PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENGLE PUBLISHING CO.
antiquesandauctionnews.net
ANTIQUES NEWS, P.O.BOX 500 MOUNT JOY, 17552 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED
FRIDAY MARCH 22, 2024 • VOL. 54, NO. 12
“Mary Cassatt At Work”
Show Marks First Large-Scale Exhibition Of The Celebrated Artist’s Work In The U.S. In 25 Years The Philadelphia Museum of Art is thrilled to present “Mary Cassatt at Work,” the first largescale exhibition of the artist’s work in the U.S. in a quarter century. The exhibition will run from Saturday, May 18, through Sunday, Sept. 8. Pennsylvania-born and a celebrated member of the French Impressionists, Mary Cassatt built a groundbreaking career through hard work and artistic vision. For six decades, Cassatt was a committed, professional artist, making the social, intellectual, and working lives of modern women a core subject of her prints, paintings, and pastels. She once wrote, “Oh the dignity of work, give me the chance of earning my own living, five francs a day and self-respect.” “Mary Cassatt at Work” will present over 130 of her works in various media to show her evolving practice as an artist and demonstrate her commitment to the “serious work” of artmaking. It will present new findings about her materials and working methods, which were advanced and radical for her era, based on detailed technical studies of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s significant Cassatt holdings.
“Art was Mary Cassatt’s life’s purpose and living,” said Sasha Suda, the George D. Widener director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “This exhibition will focus on Cassatt’s professionalism, her biography, and the wider Parisian world she inhabited. It’s my hope that this exhibition will reshape contemporary conversations about gender, work, and artistic agency.” “Mary Cassatt at Work” will feature works from the PMA’s extensive collection, including some of Cassatt’s most celebrated paintings and prints, as well as loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and private collections. “We hope visitors come away with a sense of who Cassatt was and how carefully she constructed her identity as a working artist,” said curators Jennifer A. Thompson, The Gloria and Jack Drosdick curator of European Painting and Sculpture and curator of the John G. Johnson collection, and Laurel Garber, The Park Family assistant curator of Prints and Drawings. “With this exhibition, we’ve sought to reexamine the full breadth of Cassatt’s
Ned Foltz Redware Noah’s Ark Sells For $3,570 By Karl Pass
“In the Loge,” 1879, is a pastel with gold metallic paint on canvas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, gift of Mrs Sargent McKean, 1950-52-1. art through the lens of her creative enterprise and draw attention to her commitment to ceaseless experimentation and bold techniques.” A multimedia tour will be available, featuring audio, images, and videos. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated
catalogue. Following its run at the PMA, this exhibition will travel to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is located at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. To learn more, call 215-763-8100 or visit www.philamuseum.org.
Witman Auctioneers Inc., of Manheim, Pa., held an online auction on Feb. 29 of a contemporary redware pottery collection from Ohio. This was the second sale from the collection, and a third will be held in several weeks. The bulk of the pottery was from the Foltz Pottery of Reinholds, Pa. Ned Foltz makes redware pottery in the Pennsylvania German tradition. He is among the most skilled potters both on the wheel and with handbuilt sculptural work. He holds shows at his schoolhouse studio in rural Reinholds. The following prices were realized and include a 15-percent buyer’s premium. The highest selling lot was an unsual Foltz Noah’s Ark from 1989 bringing $3,570. A large and elaborate Foltz bird and apple tree sculpture from 2009 sold for $1,150. A Foltz stag leaping over a log sculpture dated 1999 brought $890, and a Foltz log cabin Continued on page 4
Map Of The Carolinas From 1685 Sells For $29,325 A rare early first state map of the Carolinas from 1685 sold for $29,325 and a map of the Americas and surrounding oceans from 1740 rose to $20,125 in Old World Auctions’ online-only Auction #196, which ended on Feb. 7. The sale totaled $420,277. Taking top lot honors was the A New Map of Carolina by Thornton, Morden & Lea. The map showed early settlements
and land owners and included depictions of Native Americans and animals, such as a turkey and even an ostrich. The map market continues to be robust, said Eliane Dotson, who co-owns Old World Auctions with her husband, Jon. We saw numerous items sell for well above their estimates, and there was strong bidder participation overall. Several of the categories that did particularly well were early world maps and 19th century Americana. Of the 790 lots offered, 698 were sold. That was an 88 percent sell-through rate. All prices quoted include the buyers premium. A rare first plate map of the New World from 1573 by Abraham Ortelius, titled Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, is one of the most famous maps of America and one that This extraordinary 1740 map of the Americas and surrounding had enormous influence oceans by Andries & Hendrik de Leth titled “Carte Nouvelle on the future cartogra- A rare and early first state map of the Carolinas from 1685 de la Mer du Sud,” one of the most decorative ever engraved, phy of the New World. by Thornton, Morden & Lea, titled “A New Map of Carolina,” Continued on page 5 showing early settlements and land owners, sold for $29,325. sold for $20,125.
A Foltz large redware bird and apple tree sculpture (2009) sold for $1,150.
In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . .
starting on page 3
SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . .
on page 4
EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR on page 6 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 6 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . . . . on page 7
FEATURE ARTICLE: Golden Nugget Flea Market - Page 5
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 7