Every semiannual Fishersville Antiques Expo marks the achievement of a new milestone in some way. Last fall, Fishersville marked its 75th edition of the show, reinforcing its reputation as one of the longest running indoor/outdoor antique shows in the Mid-Atlantic region. Over the years, Fishersville has maintained a multitude of quality dealers and a broad, diverse customer base.
Folks who know Fishersville know the foundation of this success is based on two noteworthy factors: legacy and loyalty. How does legacy fit into the Fishersville story? In 1986, when antique enthusiasts Ray and Martha Stokes and their partners decided there was an opportunity to become part of what had become a lucrative market, they formed a company called Heritage Promotions, the name ironically and unwittingly portending the legacy of Fishersville. Over the years, the Stokes’ children became helpers at the shows, whether manning the front desk or directing traffic. In 2019, their daughter, Lesley, became an owner and assumed many aspects of the business operations. And with that came the third Stokes generation, and her children became helpers. Now, in its 40th year, the Fishersville legacy continues as the Stokes prepare for the 76th show.
But their story is not the only
one to be told. Many dealers possess longstanding, multigenerational relationships that closely mirror the history of the Stokes family. Many dealers, who during their youth assisted their parents as dealers at Fishersville, have now become dealers in their own right. And some individuals who previously attended Fishersville as shoppers with their parents are now dealers themselves. This is where the legacy overlays loyalty. Many of these dealers have been setting up shop at Fishersville for years. One of the most loyal Fishersville customers of all time attended the 75th show last fall. Her name is Kitty, and she lives a little over two hours away. Kitty has attended every show since it started in 1986. Now, at 94, her daughter brings her to Fishersville to shop. That is a remarkable achievement and endorsement.
The 76th Fishersville Antiques Expo will take place at Augusta Expo Event Center, 277 Expo Road, Fishersville, Va., on Friday, May 8 (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.), and Saturday, May 9 (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.). Admission is $10 per person on Friday (includes early shopping and twoday access) and $5 on Saturday. Tickets are available only at the gate, rain or shine, and parking is included.
For further information, visit www.heritagepromotions.net or call Heritage Promotions at 804-239-0553.
New Antiques Show Announced
Inaugural Show To Be Held In Lancaster, Pa., On Oct. 10 And 11
By Karl Pass
Historic Rock Ford in Lancaster, Pa., is pleased to announce the launch of the Historic Rock Ford Antiques Show, a new annual destination for collectors, designers, and antique enthusiasts. The inaugural show will take place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10 and 11, at the Wyndham Lancaster Resort and Convention Center located at 2300 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, Pa. Show hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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The show is produced by Historic Rock Ford, home of the ca. 1794 General Edward Hand Mansion and the nationally recognized John J. Snyder, Jr. Gallery of Early Lancaster County Decorative Arts. The event will bring together exceptional dealers in a setting that is both welcoming and deeply connected to the region and history of American decorative arts. It will also be part of Historic Rock Ford’s comprehensive slate of programming commemorating America’s 250th anniversary, which will
Elverson Show Continues To Prove To Be A Success
By Karl Pass
The spring edition of the Elverson Antiques Show in Honeybrook, Pa., was held on the weekend of March 21 and 22. The show, held twice a year, continues to grow in popularity with dealers and collectors. At the beginning, the promoters partnered with the Elverson Fire Company as a fundraiser. Today, it is held at the Honey Brook Elementary School, not far from the borough of Elverson. Student volunteers from the high school serve as porters, and a donation is made to the school district as thanks for their continued support.
The sunny spring day brought customers from surrounding areas and nearby states through the rolling hills of Chester County to attend the show. The opening crowd was strong, lined up outside and around the school. When the doors opened, the crowd rushed in, heading for the lobby, cafeteria, gym, and hallways in search of their favorite dealer or an undiscovered treasure. Attendance over both days of the show topped 600.
The 45 dealers representing the Mid-Atlantic, Mid-West, New England, and parts of the South brought quality offerings.
The inaugural Historic Rock Ford Antiques Show is scheduled for Oct. 10 and 11 at the Wyndham Lancaster Resort in Lancaster, Pa.
Collection Transfer From Winterthur
Move Will Deepen Interpretation Of Historic Odessa’s Museum Houses
When the Historic Odessa Foundation reopened the doors to its 18th-century museum homes on March 1, the biggest change may not have been immediately visible. A significant collection of historic objects has quietly “returned home.” In late 2025, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library deaccessioned and transferred ownership of 44 artifacts to the foundation, deepening Odessa’s ability to tell its stories through objects that once again belong to
the place they were made to serve. Included in the transfer are 33 objects previously on display at Odessa through a long-term loan agreement, plus 11 others that Winterthur owned and used for display and educational purposes in the Winterthur/ University of Delaware graduate-study programs in conservation and American material culture. For nearly 50 years, until 2005, the Historic Houses of Odessa, as they were then known, and the collections
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therein, were owned by Winterthur. That year marked a turning point when the Historic Odessa Foundation was formally established as a nonprofit organization, and Winterthur transferred ownership of six historic houses and approximately 5,000 objects from its collection to the foundation. The nationally recognized museum of American decorative arts had been gifted the properties and collections beginning in 1958 with Odessa’s Corbit mansion, now the Corbit-Sharp House (ca. 1774), designated a National Historic Landmark in 1967 and a National Park Service Network to Freedom site in 2007 (the Historic Odessa District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971) by noted Delaware preservationist H. Rodney Sharp (1880‒1968). Sharp first set this preservation legacy in motion in 1938 with his purchase of the Corbit mansion and the start of a fullscale restoration of Historic Odessa, a legacy the foundation continues to honor, preserve, and promote today.
The recent collections transfer formalizes the status of artifacts that have materially shaped the period rooms of the foundation’s two principal historic houses in Odessa for decades, some displayed since they were donated or acquired in the 1970s, and others associated with the opening of the Wilson-Warner House in 1923 following Mary Corbit Warner’s death.
“The Historic Odessa Foundation Board of Directors and our entire organization are thrilled to welcome these remarkable family heirlooms home. Their return brings meaningful closure to yet another chapter of our storied past and deepens the way we can share Odessa’s history with the public,” said Debbie Buckson, executive director of the Historic Odessa Foundation.
“Winterthur is delighted to gift these objects to Historic Odessa, ensuring that these outstanding examples of American craft and material documents of history will remain within the sites where their histories
From left is a Thomas McConnell (1768-1825) silver coffee pot, cream pitcher and sugar bowl, originally owned by Ann Jefferis (1791-1892), now among the 44 decorative arts objects whose ownership was recently transferred from Winterthur to the Historic Odessa Foundation. Photo courtesy Historic Odessa Foundation.
can best be told,” said Chris Strand, Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Among the most story-rich additions now returning to Historic Odessa are two pieces of commemorative Liverpool creamware, a pitcher and a bottle, sometimes called a “guglet,” and a pair of fused-plate silver candlesticks made in Sheffield, England. Each ties directly to Ann Jefferis, who married Odessa merchant David Wilson Jr. in 1808, and to her father, Capt. James Jefferis.
The pottery reads like a shipping record. The jug bears a transfer-printed image of a ship along with the words “SUCCESS TO THE BROTHERS/JAs. JEFFERIS, MASTER.” A Philadelphia newspaper recorded that Jefferis and the Brothers docked in Wilmington in September 1789.
The companion bottle links Jefferis to another ship, the Wilmington, on which he served as one of several captains over its decades of service. Printed on the guglet’s opposite side is “The Sweet Poll of Plymouth [England],” a reference to a popular sailors’ song dating to about 1786. Printed copies of the song were sold in Philadelphia and Baltimore for 25
cents, underscoring how seafaring culture traveled alongside trade goods.
There was also wedding silver, plus later additions that kept the initials alive.
The fused-plate candlesticks, made with thin sheets of silver bonded to a copper core, bear Ann’s initials and are believed to have been among marriage gifts given when she wed Wilson in 1808. They now stand alongside other wedding-related objects tied to the family, including a hot-water urn and a silver three-piece coffee service with sugar tongs made by Wilmington silversmith Thomas McConnell. The sugar tongs are engraved “AJ” with the date of 1806 with later engravings added by MCW (Mary Corbit Warner), the granddaughter, that traces their family descent.
The story continues into the late 19th century, when Mary Warner owned that coffee service She added a teapot, spoon vase, and butter dish made in Philadelphia in the 1880s and had each piece engraved “AJ,” matching the earlier 1808 objects. The multigenerational, engraved silver service is now reunited with the other family silver in Odessa.
Long-term loans become permanent fixtures. The foundation said all objects
on long-term loan from Winterthur since 2005 and on view in the Corbit and Wilson houses are now owned by the Historic Odessa Foundation. The transfers include major furnishings with documented ties to the Corbit family, such as the Corbit tall clock and a desk-andbookcase in the dining room, both listed in William Corbit’s estate inventory; two sets of three chairs in the parlor, also documented in the inventory; and a dressing table (lowboy) in the master bedroom.
Other highlights noted by the foundation include a labeled John Janvier tall chest, a labeled George Whitelock sideboard and a pair of card tables in the Wilson parlor, along with decorative arts and textiles such as a silk needlework picture wrought by Ann Jefferis Wilson and a quilt made by Mary Jane Moore Eastburn of Mill Creek Hundred. The Wilson-Warner House, a Georgian-style home built circa 1769 to reflect David Wilson’s prosperity, stands next to the Corbit-Sharp House on Main Street in Odessa, where Historic Odessa Foundation interprets the adjoining properties and their collections for the public.
To learn more, visit www. historicodessa.org.
Newly Commissioned Site-Specific Installation
The Barnes Foundation Presents “Sky Hopinka: Red Metal Dust”
The Barnes Foundation is presenting “Sky Hopinka: Red Metal Dust,” a new installation of meditative photographic landscapes by multidisciplinary Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/ Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians). “Red Metal Dust” is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal.
On view through Jan. 18, 2027, in the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Court, “Red
Metal Dust” is a site-specific installation of 11 panels presented in the court’s wall niches. Referencing the Ho-Chunk tribe’s name for copper, this installation thoughtfully interrogates American histories and Indigenous homelands through the layering of photography and copper sheets. This is only the second occasion an artist has been commissioned to create such an installation
for the Annenberg Court, following Pat Steir’s “Silent Secret Waterfalls: The Barnes Series” in 2019. “Red Metal Dust” is free and open to the public.
“The Barnes’s 2026 slate of exhibitions and installations are part of Philadelphia’s yearlong commemoration of the United States’s 250th anniversary. It promises to be a banner year of citywide programming that
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Collector Chats With Peter S. Seibert
This Week: I Won’t Play
The Game
By Peter Seibert
If you think this column should be called déjá vu, then your memory is perfect.
Barnes
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honors Philadelphia’s role as the birthplace of American democracy,” said Thom Collins, Neubauer Family executive director and president of the Barnes. “Our curatorial team has devised thoughtful exhibitions and installations highlighting American artists of diverse and varied perspectives, and we are honored to kick the year off with “Sky Hopinka’s Red Metal Dust,’ a stunning series of photographic landscapes that inspire deep
It was about a year ago that I wrote about the problem of dealers not pricing goods for sale. Its one of my biggest bugaboos in the antiques trade, and I continue to be baffled that people still do it. Well, two weeks ago I blitzed some antique malls in Maryland and New Jersey. What did I find? Lots of merchandise that had no price tags. Now maybe the dealers just ran out of tags and could not restock? Horse flaps! Having restocked many a booth, I always pre-tag my stuff and carry extra tags just in case. And nearly every mall that I have ever been in kept a careful cache of spare tags behind the counter in case a tag was lost or forgotten at home. So the missing tag
contemplation about Indigenous homelands, a topic that is particularly poignant as the nation celebrates this milestone anniversary.”
“‘Red Metal Dust’ is a body of work that considers landscape as a site of emanation, shaped as much by what remains as by what has been removed,” stated Hopinka. “The title draws from the Ho-Chunk way of describing copper, naming the material not as monument but as remainder, something carried, scattered, and endured. In this context, copper becomes less a surface
excuse seems a bit hollow.
I have also heard stories of dealers who leave things for friends in their booths without tags. Not sure I quite believe that as mall security should have an issue with people grabbing goods and walking out the door. I have also heard of dealers who make so many deals that they just drop their stuff in their booths with the intent to come back later and price. That seems a bit hollow as I have yet to meet a co-op dealer who is that busy flipping merchandise.
How about something more psychological? Many a co-op booth is actually not a place to buy antiques, but rather it is a museum extension wing of a private
than a witness, resilient and reflective, shaped through contact rather than display. Across the works, landscape is approached as a layered field of return, where images accumulate, echo, and settle into one another over time.”
“Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luise ñ o Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Wash. He studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers on personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape and
collection. The narrative is like this. The wife or husband is tired of seeing so much crap at home, and so they demand their collector spouse sell all or part of it off. The collector does not want to sell, and so the items are put in a booth with no price tag (or such a crazy high price tag that no one will ever pay that price) in the hopes that it just sits forever. Does this sound crazy? Sure does, but I have seen such museum booths in malls, and they drive me nuts. Often, they have ropes across so that the public cannot really get inside. After all, it’s not for sale but just to show off the exquisite taste of the collector.
Pricing goods is central
designs of language as containers of culture.
Hopinka’s work has screened at the Sundance Film Fest, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Courtisane Festival, Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, and New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial, and the 2021 Prospect.5 Triennial. In 2019, he was a guest curator at the Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had solo
to retail. It’s the old adage in the trade that buying something is only half the battle. You have to clean it, polish it, research it, and then price it to sell. Each one of those steps takes time, resources and money. And if you miss on any one of the steps, the price suffers.
Then we have the antique show dealers who do not price their items but prefer to guess what a potential buyer will pay! Sigh, that may be the worst of them all.
What it boils down to in my book is that pricing the merchandise is the best, safest and most reputable way of selling antiques.
Don’t settle for anything less in your collecting!
“Born to collect” should
exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2020 and at LUMA in Arles, France, in 2022. He was a 2018-19 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a 2018 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow, a 2019 Art Matters Fellow, a 2020 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in
be the motto of Peter Seibert’s family. Raised in Central Pennsylvania, Seibert has been collecting and writing about antiques for more than three decades. By day, he is a museum director and has worked in Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Virginia and New Mexico. In addition, he advises and consults with auction houses throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, particularly about American furniture and decorative arts. Seibert’s writings include books on photography, American fraternal societies and paintings. He and his family are restoring a 1905 arts and crafts house filled with years’ worth of antique treasures found in shops, co-ops and at auctions.
the Arts, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography and was a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. For more information about this historic milestone year visit, www.philly2026. com.
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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
First U.S. Museum Exhibition Is Focused On Paul Klee’s Rarely Seen Late Work
The Jewish Museum is presenting the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore Paul Klee’s powerful creative output from the final unsettled decade of his life. “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” traces the Swiss-German artist’s departure from the Bauhaus and his experience throughout the political upheaval of the 1930s prior to his death in 1940, providing a new
basis for understanding his socio-political perspective and commitment to artistic freedom. The exhibition features some 100 paintings and drawings, among them select works from Klee’s earlier practice, including his rarely exhibited and iconic “Angelus Novus” (1920). This broader context dramatically frames his late practice, during which Klee’s lifelong individuality and imagination prevail as a form of resistance to Nazi ideology and persecution.
On view through Sunday, July 26, “Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds” is curated by Mason Klein, senior curator emeritus, and organized by the Jewish Museum in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Kunstmuseum Bern.
“‘Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds’ provides a critical recontextualization of the artist’s practice, illustrating Klee’s commitment to innovative artistic creation in response to the horrors of the 1930s,” said James S. Snyder, Helen Goldsmith Menschel director. “Many recognize Klee
for his highly inventive approach to abstraction, but fewer are familiar with his graphic, and often metaphorical, depictions of the rising fascism of the period. The exhibition also reflects the Jewish Museum’s ongoing commitment to showcasing the work of artists engaging with the pressing artistic, social, and political challenges of their times,” furthered Snyder.
Born in 1879 in Switzerland to a music teacher and singer, Klee possessed early creative proclivities, initially training in the violin before shifting to the visual arts, among other disciplines, during his teenage years. He was involved with a range of burgeoning artistic movements during his early career and went on to establish an esteemed reputation during a decadelong tenure at the Bauhaus.
In 1931, Klee resigned his position in Dessau and was offered another at the academy in D Ü sseldorf, where he sought to free himself
from the demands of lecturing and to concentrate on painting. However, during Hitler’s ascent to power, the National Socialists deemed Klee’s art subversive and degenerate and dismissed him from his position at the DÜ sseldorf Academy, referring to him as “a Galician Jew.” Forced into exile as an immigrant in his country of birth, Klee abandoned his uplifting chromatic style of painting as he confronted the harsh terrain of fascism and soon, in 1935, the effects of scleroderma, a then-fatal autoimmune disease.
The exhibit traces the progression of the artist’s work as he experienced the rise of fascism during the final decade of his life, illuminating his relentless search for new methods of expressing social critique, non-conformism, mythopoetic thinking, and an evolving approach to developing
a new vocabulary for confronting the horrors of political persecution and violence. “‘Other Possible Worlds’ reveals Klee’s enduring commitment to creative freedom, to making deeply personal work that engages with multiple perspectives, including aesthetics, philosophy, and spirituality,” noted Mason Klein, senior curator emeritus and curator of the exhibition.
“During a period of growing political repression and following his personal expulsion from the DÜsseldorf Academy, his work turned to both subtle and overt explorations of the impact of fascist rule and political violence. The selection of works on view showcases the complexities of Klee’s often-overlooked late work, not only in terms of the creative resurgence of his ever-evolving artistic lexicon, but also his ever-relevant
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Paul Klee’s “Fire at Full Moon” (Feuer bei Vollmond) from 1933 is mixed media on canvas, from the Museum Folkwang, Essen, G 284, courtesy 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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artists he researched during his lifetime, including Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Lászl Ó Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and August Sander.
To learn more, call 212423-3200 or visit www.the jewishmuseum.org.
Megatron Leads Strong Results
High-Grade Rarities Drive $187,423 Total For Action Figure And Toy Sale
Heritage Auctions’ March 15 Action Figures and Toys Showcase Extended Bidding Auction delivered $187,423 in total sales, with record prices for Voltron figures and the Insecticon Kickback underscoring continued collector demand for highgrade, encapsulated examples from the formative
years of 1980s toy production. Anchored by standout results from Hasbro’s Generation 1 Transformers line and Matchbox’s Voltron series, the auction highlighted the importance of condition, scarcity and early production variations in today’s market.
Leading the event was a Transformers Generation 1 Megatron in his alternate Walther P-38 mode (Hasbro, 1984), which realized $50,000. As the defining Decepticon leader introduced at the launch of the Transformers line, Megatron remains central to the franchise’s identity across toys, animation and comics. This example, distinguished by its trademark logo associated with rubsign-era packaging, reflects a later production run within the original assortment. With a population of just seven at this grade and a strong Figure subgrade of 90, the piece represents a condition-driven benchmark for collectors focused on early Generation 1 material.
“Collectors continue to place a premium on condition, rarity and verifiable population data, particularly for cornerstone releases from the early years of Transformers and Voltron,” remarked Justin Caravoulias, Heritage Auctions Action Figures and Toys consignment director. “This auction demonstrated that high-grade, encapsulated
examples, especially those with strong subgrades or low population counts, are driving the market and setting new benchmarks for vintage toys from the 1980s.”
Four Voltron lots and an Insecticon Transformer reached all-time-high prices in the sale. A Voltron II Deluxe Gladiator Set (Matchbox, 1984) achieved a record $4,250. Representing
the complete configuration of the Voltron II line, the set unites all three Miniature Gladiator Robots into a single presentation designed to form the combined “Massive Voltron II.” With only three examples recorded at this grade and just two graded higher, the set stands as a high-grade representation of a key early
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April Fools Toy Show Scheduled For April 26
The ToyShows.org event known as the April Fools Toy Show will be held on Sunday, April 26. It is Delaware’s largest vintage toy show and runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $7, and children under the age of 12 will be admitted free of charge. There is a special early buyer’s preview for $15 at 9 a.m., and there is plenty of free parking.
This event will take place in the Nur Shrine Center located at Route. 13 / 198 S. DuPont Highway, New Castle, Del., convenient to I-95, I-295 and U.S. Route 40. New this year will be an addition called the Debut Room for new dealers and last-minute vendors. The show will have 175 tables of new, collectible, and antique toys. There will be a food truck, and this is a rain or shine indoor event.
This year there will be no Delaware Train Show, but it will return in the fall and is planned for Saturday, Oct. 3. For further information, call 856-302-3606.
This “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Indiana Jones figure (Kenner, 1982) sold for $3,000.
The Met To Acquire Renaissance Artist Rosso Fiorentino’s Painting
“Madonna And Child With Saint John The Evangelist” Was Uncovered By Recent Conservation Treatment
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced it will acquire a newly rediscovered painting by Renaissance artist Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), one of the great masters of the maniera moderna, known today as Mannerism. “Madonna and Child With Saint John the Evangelist,” thought to be lost for centuries, was newly identified during a recent conservation treatment that removed a layer of overpaint on the canvas, revealing the remarkable figure of Saint John the Evangelist in the foreground of the picture plane. The reemergence of the figure, after perhaps centuries of being overpainted, made clear that this is the seminal painting described in Giorgio Vasari’s “Lives of the Artists” as the work that launched the young Florentine artist’s career.
“This painting is a rare and pivotal early work by one of the most important painters of the 16th century, striking in its experimental ambition and psychological intensity,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French director and CEO. “With his unusual placement of the figures and daring postures, Rosso transforms a familiar devotional type into a charged encounter that draws the beholder into a complex interplay of seeing, feeling, and believing. The rediscovery of this work reshapes our understanding of Rosso’s early oeuvre and the emergence of more expressive and dynamic compositions in 16th-century Florentine painting.”
“Paintings by Rosso are exceedingly rare, numbering only about two dozen, and many of his most celebrated works remain undocumented or unfinished. The discussion of this painting in Vasari’s ‘Lives of the Artists,’ often described as the first book of art history, gives the work the added distinction of having been part of
By Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, 1494-1540) is the rediscovered work “Madonna and Child With Saint John the Evangelist,” 1512/13, an oil on canvas, laid down on wood, private collection.
art-historical discourse since the discipline’s inception. Executed on canvas and preserved in remarkably good condition, it is the artist’s earliest recorded painting to survive. This work will anchor The Met’s collection of 16thcentury religious paintings, an exceptional and complementary group that elucidates key developments in painting for private devotion during the first quarter of the 16th century in Italy,” added Stephan Wolohojian, John Pope-Hennessy curator in charge of the department of European paintings.
A major protagonist of early Mannerism, Rosso Fiorentino ranks among the most important Italian artists
of the 16th century, influential both as a print designer and as a painter of arresting portraits and radically expressive religious works. Alongside near-contemporaries such as Pontormo and Parmigianino, Rosso pioneered a style that recast the ordered harmony of High Renaissance compositions into more dynamic and expressive configurations, engaging the viewer through sophisticated explorations of color, form, and pictorial tension.
Primarily active in Florence during the first decade of his career, Rosso traveled to Rome in 1523 but fled the city following the Sack of 1527, eventually arriving in France, where he secured a
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position at the court of Francis I. Working alongside Francesco Primaticcio, he became one of the leading artists at the royal château of Fontainebleau and helped establish what is now known as the First School of Fontainebleau. Rosso remained in France until his death in 1540.
Rosso’s early life remains poorly documented. Beyond a limited number of archival references: his birth on March 8, 1494; his enrollment at age 23 in the Arte degli Speziali in 1517; and scattered family records, little is known of his training. Art historians have suggested that he may have studied with Andrea del Sarto, who was only seven years his senior, though evidence for that is inconclusive. Vasari instead emphasized Rosso’s independence from formal apprenticeship, noting that in his youth he “drew from the cartoons of Michelangelo” and studied “with but few masters, having a certain opinion of his own that conflicted with their manner of painting.”
Shortly after enrolling in the painter’s guild, Rosso undertook his first altarpiece commission, the “Santa Maria Nuova Altarpiece” (1518), a breakthrough work that rejects the balanced chromatic and compositional harmonies of the High Renaissance in favor of tension, asymmetry, and expressive intensity. The only securely dated work preceding that altarpiece is the fresco of the “Assumption of the Virgin in the Chiostrino dei Voti at Santissima Annunziata,” commissioned in 1513. This fresco shows that, by this early date, Rosso had already developed a strikingly independent visual language, compressing pictorial space through a complex figural arrangement set in an environment devoid of landscape or architectural setting.
Vasari records that Rosso secured the important Annunziata commission by presenting Fra Jacopo of the Servite Order with “a painting of the Madonna and Child with a half-length figure of Saint John the Evangelist.” The recently revealed figure of Saint John in the painting currently displayed at The Met confirms its identification
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Mike Ivankovich Expands
“What’s It Worth” Radio Show
New Format Will Be Five Specialized Programs
By Karl Pass
Since 2014, appraiser and home downsizing expert Mike Ivankovich has helped listeners uncover the value of their possessions on the “What’s It Worth - Ask Mike the Appraiser” radio show, airing on WBCB. The popular program has become a trusted resource for everything from antiques and collectibles to everyday household and estate contents.
Beginning in April, “What’s It Worth” is expanding into five distinct shows, each offering a deeper dive into today’s most active and intriguing markets. Featuring a dynamic lineup of local, regional, and national experts, the programs will air live every Friday morning on WBCB from 9 to 10 a.m. ET. The new monthly lineup includes the first Friday “What’s It Worth - Ask Mike the Appraiser” with expert insights on values, trends,
and hidden treasures. Callers can play Mike’s challenging yet fun “What’s It Worth” game.
The second Friday will be 9 to 9:30 a.m., and “What’s It Worth - The Gold & Silver Show” will offer a timely look at the precious metals market with co-host Greg Glemser of the Doylestown Gold Exchange.
Also on the second Friday from 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. will be “What’s It Worth - The Maker’s Mark,” exploring the booming world of
Crafting and Thrifting with co-host Jenna Throne of GentrybyJenna.
On the third Friday of “What’s It Worth II,” joining Mike will be nationally acclaimed columnist Barbara Beem, offering expert perspective on antiques and collectibles values, trends, happenings, and her “Old Things Considered” column.
And on the fourth Friday of April will be “What’s It Worth - The Moving & Home Downsizing Show,” which is going to be an invaluable
resource for seniors and families, with expert guests sharing practical advice for downsizing, relocating, and life transitions. Whether you’re an antiques and collectibles collector, a gold and silver stacker, a crafter or thrifter, or simply curious about what your “stuff” is worth, there is something of interest for everyone. Tune in every Friday, 9 to 10 a.m., on WBCB 1490 AM and 107.3 FM, or listen live nationwide at www.WBCB1490.com.
A Contemporary Eye On Still Life
“Abundance/Excess: A Contemporary Eye on Still Life” at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chadds
Ford, Pa., will run through Sunday, June 7. This exhibition considers bounty, accumulation, and waste in
21st-century American culture through the work of 10 contemporary artists. This exhibit, at its core, is the artistic depiction of things, which is explored through a contemporary lens in more than 45 works across a variety of mediums, ranging from paintings to sculptures to mixed media and video. The works included frequently reflect each artists’ cultural attitude toward that which they acquire, consume, and live amongst. Many of the artworks in the exhibition utilize the same subject matter as historic still lifes, with flowers, fruit, meat, fish, matches, and skulls making frequent appearances. The artists also revisit conceptual tropes and techniques from historic still lifes including decaying food; indications of the passage of time; and symbolic juxtapositions to consider where wealth comes from, who holds it, and how we find and create it in our own lives.
Kate Abercrombie’s “Last Year’s Leaves are Smoke” from 2020 is a gouache-on-paper board, 20 by 16 inches, courtesy the artist and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, photo courtesy Claire Iltis.
For more information, call 610-388-2700 or visit wwww.brandywine.org/ museum.
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unusual inclusion of Saint John the Evangelist on the threshold between the devotional image of the Madonna and Child and the viewer. The saint is depicted in a state of prophetic vision that mirrors the viewer’s own heightened engagement with this subject.
with this pivotal work, presented by the teenage artist to demonstrate his readiness for such an important commission. The painting can therefore be situated immediately before the Annunziata fresco of 1513, thus reframing scholarly understanding of this important moment at the start of the 16th century in Florence.
Stylistically, the work already displays the defining tensions of Rosso’s early manner. The Virgin’s hieratic stillness and Raphael-like grace contrast with the energetic Christ Child, whose exaggerated musculature and unstable pose recall both Donatello’s experimental reliefs and Michelangelo’s heroic nudes. Rosso heightens this interplay of balance and imbalance through the
“Madonna and Child With Saint John the Evangelist” is currently on view in gallery 609 at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Voltron release. Transformers Insecticons continued to demonstrate the appeal of highgrade, encapsulated examples. A Generation 1 Insecticon Kickback (Hasbro, 1985), representing the highest graded tier for the character, with no higher examples documented, realized a high-water mark of $3,875. Fellow Generation 1 Insecticon Shrapnel (Hasbro, 1985) similarly belongs to a population of one at its grade with no higher-graded examples recorded. It brought $3,375.
Rounding out the top results was a “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Indiana Jones figure (Kenner, 1982), which realized $3,000. Produced as part of one of Kenner’s shortest-lived licensed action figure lines, the series has become difficult to locate in high-grade condition. This example ranks as the third-highest graded specimen and reflects strong preservation across card, bubble and figure, notable attributes given the line’s known susceptibility to wear. Complete results can be found at www. HA.com/49186.
This Transformers Generation 1 Megatron in his alternate Walther P-38 mode (Hasbro, 1984) sold for $50,000. As the defining Decepticon leader introduced at the launch of the Transformers line, Megatron remains central to the franchise’s identity.
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A Voltron III Giant Black Lion Robot (Matchbox, 1984) realized a record $4,875.
Corvettes At Carlisle Returns
One of the most photographed traditions associated with Corvettes at Carlisle is set to return to the Carlisle Fairgrounds in Carlisle, Pa., as Corvette owners once again come together to create a massive American Flag display made entirely of America’s sports car. This year, the
event is set for Thursday to Saturday, Aug. 27 to 29.
Each year, Corvettes at Carlisle welcomes thousands of enthusiasts and about 3,000 Corvettes to the Fun Field at the Carlisle Fairgrounds for the world’s largest Corvette gathering, celebrating every generation of
the iconic sports car. Among the many activities planned during the event, the Corvette American Flag formation stands out as a memorable tribute to both patriotism and the Corvette community. With the America250 celebration in full swing and ongoing into the summer,
Preview of Consigned Items: Wednesday, April 22nd 6pm-8pm & Thursday, April 23rd 12pm-4pm
this showcase is a fitting tribute to all things U.S.A.
The display will bring together more than 150 Corvettes from across multiple generations, carefully positioned to recreate the American flag using red, white, and blue cars, while Carlisle Blue Corvettes represent the flagpole. When complete, the formation showcases a stunning sea of color and precision across the Fun Field, highlighting both the creativity and camaraderie of Corvette owners.
Pulling off the display requires careful coordination and planning and show guests can watch it unfold in real time on Friday, Aug. 28,
between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Participating cars are staged and guided into position one at a time to ensure the formation is accurate when viewed from above and across the grounds. While the process takes time to assemble, the finished display becomes one of the most talked-about moments of the event.
The concept originated with Carlisle Events co-owner Lance Miller and known automotive enthusiast, who first envisioned the idea as a way to combine two enduring symbols of Americana.
“Creating the American flag out of Corvettes was truly a dream come true,” said Miller. “The Corvette
community always rallies behind something special, and seeing owners work together to create a patriotic display like this really captures what Corvettes at Carlisle is all about.”
Participation in the Corvette American Flag display is limited, and Corvette owners interested in being part of the formation are encouraged to register early, as available spaces fill quickly.
For more information about Corvettes at Carlisle or to learn how to participate in the Corvette American Flag display, visit www. CarlisleEvents.com or call 717-243-7855.
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Everything from fraktur, folk art, quilts, ceramics, holiday items, early dolls, early iron, butter prints, cookie cutters, toys, historical china, primitives, painted furniture, advertising, and sewing items were available at various price points.
Sales reported were strong on both days of the show. Most dealers commented that they either had a “good show” or a “real good show.”
As they were leaving, comments such as “great show” and “great dealers,” “I appreciated the dealers’ knowledge and their willingness to talk about an item in a meaningful way,” and “I make a point of coming to every Elverson show and will be back” were told to the promoters.
For those who want to experience the atmosphere of a small show with outstanding antiques at affordable prices and friendly dealers, the Elverson Show is a
can’t-miss show. The fall edition will be back at the Honey Brook Elementary School, located at 1530 W. Walnut Road, Honey Brook, Pa. on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 31
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include exhibitions, lectures, living-history events and special public programs exploring Lancaster County’s role in the Revolutionary era. Proceeds from the Historic Rock Ford Antique Show will directly support the preservation, interpretation, and educational programs of Historic Rock Ford, ensuring that this extraordinary historic site and its collections remain accessible for generations to come. Historic Rock Ford is owned and operated by the Rock Ford Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation.
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Featuring dealers from across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, the Historic Rock Ford Antique Show will present an exceptional selection of fine American and European antique furniture, paintings, decorative objects, fine art, folk art, china, rugs and toys, and much more.
Sponsorship opportunities are now available. To inquire about being an exhibitor, call Dana Lewis at 484-716-2367 or email dana_lewis@historic rockford.org.
