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Estate of Joseph Stanley For more than 200 years, residents and visitors passing in and out of New Hope, PA along Old York Road have scene a handsome high-walled mansion on the hill. Built between 1816 and 1823, Cintra was the dream of William Maris, a romantic and financially reckless entrepreneur who modeled his grand residence on a Portuguese castle of the same name. For twenty-three years, the interior of the New [...] Click here to continue reading. Collection of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was one of America’s most important philanthropists and ardent art collectors. His passion for objects transcended any one category or time period, describing his own interest in art as “a long journey, a spiritual pilgrimage from my roots in the Western arts, a hegira which carried me to the aesthetics of the East.” In a collection that spanned genres from European terracotta and bronze [...] Click here to continue reading. The Alken Family of British Artists The British artistic talent pool was greatly enhanced by the Alken family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in the genre of sporting art. Of Danish origin, Sefferien Alken (1717 to 1782), was the first of his family to immigrate to Britain where he worked as a wood carver, gilder and stonecarver. Samuel Alken (1756 to 1815), his son, inherited Sefferien’s talent with his hands and studied [...] Click here to continue reading. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane contracted rheumatic fever during his second year of university. This doubtless led him to the pursuit of medical studies (by age twenty-two, he had published a study of early pregnancy detection in the American Journal of Medical Sciences). Because of this training, he possessed a clear understanding of the clinical implications of the persistent endocarditis left by the disease. Without the benefit of antibiotics, it was the [...] Click here to continue reading. Pierre Alechinsky (Belgian, born 1927), Alechinsky has worked most of his life in Paris. He studied at the National College of Architecture and Decorative Arts in Brussels. In 1949 he joined Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Christian Dotremont to form CoBrA, an art movement created as a reaction against the formalized style of painting then popular in Europe. The name was an acronym of the cities from which the artists hailed – Copenhagen, Brussels, [...] Click here to continue reading. The Studebaker Collection of Quaker Hill For over half a century, Richard and Sue Studebaker have stood as pillars of the Ohio antiques community. Thousands of collectors, scholars, and students have been welcomed to Quaker Hill, the couple’s eighteenth century home in Dayton, to enjoy the Studebaker’s hospitality and their passion for Americana. Richard and Sue purchased their first antique on their honeymoon in New England in 1952, and within a few years, the [...] Click here to continue reading. .style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas A. Gray Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879 to 1940) Paul Klee was born near Bern, Switzerland in 1879 to a family of musicians. Klee himself was a gifted violinist. Although music was important to him throughout his life he moved to Germany to study art. He studied in Munich from 1898 to 1901 with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck. Klee settled in Bern in 1902 and in 1906 exhibited a series of [...] Click here to continue reading. Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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