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Preview Walking Tour of The Metro Show led by Johanna McBrien, Editor-in-Chief, Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
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Korin Furuya
Pattern design from New Ocean of Art, 1903
Japanese woodblock print; ink, color,
and metallic pigments on paper
Yukiko Koide Presents
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A special opportunity to tour The Metro Show before it opens to the public. Meet at the info desk. Limited availability. Register for this event by January 16.
Johanna McBrien is founding editor-in-chief of Antiques & Fine Art Magazine (est. 2000). Entering the museum field nearly thirty-years ago, she has since taught courses on the history of interiors, decorative arts, and furniture; contributed to scholarly publications; been a furniture specialist at Christie’s New York, Northeast Auctions, and with Wayne Pratt Antiques; editor of AntiquesAmerica.com; and is a USPAP-certified appraiser. She is on the boards of the Decorative Arts Trust, Gore Place, Society of Winterthur Fellows, and sits on the National Council of Historic New England and Strawbery Banke Museum; she is also the Antiques & Art Circle leader for Gozaic.com, the historic travel website for the National Trust.
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Book Signing
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Author Clifford A. Wallach signs his new book A Legacy in Tramp Art (Schiffer Books, 2012).
In over 600 color photos, this book presents historical images and introduces newly discovered artists of tramp art, complete with their known biographies. Also discussed are the collectors who cherished and brought tramp art into their lives.
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John Garner
Painted Tramp Art
Wall Pocket c.1876
Clifford A. Wallach Tramp Art,
Folk Art & Americana
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ART Talk
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GENIUS TRUMPS AFFLICTION: Spiritual Revelations by Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum and Frank Jones
Carl Hammer discusses the disadvantaged lives of these three men, acknowledging their artistic triumphs over the adversity each experienced as black men in America.
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Bill Traylor
Peg-Legged Man c. 1939-42 Pencil
and poster paint on found cardboard
Carl Hammer Gallery
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ART Talk
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Yugen: The Aesthetic of Mystery
Randall Morris discusses the appreciation of art and design and non-mainstream art forms in terms of less definable concepts like mystery, impermanence and non-artworld intentionality.
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Charissa Brock
Cobalt 2011
Black bamboo, glass, waxed linen thread
Cavin-Morris Gallery
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Book Signing
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Author Charles Russell signing his latest work, Groundwaters: a Century of Art by Self-Taught and Outsider Artists, (Prestel Verlag,2011).
Groundwaters brings together works by 12 of the most influential self-taught artists to emerge during the past century. Each represents a facet of the outsider art phenomenon, from mental patients like Adolf Wölfli and Martin Ramirez, through vernacular masters like Bill Traylor and Thornton Dial, to artists who seem to be in touch with other worlds, such as Madge Gill and Henry Darger.
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Raw Vision, winter 2011-12
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ART Talk
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American Folk Art Sculpture: Criteria
Allan Katz discusses the criteria for determining good, better and best in American folk art sculpture.
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Unique Ship Weathervane
c. 1888
Allan Katz Americana
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ART Talk
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When I Am Dead and All My Bones Are Rotten: The Charm of American Schoolgirl Samplers
Amy Finkel discusses the intriguing disjuncture in schoolgirl samplers between whimsical pictorial images and accompanying moribund poems and inscriptions.
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Sarah Ralston Jones, Age 8
American Sampler c.1822
M. Finkel & Daughter
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ART Talk
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Crossover: American Folk and Outsider Art
Roger Ricco discusses the often-fine line between folk and outsider art.
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Detail
African-American Pictographic
Kirkwood Plantation Desk/Secretary
c. 1870s
Mississippi
Ricco/Maresca Gallery
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ART Tour
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The Tour of Everything
A walking tour of the Metro Show with James Brett, founder of The Museum of Everything, whose shows of non-traditional art from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries have welcomed over 300,000 visitors since 2009. Meet at the Information Desk.
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Bill Traylor (1854-1949)
Black Dog Running
circa 1939-1942
Just Folk
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ART Talk & Book Signing
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James Brett, founder of the internationally acclaimed The Museum of Everything will launch The Books of Everything at the Metro Show with a talk, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Garnering international acclaim and recognition for its unconventional approach to presenting art, this unique museum is the world’s first wandering space for non-traditional art from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and collaborates with contemporary artists, curators, musicians and thinkers
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The Books of Everything
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Book Signing
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Author Dr. Martin Eidelberg signs Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty and Tiffany Favrile Pottery and the Quest of Beauty
Dr. Martin Eidelberg is Professor emeritus of Art History, Rutgers University and has written and lectured extensively on modern decorative arts and French eighteenth-century art. He is one of the principal scholars responsible for the revival of interest in the American Arts and Crafts movement. Eidelberg has published widely on American and European glass and pottery. For several decades he has studied the career of Louis C. Tiffany and has authored several significant on the work of this American genius.
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Tiffany Favrile Glass and the
Quest of Beauty
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ART Talk
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The Photographs of Michael Eastman and Arno Minkkinen
Tracey Norman presents an overview of the work of photographers Michael Eastman and Arno Minkkinen.
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Michael Eastman
Blue Arch, Havana 2010
Barry Friedman, Ltd.
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ART Talk
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Collecting Work by Self-Taught Artists: Past, Present & Future
Jane Kallir discusses the history of the field, and the roles played by major artists such as John Kane, Henry Darger and Grandma Moses.
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Grandma Moses
Stone Boat 1952
18 x 24
Galerie St. Etienne, New York
© Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York
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ART Talk
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American Quilts 1830 – 1930
More than cozy bedcovers, American antique quilts hold their own as abstract art, often compared to the work of 20th century artists such as Frank Stella and Josef Albers.
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Satin Bars Quilt
c. 1890
Pennsylvania
Stella Rubin
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ART Talk
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Tiffany Meets Nakashima
Arlie Sulka discusses how masterworks by Louis Comfort Tiffany and mid-century modern furniture designer George Nakashima complement one another.
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Tiffany Studios
Lily Pad Table Lamp c. 1906
American
George Nakashima
Minguen I Table c. 1977
American
Lillian Nassau
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Book Signing
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Author Clifford A. Wallach signs his new book A Legacy in Tramp Art (Schiffer Books, 2012).
In over 600 color photos, this book presents historical images and introduces newly discovered artists of tramp art, complete with their known biographies. Also discussed are the collectors who cherished and brought tramp art into their lives.
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John Garner
Painted Tramp Art
Wall Pocket c.1876
Clifford A. Wallach Tramp Art,
Folk Art & Americana
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ART Talk
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Marvelous Machines: Examining 18th and Early 19th Century Grandfather Clocks
Tips and procedures on evaluating and maintaining heirloom grandfather clocks. Gary Sullivan will disassemble a tall case clock and reveal the brass workings, which were produced by hand without benefit of power machinery or even proper lighting.
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John Bailey Jr. (III)
Mahogany Tall Case Clock 1819
Hanover Massachusetts
Gary R. Sullivan Antiques
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