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Richard Grenville, 1st Earl of Temple Grenville was an English politician who opposed the conciliation of the American colonies. He was a member of Parliament from 1734-52, served as first lord of the admiralty (1756-1757), and lord privy seal (1757-1761) under the elder Pitt, with whom he later quarreled over the Stamp Act. Mather & Co. – Work Incentive Posters From 1923 to 1929, the Mather Company produced a series of posters which owner Charles Mather deemed “Constructive Organization Posters.” They have since come to be known as the Mather Work Incentive Posters. “Aimed at improving the work practices of employees in industry and commerce” in the boom times following the First World War, Mather combined striking, bold grpahics, direct messages and superb lithography to create “one [...] Click here to continue reading. Richard & Rosemarie Machmer Provenance The following remembrances were publishing the Pook and Pook auction catalogue for this sale, held on October 24 and 25, 2008. For coverage of this sale, please see the account in Maine Antique Digest, published in January of 2009, available at http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1014. About thirty-five years ago, I traveled around two hours to an evening country auction in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania. As I walked into the auction house, facing me was [...] Click here to continue reading. The Lantern Bearers This 1908 painting by Maxfield Parrish was originally painted as the frontispiece for Collier’s 10 December 1910 issue, and is considered a prime example of Parrish’s work from this period. The original painting sold on 25 May 2006 at Christie’s New York for $4,272,000 (estimated $1.5/$2.5 million). Associated American Artists In 1934, Reeves Lewenthal founded Associated American Artists. Lewenthal contacted many prominent American artists with the notion of publishing their prints in editions of 250 impressions to be offered to the public. Thomas Hart Benton, Will Barnet, Rockwell kent and Grant Wood are only a few of the important artists who accepted this offer. The first gallery was located at 420 Madison Avenue in New York. Among the initial group of [...] Click here to continue reading. Crazy for Tea We’ve all seen the movies depicting English life in the 19th and early 20th centuries where a charming hostess calls on Flora, the parlor maid, to lay the tea for company. Flora soon reappears with a gleaming tea service and a plate of crumbly biscuits and sandwiches, and then retreats leaving the guests sipping and chatting. This English, and later the American, infatuation with tea may be easier to understand with [...] Click here to continue reading. The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community The Ephrata Cloister or Community was a religious community established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The community was descended from the pietistic Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany. The first schism from the general body occurred in 1728 – the Seventh Day Dunkers, whose distinctive principle was that the seventh day was the [...] Click here to continue reading. John Edward Borein, (1872 to 1945) Edward Borein was the oldest of five children of the deputy sheriff of San Leandro, a town along one of the California cattle trails.In 1893 Borein started working up and down the California coast as a ranch hand. He became proficient at roping and riding and seemed to have no regrets about this harsh lifestyle. His first admirers were his cowhand acquaintances that in 1896 strongly encouraged [...] 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. |
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