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Bent Family Collection Provenance Note
Designed and furnished in the Mediterranean Revival Style, Quattro Venti is the last great private residence in Annisquam Village, a small fishing hamlet near Gloucester, Massachusetts. Quincy Bent, vice president in charge of production at Bethlehem Steel at the turn of the last century, built the summer retreat around 1912. His forebears purchased quarries in West Gloucester in 1820 and originally used the property, situated on the tip of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Preciosa
Meaning precious or beautiful in the Spanish and Portuguese languages.
It may refer to the subject of an 1821 play, Preziosa, by the German author Pius Alexander Wolff, with overture and music by Carl Maria von Weber. The title and subject of the play is taken from a 1613 novel of the same name by Cervantes. In involves Prezoisa, the beautiful daughter of a gypsy chief who falls in love with the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mezzotint Definition
The mezzotint process involves roughening a copper plate all over with a fine toothed tool known as a mezzotint rocker. The surface of the plate in this state resembles myriad numbers of tiny pitchmarks. If inked and printed in this state the result would be a rich velvety black. The desired image is created by smoothing (burnishing) areas to produce lighter tones. When burnished smooth, no ink is retained and then that [...] Click here to continue reading.
Stirrup Cups
The use and design of stirrup cups can be traced back to ancient Greece, in the use of rhytons for the drinking of libations. Rhytons were invariably modeled as the head of an animal or a mythological creature. They featured two openings – a wide opening at the top (or the neck of the animal) and a small hole at the bottom (or mouth of the animal). The drinker would hold them [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Eugene & Lucille Fleischer Collection of English and Continental Stirrup Cups
The collection of hundreds of stirrup cups assembled by Eugene Fleischer is as fine and comprehensive as any likely to be encountered. Renowned for his ceramic collections (his fine collection of Staffordshire and other 18th and 19th century English ceramics was sold to acclaim by Freeman’s in 2007), Eugene Fleischer gathered these stirrup cups over several decades, during visits to England and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Peter Poskas (American, born 1939)
Peter Poskas’ poetic images work with shapes, color, and light. Born in Waterbury Connecticut, Poskas is best known for his realist landscapes of Connecticut and Monhegan, Maine. He studied forestry and wildlife at the University of Connecticut before attending Paier Art School in New Haven.
Skinner, Inc. March 2007.
Peter Poskas is an acclaimed landscape painter who paints realist views of the towns and landscapes of Litchfield County, Connecticut. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Toshiko Takaezu (1922 to 2011)
In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking, and growing vegetables.They are all so related.However there is a need for me to work in clay.It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.
Born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrants, Toshiko Takaezu studied at the University of Hawaii and, from 1951 to 1954, at the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Daniel C. Ripley, glassmaker
The first Ripley & Co. glassworks was organized by Daniel C. Ripley, Sr. and several partners, including George Duncan, in 1866 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company specialized in flint, cut, and engraved glass. Later, after Daniel Ripley Sr. died, Duncan bought out the partners and renamed the company George Duncan & Sons. In 1874 Daniel Ripley, Jr. established his own company, where he made pressed glassware, bar glass, and lamps, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Martha Walter (American, 1875 to 1976)
Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Martha Walter studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under the direction of William Merritt Chase, who became her primary mentor. As an acclaimed American Impressionist, she was only one of a select few female artists to consummate international recognition. Chase who had a major impact on her career, insisted she enter several competitions while under his study. She went on to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gifford Beal, (American, 1879 to 1956)
Gifford Beal, a lifetime New Yorker, was influenced as a student both by Winslow Homer, who encouraged his artistic aspirations, and by William Merritt Chase, his teacher both in New York and at Shinnecock, Long Island. Because of his Art Student League associations, however, Beal was soon drawn to the circle of urban realists led by Robert Henri and John Sloan. It was their “Ashcan School” aesthetic that [...] Click here to continue reading.
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