The Philadelphia Show

Shop the The San Francisco Fall Show on Incollect through October 25! Link and more about the show below. . The San Francisco Fall Show is the leading international art, antiques, and design fair on the West Coast. Founded in 1981, the Show features over 50 of the top dealers from around the world, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts representing all styles and periods, including paintings, furniture, precious metals, ceramics, jewelry, rugs, works on paper, books, ethnographic art, and objets d’art. https://incollect.com/sffallshow

Join over 20 twenty exhibitors in the thirteenth annual American Art Fair online right now. You can shop the show through Sunday, October 18! theamericanartfair.com

Little Seats for Little Buns - this article, published for the 2014 Philadelphia Show catalogue by Kevin J. Tulimieri of Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, showcases children’s chairs in early American furniture. See excerpt below and read the full article in our photos! Unique, charming and whimsical, the distinctive character of children’s chairs is that they often reflect the children for whom they were made. The intriguing world of children’s chairs has long held a soft spot in the hearts of many admirers of early American furniture. A continually evolving world of regional design and economic status can be seen in their wide variety of construction and numerous levels of sophistication.

ONLINE EVENT TONIGHT: Tuesday, October 13 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm. For fifty years, Collab has grown the museum’s design collection while celebrating the ideas, designers, and design movements that have shaped history. In addition to building a world-class collection of design, Collab supports exhibitions, lectures, tours, and publications that provide an insider’s view of the global design community. This talk will introduce you to Collab through the lens of collecting and share how its programming contributes to the design legacy of Philadelphia and beyond. This event is free and part of the Collab program series. Registration required. https://philamuseum.org/cale/event/collab-collecting-design Pictured: Flora Pendant Lamp (detail), designed 2014 by Zanini de Zanine (Brazilian, born 1978), 2017-73-1

Shop Philadelphia at The Antiques Dealers' Association of America / Historic Deerfield Online Antiques Show! Swipe to see a small selection of important Philadelphia offerings currently available and make sure to peruse the show before it closes tomorrow night at 10 pm! Click the link to shop - https://adadealers.com/html/online_show.php . Pictured: 13 hand-embroidered stars and expertly hand-sewn stripes on an antique American flag made in Philadelphia by Sarah M. Wilson, gr...eat-grandaughter of Betsy Ross. Signed and dated 1911. Dealer: Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques. A set of five side chairs with heart-pierced splats from the Sharswood family of Philadelphia. Dealer: Philip Bradley Antiques. Schoolgirl needlework and watercolor picture on silk with design and paintwork attributed to Samuel Follwell (1770-1824). Wrought by A. Sybella Lushett. Philadelphia, dated 1775. Dealer: Thistlethwaite Americana. Leonard & Wilson (attr.) American Coin Silver Card Case, Philadelphia, circa 1850. Dealer: Spencer Marks Fine Antique Silver. American sampler by Christianna Anne Stiner from Philadelphia, 1828 Dealer: M. Finkel & Daughter. Comb-back windsor armchairs from Philadelphia, circa 1760-1770. Dealer: HL CHALFANT: American Fine Art & Antiques. A fine pair of terra-cotta fruit baskets, produced by the Galloway Terra-Cotta Company, American (Philadelphia), circa 1917-1920, on an associated pair of cast-iron pedestals with drapery swags at top and fluted sides. Dealer: Barbara Israel Garden Antiques. Flowers in a Vase by Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Born in Philadelphia. Dealer: Garvey Rita Art & Antiques. An excellent set of 5 heavy cone-shaped brass measures from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, marked by Henry Troemner of Philadelphia. Dealer: Bette & Melvyn Wolf. A unique matched pair of Tucker Pitchers, Philadelphia, 1826-38. Dealer: Artemis Gallery

Make sure to visit our friends at the Antiques Dealers' Association of America this weekend for The ADA / Historic Deerfield Online Antiques Show. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Historic Deerfield. See their website adadealers.com for more information and to bookmark their show page!

The 2018 loan exhibition, Philadelphia Collects Philadelphia celebrated the Museum’s commitment to the success of The Philadelphia Show by featuring eleven recently acquired pieces made by artists working in the Philadelphia region over the last three hundred years. Each year the Museum’s collection grows through gifts and bequests from generous donors as well as through purchases from dealers and auction houses. While they are recent additions, each work builds on existing... continuities in the Museum’s holdings by representing, for example, a new phase of an artist’s production, an enduring familial commitment to the Museum, or a new form added to a set already in the collection. Bringing together the eclectic group of objects represented in this show draws new connections between different media nad techniques and undermines the boundary between fine and decorative arts. This particular grouping also makes clear the reciprocal relationship between artists past and present, especially for those living and working in the history-rich streets of modern Philadelphia. *The Philadelphia Show features a loan exhibit every year, a tradition since the Show’s founding in 1962. The curated, museum-quality loan exhibit changes with each Show and allows visitors a closer look at a specific genre of antiques. Join us every Thursday on Facebook and Instagram for a look at these exhibitions throughout the years.*

From our friends at The Decorative Arts Trust, come explore Philadelphia’s 300-year-old horticultural legacy on October 17. Beginning with a walking tour of Bartram's Garden, one of the country’s most influential early gardens, with curator Joel Fry. After a custom farm-to-table box lunch from Helm, you’ll head to an entirely different yet no-less-iconic Philadelphia green space, Fairmount Park, where we visit the Shofuso House and Garden for a curator-led tour. See link be...low for more info and to register! https://decorativeartstrust.org/philadelphia-gardens-2020

This #tbt we are revisiting the 2005 Loan Exhibit, Vaulting Ambition: Gothic Revival in Philadelphia 1830-1860. See excerpt below and view Instagram stories for more! The Gothic style dominated the architecture of Europe between 1100 and about 1500 A.D. It was, basically, an architectural style, wherein the slender masonry of the walls and the vaults was embellished with lancet windows, moldings, paneling, tracery, ribs, leafage, crockets and pinnacles. Largely forgotten dur...ing the Renaissance, the Gothic began to be revived during the mid-eighteenth century. Scholarly interest in early architecture brought knowledge of Gothic structure and ornament to a high level. The rarity of surviving Gothic furniture was commonly acknowledged, but as literary and architectural study of Gothic gained momentum, an equally strong impulse to apply Gothic motifs to furniture and other media overcame academic scruples. A desire for Gothic surroundings was reinforced by the Romantic Movement, which saw in the remote Middle Ages a deep wellspring of fantasy. As a cultural center during the nineteenth century, Philadelphia naturally participated in the Gothic taste. The objects seen here are evidence for this. *The Philadelphia Show features a loan exhibit every year, a tradition since the Show’s founding in 1962. The curated, museum-quality loan exhibit changes with each Show and allows visitors a closer look at a specific genre of antiques. Join us every Thursday on Facebook and Instagram for a look at these exhibitions throughout the years.* Pictured: Stool, Philadelphia, PA, 1810-1825. Tulip poplar and ash, with white paint and gilding. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Mary Calwell. This stool is one of four made for Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Shippen Burd, who were married in 1810. The stools were used with a gold and white Philadelphia Louis XVI parlor suite upholstered in French tapestry. The present upholstery of the stool reflects a photograph of the furniture taken about 1900.

This summer, The Magazine Antiques revisited an article from 2016 regarding Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s 1808 house and furniture for William and Mary Waln and their impact on the aesthetic of the city of Philadelphia of itself. Despite this atmosphere of admonishment against hierarchical social customs and Superfluity & Excess in Buildings and Furniture, many Philadelphia Quaker and non-Quaker artisans and their patrons did embrace the luxury of contemporary European and Asia...n styles. Several families with long Quaker heritages, such as John and Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader, commissioned grand houses replete with elaborate furnishings made abroad but also in Philadelphia, where local artisans were well trained in the manufacture of worldly goods that mimickedand often surpassedthose made in Edinburgh, London, France, Italy, India, and China. To continue reading Superfluity & Excess: Quaker Philadelphia falls for classical splendor, see the link below! https://www.themagazineantiques.com//superfluity-excess-q/ Pictured: Card table from the Waln suite. Mahogany, tulip poplar, brass, gilded and painted decoration, iron, cotton velvet; height 29 , width 36 (open), 18 (closed), depth 17 inches. Ashworth photograph.

#throwbackthursday to the 2016 loan exhibit! Secret Treasures: The Passion of Collecting as Seen Through Dealers and Their Collections. . Offering a glimpse into the dealer world of collecting, each exhibitor presented one item from his or her personal collection accompanied by a vignette describing the background story of how it was acquired and why it resonated personally. Most dealers had enjoyed years of fervent collecting, often starting as children or young adults. Thei...r achievements are the result of years of devoted study and analysis. . This loan exhibit also celebrated dealers’ generosity in maintaining an active role in educating collectors, whether novice or advanced. The dealers’ scholarly research and substantial advice on the objects in their booths provide the needed reassurance to buyers often resulting in longstanding and trusted relationships. . Share an image below of an object in your collection - we’d love to hear about your passion of collecting! See more

Through November 15 at The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a rare selection of American art from the 1700s and 1800s, including portraits of George Washington, a teapot made by Paul Revere, and silver from colonial Philadelphia. Explore H. Richard Dietrich Jr.’s vision as a collector and his foundation’s mission to share important examples of American art with the public. . About the Collector: H. Richard Dietrich Jr. (19382007) began to collect American art and artifacts for ...himself as a young man and later to furnish his home in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He saw his extensive collection as a tool for understanding American history, often acquiring objects by known makers or with a strong family history. . In 1963 he established the Dietrich American Foundation, to which he contributed much of his wealth, energy, and time. The foundation has lent works from its collection to more than a hundred institutions, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. . In addition to pursuing a career in business, Dietrich devoted his time to the museumas a patron and a member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the American Art Advisory Committeeas well as to other public institutions in the region. The foundation’s long-term loans to the museum, including objects in this exhibition, began in 1966 and continue to this day. . Pictured: George Washington, 1788, by James Peale (American, 17491831) (Dietrich American Foundation). Text from philamuseum.org See more

There are still ways to experience the Philadelphia Museum of Art from afar! The Philadelphia Magazine included The Philadelphia Museum of Art in their recent list of 100 virtual experiences in Philadelphia. See #36 to view the online collections. Link below! https://www.phillymag.com//philadelphia-virtual-experien/ Pictured: A May Morning in the Park (The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand). Thomas Eakins, American (1844 - 1916).