing new works. Harley continues to provide the very the America’s Parks I Encore today’s premier Sporting Artists. finest in fresh-water fly fishing and upland game Exhibition at the Lightner American Museum Of Fly Fishing subjects but has also added many terrific new Museum in St. Augustine, FL Flats paintings to his portfolio. And it looks like – an exhibition that will run Orvis Sandanona On Fly in the Salt: American through the Shooting Grounds Saltwater Fly Fishing from summer of Millbrook, NY the Surf to the Flats. 2016. orvis.com/sandanona This multifaceted traveling and 845-677-9701 online exhibition will showcase Nick Mayer never has and chronicle the history of a shortage Mott & Chace - Sotheby’s American saltwater fly fishing of material International Realty from its early European roots to on which Watch Hill, RI its current popularity to report Sporting & Marine Art Exhibition – amff.com – 2017 and 2016 is Through December 31, 2016 802-362-3300 proving to mottandchace.com be as busy 401-315-0808 for Nick as any year in the past – in fact, featured on the Cover of TBF’s 30th Anniversary probably more so! With the January issue of Billfish Magazine. This award start of the year, Nick was involved Nick creating the cover art that was bestowed the great honor then used to create a limited edition run of prints of being recognized as the to commemorate their 30th Anniversary. The 2016 Artist of the Year by first 100 of the 350 print edition featured hand- The Billfish Foundation and a painted remarques. This is a great honor indeed Harley Bartlett (b. 1959) Brookie Pursuit painting he specially created for Nick and will certainly give his work some Oil on Canvas 20” x 24” $5,750 for The Foundation was very high-profile exposure. Nick’s artwork was also fea- tured in the Spring 2016 issue of Anglers Journal Magazine. His painting ‘Moonlit Epitokes and Linesider’ is featured as a 2 page spread to accompany an article by fellow angler and friend John Jinishian on the “Magic Hatch” a wonderfully writ- ten story on the cinder worm hatch in Southern New England salt ponds. At the time of this printing, Nick’s work is also found prominently featured in the July 2016 issue of Grays Sporting Journal – Cover #3, with his moody work, Snook & Deceiver. Nick is putting the finishing touches on his latest book, an adult coloring book called Coastal Life by Fox Chapel Publishing. Fred Polhemus Mike Stidham (b. 1954) A Day On The Flats Oil on Canvas 28” x 46” $15,500 Sporting Art Specialist [email protected] 27 Continued from page 22

Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser was mind and times of the greatest marine artist of paintings! Of course, not all artists feel strongly published by the University of South Carolina the 19th century. about their frames. In fact, it really wasn’t until Press in June. See our book page for more Another art world drama was produced by the late 19th century that artists got involved in information. His first book was Charleston in online entertainment provider Crackle. The framing their work in any way. Today’s frames My Time: The Paintings of West Fraser, also Art of More premiered in November 2015. It’s can cost from hundreds of dollars for frames published in 2001. How popular are West’s the story of one Graham Connor (Christian that are manufactured in a factory, to thousands paintings to collectors? Well, his sister Carolyn Cooke), a former soldier in Iraq, and antiquities of dollars for what are hand-carved, “finished told me, “Everything he paints these days gets thief, who is on his way to becoming a player corner” frames. purchased virtually right off the easel.” As if in the fictional Parke-Mason, a high class In New York City, Eli Wilner & Company that weren’t enough, he’s scheduled for a one- Manhattan auction house. The plot has him has taken that specialty a step further by man museum exhibition (his third) at Gibbes courting a billionaire real estate tycoon, played employing its skilled craftsman to replicate Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina by Dennis Quaid, to secure his huge art collec- period frames for museums around the country. from January 28 through May of 2017. More tion for the auction house. A rival auction house Their current project involved making a frame information can be found at gibbesmuseum.org representative, played by Kate Bosworth, is for a Vincent van Gogh painting from the In New York City, a series of four whaling also vying for his collection. It should come as late 1880s “Landscape Under a Stormy Sky.” scenes painted by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) no surprise that this story includes manipulation Wilner & Company has been commissioned to in 1845 will be united for the very first time at and seduction—basically a behind-the-scenes create an intricate, delicate frame that replicates the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May look at the inside, often cutthroat, workings of the one on van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night” 10 to August 7. Many believe that Herman the auction world. Reviews are mixed. Season in the Museum of Modern Art. The cost for Melville’s American novel Moby Dick, pub- One seemed to be a success. Season Two is this new frame? A cool $48,000. Remember lished in 1851, may have been inspired by being filmed in Montreal as we write. that next time, when you swallow hard at your these Turner paintings which Melville would Most of us have had the experience of taking next framing bill. have seen during his visit to London in 1849. a small photograph, painting, or poster into a The Marine Art community took some heavy In addition to the four paintings, the exhibition frame shop to have the appropriate frame made blows in the past year with some of its finest tal- will include a series of related watercolors, that would show it off and complement it, real- ents being called over the bar, including paint- books, and prints displayed with side-sections izing when it is all said and done, the cost of ers Tom Freeman (b. 1952); Michael Keane of Melville’s text, and even the whaling har- the frame well exceeded what is being framed! (b. 1948); William Gilkerson (b. 1936); Victor poon from the South Street Seaport Museum. So then the question becomes, what’s so impor- Mays (b. 1927); Don Stoltenberg (b. 1927); Turner was also the subject of a feature film tant about a frame anyway? Well, some artists Don Stone (b. 1929); Sculptors Wick Ahrens recently, chronicling the last 25 years of his life, throughout history, like (1844- (b. 1944); and Kathy Spalding (b. 1952); “Mr. Turner” is directed by Mike Leigh, and 1916), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), impres- Peter Stanford (b. 1927) the founder of South stars Timothy Spall as Turner. It received four sionist (1830-1903), have Street Seaport, NYC. We will miss them. nominations at the 87th Academy Awards. It felt that it was so important to the presentation Ian Marshall – While the exhibitions are is the story of Turner’s life after the death of of their work that they all designed their own places where collectors and the public can his father, when he developed a close relation- frames. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and enjoy a wide variety of artwork it, the real ship with his landlady, with whom he lived in Augustus Saint-Gaudans (1848-1907) actu- “work” takes place in the privacy and quiet of Chelsea. He was known to his neighbors simply ally commissioned frames designed by leading an artist’s studio. So take a look at what some as “Captain.” The director said, “I felt there architect Stanford White. Leave it to James of the talented artists have been working on was a scope for a film examining the tension Whistler (1834-1903) to take it one step fur- recently. American Society of Marine Artist between this very mortal, flawed individual and ther. He felt his frames were so integrated with past President Ian Marshall has hunkered the epic work, the spiritual way he had distill- the paintings and shouldn’t be separate that he down in his studio the last several years creat- ing the world.” It’s a fascinating insight into the actually signed his frames rather than sign his ing 73 paintings and sketches (and writing a Continued on page 38

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER J. Russell Jinishian, a graduate of Cornell Univesity, is internationally recognized as America’s leading authority on contemporary marine art. The former long time Director of the Marine Art Gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum, his writings have appeared in Sailing, Sea History, American Artist, Art New England and other publications. For many years he was the Art Critic for the Connecticut Post and a Contributing Editor of Nautical World Magazine, where his popular column on marine art appeared regularly. He sits on the advisory board of the National Maritime Historical Society, and is a member of the New York Yacht Club. He is the author of Bound for Blue Water, considered the definitive Guide to Contemporary Marine Art. He currently operates the J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Sporting Art and continues Visit us at to lecture nationally on marine art and collecting. He may be reached at 1899 Bronson Road, Fairfield, CT 06824. Phone: 203-259-8753 Fax: J. Russell Jinishian Gallery 203-259-8761, or e-mail: [email protected]. 1899 Bronson Road Fairfield, CT 06824 Marine Art News designed by Alane Gianetti | Books & Events edited by Peach Pair www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com

28 Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) Quiet Reflection Oil on Panel 22” x 42” $14,500 New York Central Tug #24, Pier 4, Weehawken, New Jersey, 1968 Continued from page 25

In the 2016 budget, the Obama Administration In this scenario the trust legally owns the art, they’re exploring whether the benefit the public has proposed eliminating all the tax breaks for and assumes responsibility and the cost for receives equates to the tax benefit the collec- art and other collectibles, and to limit it in storage and care of it, while “sheltering” the tor/museum receives. Under the microscope other areas like real estate. They estimate this appreciation of it. The estate can then essential- are places like the Brant Foundation Art will generate an additional of $19.5 billion in ly rent it back at a fair market rate to enjoy in Study Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, revenue over the next ten years. Proponents people’s houses or offices. The tricky question Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, of the exchanges, like Suzanne Goldstein is, establishing fair market rent. This “renting” and the new Broad Art Museum in Los Baker, former President of the Federation of is done often with real estate where the fair Angeles. Senator Orin Hatch of Utah is Exchange Accommodators, say, “It stimulates market rate is easily understood. The area is leading the charge. As he said, “Tax exempt activity for galleries and their commissions, much murkier when it comes to fair market rent museums should focus on providing a public and auction houses, and CPAs, and art ship- for art. Timothy Bresnahan, Vice President good and not the art of skirting around the tax pers. You have a lot of people who are upstream of Planning and Advisory Services, Northern code. Under the law, these organizations have a and downstream who are ordinary working Trust says, “If a collector puts artwork in a duty to promote the public interest, not those of people.” Other supporters say that it doesn’t trust and then leases it back for a dollar, that well-off benefactors. Plain and simple.” make any sense to eliminate exchanges for would be a clear violation of Trustee duties What are the benefits to the private collectors artworks, but not, for example, for real estate and responsibilities.” His advice is for the trust who open museums? Well, they can deduct because these days sometimes a single work to consult an art leasing firm to set the rental the full market value of the art they buy and of art can be worth more than the building in price. There are a number of these compa- donate it to the museum. They can also deduct which it is stored! nies across the country, including Chicago Art the value of any cash and stocks they donate. Leasing, or New York-based Artemus. They But even using a series of exchanges over Plus, they deduct the cost of insuring, ware- are in the business of leasing artwork to cor- time, upon a collector’s death his heirs must housing and other expenses related to keeping porations and individuals. Their monthly rates pay estate tax. But savvy collectors have also the art. Hatch’s inquiry is far reaching, from tend to range from 5-12% of the retail price of found a way to address this issue too through looking into the Brant Study Center, which a work of art. something known as the “Revocable Trust.” is located adjacent to Brant’s personal estate Mainly this has been used for real estate and What if the heirs want to sell a work of art at in Greenwich, Connecticut, and is open by other assets, but today collectors are now plac- some point? Well, they can’t directly. The Trust appointment, and occasionally to the public, to ing their artwork in the ownership of the Trust has to do that. Most state laws allow artwork examining Eli Broad’s ambitious architectural so that it is no longer legally a part of an estate, to remain in trust for approximately 21 years, landmark three story museum in downtown Los thus removing it from estate taxation. The way although the benefactor may instruct that the Angeles, which has been opened to the public this works is that artwork is actually “gifted” Trust sell the artwork, and give the proceeds since September 2015. to the trust, and appraised at that time for tax to the heirs sometime before that. In either We would do well to remember that some of purposes. The amount of the appraised value case, capital gains taxes have to be paid on the the country’s most important museums were that falls above the annual $14,000 exemption artwork at the time it’s sold, and the tax basis is started by private collectors and their personal from gift taxes is deducted from the owner’s generally considered to be the amount original- collections, including the Frick Collection lifetime combined federal gift tax and estate ly paid for the art by the donor. Best to consult in New York, The Phillips and Hirshhorn tax exemption, which is currently $5.45 mil- with a lawyer to set this up to your best benefit. Collections in Washington, D.C., and even Visit us at lion. The assumption of the benefit behind this But it’s not only individual collectors who are the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., a is that by placing the art in trust and having it J. Russell Jinishian Gallery being scrutinized for their tax status. Recently, gift to the nation from Pittsburgh collector and appraised at that time (instead of holding onto the Senate Finance Committee has been tak- financier Andrew Mellon in 1937. 1899 Bronson Road the art, and then having it appraised at the time ing a close look at a dozen small private when the owner dies, when it may well have But who can forget the most famous art museum Fairfield, CT 06824 museums started by individual collectors, and appreciated) will result in a lower tax liability. heist in American History? On March 18, 1990, www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com questioning their tax exempt status. Basically at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in

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Boston, Massachusetts, two men dressed in poorly on a lie detector test.” They also say that ing through Oldenburg, Indiana on his day Boston police uniforms told security guards at Gentile discussed the theft with fellow inmates off cleaning floors at the Honda plant in the museum they were responding to a report of while in prison, and that he offered to negotiate Greensburg, Indiana, when he saw a tag sale a disturbance. After being let into the museum, the sale of two of the paintings for the FBI for and he pulled over. Among the items in a pile they handcuffed the two guards and put them $500,000 after he was released from prison in of paintings on the porch was a painting of into the basement, and proceeded to remove 2014. As John H. Durham, U.S. Asst. District seven men playing pool. He liked it, but knew 13 works of art by artists like Rembrandt, Attorney said, “There’s 99% certainty that Mr. he didn’t want to pay the full asking price of Edgar Degas, Manet, and Vermeer, valued Gentile was lying when he said he didn’t know $1. So after a little negotiating, he walked away at some $500 million. Though the artwork has anything about the Gardner Museum robbery having paid 50 cents. He loved the painting, never been recovered, the museum has offered before it happened, had never seen any of the and it traveled with him to wherever he went. a $5,000,000 reward for its return. The FBI Gardner paintings, and didn’t know where any He even kept it when he burned everything that believes the thieves were part of a criminal of them were.” he couldn’t fit in his minivan. But it wasn’t until organization operating in New England and Pallete and In the latest twist, the FBI has released a grainy recently that he noticed the words the mid-Atlantic, who took the paintings to Chisel Club 1910 surveillance video taken the night before the were painted on the comer of Connecticut and subsequently to Philadelphia. heist, which apparently shows two men being the painting. He did a little research and found Their lead suspect is a 79-year-old professional buzzed into the museum, prompting an attorney that the Club was founded in 1895, and was still criminal, Robert V. Gentile, a.k.a. The Cook, Chicago in Quincy, Massachusetts to come forward in existence in today, and had counted a made member of the Philadelphia Mob with saying that his client, “someone in the antique some of the area’s best known artists amongst a criminal record dating back to the 1950s. trade” who wished to remain anonymous its members. He then reached out to several Seventh grade educated, Gentile’s most recent because he was in fear for his life, recognized art dealers, who instantly made him offers for appearance in court was January 2016, charged another man in the antique trade on that video. the painting for between $500 and $1,500. with selling a loaded .38 caliber revolver in “That’s when I realized this might be worth what turned out to be a government sting to Retired FBI agent Tom Cassano, who worked something,” he said. He eventually turned to try to get him to tell what he knew about the on the Gardner Case, recently gave his thoughts Indianapolis dealer Curt Churchman, who art theft. The FBI first began to suspect him in on it in a speech to the Amesbury Rotary discovered that the painting was actually done May of 2013 after he was convicted on other Club. He observed that they knew the theft was by seven artists, one of whom was Taos, New federal charges—weapons possession and nar- not an “insurance job” because the museum Mexico artist Victor Higgins (1884-1949). cotics—and sentenced him to thirty months had no insurance. Cassano and his team “tried When it was set to go to auction recently, in prison. Although Mr. Gentile denied any every angle you could think of” to uncover the Churchman said, “I think $10,000 is realistic. I knowledge of the heist, investigators actually thieves. According to him, the best lead was “an think a good day at auction could maybe bring dug up his property, searching it with “ground- IRA guy.” But that never panned out because, $25,000.” Ronnebaum said he would miss the penetrating” radar looking for clues. As a result, before they could get to him, he was shot and painting but said, “Watch and see if I pass up a they found what appeared to be a pricelist for killed by his wife who, herself, died of a heroin yard sale now!” each of the paintings, and a copy of an article overdose. So “if they stashed the paintings Online Art Sales Options - One area that about the heist. They apparently even offered somewhere, who knows where they are?” So auction houses and private dealers are ventur- Gentile the $5,000,000 reward if he told them much for art as a genteel business. ing into with both feet these days, are online the location of the artwork. Although he denied How is this for a good story. One day, not sales—using a dizzying array of companies and any knowledge, authorities said “he performed to long ago, Jesse Ronnebaum was driv- formats to achieve these. What part do online Continued on page 32 30 Lloyd McCaffery: Master of Miniatures

Lloyd McCaffery (b. 1949) United States Brig of War Argus 1803 Scale: 1 “= 16’ 11” x 16” x 9” encased $45,000 Basswood, Boxwood, Apple, Lancewood, Painted Basswood Sea with Laurel Burl Base (Portside View)

Argus was a handsome brig built in 1803. She was 94’ 9” in length with a 27’ 4” beam, and 12’ 8” depth of hold. Her original armament was 16 24-pound carronades and 2 long 12’s. She was one of four vessels built to reinforce the squadrons in the Mediterranean who were combating the depredations of the Barbary powers. She was designed by Joseph Hartt, and built by Edmund Hartt in Charlestown, Massachusetts. She had a tall, narrow rig as befitted her service in the Mediterranean. She was captured by HBM Brig Pelican in the channel on August 14, 1813. This exquisite model’s hull is carved from solid basswood and planked over. The deck planking is made of crab apple wood, laid ‘sprung in” that is, it is curved and tapered fore and aft. All deck fittings and accoutrements are individually fitted together including hatch gratings, the ship’s wheel, and fiferails. The boats are shown nested, with the thwarts of the lower boat removed to lower the center of gravity. All guns are fitted and rigged with tackles. A large crew is placed at various points on the model, engaged in diverse tasks. The ship’s cat is lounging on deck. The masts and yards are made of lancewood, and all tops and trestletrees are built up. The rigging is made of Nichrome wire. It is essential to use a strong wire like this to establish the catenary of the rigging, and show the lines under the influence of wind. This type of wire also gives proper set to the various flags and pennants. The sails are the most important aspect of this model. McCaffery uses two approaches to get the effect of realistic sails. The first, for sails that are fully set with ‘belly’, he uses a Japanese hand-made paper called masa. He carves wood forms to the exact shape and size of the sail to be made. The paper is quickly soaked with water, and carefully pulled into shape over the form. When dry, it is then painted and sanded until smooth. Then he adds cloth lines, bolt ropes, points, and other details. The result looks convincingly like an actual sail. For jibs and staysails, the artist cuts the scallop shaped edge of the sail where it strains against the stay. Sails that are clewed up are carved from apple wood. This is a slow, exacting process, as there are no straight lines, even where the sail is fixed to the yard. The main topsail on this model is also made of wood. This is because of the complex sags and bulges where the sail is taken aback against the main mast and rigging. The incredibly realistic sea is carved from basswood, then painted to show a small chop of waves. McCaffery has set the hull of the ship with some heel to leeward, with the bow rising up through the waves as she makes her way forward. The model is mounted on a custom-made laurel burl veneer base.

United States Brig of War Argus (Starboardside View) 31 Joseph B. Smith (1798-1876) Bark James L. Davis Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $75,000

Continued from page 30 sales play in the overall market? Well, cur- United Kingdom, Paris, Hong Kong, Doha, and $100,000. Another New York-based online rently “Auction Room” sales account for 40% Zurich, Milan, and Geneva. (Sotheby’s.com site, Auctionata, which raised $52 million to of total sales. Private sales and dealers, 53%, and eBay.com/Sotheby’s) start its business in 2014, offers free online val- and the rest, including online sales, is in the This “digitizing” of auctions has evolved as uation of an artwork and an opportunity to con- neighborhood of $407 million, or about 7% of people’s comfort level with purchasing in sign artwork to them for sale, where they offer the overall market. Both major auction houses the digital world has increased. Sotheby’s, collectibles for an agreed upon price (not an have actually been holding some “online only” Lofty. for example, tried partnering with eBay once auction) recommended by their expert. auctions themselves. In fact, Christie’s reports com before in 2002, but without success. The knock is another site offering a similar service. that 20% of its new buyers came to the auction against online bidding has been that it has pro- In February 2016, a Swedish-based auction house through their digital online auctions. duced no big money sales – most being in the house, Barnabys.com, founded in 2011, While each auction house allows you to bid neighborhood of $10-15,000—but in the past opened an office in New York City. They live through their Web sites at auction, they few years that has begun to change. Jewelry boast that they offer over half a million items are also collaborating with a number of online in particular is doing well. A platinum and dia- for sale, connecting with 1,000 auction houses sellers. This can get a little confusing. But, mond ring sold for $3.25 million dollars at an worldwide. The way it works is that users for example, Sotheby’s has held an “online online sale in 2015. log on to the site and type in their area of only” auction of contemporary art partnered Not to be out done, an up-and-coming auction collecting interest. That instantly brings up with Artsy that took bids via its own Web house, Heritage Auctions in Dallas, posted the items that will be available at upcoming site and iPad and iPhone apps. Sotheby’s even its second best year ever in 2015 with sales sales in that area. It is interesting to note that has a Vice President for Digital Development Pontus Silfverstolpe totaling more than $860 million. Their largest , one of the co-founders, and Marketing, David Goodman, who said, category—$254 million—consisted of collect- calculates that in America only 1% of people’s “Artsy will help Sotheby’s use the intersection ible coins. They announced that after eigh- collectible assets are sold at auction each year. of art and technology to engage new audienc- teen months of development their customers He says, “That figure is low compared to the es.” Artsy has got some heavyweights behind can access all their auctions “live” from any rest of the world…we see this figure increasing it, including investors like Google Executive mobile devise and access a database of 4.2 quickly to 2 and eventually 5%.” With one and Chairman Eric E. Schmidt and international million auctions records complete with prices, a half million visitors logging on to their site gallery owner Larry Gagosian, Artsy has had Europe Asia Australia descriptions, images, etc. (Visit ha.com.) In each month from , and , 18 million visitors since it started up in 2012. September 2015, the New York based auction they’re counting on the American market to Sotheby’s has also partnered with eBay to bring house Phillips announced its own partnership move them forward. its auction action live to eBay’s 155 million with eBay. What happens to all the artwork that doesn’t users around the world, and with Invaluable, But it’s not only auction houses partnering sell, or as they say at the auctions, “gets passed another online marketplace for art and col- with online sellers that are making collect- on or bought in”? Well, some of it goes back lectibles. These alliances have helped create ibles available online. There are now sellers to the consigner, and sometimes private deals the new “online” salesrooms with special bid- with no physical showroom at all. Paddle8, are made by the auction houses with under- ding features, private messaging, and enhanced founded in 2011 and based in Manhattan, has bidders and collectors after the sale. Leave it video streaming, which has enabled online bid- Jean-Baptiste Fabre focused on artworks priced between $1,000 to someone, in this case , ding live at auctions taking place in New York, a Geneva, Switzerland-based art broker, to 32 see an online opportunity. His new venture, so in April 1stdibs outlined a plan that would have to re-offer the work of art at a new auc- Auction After Sale, gathers up unsold items help them monitor sales and collect their com- tion where it traditionally does not perform as from 2,500 auction houses globally and con- missions more efficiently. In essence, when a well. As Kevin Decker from William Genack nects them with online buyers offering, they prospective buyer calls a dealer from the site, Appraisers and Auctioneers, in Chester, New say, 1,200 lots each day. As Fabre explains all these calls are forwarded through 1stdibs York says, “The people who were interested in it, “Looking at Contemporary Art sales for headquarters and “monitored” for what they the lot, their real question is, why is it back up? instance, a third of the lots do not sell during call “quality assurance.” Many dealers are What’s wrong with it? Results on the “second the auction process. Up to half in China. Yet outraged that their phone calls to customers runner” list are sometimes 40 or 50% of the unsold does not mean unloved or unwanted.” will be listened in on, claiming a violation of initial estimate.” As a result, auction houses That’s where he comes in. It can be visited at privacy. 1stdibs’s CEO David Rosenblatt says, have actually begun identifying “a nonpaying auctionaftersale.com. “In 2016 we expect to drive fifty million visi- bidder” in the catalog as the reason a particular Of course, just launching an online auction site tors to the site. In order to invest in marketing lot has been re-offered. at this level, it’s critical we’re able to measure is no guarantee of success. Take the case of Authenticating Artwork - How is a collector the success of every effort in our commissions FineArtBourse.com which, after raising $3.5 to know or determine whether a work of art is for sales we drive.” I suspect that it’s not just million capital and three years of planning, authentic or not? And in fact, in light of these the dealers who might object to their private Australian auction veteran Tim Goodman new revelations and recent books by a num- phone calls being “monitored” while they are opened up in June of 2015 in Hong Kong. ber of self-confessed forgers, many museums negotiating a deal. He noted, “There’s no VAT on their 5% sales themselves are asking the very same question. commission. No resale royalty, and no need Another consequence of online sales, particu- (It’s interesting to note that two of the forged for the seller to pay copyright fees to illustrate larly online bidding, is the increasingly imper- paintings in question at Knoedler had spent paintings on the Web site.” It could be “a game sonal relationship it creates between buyer some time hanging in exhibitions at museums.) changer in the field of auctioneering. I feel as and seller. In fact, Arts and Antiques Weekly Well, before the prices of Modern Art began to though my whole career has been in prepara- reports that even when auction houses have a rise into the stratosphere, and before trials like tion for this. I am 62 and feel like I’m 32 signed bidding contract, the number of bidders the Knoedler Trial, many of the artist founda- again.” By August 2015, they had taken down defaulting on their promise to buy at auction tions like the Krassner Pollock Foundation, their Web site and were initiating discussions are reaching an all-time high. When a bidder the Warhol Foundation, etc. saw it as part with their creditors—six weeks before they refuses to pay, auctions houses have to balance of their charge to help verify the authenticity held their very first auction. A cautionary tale. the expense of legal fees against potential com- of works of art by their artists, and to defrock But not just auction houses have been partner- mission, and many just decide to sell off the those that attempting to pass themselves off ing with online sites to sell their wares. Dealers debt to a creditor and pay the consigner their as authentic. However, now due to the liabil- have entered into their own arrangements with due. Either way, it’s not an appealing choice to ity involved, artist foundations have stopped outfits like 1stdibs.com to increase their reach auction houses. Apparently, the worst offend- “authenticating” artwork all together. This is China Russia into the market. On 1stdibs, prospective cus- ers come from , , and Eastern now left to galleries, art historians and vari- tomers are put directly in touch with a dealer European countries. ous experts and, to a greater degree than ever offering the artwork. Dealers for their part pay To combat this, there are independent data- before, to science. By that I mean by specific a listing fee or processing fee, and a commis- bases set up to track non- or late-payers and all analysis of the materials and techniques in vari- sion to 1stdibs. 1stdibs takes payment from the the details of the dispute’s history. These are ous works of art to help determine when and customer, keeps a commission, and even pays consulted regularly by auction houses so that or how they could have been created. Here’s out to the dealer. But 1stdibs is sensing that an eye can be kept on known bad payers. This how it works. some dealers are making private side deals with does not prevent new fraudulent bidders. The As Pamela Hatchfield, President of the customers that come to them through the site, worst case scenario is that auction houses then American Institute for Conservation of

Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921) Transitional Steamer Philadelphia, Dated 1896 Oil on Canvas 22” x 36” $35,000 33 Paul Garnett (b. 1951) The Firing of the Philadelphia in Tripoli, February 16, 1804 Oil on Canvas 24” x 36” $9,500

Historic and Artistic Works, and head of Impressionist Art period, as art advisor Lionel the museum and removed 7 of the pieces it Objects Conversation at the Museum of Fine Pissarro says, “They’re still major actors in believes were stolen from archeological sites in Arts (MFA), Boston says, “There’s clearly a the market because they have inventory and India. It turns out that these were from a large need (for analysis) as artworks become more they have wealth.” number of looted works that were sold by New and more of a commodity that is bought and Subhash Kapoor How is this for figuring out how to make York-dealer in a $100 mil- sold.” Analyzing an artwork, she says is, “Not Art of money out of artwork? In 2004, one Joel lion art smuggling ring operated out of a matter of having just one or two pieces of the Past Gallery Manhattan Alexander Greene made a deal to give the in . Other muse- equipment, or having a black light.” In fact, Honolulu Academy of Arts five objects from ums believed to have actually purchased looted it’s a complex process that involves gismos Peabody Essex his collection of Southeast Asian Art, suppos- art from Kapoor include the in like ultraviolet light, X-ray radiography, X-ray Salem, Massachusetts Los Angeles County edly valued at $1.3 million, and lend them , florescent analyzers, infrared spectroscopy, Museum of Art National Gallery of 37 additional objects to become gifts to the , and the and even techniques that can identify materi- Australia museum upon his death. This in return for . Kapoor has been extradited to India als on the molecular level. The Forensic Art $80,000 annual annuity for life. The museum to stand trial, and Greene is being sued by the Lab opened in 2014 at Purchase College in agreed to this, took in the objects and began Honolulu museum which seeks to terminate Purchase, New York and has over $400,000 to pay the annuity. In April 2015 representa- the annuity payments and have the payments worth of testing equipment, and is offering its tives from Homeland Security showed up at they paid Greene since 2004 returned. services pro bono to public art collections and conservators. Governmental Crackdowns on Proceeds from Illicit Sales of Artwork - Many govern- ments are now going after proceeds related to art sales. In France, the French authorities are bringing the well-known art family, the Wildensteins, to trial, charging them with hiding assets to avoid inheritance due on the death of their father Daniel in 2001. Among other things, the government alleges that the Wildensteins shipped $250 million of art—just after Daniel Wildenstein fell into a coma, but before he died—from their New York gallery to a Swiss tax haven as a part of an effort to hide Daniel’s assets, which also included a ranch in Kenya, a French castle, and a stable of thoroughbred horses. The Wildensteins even attempted to sell their five story townhouse on East 64th St. to the Qatari Government for $90 million in 2014, but at the last minute the Qataris backed out, citing the money laun- dering charges. While the Wildensteins were perhaps the most preeminent art dealers in the world at the heyday of the Old Master and Richard Loud (b. 1945) Family Afternoon at the Beach Oil on Canvas 14” x 22” $12,500 34 Creative Use of Art Assets - Of course, what - In a feel-good moment for art thefts, in of Appraisers (appraisers.org), International else can you do with art besides simply enjoy December 2015, the Portland Museum of Society of Appraisers (isa.appraisers.org), and it? Well, if you have a lot of it like the afore- Art in Portland, Maine opened an exhibition National Association of Appraisers (naap- mentioned Steven Cohen, whose collection of six painting by well-known artist/illustrator praisers.org). These organizations have mem- of art is estimated to be worth about a billion N.C. Wyeth, father of Andrew Wyeth and bers throughout the country and around the dollars, you can use it as collateral for a per- grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, that were stolen world, and are the most reliable resources sonal loan, which according to the New York from a private collector’s home in Portland in for referrals for appraisals in your area. Of Times Cohen did. He took a personal loan 2012. A theft the FBI calls “one of the largest course, any art or antique dealer can perform from Morgan Stanley’s private bank no less. property thefts in the history of Maine.” Two an appraisal for you. But know, however, that it Mr. Cohen’s old hedge fund, SAC Capital of the paintings were recovered in October may not stand up to the exacting standards that Advisors, was so large it once accounted for when an anonymous party surrendered them are now demanded by the IRS. Online there’s apparently 3% of the daily trade volume on to a retired FBI agent, and four were found also Value My Stuff, which will email you a the New York Stock Exchange. Now he runs in a Beverly Hills, California pawnshop. certificate and report to you within 48 hours. his new firm, Point 72 Asset Management, As Portland Museum Director Mark Bessire Insuring Artwork - Aside from the tax impli- which reportedly manages $11 billion of his says, “Art heists hold a certain romantic allure cations of buying, selling, and passing on personal fortune. He’s been no slouch in the (see the “Thomas Crown Affair”). Yet, the works of art, one of the issues collectors also art market himself. In November 2015 he was reality is that many pieces of art are extremely face is how best to insure works of art in their reported selling Andy Warhol’s portrait of fragile, and in the wrong hands they can be collection. This poses issues not just for pur- Mao Zedong for $47 million which he had lost forever.” chasers of art, but for those heirs who might purchased in 2007 for $17 million. He is one Finding Qualified Appraisers - With all this also inherit it. While those who own a few of the 2,000 or so billionaires whom auction in mind, how does a collector find a qualified pieces of valuable artwork can usually pur- houses have identified worldwide as driving appraiser? Well, the Appraisal Foundation chase insurance for them as a scheduled item the art market at the very highest level. But like has recently announced adoption of updated on their homeowner’s insurance, if you own many other major art collectors, he’s also a phi- personal property appraiser qualification cri- more valuable works of art, or a large quantity, lanthropist in the field, his foundation giving teria to take effect January 1, 2018. The you might consider purchasing a separate Fine two million dollars to the Whitney Museum Foundation is authorized by Congress as the Arts policy. There are number of insurance of American Art 2015. source of appraisal standards and appraiser companies that offer these kinds of products, The Met’s Online Traffic - I doubt, however, qualifications. Given the increased scrutiny including Huntington T. Block Insurance that the Senate Finance Committee is taking a given by the IRS to donations, and in an effort Agency, Chubb, and Dewitt Stern Group in look at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to “modernize and harmonize the minimum New York City. The cost of insuring a work wondering about its benefit to the public. They qualifications for professional personal prop- of art is essentially based on dollar amount recently announced that in their fiscal year erty appraisers,” the Foundation’s new require- of coverage. For a policy under a million dol- 2014-2015, a whopping 6.3 million people ments for appraisers include 30 semester- lars the general range is $150-$350 per year had visited the museum. This included visitors hours of college level education from an for $100,000 worth of coverage. Coverage from 189 countries around the world. During accredited college, as well as a new 7-hour in excess of a million dollars is generally the same period, 32 million visits were made to personal property U.S.P.A.P. update course $130-$150 per $100,000 coverage for the first its Web site, and they have 1.3 million follow- for existing appraisers. These requirements $750,000, and $40-$70 per $100,000 coverage ers on Facebook, and more than 10 million on are being made mandatory for member orga- for anything in excess of a million. There may Weibo, China’s largest social media network. nizations of the Appraisal Foundation, which be additional costs, depending on the artwork Appraisers Organization of America Recovery of Art from a Heist in Maine include and where the artwork is stored—if it is prone (appraisersassociation.org), American Society to natural disasters, a high crime area, the kind

Don Demers (b. 1956) Last Light of Day, Coastal Schooners Passing Fish Weirs, Bar Harbor Maine Oil on Canvas 22” x 36” $45,000 35 Leslie Wilcox (1904-1982) An American Clippership Picking Up a Pilot in the Oil on Canvas 20” x 30” $5,500 of security system it has, etc. is called an “Agreed Value Policy.” meaning that the insurance company is obli- But the difficult decision is to determine how The advantage to this is that, for some reason gated to pay to you the market value of the much coverage to buy for a work of art. In the market has fallen for that particular work of artwork at the time of its loss. This has its own the insurance world there are two different art between the time the policy was taken and difficulties, of course, because establishing approaches to this. 1) You could, at the time the loss occurred, you’d actually be reimbursed value at the time of loss may not be so easy, the policy is written, agree with the insurance at a higher rate than the “current market” value and may require hiring appraisers or other company on a reimbursement amount if the of the painting. Of course, conversely, if the persons in the field with expert knowledge of artwork is stolen, or lost, or destroyed in some artwork has appreciated significantly you’d be an artist and the value of their artwork. Plus, of way. This amount would be set by a profes- reimbursed for less than what the artwork is course, there’s no guarantee that it will valued sional appraiser, and reimbursed to you at the actually worth at the time of loss. at the same level or higher or that it won’t be time of loss regardless of what the current mar- valued lower at the time. The other option for a collector is to insure ket value of the work of art is at that time. This a work of art for its “current market” value, One compromise option is what is called an “Agreed Value” Policy. Scheduling this involves having the artwork appraised on a regular basis while you own it so that your insurance can be based on that appraised value for at least a certain period of time. As is the case with other kinds of insurance where the artwork is damaged but not entirely destroyed, insurers will generally cover the cost of restoration if it doesn’t exceed the mar- ket value of the artwork at the time of loss. If you’re in doubt, it is worth having a discussion with your insurer, or one of the aforemen- tioned companies that specializes in this kind of insurance. An online insurer, Collectibles Insurance Services (collectinsure.com), says it offers insurance in the home, office, ship- ping, exhibitions, and storage facilities to indi- viduals, and art galleries and dealers. Shipping Artwork - Let’s say you want to ship a work of art to a friend or relative and you say, how about insurance then? Good ques- tion. It turns out that the major shippers, Fed Ex and UPS, will essentially not insure origi- nal artwork, regardless of its value. Although strangely, each of them have been known to pay out on damaged artwork, particularly with UPS, where, depending on the individual fran- chisee owner of the individual UPS store, you Carleton McCutcheon 143’ WWII USN-Rescue Tug at Sea Watercolor 22” x 30” $950 may be able to buy insurance in increments of 36 Tim Thompson USS Constitution, Old Ironsides Oil on Canvas 30” x 40” $75,000

$100. They may cover artwork that conforms (masterpak-usa.com/800-922-5522), and Uline gram which guarantees that no driver is ever to their packing and shipping requirements. Office Supply Company based in Wisconsin over 25 feet away from the truck at all times. Outfits like Craters and Freighters, head- (uline.com/800-295-5510). These boxes utilize They are not permitted to go inside a house. quartered in Golden, Colorado with offices the same simple perforated foam inside. So, it’s door-to-door, but not inside the house around the country, says they will both crate Unfortunately, for objects other than paint- pick up or delivery. and ship works of art across the country, and ings there are no such simple “easy to use” There is another option if you’re shipping a will provide insurance based on the agreed boxes. Sculpture, ship models, pottery, and work of art valued less than $1,000. You can upon declared value of the work of art. They other delicate objects require custom pack- go on the Web site insurepost.com and liter- can pack it – that’s one level of insurance. Or ing and handling. Fed Ex does have a service ally buy your insurance right there. However, you can bring it to them with it packed, or have called “Custom Critical” for highly valuable it won’t insure any shipment over $1,000. They someone else pack it, and that’s another level or special objects. They actually have special cover shipments sent by Fed Ex, UPS, DHL. of insurance. You can visit their Web site cra- vehicles in their “white glove fleet” that are You can get more information on Fed Ex’s Web tersandfreighters.com, or call 800-736-3335. temperature controlled. They always have two site or by calling 866-280-1810. Proper packing of art, of course, presents its drivers in the truck, a special driver secure pro- own problems. Let’s say you want to send a painting to a family member. How do you eas- ily pack it? Well, none of it is easy, but there are a few options. One is, you go to your local UPS or Fed Ex store and have them pack it for you. Fed Ex has now created its own line of art shipping boxes, which consists of a sturdy cardboard outside with a 5” foam inside. The foam is actually perforated so that you can actually rip out the inside to the exact size of the painting, drop it in, close it and tape it. You can also order these kinds of boxes (used regu- larly by galleries to ship art) from three sup- pliers. They come with either just a cardboard shell or cardboard lined with fiberglass that can withstand most everything, including a forklift. They can be ordered individually or in quantity directly from the suppliers, and delivered right to your door. “Airfloat” boxes first introduced this art shipping box from their Headquarters in Tupelo, Mississippi. You can visit their Web site airfloatsys.com (800-445-2580) and see a chart where you can order a box based on the size of the painting you are shipping. The other suppliers are Masterpak in New York Betsey Rice Collection of Shells Ceramic Sculpture 26” x 19” x 5” $3,200 37 Ian Marshall USS Hollandia CVE-97, Ulithi Atoll, April 1945 Watercolor 14” x 21” $4,600

Continued from page 28 caption for each) focusing on the fighting ships and scope of the U.S. the Coast Guard opera- Len Tantillo is another artist who has been of World War II as his part in this collaborative tions since its inception in 1790. The effort painting early ships and harbors, particularly effort with nationally known Naval historian, to make this a reality has been nothing short of the Colonial Era (c.1630-1763) in New York Yale professor, and author Paul Kennedy. In of prodigious. It includes an unprecedented State. His recent project involved a painting the next year, if all goes according to plan, their Secretary Circle Advisory Board chaired for the Albany Institute where a transom of massive volume Victory at Sea, Sea Power, by Norman Y. Mineta, former Secretary of an 18th century Longboat has been preserved. and Grand Strategy in an Era of Global Shifts Transportation, and the Honorable Thomas Originally thought to be English, this was later will be published by Yale University Press. It J. Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland to be discovered to be Dutch c.1740, carved may be accompanied by an exhibition of Ian’s Security, and counts every former Secretary with the coat of arms of the Clinton family. paintings at the Yale Center for British Art. of Treasury and Homeland Security among George Clinton, the Lord of Lincolnshire, and We’ll keep you posted. its members. The museum board also includes the first Governor of New York. He sailed up This book will be the sixth book featuring a number of retired Coast Guard officers the Hudson River in 1748 with the longboat to Ian’s beautiful historical watercolors in the and commandants like Chairman of the Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr. last 25 years. Together they contain more than Board 24th Admiral 300 paintings and drawings of Ian’s, as well Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard John Faigle as his insightful descriptions to help bring . Five famous former “Coasties” John Amos his subjects to life. Although the books are have also lent their support: actor , President George H.W. Bush out of print, these days they can be located , television jour- Charles Gibson Arnold Palmer through Amazon. They are well worth having nalist , golfer , J.D. Power III in your library. They are Armored Ships, 1990; and industrialist . To build this Ironclads and Paddlers, 1993; Passage East, state-of-the-art facility, they’ve engaged the Payette 1997; Flying Boats, 2002; and Cruisers and La architectural firm of , designers of the Boston Children’s Hospital Dartmouth- Guerre de Course, 2006. , the Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New New Coast Guard Museum to Open in 2017 Hampshire, as well as the design firm of – It is interesting to note that the Coast Guard Gallagher and Associates, whose design work is still the only military branch without its own has included the National War II Museum national museum. In fact, there are actually 85 in New Orleans, the National Museum of other National Military Museums around the World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs, country honoring the men and women who the National Museum of Jewish History served – 56 for the Army, 13 for the Airforce, in Philadelphia, and International Spy 11 for the Navy, 5 for the Marine Corp, but 0 Museum in Washington, D.C. The Coast for the Coast Guard. That, however, is about to Guard training bark Eagle will be berthed right change. A massive collaborative effort between alongside the museum on the Thames River. public agencies and private individuals and The artwork of the many COGAP artists over foundations has resulted in the announcement the years will form the backbone of telling that the National Coast Guard Museum will the story of important military service. For open its doors in an 80,000 sq. ft. facility on information about this on this exciting museum the waterfront in New London, Connecticut, project, write to [email protected] not far from the Coast Guard Academy, in the or visit coastguardmuseum.org. William Goadby Lawrence year 2021. It will tell the story of the vast scale Coast Guard Cutter in a Heavy Sea Oil on Canvas 13 1/2” x 18” $1,500 38 Street Headquarters building in proudly displayed for years at the Kankakee Manhattan. This impressive County Museum. This is the heart of the land room holds a collection of more of Lincoln. A giant statue of Honest Abe even than 1,200 models—a combina- greets motorists at the Kankakee interstate exit. tion of builders, half hull mod- The hand, the work of sculptor George Grey els, and full rig models. The Barnard, was on display since 1991, and centerpiece of the Collection is one day in 2016 it just disappeared. Connie the 151 full rig models, all built Licon, the Museum’s Executive Director, said to the same 5/16th inch scale, of of the theft, “We were just devastated. It every America’s Cup challeng- brought us to the floor. The local newspaper er and defender who has raced the Daily Journal ran an editorial pleading for for the Cup since the very first the thief to come forward. The hand is roughly race off Cowes in 1851. It’s an “the size of an 8-10-pound ham.” This has astonishing collection of mod- really shaken up the town. A college student els that gives you a real sense whose aunt works at the museum said, “Why of relative scale and progression would someone want to walk off with a fake of yacht design over the last 165 years. Robert Weiss Ahi Boats Hilo, Hawaii Oil on Canvas 12” x 16” $1,400 Unfortunately, the Collection is not make a treaty with the Iroquois Nation. Len’s open to the public. researched painting, all based on existing doc- However, the Club is not only a uments of the period, will recreate Clinton’s social club for its 3,000 members, trip up the river with Abraham Douw, one but sees it as part of its mission to of the era’s best known Hudson River sloop help chronicle and preserve the his- captains. tory of yachting in America. And The Ivory Debate in Hawaii – The third in addition to the model collection, largest retailer of ivory in the nation, Hawaii, it has an impressive collection which because of its closeness to Asia and its of paintings, prints, and drawings history of being a regular stop for whaleships, of American yachts by leading is debating its own ban. The Humane Society artists like James Buttersworth, there complains that 89% of the ivory it found Frederic Cozzens, A.D. Blake, for sale in Hawaii lacked any documentation, John Mecray, A. Carey Smith, and was probably of illegal origin. At a recent and others, all overseen by the hearing, Linda Lee, testifying for Ming’s Club’s own curator and a library Honolulu, a jewelry company that has sold of over 15,000 volumes and peri- carved ivory pieces on the islands since the odicals on the history of yachting, 1940s, said that many pieces were marked by which is catalogued by the Club’s an etching or stamping in the back, but that own librarian. There is probably “some marks are worn off, and those pieces of no other collection of yachting ivory would now be considered illegal under material in the world quite like it. Christopher Blossom Ship Wavertree, 1888 Oil on Canvas 20” x 24” $20,000 this law.” The Case of the Missing Hand New York Yacht Club Model Collection – Of – Presidential artwork was in the limelight again recently in Kankakee, Illinois, about Abraham Lincoln hand?” Or as Ms. Licon put course, one of the greatest collections of first it, “Now we’re paranoid. We’re wondering if class yachting models is held in the model an hour south of Chicago where a plaster cast of Abraham Lincoln’s hand had been this person is going to come back.” This is not room of the New York Yacht Club’s 44th the first time that properties related to Lincoln have been stolen. In 1880, a group of criminals actually tried to steal Lincoln’s body from his tomb in Springfield, Illinois. In Kankakee, they believe the hand thief lives in the city. “The crime was more of an ‘impulse’ than a well-planned heist.” As Ms. Licon said in her plea, “Just return it in a quiet way. Just put it in a bag and leave it somewhere.” Ah, just when you thought it was safe to go out in Kankakee. Christopher Blossom – In keeping with a great painter’s ability to paint anything, Chris Blossom’s latest commissions include a series of paintings based on the book Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll. This fascinating book discusses the original six frigates built to begin the U.S. Navy sanctioned by Congress in the Naval Act of 1794. These frigates fig- ure prominently in the most famous Naval battles in U.S. History. The USS United States, USS Constellation and the USS Constitution were launched in 1797. Two in 1799, the USS Chesapeake and the USS Congress were launched, and the final frigate, the USS President was launched in New York City in April 1800. It will be interesting to see how Arthur Wellington Fowles (1815 -1878) Schooner Yacht America, 1st America’s Cup, 1851 Chris uses his artist imagination and skill to Oil on Canvas 16” x 24” $17,500 bring those ships life today.

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Robert Dance (b. 1934) Pounding Home Alkyd on Panel 12” x 23” $21,500

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Specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Marine and Sporting Art Since 1997 Accepting artwork on consignment from collectors throughout the year.

Visit our 21st Annual Marine Art Exhibition at the Union League Club, 37th Street and Park Avenue, New York City, September 3rd through 30th, 2016 HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday 11-5 p.m. and by appointment We invite you to stop by and visit the gallery located just 1 hour from NYC just off I-95 at Exit 21.