Wisconsin

Formality by State House Sterling Silver flatware set - 43 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 8 1/2" 8 Forks, 7 1/2" 8 Salad Forks, 6 1/4" 8 Teaspoons, 6 1/8" 8 Cream Soup Spoons,...

Stunning Sterling Rose by Wallace sterling silver Flatware set - 50 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 8 7/8" 12 Forks, 7 3/8" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 12 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" 2 Servi...

Rare Arts & Crafts hand-hammered "San Juan" by Wallace, introduced in the year 1914, sterling silver flatware set, 85 pieces. This set is offered in the original vintage fitted chest...

Processional by Fine Arts Internatinoal sterling silver flatware set of 94 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 9 1/4", 12 forks, 7 1/4", 12 salad forks, 6 1/2" , 12 teaspoons,...

Courtship by international sterling silver flatware set of 35 pieces. This set includes: 8 KNIVES, 9 1/8", 8 FORKS, 7 1/4", 8 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/8", 8 TEASPOONS, 6", 1 SERVING SPOO...

Unused Blithe spirit by Gorham sterling silver flatware set - 72 pieces. This set includes: 8 knives, 9 1/8" 8 forks, 7 1/4" 8 salad forks, 6 5/8" 8 teaspoons, 5 7/8" 8 place ...

'Dressed For Tonight' is an original black serpentine stone sculpture signed by the Zimbabwean artist Rangarirai Makunde. The sculpture presents the figure of a tall and elegant woma...

Vintage Gucci c.1970's navy blue GG Guccissima monogram silk oblong wrap / scarf. "GG" guccissima monogram print throughout. Wide vertical stripe patter...

Monumental continental by international dinner and lunch size sterling silver flatware set - 137 pieces with applied "W" monogram. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 3/4" 1...

Monumental Lily of the Valley by Gorham Sterling silver Flatware set, 102 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 8 7/8" 12 Forks, 7 1/4" 12 Salad Forks, 6 5/8" 12 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" ...

"Raku Vase with Concentric Rings" is a ceramic piece signed on the bottom by the artist Marty Marcus. The vase has a variety of gorgeous color variations. 7 1/4" height; 8 1/2" dia...

Scarce Joy by International sterling silver Flatware set, 48 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 9 1/4" 8 Forks, 7 1/4" 8 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 8 Teaspoons, 6" 8 Cream Soup Spoons, 6...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 2000 Red Cyrillic Pegasus Emblem LS Pullover Sweater Top Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: Spring / Summer 2000 Designer: Alexander McQuee...

Beautiful Sea Rose by Gorham sterling silver flatware set, 44 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/4". Eight forks, 7 1/2". Eight salad forks, 6 5/8"...

Beautiful Inaugural by State House sterling silver Flatware set - 37 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 9 1/8" 8 Forks, 7 1/8" 8 Salad Forks, 6 1/4" 8 Teaspoons, 6 1/8" 1 Gravy La...

Wonderful opportunity for a rare, complete Set of 6 Tito Agnoli "Sistina" Italian Matteo Grassi leather dining or conference chairs. This gorgeous design displays nice detailing thro...

Superb dinner and luncheon Normandie by Northumbria Canada rose motif sterling silver flatware set 59 pieces. This set includes: Six dinner size knives, 9 7/8" Six dinner size forks...

Dinner size Valdres by Th. Marthinsen (Norway) sterling silver flatware set with ornate pierced handle, 73 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 1/4" 12 dinner size fo...

One of Durgin's most popular and beautiful patterns is '"Chrysanthemum". The design is of leaves and chrysanthemum buds and blooms on the front. The back displays 2 chrysanthemums in...

This vintage, heavy, and ornate sterling pattern was introduced by Alvin in the year 1950, and is no longer manufactured. It is called Prince Eugene in honor of the famed Prince Eugene of Savoy...

Horizon by Easterling Sterling Silver Flatware Set - 46 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 8 7/8", eight forks, 7 3/8", eight salad forks, 6 3/4", eight teaspoons, 6", ei...

The Basket of Flowers pattern by Gebelein is an exquisite expression of classic American silversmithing, featuring an intricately detailed floral basket motif that symbolizes beauty,...

Perles German 800 silver set with timeless beaded design - 71 pieces total (13 pieces are complimenting Bead-Round by Carrs pattern, as noted below). This set includes: 12 dinner kn...

A pleasing harmony of traditional design and fresh modern styling is reflected in Rhapsody. Sweeping asymmetrical curves, deeply sculpted, play upon each piece. This simple yet elega...

English Provincial by Reed & Barton is a timeless sterling silver flatware pattern that beautifully captures the warmth and charm of traditional English design. Introduced in 1965, t...

Edgemont Gold by Gorham, introduced in 1987, is an elegant sterling silver flatware pattern that blends classic styling with a touch of contemporary sophistication. The design is dis...

Candlelight by towle sterling silver flatware set, 48 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 5/8", 12 dinner size forks, 7 7/8", 12 salad forks, 6 1/2", 12 teaspoon...

GRANDEUR BY ONEIDA sterling silver Flatware set - 52 Pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9" 12 FORKS, 7 1/4" 12 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/4" 12 TEASPOONS,...

"Maize" is an original oil painting on panel done by a member of the school of, or in the style of David Alfaro Siqueiros. The abstract image depicts a figure holding an ear of corn ...

Grande Renaissance by Reed & Barton Sterling Silver Flatware 12 Set - 48 pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9 1/8", 1 12 FORKS, 7 1/2", 12 SAL...

Marlborough by Reed and Barton sterling silver flatware set - 40 pieces. This set includes: Eight dinner size knives, 9 3/4", eight dinner size forks, 7 3/4", eight salad forks, ...

Framed 26.50 x 23.50 in No. 291 in the Catalogue Raisonne of Chagall's lithographs This lithograph came from "The Lithographs of Chagall: Volume I" by Fernand Mourlot and Marc Cha...

Born in Milwaukee, Robert Richter has been painting from the age of eight. His unique paintings are hand carved on wood as well as hand carved frames that become an integral part of ...

Scroll is a scarce, hand hammered heavy weight pattern designed by Johan Rohde in 1927. Johan Rohde is known for his innovative and unique style. While his patterns are elegant and c...

"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235, M 946" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This Chagall is a graphic piece, with black lines on a white paper. The main figure is a je...

Townhall by David Andersen .830 Danish silver flatware set, 65 pieces. Name of pattern: Radhus med Vifte (translates to 'city hall with fan design) This set includes: 8 dinner knive...

"Vase of Chrysanthemums" is an original watercolor painting by Alicia Czechowski. It depicts a vase of flowers in front of a mirror. Signed by Czechowski in the lower right corner. ...

Paul Storr Extraordinary Paul Storr English Victorian sterling silver round tray engraved #122. This tray was made in London circa 1837. This piece features a detailed chased coat...

Dinner Size King Philip by Watson, circa 1904, sterling silver flatware set, 56 pieces. This set includes: 6 Dinner Size Knives with blunt silverplated blades, 10 1/4" 6 Dinner Siz...

14K white gold filigree Art Deco ring featuring a large amethyst weighing 7.90 carats. This is the original stone, newly polished in the same rectangular brilliant cut, measuring abo...

Dinner Size Princess Mary by Wallace sterling silver Flatware set, 88 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Size Knives, 9 1/2" 12 Dinner Size Forks, 7 1/2" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/4" 12...

"The Fisherman's Catch" is a signed (in pencil lower right and in plate lower left) etching by James Fagan. It depicts a fisherman walking on a beach in black and white. It is signed...

Dinner size Chippendale by Towle sterling silver flatware set - 60 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 5/8" 12 dinner size forks, 7 3/4" 12 salad forks, 6 5/8" 12 teaspoons, 6" 12 cream soup spoons, 6 3/8" Includes bonus brand new storage chest - styles vary. Excellent condition, with no monograms. This set will be beautifully professionally polished and sealed in individual plastic sleeves prior to shipping. Inspired by the master designer, this delicate pattern mimics the graceful, curving leg of an 18th century Chippendale chair...

English Gadroon by Gorham sterling silver flatware set of 60 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 7/8", 12 forks, 7 1/8", 12 salad forks, 6 1/4" 12 teaspoons, 5 3/4", 12 cre...

Violet by Whiting-Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware set - 34 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, with French Stainless blades, 9" 8 Forks, 6 3/4" ...

Lovely Grille Size PROMISE BY ROYAL CREST sterling silver Flatware set - 40 pieces. This set includes: 8 GRILLE KNIVES, 8 1/8" 8 GRILLE FORKS, 7 1/2" 8 SALAD FORKS, 6 1/4" 8 TEASPOO...

Stunning Michele by Wallace Sterling Silver flatware set - 55 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 9 1/8" 12 Forks, 7 1/2" 12 Salad Forks, 6 3/4" 12 Teaspoons, 6 1/4" 1 Gravy Ladle...

PROMISE BY ROYAL CREST sterling silver Flatware set - 76 pieces. This set includes: 12 KNIVES, 9 1/8" 12 FORKS, 7 1/8" 12 SALAD FORKS, 6 1/4" 12 TEASPOONS, 6" 12 CREAM SOUP SPOONS, ...

"Whale in a Sea of Symbols" is an original ink and charcoal on handmade amate paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features an abstra...

"Vachere au Bord de L'Eau" is an original etching and aquatint by Camille Pissarro, the 8th state. It can be found in the catalogue raisonne Delteil #93. It features a woman sitting ...

Melrose by Gorham place size sterling silver flatware set - 24 pieces. Great starter set! This set includes: Six place size knives, 9 1/8", six pl...

Plisse aka Pleated by E. Dragsted Danish sterling silver flatware set - 40 pieces. The pattern design is truly striking. This scarce set includes: 8 K...

Styled in the lavish Baroque manner, this highly collectible pattern is our best seller. Introduced in 1941, it captures classic symbols of the Renaissance in the exquisitely carved ...

Monumental dinner and regular size Madam Jumel by Whiting sterling silver Flatware set, 190 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Knives w/blunt plated b...

"Flushing a Woodcock" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts two dogs at the edge of a pond going after a bird that has just flown into the air. 8" x 12 1/2" art 18 1/2" x 22 1/4" frame Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...

"Pura Vida" is an original color woodcut signed by Carol Summers. A multi-colored piece shows a waterfall with red flames behind it in the middle of the piece. On the left stands a tree with yellow leaves on a hill. To the right is a rainbow. This is an excellent example of Summer's printmaking, not just because of the technique and imagery, but because it numbered 1 of the edition of 125. In addition, it contains a personal inscription to the Milwaukee gallerist David Barnett, who has championed the work of Summers and produced catalogs of his work. Indeed, this print appears as no. 189 in the David Barnett Gallery's 1988 catalogue raisonné of Summer's woodcuts. Feel free to inquire if you would like to purchase a copy of the catalogue raisonné along with your Carol Summers print. Art: 24.25 x 24.75 in Frame: 36 x 35 in signed lower right titled and inscribed to David [Barnett] lower right edition (1/125) lower right Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

Superb dinner size Acropole by Cesa 1882 Italy 800 silver flatware set, 115 pieces. All of the pieces have hollow handles with a modern design of vertical ridges. This set includes: ...

Rondo by Gorham sterling silver Flatware set - 59 Pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 8 7/8" 12 Forks, 7 1/4" 12 Salad Forks, 6 5/8" 12 Teaspoons, ...

•12 KNIVES, 9" •12 FORKS, 7 1/4" •12 SALAD FORKS, 6 3/8" •12 TEASPOONS, 6" •1 GRAVY LADLE, 6 1/2" •1 SUGAR SPOON, 6 1/4" •1 FLAT HANDLE MASTER BUTTER, 7 1/2" •1 SALAD SERVING SET W/S...

A sophisticated 2' x 3' hand-knotted wool rug featuring an elegant Art Deco-inspired composition in ivory, deep blue, olive green, and soft gold tones. Framed by bold scrolling borde...