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"Left Trembling Something Sings #2" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely small format painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen, inspired by the poems of Pablo Neruda. Created with pigment, plaster, and stain on styrene, cased in a wooden sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"Our Decision to Eat Hair" or "Two Pugilists Smoking" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Small format painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen titled "Our Decision to Eat Hair" and inscribed on back "Two Pugilists Smoking Between Rounds" and dated 2016 on reverse....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Paint, Polystyrene, Plaster
"The Imagined Pathology of Water" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Mermaid/water themed painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Using deep saturated colors, this painting is created with pigmented plaster, paint, and floor stain on salvage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"The Untitled Experiment (The Mermaid's Dilemma)" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Whimsical painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Crafted using pigmented plaster, ballpoint pens, and floor stain, all on velvet laid on board. Unframed, wooden cradle su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Plaster, Wood, Paint
"Pony Tail Hoarders" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Fantastical painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Created with pigmented plaster, ballpoint pen, and floor stain, all on velvet laid on board. Unframed with wooden sides...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Plaster, Wood, Paint
"No Boats to the High Ground" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely small work by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Created with pigmented plaster, stain, and paint on polystyrene, in custom wooden shadowbox frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"Island Escape (The Betrothed)" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
"Island Escape (The Betrothed)" by Kevin Paulsen. Crafted with pigmented plaster, stain, and paint on polystyrene base, encased in custom wood shadowbox frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"It's Not This Place" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large scale painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Created with pigmented plaster and ballpoint pen on velvet, laid on board. Unframed but with boxed wood cradle surround...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Plaster, Wood, Paint
"Passing of the Moon" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen featuring a river/harbor scene. Crafted with pigmented plaster on a polystyrene base cradled in a custom shadowbox.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"Fish Atangle" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
By noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen, utilizing pigment, stain, and ballpoint pen on tinted plaster on polystyrene, cased in a custom shadowbox frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Paint, Polystyrene
"Nimble Thief 2" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
"Nimble Thief 2" by New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Painted with pigment, stain, and ballpoint pen on tinted plaster on polystyrene, encased in custom shadowbox frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Paint
"Blue Fish Island" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large format painting by noted artist Kevin Paulsen featuring deep blue hues with pigmented plaster and ballpoint pens on large wooden panel. Unframed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
"The Hoarder Turns Hair Into Birds" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Whimsical painting on masonite by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen using plaster, ballpoint pen, acrylic on sandpaper laid on masonite. Unframed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Plaster, Masonite
Oak Draw Table with Tapered Legs
Located in Nantucket, MA
Oak Draw Table with lovely oak nut mottled finish top on taper legs.
Extends to 123" long when fully open.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Farm Tables
Materials
Oak
Chestnut Draw Leaf Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
Chestnut dining table with draw leaf extensions on either side. Top with nutty brown finish and rich aged look. On taper legs.
Extends to 116 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Farm Tables
Materials
Chestnut
Chestnut Four Drawer Server
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely four drawer server crafted from chestnut with a mellow oaky patina. With breadboard ends on top and side stretchers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Materials
Chestnut
English Elm Four Drawer Server
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely Elm four drawer server with taper legs. Crafted from antique timbers, with scrubbed white-wash finish.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Materials
Elm
Chestnut Four Drawer Server
Located in Nantucket, MA
Handsome four drawer server crafted from antique Chestnut. Naturally aged top with great character.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Sideboards
Materials
Chestnut
19th Century Oak School Desk or Lectern
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century oak school desk or lectern. Lift top reveals document compartment, over two lower drawers each with inlaid fruitwood key escutcheon (no k...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century European Desks
Materials
Oak
Early 18th Century Oak Gateleg Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 18th century oak gateleg table of diminutive size. With carved bobbin legs and great color. Unusual rectangular drop leaf element suggest...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century European Drop-leaf and Pembroke Tables
Materials
Oak
19th Century Wooden Bench in Brown Paint
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Pine bench with old brown paint. Boot jack ends.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Benches
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Mahogany Sewing Stand/Work Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Mahogany sewing stand or work table. Upper three-sided gallery top with finger cutouts on sides above storage compartment with accordion style sliding door, with single...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Side Tables
Materials
Brass
Oval Mahogany Farm Table with Single Drawer
Located in Nantucket, MA
Oval Mahogany farm table with single drawer along one side, on taper legs.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Farm Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Nantucket Sailor Boy Whirligig, circa 1880
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Nantucket Sailor Boy Whirligig, circa 1880, by either Billy Ray or Charles C. Ray (born 1824), a hand carved flat figure of a sailor in brown and white paint, wearing round c...
Category
Antique 1880s American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Pine
18th Century Child's Thumb Back Windsor High Chair
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century Child's Thumb Back Windsor High Chair, circa 1780, an American Colonial Period Country Thumback Windsor High Chair with flattened finia...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century American American Colonial Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood
19th Century Graduated Stack of Paint Decorated Pantry Boxes
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Graduated Stack of Paint Decorated Pantry Boxes, circa 1880, comprising five shaved splint bentwood pantry boxes with straight overlaps fastened via wooden pegs, in late...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Country Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Blown Glass Wedding Lamp, circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very Rare Double Font Wedding Lamp, by D.C. Ripley (patented 1870), with two blown into mold aqua blue opaline reservoirs, clambroth match holder, and mil...
Category
Antique 1870s American Victorian Table Lamps
Materials
Glass
Art Deco Bronze Patinated Table Lamp with Emeralite Shade, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Art Deco Bronze Patinated Lamp with Emeralite Glass Shade, circa 1920, having a flattened spheroid "mushroom" green glass shade, held on three wire arms above a bronze patinated tape...
Category
Vintage 1920s Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Carved Pine Half Hull Model of a Coasting Schooner
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Carved Pine Half Hull Model of a Coasting Schooner, circa 1920, a hollow-carved shell half hull model with clipper bow and great shear, and nice serpentine carved trailboard....
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
Early 19th Century Portrait of the Marsh Family Twins, by Arrowsmith, circa 1830
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 19th Century Portrait of the Marsh Family Twins, by Thomas Arrowsmith (English: 1772 - 1834), circa 1830, an oil on canvas group portrait of the celebrated five children of the Marsh family of Boston. The two pair of twin girls and their younger brother became well known on both sides of the Atlantic in their day, because sets of twins were pretty rare, and these children were so ridiculously cute. Apparently the greatest artists of their day were all clamoring to paint their portraits. The Magazine Antiques ran an article on the children and their popularity about 20 years ago.
The short hair cuts sported by the girls are quite striking, and are actually not as odd and rare as many people assume. While longer hair enhanced with ringlets and other curls were very much the popular fashion, a good number of parents did boldly break away with these daring short bobs. Perhaps they were the "bohemians" of their day. The style grew in popularity, even among adults, following the French Revolution: dubbed "Guillotine Haircuts" they declared sympathy for the deposed royals.
In this particular instance, I believe the short hair was chosen because it focused more attention on the beautiful faces, and lessened the variations in height and hair color to make them all look even more alike.
A delightful painting, slightly Romantic School, a touch Folk Art, in excellent condition and signed on the reverse. Thomas Arrowsmith was a highly regarded artist who worked almost entirely in miniature. Such artists who created such amazingly detailed tiny portraits on ivory...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas
American Darting Gun Toggle Iron Harpoon, Marked Macy, for Bark Sunbeam
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique American Darting Gun Toggle Iron Harpoon, made by E.B. and F. Macy, New Bedford, for the Larboard Boat on the Whaling Bark Sunbeam (1856 - 1908), having an improved toggle head with acute barb (standing nearly at a right angle), and an unusual ridged cheek, with the maker's mark MACY stamped on the right cheek (the mark of E.B. & F. Macy, blacksmiths of New Bedford: 1861-1904), the ship stamp BK SB on the left cheek (for the Bark Sunbeam, and the dot punched boat mark L B (for the Larboard, or Second, or Port-side Stern whale boat); mounted on a round shank slightly kinked from use, ending in the spike end necessary for use with a darting gun, and the loop for splicing on the iron strap. An amazing artifact retaining a tremendous amount of historical documentation.
The harpoon remain in very good condition with a still very sharp cutting edge and deep brown patina and no corrosion. The head is frozen, but in the absence of rust it would very likely free up with a little lubrication if so desired. The tip of the front barb has a small chip off tip. The slight kink to the shank comes from use and is considered by most to be a a good feature.
The Bark SUNBEAM was built in Mattapoisett in 1856 and enjoyed a long career in the New Bedford whale fishery of 17 voyages to the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Clifford Ashley...
Category
Antique 1860s American Other Nautical Objects
Materials
Steel
Sherwin Boyer Nantucket "One Egg" Basket, circa 1960
Located in Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Petite Basket, by Sherwin Boyer, circa 1960, the tiny size referred to on-island as a “one egg" basket, a round open basket with carved swing handle,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Cane
Mattapoisett Basket, by Gladys Ellis, circa 1940s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early Vintage Mattapoisett Basket, by Gladys Ellis, Mid 20th Century, a hand-crafted basket modeled after a Nantucket purse, having a round disk shape with open top, made of hand-sti...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Other
Mattapoisett Basket, by Gladys Ellis, circa 1940s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early Vintage Mattapoisett Basket, likely by Gladys Ellis, Mid 20th Century, a hand-crafted basket modeled after a Nantucket purse, having a flat oval "clamshell" lid hinged above an oval body, made of hand-stitched longleaf pine needles and raffia in braided and lace-like arrangements, with two braided raffia handles, a stitched hinge, and a silk lined interior, not signed. This is one of her very early baskets made before she started adding ivory tops and fixtures.
The basket remains in strong original condition with no discernible breaks to the weave. There may have once been a loop closure at one point.
Measures: 5-1/4 in H x 9 in L x 6-1/4 in W
A local adaptation of a Nantucket basket first designed by Gladys Ellis (Mattapoisett: 1917 – 2011). The Mattapoisett basket is made in the shape and nature of a Nantucket basket, but uses southern yellow or longleaf pine needles and raffia coiled and sewn on a frame with a lace-like effect, often incorporating scrimshaw panels on the top and sides, sometimes as well as clasps and handle knobs...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Other
Schooling Mackerel by Barnaby Porter, circa 1970's
Located in Nantucket, MA
Schooling Mackerel by Barnaby Porter, circa 1970s, a sculpture made from reclaimed wood on the mid-coast of Maine. Porter used old found wood to cut and hand paint these three mackerel "weathervanes," mounted together as a school - this was part of an original room-sized installation.
The sculpture is in excellent, as made "distressed" condition as shown in photographs.
Porter's work has been exhibited in the Farnsworth Museum and elsewhere and has been featured in the TV show, "Made in Maine', and in magazines such as Fine Woodworking...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Reclaimed Wood
Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner, Ca 1910
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942), circa 1910, a period hand tinted photograph entitled "Nantucket Shearing Cart and Quakers" showing classic grey shingled houses on a cobblestone paved street, with a couple in horse drawn cart riding away from the viewer, and four women on doorstep and sidewalk, all dressed in period Quaker attire. It is interesting to note that the couple in cart are seated on antique Nantucket Bow Back Windsor chairs. The photograph was titled and hand signed in pencil across the bottom of the old acid foxed mat; the photograph is now mounted in new archival acid free matting, and a photocopy of the original pencil inscription has been preserved on the reverse. The photograph itself remains in excellent condition.
H. Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942) was born on September 18, 1884 in Windsor, Ontario, and immigrated to the United States circa 1890, where his father W.H. Gardiner opened two photographic studios, one in Detroit during the winter months and a second at Mackinac Island during the more tourist-oriented summer months. Recognizing the potential of Florida's rapidly growing tourist trade, around 1894-95 he moved with his family from Detroit to Daytona, Florida which proved much more accommodating to the family's photographic business during the colder winter months.
Marshall learned many of his photographic techniques from his father prior to going out on his own at a relatively early age. Whereas his father generally used wet collodian negatives, technology had advanced to where he was able to use gelatin dry plates in his earlier years, and later the less expensive and much more convenient roll film. Another very important lesson learned from his father was strategy of setting up shop in a tourist resort. Early in his career he traveled to Bermuda where he shot a series of beautiful Bermuda scenes that he hand-colored and successfully sold over a number of years to the local tourist trade.
Around 1910, at the age of around 24, he first traveled to the island of Nantucket. The year-round population of Nantucket was then just over 2500, not nearly enough to sustain a photographic business for the entire year, so he opened a joint Photography and Art Supplies Store. Working as Nantucket's exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak, his business expanded to include the island's only photo-finishing service. However, with such a small year-round population, even the addition of a Gift Shop to compliment the hand-painted photographs, general portrait...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Photography
Materials
Paper
Nantucket Large Harvest Basket by Mitchy Ray, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Nantucket Basket, by Mitchy Ray (1877 - 1956), circa 1920s, a large open round basket with heavy wooden staves, cane weave, solid oak bottom ...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Cane, Oak
Carved and Painted Black Duck Decoy, by Pat Gardner, Nantucket, circa 1960s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Carved and Painted Black Duck Decoy, by Pat Gardner, Nantucket, circa 1960s, a carved wooden working decoy style black duck with head set well back on shelf in the content posture, with carved mandible and nares, on plump body with paddle tail, signed M.P. Gardner Nantucket on the bottom, and retaining an old sticker inscribed "Gaillard." This is believed to be the only duck decoy that Pat ever made. amongst all her shorebird carvings. The decoy is extremely heavy, as if carved from a solid block of lignum vitae, ebony or the like.
Mary Patricia Gardner was born and lived her whole life on Nantucket. She studied under Frank Swift Chase, Ruth Haviland Sutton and Earl S. Ray, and was influenced by her grandfather Wallace Gardner, who was a trained sculptor. She became a member of the Artists Association of Nantucket in 1947. She was best known for her shorebird carvings, but also worked in watercolor and printmaking. She is viewed as one of the greater talents of her generation on Nantucket. Her work is highly sought after but only rarely appears on the market.
This bird is from the personal collection of the late Nantucket antiques...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Decoys
Materials
Hardwood
Early 19th Century Needlework "Show Towel" Dated 1836
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely early 19th century "show towel" likely from Pennsylvania. Show towels were special towels with decorative accents stitched into the fabric - often di...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Decorative Art
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Early 20th Century Hooked Rug of Dove and Cherry Branch, Mounted for Hanging
Located in Nantucket, MA
Turn of the century/early 20th century hooked rug, mounted for wall hanging on black linen and foam core stretcher. With evergreen ground and white and variegated striped border. Cen...
Category
Early 20th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Wool
19th Century, Elongated Hexagonal Appliqué Penny Rug, Mounted for Hanging
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vibrant 19th century appliqué "Penny Rug" featuring felted wool appliqué on ivory cotton field. Elongated hexagon shape, mounted on black linen stretcher wi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool, Felt, Cotton
19th Century Hooked Rug with Greek Key and Flowers, Dated 1891, Mounted
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century hooked rug with black braided border surrounding rug with vibrant red and teal highlighted Greek key border. Inset blue striped border around central floral medal...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
19th Century American Geometric Pattern Mounted Hooked Rug
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vibrant antique hooked rug composed of numerous hexagons of various colors, all surrounded by black borders. Professionally backed with burlap and ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
19th Century Nantucket Lightship Bushel Basket by George Gardner
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very rare 19th century Nantucket Lightship Bushel Basket by George C. Gardner of Nantucket Island (1809 - 1889), an oversized round open basket handcrafted with a fat rattan weave on wide wooden splint staves, a carved wooden heart-shaped handle which is deeply notched above and below the rim and extends under the weave a full half-way down their staves, and a round pine bottom deeply inscribed "George C. Gardner." Captain Gardner lived at 141 Main Street and was also known for making shorebird decoys.
The bottom plate...
Category
Antique 1870s American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Rattan, Wood
"Nimble Thief" by Kevin Paulsen
By Kevin Paulsen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Wonderful painting with bright hues by New York artist Kevin Paulsen. With a central bird motif, surrounded by trees, houses, and other various designs. Pigment and ink on plaster an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Polystyrene, Plaster, Wood, Paint
Seascape with Ship Racing a Barkentine, by C.A.S. Orne, 1920
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Seascape with square-rigged ship racing a Barkentine, by C.A.S. Orne, 1920, a watercolor on paper stormy seascape with two square-riggers running before the wind, with choppy...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), ca 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), circa 1890, an oil on canvas bow view of a clippership under full sail, running with stun'sls and skysails set, on lively sea under blue cloudy sky, with a second square-rigger visible in the background, signed in the lower right, and titled on the reverse "Clipper Ship Before the Wind." A beautiful and dramatic painting with a cool, brisk feel.
The painting is in fine condition, with one small patch along the upper margin and a tiny spot of corresponding inpainting.
Measures:24 in H x 20 in W
Framed: 29 in H x 25 in W
George Howell Gay was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated in Chicago under Paul Brown and Henry Elkins, and in 1889 moved to Bronxville, New York. He worked in all media, but was especially fond of watercolor, which allowed him to capture the transparency of the ocean and the luminous qualities of sunlight and clouds. Gay worked along the Northeastern coast from Rhode Island to Maine, but also painted summer and winter landscapes throughout New England.
Gay’s seascapes were exhibited at the Boston Art...
Category
Antique 1890s American Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, Signed, circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, by Lee Heng, circa 1870, an oil on board seascape with large Chinese Junk under full sail in the fo...
Category
Antique 1870s Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Other
18th Century, English Oak Candle Stand with Inlaid Octagonal Top
Located in Nantucket, MA
Diminutive 18th century English candle stand. Crafted from oak with inlaid octagonal top on turned pedestal and terminating in three claw feet.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Candle Stands
Materials
Oak
18th Century English Oak Coffer
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century English Oak Coffer with iron ring hinge, iron lockplate (no key), and bootjack legs. Consistent with age, this piece has a warped top ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Blanket Chests
Materials
Iron
19th Century Chromolithograph of a Sailor Boy
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century chromolithograph of a sailor boy, circa 1880, a colored print on canvas view of a young American sailor boy sitting astride a bowsprit. A class...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Victorian Prints
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Seascape with Lighthouse
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century seascape with lighthouse, circa 1890, an oil on canvas view of a white-washed lighthouse tower on a small offshore rocky ledge, most...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Painting of Ladies in Waiting
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Italian painting of ladies in waiting, Naples school, second half 19th century, an oil on wooden panel realist portrait of two Neapolitan c...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
Nantucket Basket with Stencil Decorated Top, by Harry Hilbert, 1995
Located in Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Basket by Harry Hilbert, 1995, a Nantucket purse having a solid mahogany hinged top with colonial or federal style stenciled decoration on ebonized reserve, fine brass hinges minutely inlaid, and tropic wood cross-band inlay around perimeter; double carved wooden swing handles attached with bone mounts; nickel clasp; two tone woven cane wrap on oak staves; signed and dated by wood-burnt stamp on the mahogany bottom. This is a beautiful basket made with astounding craftsmanship by one of the finest artists in the field.
The basket remains in superb, barely used condition. I found one scuff above the stenciled reserve.
Harry Hilbert (1917 – 2010) was an acclaimed Nantucket Basket maker known for his fine inlay and superb craftsmanship. He originally made his baskets as personal gifts, but later sold them through Wayne Pratt...
Category
1990s American Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Cane, Wood
19th Century Watercolor Seascape with Shipwreck
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique seascape with shipwreck on a rocky shore, mid-19th century, a watercolor on paper seascape with a shipwrecked brig on the rocks, with another squall rolling in on horizon, un...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paper
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin, circa 1949
By Herbert Leupin
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin (Swiss: 1916 - 1999), a watercolor and gouache painting original for one of Leupin's celeb...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swiss Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Folk Art Maine Rocky Coast Seascape, by D. A. Fisher, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Folk Art Maine rocky coast seascape, by D. A. Fisher (1867 - 1940), circa 1900, an oil on board seascape with gentle combers breaking on rocks on the foreground, with two sloops sailing in the background, signed lower right. The reverse retaining the label for Frost & Adams Academy Boards, Artists' Tube Colors, etc. , dealers in fine art materials in Boston from 1869 to 1921. There is also a label from The Thomas Co, Picture Framing, Washington D.C.
D.A. Fisher lived in Portland Maine and was a prolific painter of primarily marine landscapes, with subjects focused primarily in southern Maine, but also Massachusetts and New Hampshire. While his work is quite similar and sympathetic with "The Brushians," a group of about 16 artist from Portland that painted on outings around Casco Bay...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Other
18th or 19th Century French Ship Chandler's Trade Sign
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th or 19th century French ship chandler's trade sign, circa 1800, an oval pine double sided sign built with large dove-tails, advertising Cooperage and...
Category
Antique 1790s French Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
Pacific Northwest Coast Carved Cedar Killer Whale Rattle
Located in Nantucket, MA
Pacific Northwest coast carved cedar killer whale rattle, by Coastal Salish - Squamish artist Stan Joseph, signed and dated 2012, a beautiful and deeply carved hollow cedar dance rattle in the form of a Killer Whale, with relief carved eyes and mouth, surface striations, and three human faces on the back and tale, with applied pectoral and dorsal fins. Mounted with simple whittled cradle on cedar block base (signed and dated on bottom of base). Hollow interior rattles with entrapped pebbles.
The carving was never polychromed and remains in its original natural finish. Excellent condition.
Stan Joseph is a Coastal Salish artist from North Vancouver. He began carving in 1962 at the age of twelve, and also ventured into painting and designing totem poles. In 1972 he carved an 80 foot and other huge poles which sold to Germany. In 1980 he carved a 60-foot pole for Sea Span and another one for the Chief Joe Matthias Centre, as well as the welcome figure on the West Vancouver Pier. Stan is now an outstanding master carver who teaches his craft to the next generation of young artists. Stan is also accomplished at making silver and gold jewelry, and teaches this art at the employment center.
Stan has been interested in the spiritual dances of the Coast Salish...
Category
2010s American Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Cedar
European Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Impressionist Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927, an oil on canvas urban landscape painting of town square with flower venders, signed illegibly A___ V____ (looks akin to A__ssy V_erge) and dated 1927 lower left. An autumnal scene with classic "viktualienmarkt" that looks so much like the Munich Altstadt but is almost surely the park alongside the Prussian Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. This is a very charming and beautiful painting.
The Charlottenburg area was the seat of the Berlin Secessionist school of German progressive artists that espoused modern art, especially impressionism and expressionism. Max Liebermann in particular, a painter and printmaker, was one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe, and a leading light of the Berlin Secessionism. The Charlottenburg art community became a sort of German "Left Bank" and was at the avant garde of of the visual arts and literature, including the likes of Alfred Döblin, Otto Dix, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bertolt Brecht...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
