Saturday, May 14, 2016
The Lost Sculptures of Philip R. Goodwin
"Philip R. Goodwin, born in 1882, left a body of work after his death that was to earn him the accolade of outstanding wildlife artist of the turn of the century
President Teddy Roosevelt personally selected Goodwin to illustrate his majestic volume 'AFRICAN GAME TRAILS'
The immortal Jack London, too chose Goodwin to illustrate his greatest classic, 'CALL OF THE WILD.'
Widely reproduced during his lifetime and presently on display in museums and historic collections all over America, the paintings of Philip R. Goodwin are known to millions.
As a youthful student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Goodwin's enormous promise quickly earned him the title of America's premier wildlife artist.
In many of the finest museums and private collections of wildlife art, Goodwins works occupy places of honor.
The original wax figures (for these sculptures) were done by Goodwin in 1909. They were feared lost until quite recently when they were discovered in Death Valley, California. Each sculpture was cast from the original wax created by Goodwin over 70 years ago."
Above Quoted from original paperwork
These handsome sculptures were made in 1979 by the Calhoun's Collector's Society.
Each sculpture is "signed" Goodwin on the base and Calhoun on the bottom.
Each comes with a white marble base with a golden nameplate. The marble bases were crafted in Italy. The sculptures are not attached to the bases, so you can pose the animal in any direction you choose.
MOUNTAIN LION - 2.5" tall X 4" long
LYNX - 5.75" long X 3 1/8" tall
SITTING BEAR - 2.25" tall 2.75" long
WALKING BEAR - 3.5" long X 2" tall
Monday, May 9, 2016
Avon Coppersmiths: Hand-Wrought Hammered Mission Style Copper Dish
A scarce and beautiful solid copper hand-wrought hammered dish. Great patina. Created in the early 1900s by Arthur Cole in Avon, NY. Cole founded Avon Coppersmith and created great functional art pieces that are highly collectible and hard to find.
Mission furniture is a style of furniture that originated in the late 19th Century. It traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church. The term mission furniture was first popularized by Joseph P. McHugh of New York, a furniture manufacturer and retailer who copied these chairs and offered a line of stylistically related furnishings by 1898. The word mission references the Spanish missions throughout colonial California, though the design of most Mission Style furniture owed little to the original furnishings of these missions. The style became increasingly popular following the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. The style was popularly associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement.
Mission style is a design that emphasizes simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that accentuate the grain of the wood (often oak, especially quartersawn oak). People were looking for relief after the excesses of Victorian times and the influx of mass-produced furniture from the Industrial Revolution. The furniture maker Gustav Stickley produced Arts and Crafts furniture often referred to as being in the Mission Style, though Stickley dismissed the term as misleading. This was plain oak furniture that was upright, solid, and suggestive of entirely handcrafted work, though in the case of Stickley and his competitors, was constructed within a factory by both machine and handworking techniques.
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