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Austin Healey Barn Find Sells For $24,575 At Alderfer Auction FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2017 • VOL. 48, NO. 26
“Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect”
A 1966 Austin Healey Mark III 3000 attracted worldwide interest at Alderfer Auction’s Fine and Decorative Arts auction on March 30. The Alderfer Auction Center, located at 501 Fairgrounds Road in Hatfield, Pa., was all abuzz with a packed house and record-breaking amount of phone bids. All hardwired phones
Mark III sported its original convertible top, manual transmission with electric overdrive and 47,729 miles. It was a “barn find” driven into storage in 1981 and remaining there until 2017.
Ocean City Historical Museum’s Annual Antiques Show Set For July 8 on page 2
Major Retrospective Exhibition On View At Brandywine River Museum Of Art The Brandywine River Museum of Art is showcasing the exhibit, “Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,” the first career retrospective of the artist since his death in 2009. The exhibition features over 100 works, spanning the entirety of the artist’s career—from the early watercolors Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the drybrush watercolor that established his “Evening at Kuerners” in 1970. Courtesy 2017 Andrew reputation to his final Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS). Private Collection. painting, “Goodbye,” completed just a few months before his death. The show also will include many of Wyeth’s studies, which were rarely exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and offer new insights into his creative process and approach. Coorganized by the Brandywine and the Seattle Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the tempera “Pentecost”in “Andrew Wyeth: In 1989. Courtesy 2017 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society Retrospect” commem- (ARS).Private Collection. orates the centennial of the artist’s birth in July and provides the most in-depth presentation of the renowned artist’s diverse and prolific practice to date. Wyeth’s life extended from World War I - a period that sparked the imagination of the artist as a young boy - to the new millennium. This com- Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the tempera “Winter, prehensive retrospec- 1946,” in 1946. Courtesy 2017 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights tive examines four Society (ARS). North Carolina Museum of Art,Raleigh. major periods in Wyeth’s career, taking inspiration and deliberately built up layers of from the artist’s own words likening paint on panels. The Brandywine will serve as his painting to “following a long thread leading like time to change the only East Coast venue for the and evolution.” The exhibition exhibition, and the only location at offers new interpretations of his which visitors will be able to work, including the lesser explored immerse themselves in both influences of popular film and Wyeth’s work and life. The museum images of war, and looks more campus is home to the artist’s stuclosely at the relatively unstudied dio, which served as his principal but numerous portrayals of African Pennsylvania workspace from 1940 Americans from the Chadds Ford through 2008, and also Kuerner community. “Andrew Wyeth: In Farm, a major source of inspiration Retrospect” also provides a thor- across Wyeth’s career. Tours to ough comparison of his widely these sites, both National Historic divergent approaches to watercolor Landmarks, add an intimacy to the - which inspired him to paint quick- experience and understanding of ly and at times with abandon - and his work and give audiences a to his use of tempera, a more con- dynamic view into Wyeth’s very Continued on page 3 trolled medium, in which he slowly
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Divine Encounter: “Rembrandt’s Abraham And The Angels” Beginning in the late 1630s and increasingly through the 1640s, Rembrandt shifted away from the dynamic movement of his earlier work towards imagery characterized by stillness and calm. These are the defining qualities of the artist’s “Abraham Entertaining the Angels,” of 1646,” Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) painted the oil-on-oak panel in which a “Abraham Entertaining the Angels,” in 1646, private collection. Photo m o m e n t o u s is courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. episode of divine revelation unfolds in the most was perceived. “Divine Encounter: hushed of ways - dramatic action Rembrandt’s Abraham and the replaced by subtle gesture and an Angels” is organized by Joanna astonishing luminosity, all within a Sheers Seidenstein, Anne L. Poulet panel measuring fewer than nine curatorial fellow at The Frick inches wide. Collection, who also wrote the On loan from a private collec- accompanying catalogue. tion and displayed publicly for the “We are privileged to have the first time in more than 10 years, opportunity to exhibit this paintthis extraordinary painting is the ing, which contains one of centerpiece of a small exhibition Rembrandt’s most creative treatdedicated to Rembrandt’s depic- ments of the divine, a glowing figtions of Abraham and his various ure who appears to dematerialize encounters with God and his from mortal flesh into light before angels, as recounted in the book of our eyes. We hope our audiences Genesis. The exhibit is being held will enjoy engaging deeply with at the Frick Collection, an art this work and with Rembrandt’s museum in the Henry Clay Frick other treatments of the Abraham house located in the Upper East story, which fascinated the artist Side of Manhattan, N.Y. throughout his career,” said In the panel and in the other Sheers Seidenstein. works included in the show - a The exhibition will run until tightly focused selection of prints Sunday, Aug. 20. The Frick and drawings and a single copper Collection is located at 1 E. 70th St. plate - Rembrandt explored, in in New York City. different media, the nature of For additional information, call divine presence and the ways it 212-547-0710.
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