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34-A Maine Antique Digest, April 2017
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Artist Ross Brodar was outside
the Outsider Art Fair this
year. He parked a U-Haul
filled with his art in front of
the entrance (with permission
from show owner Andrew
Edlin). “I’ve been inside and
outside,” he said, explaining
that his dealer didn’t do the
fair this year. Brodar grew up
on Long Island and lives now
in Brooklyn, and he explained,
“I paint from a dark place. I
do mostly portraits, and each
one has bits of myself.” The
smaller portraits were priced at
$500 each. The large portraits
leaning on the truck were
priced from $6000 to $8000.
Solange Knopf’s
Big Bang
(above), 2014, mixed media on paper,
21" x 28½", sold at the booth of Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York
City. So did
Zasnuby
(left), 1966, pastel on paper, 34¾" x 24½",
by Anna Zemankova. The gallery was one of the nine original
dealers. “We emphasize new discoveries that will still be here in
twenty years,” explained Randall Morris.
Nancy Josephson’s glass beaded
Lady Damballah
was available for
$8500 at the booth of Lindsay Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
“Melrose Plantation Quilt,” 1970, 79" x 55", made by
Clementine Hunter (1886-1988), was priced at $40,000 by
Gilley’s Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hunter’s oil on
panel
Picking Cotton with Cotton Scale Used for Weighing
Sacks
, 16" x 23½", had an asking price of $12,000. It sold.
Steve Moseley’s message in a bottle reads, “On the 7th
day, God rested at the track. He won the superfecta and
God saw that this was good.” It was tagged $1500 by
Lindsay Gallery.
Sarah Jane Heming (right) and her daughter Maisie
Jane Coburn of MiddleJanes, Sag Harbor, New York,
displayed works by Mark Heming (1907-1999), their
father and grandfather, respectively. Heming painted
faces and never worked from models or photographs
but rather from memory. His works of art, oil on
canvas or paper, ranged in price from $1500 to $7500.
Kids were invited to “Draw your City” while their parents strolled the fair.