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Holmes Smith

Coalport Porcelain Porter Mug, J.H. Smith, Dated 1820
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
finely painted by John Holmes Smith, with a scene of a man hunting deer, in an extensive landscape
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Antique 1820s English Georgian Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Coalport Porcelain Porter Mug, J.H. Smith, Dated 1820
Coalport Porcelain Porter Mug, J.H. Smith, Dated 1820
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H 4.06 in W 6.11 in D 4.53 in
Untitled Abstraction Reverse #1 and #2
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
in her art career when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art
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Late 20th Century Bauhaus Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled
H 8 in W 10 in D 0.1 in
Untitled (Artichokes)
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art
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Late 20th Century Bauhaus Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Untitled #1 and Untitled #2
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art
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20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art
Category

Late 20th Century Bauhaus Abstract Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled
H 8 in W 10 in D 0.1 in
Untitled Abstraction
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art Center Gallery at Indiana University. Her photographs were
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Late 20th Century Bauhaus Abstract Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Contemplation by Ida Lansky, c. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
when she exhibited her photographs in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Illusion by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950's, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
in a group exhibition curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art Center Gallery at Indiana University
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
curated by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art Center Gallery at Indiana University. Her photographs were
Category

1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled (artichokes) by Ida Lansky, ca. 1950, Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
By Ida Lansky
Located in Dallas, TX
by Henry Holmes Smith at the Art Center Gallery at Indiana University. Her photographs were exhibited
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Katie Holmes, Signed Lt'd Edition Photograph, Markus Klinko
By Markus Klinko
Located in New Orleans, LA
A stunning limited-edition photo of the lovely Katie Holmes, shot by international celebrity
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Film

Aperture Photography Magazine Collection of 6 Early Issues 1950s
Located in Chicago, IL
commentary by Henry Holmes Smith, George Wright, John Upton, Barbara Morgan, et al.; an essay by Minor White
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Books

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Paper

Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Robert Fichter
By Robert Fichter
Located in Surfside, FL
photography with Jerry Uelsmann, who encouraged him to pursue an MFA under photographer Henry Holmes Smith at
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1980s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Polaroid

Arrival or Departure Photographic Series (After Hitchcock)
By Betty Hahn
Located in Soquel, CA
department of photography. At the suggestion of Henry Holmes Smith, she started experimenting with the gum
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1980s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated
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1980s Abstract Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

2 Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Pulls Ellen Carey Photograph
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that
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1980s Abstract Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Betty Hahn Art
By Betty Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
period, Hahn studied under one of the most well-known photography teachers of the time, Henry Holmes
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1980s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Color, Polaroid

The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, 1855
Located in Dallas, TX
lack of corrections and editing; he lamented to George Frederick Holmes that “I fear that this [edition
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Antique Mid-19th Century American American Classical Books

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Paper

The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, 1855
The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, 1855
H 7.6 in W 5.25 in D 1.25 in

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By Fendi Casa
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Sublime pair of Italian Fendi Tunica lounge chairs or slipper chairs circa 2015. The bespoke rare chairs feature a soft and supple arctic blue leather. The fitted leather is draped o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Neoclassical Lounge Chairs

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Chairs Screen Print by Marcia Grostein
By Marcia Grostein
Located in New York, NY
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Vintage 1980s American Prints

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Chairs Screen Print by Marcia Grostein
Chairs Screen Print by Marcia Grostein
H 48 in W 38.25 in D 1.25 in
Coalport Porcelain Plate, New Embossed Relief Moulded with Birds, Regency ca1815
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This is a very rare and beautiful plate made by Coalport between 1815 and 1820. The plate is relief moulded in the "New Embossed" shape and has a fabulous pattern in cobalt blue, gil...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Dinner Plates

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Contemporary White Table Lamp, Organic Modern by Donatas Žukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Rudamina, LT
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Materials

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Coalport Plate, Windsor Castle with Deer, Sepia, Thomas Baxter, Georgian ca 1805
By John Rose, Coalport Porcelain, Thomas Baxter
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful and very rare dessert plate made by Coalport in circa 1805, which was the late Georgian era. The plate is decorated with a superbly painted named landscape of Win...
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Black Male Nude Painting by Rowena Meeks Abdy
By Rowena Meeks Abdy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in an era when African or African American figures were increasingly featured in painting and sculpture, both in America and Europe, this sensuous depiction of a black male f...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings

Materials

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By Napoléon III
Located in Saint Louis, MO
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"THE SURFER" 1973 Reprint of the Original 1960 Surfer Magazine by John Severson
By John Severson Productions
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice and super rare "The Surfer" magazine reprint from 1973 of the original "Surfer Magazine" published in 1960 by surf industry pioneer John Severson. The piece is in good co...
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Materials

Paper

Ceramic Proust Metallic by Alessandro Mendini for Superego Editions, Italy
By Superego Editions, Alessandro Mendini
Located in Milan, Italy
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Vintage Ceramic Woman Bust / Vase by Dorothy Kindell
By Dorothy Kindell
Located in San Diego, CA
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Claude R. Bentley, Abstract, 1960, Oil on Canvas painting titled 'Eclipse'
By Claude R. Bentley
Located in Camden, ME
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Joel Meyerowitz, Taking My Time
Located in New York City, NY
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Paper

Joel Meyerowitz, Taking My Time
Joel Meyerowitz, Taking My Time
H 13.38 in W 9.5 in D 3.54 in
Rococo Style Hand Painted Ceramic Cachepot with Gilt Decoration, E.U., 20th C.
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Rococo style hand painted and gilded ceramic cachepot - featuring floral panels to the front and back - gold gilt scrolls, flowers and butterflies with lion's head mask handl...
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20th Century European Rococo Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières

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Vladimir Kagan Lucite & Glass Dining or Center Table, c. 1970s
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Modern 1970s Vladimir Kagan Lucite and chrome dining or center table. Tempered circular glass top with frosted circle detail rests atop a splayed lucite base bolted with chrome pegs....
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Dining Room Tables

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Space Age Acrylic and Chrome 'Teledome' Rotary Telephone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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1835 Map of Turtle Bay Farms, New York City
Located in New York, NY
. Holmes was something of a scoundrel, and it is not unlikely that he may have taken credit for Smith
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1860s Realist More Prints

Materials

Ink

Smith’s Point, Manchester, MA
By Charles Sydney Hopkinson
Located in Milford, NH
sitters were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Calvin Coolidge, and John Masefield. He certainly became well known as
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Large Format Abstract Unique Color Photo Polaroid Photograph Ellen Carey
By Ellen Carey
Located in Surfside, FL
, Henry Holmes Smith and Lotte Jacobi explored compositions of found objects in ways that demonstrated
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1980s Abstract Color Photography

Materials

Polaroid

"Life and Liberty in America" by Charles Mackay, Second Edition, 1859
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Canada, in 1857-1858. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1859. Second edition printing. Two volumes, octavo
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Antique 1850s British Books

Materials

Paper

Chicago 47 1960
By Aaron Siskind
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Holmes Smith, and Aaron Siskind, Aaron Siskind, Photographer (Rochester, NY: George Eastman House
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1960s Black and White Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Morning Run - Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali, boxing, black & white, 34.5x48 in
Located in London, GB
with Larry Holmes. Chris Smith has been at the forefront of British Sports Photography for over thirty
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Baby Gene Pool Gets the News
By Robert Fichter
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
under Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, Bloomington earning a Masters of Fine Arts in 1966
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henry Holmes Smith, Pair II, 1952, gelatin silver print, abstract pair
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Henry Holmes Smith, Pair II, 1952, gelatin silver print, abstract pair from the Bauhaus period.
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1950s Bauhaus Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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