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Barry Friedman of Phoenix,
Arizona, gave premium wall space
to this 1920s Beacon cotton camp
blanket (a commercial rather
than trade blanket). The price
for the 5' x 6' blanket was $1250.
The show was “fantastic for me,”
Friedman said. “I’m the only one
in the world who specializes in this
material exclusively.”
Northern Village
by Tony Abeyta (b. 1965) is 9" x 12" and cost $5800
from Jan Musial’s Navajo Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona. Musial reported
that business and traffic on the show’s last day were “terrific” and that
he’d sold a painting by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) for $28,000.
Jan Duggan of Two Star Trading, Santa Fe, was asking
$3200 for this 1890s Plateau pictorial vest with overlay
beading and calico back. “What’s really cool about this
show,” Duggan said, “is the steady traffic and lots of it.”
These 1880s Sioux leggings and moccasins measure
16" high, boast “tight beadwork,” and cost $5500 from
Lusher Fine Art & Artifacts, Austin, Texas. Chris Lusher
said Objects of Art is a “high-quality show with good
dealers and good customers.”
An early 20th-century NewMexican
escaparate
(in this case
a showcase made to hold saints) cost $1400 at the booth of
show producer Kim Martindale. Martindale has a gallery
in Venice, California.
Dancing Threads, Santa Fe, specializes in Indonesian
textiles. This cotton-warp ikat woman’s sarong is
from Savu Island, eastern Indonesia, and cost $195.
How was the show? “Best ever!”
At 20th Century
Design, Santa Fe dealer
Stephen Maras said he
was “blown away” by
the “great show.” This
horse by Hagenauer
(an Austrian company
known for metalwork)
was made in the 1930s,
cost $950, and measured
9¼" high x 12" long.
Maras pointed out
that he was “the only
20th-century dealer in
the show.”
Mark Sublette of Medicine Man
Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and
Tucson, Arizona, was asking $28,000
for this third-phase chief's blanket—
one of three on display at the booth—
made with indigo and raveled flannel.
Sublette’s show was “excellent.” He
reported sales of beadwork, early
New Mexico paintings, Navajo rugs,
and Pueblo pottery.