Maine Antique Digest, April 2017

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8-A Maine Antique Digest, April 2017
ROBERT STORR LECTURE
The Salmagundi Club, 47 5th
Avenue, New York City, will
feature a talk and book signing
by painter, critic, museum man,
and exhibition-maker Robert
Storr. He is the author of Intimate
Geometries: The Art and Life
of Louise Bourgeois, copies of
which will be available for sale.
From 1990 until 2002, Storr
worked at theMuseum of Modern
Art in New York City, where he
was curator and then senior cura-
tor in the department of painting
and sculpture. Storr is the recip-
ient of five honorary doctorates
and awards from organizations
including the International Asso-
ciation of Art Critics and the
Archives of American Art. In
2000 he was made chevalier des
arts et des lettres by the French
Ministry of Culture and was later
promoted to officer of the same
order. He lives and works in New
Haven, Connecticut, and Brook-
lyn, New York.
Intimate Geometries: The Art
and Life of Louise Bourgeois
is the first comprehensive sur-
vey of Bourgeois’s oeuvre and
biography, and a unique critical
evaluation of the intertwining of
the two. Robert Storr, acknowl-
edged as Bourgeois’s leading
interpreter, worked closely with
the artist on this book for some
20 years. Storr describes her
sometimes fitful but extraordi-
narily long and prolific career
and explores the many meta-
morphic aspects of the work to
which the alternating currents of
her imagination gave rise.
The dinner will be held on
Wednesday, March 22. There
will be a cash bar in the parlor
at 5:30 p.m.; the main gallery
lecture will be at 6:30 p.m.; and
the buffet dinner will be at 7:30
p.m. in the dining room. The
fee is $65 per person including
tax. Reservations are required.
For reservations, call (212) 255-
An early 20th c. handmade carved wood, galvanized tin and
wire duck push toy. When it is rolled along, the wings flap.
Great old surface. 7” long, 3½” high, wingspan 10¼”.
Doing the Midwest Antique and Art Show,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sunday April 2.
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FOLK ART EXPLORERS:
TRIP TO SANTA FE AND
ALBUQUERQUE
The American Folk Art
Museum is sponsoring a five-day
trip to Santa Fe and Albuquerque,
New Mexico, to explore New
Mexican folk art, May 19-23.
Highlights of this trip will
include a special tour of No Idle
Hands: The Myths & Meanings
of Tramp Art at the Museum
of International Folk Art with
curator Laura Addison, a tour of
the home and studio of Georgia
O’Keeffe in Abiquiú, a stop at
El Santuario de Chimayo, studio
tours of well-known New Mexi-
can artists, and meals at five-star
restaurants.
The $2600 ticket price ($300
additional for a single supple-
ment) includes round-trip flight
Fine surveying
and astronomical
instruments
marked
“Wm. Wurdemann,
Washington D.C.”
Also papers, ephemera, parts, etc.
Emails to
WANTED
ISAMU NOGUCHI:
AMODERN MOMENT
On Monday, April 3, the
Greenwich DecorativeArts Soci-
ety presents “Isamu Noguchi:
A Modern Moment,” a lecture
by Jenny Dixon, director, The
Isamu Noguchi Foundation and
Garden Museum, Long Island
City, Queens, New York. The
lecture will begin at 1:15 p.m.
at The Bruce Museum in Green-
wich, Connecticut, with refresh-
ments immediately following.
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is
among those who gave definition
to mid-20th-century Modern-
ism. Yet his protean production
as an artist and designer went
far beyond the constraints of a
WALTER ISAACSON
TO SPEAK
The Greenwich Historical
Society will host historian, jour-
nalist, and best-selling author
Walter Isaacson for a reception,
book signing, and dinner on
Thursday, April 20. Isaacson’s
presentation will draw from
his highly acclaimed book, The
Innovators: How a Group of
Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks
Created the Digital Revolution,
which examines the fascinating
and creative personalities whose
genius and imagination resulted
in the creation of modern com-
puters and the Internet, and the
crucial role that collaboration
and teamwork played in the rise
of the digital age.
Isaacson will discuss the con-
tributions of luminaries such as
Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak,
and shed light on lesser-known
but important figures such as
Ada Lovelace, the English math-
ematician and daughter of Lord
Byron, and Alan Turing, the
World War II cryptanalyst, the-
oretical computer scientist, and
subject of the historical thriller
The Imitation Game.
Walter Isaacson is president
and CEO of the Aspen Institute.
He formerly served as chairman
and CEO of CNN and was the
editor of Time magazine. His
list of best-selling biographies
includes Steve Jobs, Einstein:
The Life of a Genius, Benjamin
Franklin: An American Life , and
Kissinger: A Biography.
Program tickets are $375 each
and include cocktails, book sign-
ing, dinner, and lecture. Patron-
level tickets are $1000 each and,
additionally, include a pre-event
meet-and-greet with the author,
preferred seating, and a gift bag.
Proceeds will support the Green-
wich Historical Society’s fund
for program enrichment, which
supports and sustains educational
initiatives, exhibitions, public
programs, digital collections, and
preservation initiatives.
The lecture will be held at
the Greenwich Country Club in
Greenwich, Connecticut, from
6:30 to 9 p.m. For tickets, visit
6899, ext. 10.
SCRIMSHAWWEEKEND
The New Bedford Whaling
Museum in New Bedford, Mas-
sachusetts, will host the 29th
annual Scrimshaw Weekend,
May 12-14. With more than 5000
scrimshaw objects in the muse-
um’s collection, it is the ideal
venue for Scrimshaw Weekend,
the world’s only forum devoted
to the indigenous shipboard art
of whalers during the “Age of
Sail.” Founded in 1989, this
event attracts enthusiasts from
across the globe who gather to
study, celebrate, and discover this
unique and remarkable art form.
The eighth annual Nautical
Antiques Show will be held on
PEWTER COLLECTORS’
CLUB OFAMERICA
The spring meeting of the
Pewter Collectors’ Club of
America (PCCA) will held May
5 and 6 and will include a special
visit to the National Museum of
American History in Washing-
ton, D.C. Over 100 pieces of
select pewter from the museum’s
collection will be on view.
The headquarters will be the
Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028
Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
22182.
single discipline, as was charac-
teristic of his time. His oeuvre
encompassed set design, play-
grounds, parks, plazas, sculp-
ture, furniture design, and akari.
The son of an American intel-
lectual and a Japanese poet,
he considered himself a global
artist and introduced a postwar
East-West conversation into
the cultures he was a part of.
With no heirs and wanting to be
understood for his life’s work,
he founded his own museum
in 1985, which is dedicated to
his own work. Many think that
the museum itself is one of
Noguchi’s greatest works and
accomplishments.
Jenny Dixon joined The Isamu
Noguchi Foundation and Garden
Museum as director inApril 2003.
Since that time, she has consol-
idated the museum and founda-
tion into a single entity, popularly
known as The Noguchi Museum,
and greatly expanded public
awareness of the museum and of
Isamu Noguchi’s production.
Admission for nonmembers of
the Greenwich Decorative Arts
Society is $25. Space is limited.
Reservations are required for
members and guests by March
from LaGuardia Airport; deluxe
hotel accommodations for four
nights with porterage; ground
transportation for excursions
throughout Santa Fe, Abiquiú,
Chimayo, and Albuquerque; Fri-
day dinner, Saturday lunch and
dinner, Sunday lunch, Monday
lunch, and Tuesday breakfast;
and museum tours. Taxes and
gratuities are included.
For questions, please contact
Friday, May 12, kicking off this
year’s Scrimshaw Weekend.
The show features high-qual-
ity antiques from some of New
England’s most respected deal-
ers. The antiques show will run
from noon to 5 p.m., with early
admission from 11 a.m. to noon.
The show is free with regular
admission to the museum and/or
with the purchase of a ticket to
ScrimshawWeekend. Admission
to the early-bird session is avail-
able for an additional $5.
Scrimshaw Weekend will offi-
cially begin on Friday, May 12,
with a keynote presentation at 8
p.m. by Stuart M. Frank, “The
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Scrim-
shaw Collection.” Two full days
of discovery, learning, and stim-
ulating talks will follow. Week-
end presentations will include
“Medicalshaw: Aspects of Med-
ical Practice in Scrimshaw Art”;
“The Catalpa Scrimshaw,” pre-
sented by scrimshaw artist Gary
Tonkin; “What the Whalemen
Wore”; “Scrimshaw in the Lon-
don South Sea Whale Fishery”;
“Scrimshaw in Tasmania,” pre-
sented by Colin S. Thomas of
Hobart, Tasmania; “The Art
of the Yankee Whale Hunt”;
“Annual Market Report”; and
“Antique Scrimshaw Collectors
Association Progress to Date.”
Saturday night will include
a reception, dinner, and book
signings with Kenneth R. Mar-
tin, Around the World in Search
of Whales: A Journal of the
Lucy Ann Voyage 1841-1844;
Stuart M. Frank, Classic Whal-
ing Prints and Ingenious Con-
trivances; and Judith N. Lund,
American Offshore Whaling
Voyages.
Registration for the three-day
Scrimshaw Weekend is $315 for
New Bedford Whaling Museum
members and $370 for nonmem-
bers. Registration will include
regular admission to the Nautical
Antiques Show, all sessions Fri-
day through Saturday, and dinner
on Saturday evening. The Satur-
day dinner and evening program
may be purchased separately
for accompanying guests at $75
per person. Sunday’s festivities
will include an off-site field trip
(TBD). There is an additional fee
(TBD) for the Sunday field trip
to cover the cost of transporta-
tion and lunch. Full scholarships
are available to university-level
students, supported by the gen-
erosity of Robert C. Eldred Co.,
Northeast Auctions, and Skin-
ner, Inc.
For more information or to reg-
ister for the event, call (508) 997-
0046, ext. 100 or visit the website
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click on the programs tab.
27. For reservations and infor-
call (203) 322-2967.