Talking antiques: The Winter Show Editorial Staff
As exhibitors prepare for the Winter Show’s first-ever virtual event, we asked them to reflect on their past years at the fair or highlight one exceptional object available this January and describe it as they might to an interested collector. Here are their stories and the works of art they chose to share.
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts
We mounted a Charles Burchfield and William Hunt Diederich exhibition at a TEFAF fair a few years back, where a dealer visited our booth with images of what he thought might be architectural works by Diederich. The images depicted his classic flat, iron, silhouette animal forms with dozens of whimsical birds and desert plants. Everything looked “right,” but we had never seen anything by the artist on this grand scale. Our research traced the provenance to a 1920s commission for a town house in New York, and when we visited the town house we were able to identify other examples of the artist’s
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The long-haul migration undertaken by some of the first Americans can be seen in the common language, Athabaskan, shared by the people who settled in Alaska and northwestern Canada about 7000 BCE and the Apaches and Navajos of the southwestern United States. The warming climate and topographical diversity of North America after the Ice Age contributed to the development of a wide variety of cultures and lifestyle among these. Wait a minute. What should these folks be called?
First Americans: Nomenclature
The Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of the American Indian emphasizes the transmission of contemporary native cultural practices as well as those from the past.