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George Thomas Shanton (1918-1998) Mr. Shanton’s career spanned several decades with most of his talents being used to design theatre sets around the country. He studied at the Yale Drama School and theatre scene painting with Woodman Thompson. From the early 1940′s to the early 1980′s he painted stage sets for theatre and ballet productions throughout the United States. He was involved as a set dresser on the films “On Golden Pond” and “Ghost [...] Click here to continue reading. Shaker Wood “Finger” Boxes Small oval wood boxes were used throughout the nineteenth century to store foodstuffs in the pantry, ladies’ sewing accessories and notions and small collectibles in general. Many of these boxes were formed with sides from a single thin “band” of wood with shaped “fingers” at one end. These fingers overlapped the opposite end of the band to which they were joined with copper, iron or brass tacks, thus forming the [...] Click here to continue reading. The Sessions Clock Company of Bristol & Forestville, Connecticut, was the successor company to the E. N. Welch Manufacturing Co. originally founded circa 1830. In 1903, following the death of James Welch in 1902, W. E. Sessions and A. L. Sessions invested in the business and changed its name to the Sessions Clock Company. Elmer O. Stennes: Clockmaker, Cabinetmaker and Murderer In the antiques world a good story can add as much to the value of an object as its quality or rarity. That story or history of an object is known as the provenance. Provenance that is mixed with violence seems to add an irresistible appeal. So it is with the clocks and other creations of Elmer O. Stennes (1911 to 1975), an East Weymouth, Massachusetts cabinetmaker [...] Click here to continue reading. Dixie Selden (American, 1871 to 1936) Dixie Selden was born in Cincinnati and studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck. She traveled a considerable amount during her career and became known for her impressionist street scenes and portraits from the places she visited. She remains perhaps the most highly regarded of female artists from Cincinnati during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Paul Seifert (1846-1921) Paul Seifert was a German-born (Dresden) American affiliated with Wisconsin. Most active during the decade of 1875-1885, he traveled his local area (Richland, Grant, Sauk and Iowa Counties) in search of farmers willing to pay $2.50 for a painting of their farmstead. Seifert usually used watercolor on toned paper. Seifert was “discovered” in the late 1940s by the pioneering New York collector and author Jean Lipman. Her book, ‘American Folk [...] Click here to continue reading. Verna Seagreaves A 20th century Folk Artist, Verna Seagreaves painted in the manner of Grandma Moses. The wife of noted folk potter James Christian Seagreaves, Verna lived and worked in Breinigsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Here is a 1999 column about the two artists and their work from East Pennsylvania Publishing: Breinigsville Artists’ Work a Pennsylvania Dutch Legacy By Julia Foster Nazimov Press writer They were unlikely artists-a couple with roots deep in Pennsylvania [...] Click here to continue reading. William Edouard Scott (1884-1964) Born in Indianapolis, William Edouard Scott attended Emmerich Manual High School where he was under the artistic tutelage of Otto Stark, one of Indiana’s most prominent artists of the day. After graduation he would help Stark teach drawing to freshmen, thus becoming the first black person to teach in a public high school in Indianapolis. Enrollment at the Art Institute of Chicago led to mural commissions for several Chicago and [...] Click here to continue reading. Isaac E. Scott Isaac E. Scott (American, 1845 to 1920) worked primarily in Chicago and was listed as a designer, wood carver and architect. See Hanks 1974, 1307-1313. (Source: Cowan’s Auctions, Inc.) Scholar’s Rocks Chinese scholar’s rocks are a variety of favored stones, often limestone, that the Chinese literati and their followers displayed and appreciated in their studios. Called qishi, or “fantastic rocks,” they appealed to the scholar’s delight in contemplating the patterns of nature in mountains, clouds, and water. Rocks of unusual shape and form have been prized and collected in China for well over a thousand years. Much like landscape paintings, these special rocks [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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