NEW YORK – During Sotheby’s opening day of Asian Art sales on Wednesday, the Da Guan Tang Bao, an important imperial jade seal, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, from the collection of Lolo Sarnoff sold for $4.45 million. It was estimated to sell for $1 million to 1.5 million.
The seal is believed to have been collected by Sarnoff’s father, Willy Dreyfus, and had been in the family’s collection for several decades. The $4.45 million result is the highest price so far in the 2015 New York-wide Asia Week series of auctions.
In addition to the Da Guan Tang Bao, a pale celadon jade seal with inscription “Huang Tang Shou Ming Zhi Bao,” probably Ming Dynasty, also from the Sarnoff Collection, shattered all presale expectations when frenzied bidding drove the price to $1.64 million against an estimate of $20,000-$30,000.
Both lots were offered in “Inscriptions: History as Art,” a sale that charted the artistic development of Chinese writing and calligraphy. The sale totaled $9.48 million, well over the $3.5-$5.2 million estimate.
The Sarnoff seals were just two among a number of outstanding results for pieces from distinguished private collections. A fine and rare carved “Ding” “Peony” bowl, Northern Song Dynasty offered in the single-owner sale “Chinese Art through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō – Ceramics” achieved $3.37 million (est. $1-$1.5 million). Property from the estate of Dr. Claus Virch, former curator of 19th century and European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, brought a total of $1.18 million, double the estimate in the “Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art.” In the same sale a very fine gilt copper alloy figure of Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi, Tibet, 15th century, fetched $1.57 million, three times the $400,000-$600,000 estimate.
CHADDS FORD, Pa. – William Bunch Auctions will present an early spring fine estate sale to include over 500 lots of Continental-style furnishings, decorative and fine art pieces on March 31.
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Much of the French and Italian inspired furniture is with ormolu mounts and marquetry inlay, as well as seating including silk upholstered sets of chairs and sofas.
Ornamental lighting fixtures include crystal chandeliers, wall sconce sets, lamps and candelabra. There is a rich selection of decorative accent pieces spanning metal, porcelain and terra-cotta sculptures, marble pedestals and carved gilt mirrors.
Continental porcelain and glass is highlighted by Dresden Lamm, Lalique and Venetian glass. Over 80 works of 19th and 20th century Continental art, Spanish Colonial canvases, and contemporary pieces including portraits, genre scenes and religious-themed paintings will be sold throughout the sale. In addition, there are 54 ornate, framed needlework panels of Renaissance Fair, Baroque and Impressionist scenes. Also featured are two fine Swiss cylinder music boxes in good playing condition. A portion of the sale will offer over 60 pieces of unique estate jewelry, including two Rolex watches.
The majority of the sale is comprised of pieces from the estate of Henry D. and Gloria Paul, former owners of Henry Paul Cadillac and Rolls Royce. The elegant collection was displayed in their apartment in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The proceeds of the sale will fund a specially created trust established for qualified charitable dog foundations.
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J.H. Heller Expression Zither Swiss interchangeable cylinder music box, No. 11093, burl walnut case, on stand with storage drawer, good playing condition. Bunch Auctions image
The sale will offer over 60 pieces of estate jewelry. Bunch Auctions image
Pair of Empire-style gilt bronze bergères, 20th century, in the manner of Francois-Honore-Georges Jacob-Desmalter, French, 1770-1841, silk upholstered with gilt bronze mounts. Bunch Auctions image
French Empire gilt metal mantel clock, 19th century, 12in high x 16 1/2in wide, lacking numerals 12, 5, 7. William Bunch Auctions image
Crystal chandelier with gilt metal arm supports, 20th century, 33in high x 26in in diameter. Bunch Auctions image
Pair of gray fluted marble columns, 20th century, with white carved capitals and plinth bases, 83in high. Bunch Auctions image
12 Lamm Dresden sherbets with saucers, 1887-1915. William Bunch Auctions image
Continental School, 19th century, ‘View of Port With Ships,’ oil on canvas, 40in x 66 3/4in sight. Bunch Auctions image
TUNIS, Tunisia (ACNI) – Credible news sources are reporting that an attack on visitors at the Bardo National Museum in Tunisia has left 19 dead and 24 injured.
Reportedly, gunmen opened fire on tourists, all from European nations, as they were disembarking buses.
Also among the dead are a Tunisian security officer, a cleaning woman, and two gunmen. A manhunt is on to capture the shooters’ suspected accomplices, who fled the scene.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, it was hailed by supporters of the Islamic State, or Isis. According to British newspaper The Guardian, some 3,000 Tunisians have left the country to join Isis.
The Bardo museum displays objects ranging from prehistoric artifacts to modern jewelry. The institution holds one of the world’s largest collections of Roman mosaics.
HUNT VALLEY, Md. – World-famous actor and longtime comic book fan Mark Hamill is encouraging fans to celebrate Free Comic Book Day on May 2nd.
Known for his role as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Mark has also been a part of the comic-book culture since playing the voice of The Joker in various Batman animated TV shows, movies and video games. He is also making a return as the Trickster in new episodes of The Flash.
Hamill is encouraging fans to head to their local participating comic shop on the first Saturday in May to get free comic books. Here are the details:
• Over 2,300 comic shops are participating across the country and around the world
• Over 5.6 million comics will be given out for free
• There are 50 free titles available to choose from
• Comic shops also host special events for communities to take part in
• FCBD is a great opportunity for those who have never read a comic before to check them out for free
• FCBD is a family-friendly event as there are comics for readers of all ages available for free
• You can see the 50 free comics and find participating comic shop
LONDON –A record quarter of a million visitors came to see new works by artist Grayson Perry at the National Portrait Gallery in a free display. In total, 850,000 visitors to the National Portrait Gallery are thought to have seen at least one new work by the artist as part of a gallery-wide display and trail.
The new portraits were created during the making of his Channel 4 series Grayson Perry: Who Are You? which started broadcasting on Oct. 22.
Starting close to the entrance in the Gallery’s Main Hall and then interspersed throughout the 19th and 20th century collections, the free display and trail, focused on the theme of identity, and opened on Oct. 23.
It is the most viewed temporary display in the gallery’s history but was part of a popular autumn season which also included the free displays The Real Tudors and Snowdon: A Life in View together with the exhibitions Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy and Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014.
The success contributed to the 2,062,502 total visitor figure for 2014 just announced by Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, the gallery’s second best year, and its third consecutive year with over 2 million visitors.
Pim Baxter, acting director, National Portrait Gallery, London, says: “Grayson’s display had a considerable impact on the gallery. It was clear from the number of visitors that thousands of people were enjoying his work on a daily basis, and that the display drew them to parts of the gallery that they might not otherwise have explored.”
Perry’s new portraits – which included a major tapestry, sculptures and pots – were of individuals, families and groups who were all trying to define who they were in modern Britain.
The Channel 4 programs followed the artist as he spent time with people who were at a crossroads or crisis in their own identity, and created works that tried to capture each of them in a single, revealing image.
These included politician Chris Huhne, a young female-to-male transsexual, a couple living with Alzheimers, a young Muslim convert and X-Factor and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Rylan Clark.
Winner of the 2003 Turner prize, Perry is one of Britain’s best-known contemporary artists. He works with traditional media; ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry and is interested in how each historic category of object accrues over time’s intellectual and emotional baggage.
Perry is a great chronicler of contemporary life, drawing viewers in with beauty, wit, affecting sentiment and nostalgia as well as fear and anger. His hard-hitting and exquisitely crafted works reference his own childhood and life as a transvestite while also engaging with wider social issues from class and politics to sex and religion.
Perry has had major solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including the critically acclaimed Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum. His monumental suite of tapestries The Vanity of Small Differences, which were inspired by his BAFTA winning Channel 4 series: In the Best Possible Taste, are currently on a national and international tour led by the Arts Council Collection and British Council. In June 2013 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honors List. Grayson Perry is represented by Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
LONDON – Lonely? Bored? Need to get fit? Buy a dog! We borrowed next door’s, a pretty little pooch called Bobbie, and a whole new life opened up. In the all-too-brief half-hour stroll – more like a dash given the dog’s enthusiasm – we talked to other dog lovers and got to inspect more lampposts and ends of walls than we realized existed along our stretch of street.
Or you could collect pictures of man’s best friend. You’ll never be bored or lonely with such companions on your walls, and with so many on offer – dogs must be among the most painted creatures of all – you’ll need plenty of stamina chasing them in the saleroom. Plus, there are no vet’s bills.
Paintings featuring dogs have exercised the minds and talents of an exhaustive list of artists. Our personal favourite is Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) a prolific book illustrator, cartoonist and accomplished painter who seemed almost incapable of completing a picture without including a dog.
The son of a wealthy builder in Slough, Berkshire, Aldin was educated with his two brothers at boarding school in Eastbourne, but later entered the National Art Training School in South Kensington. He later studied under Frank Calderon, a specialist animal painter, at a school devoted to the study of animal anatomy and painting.
Among Aldin’s first published work were drawings done at a dog show, which appeared in The Weekly Graphic in December 1890. He was paid the princely sum of three guineas, enough to rent a Chelsea studio. Work was not easy to come by, and in spare times between commissions for magazines, Aldin visited Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens to find “models” for sketches of more exotic creatures. This proved to be useful experience when he was asked to illustrate Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Stories.
The drawings won acclaim when they were published in 1894, and there followed a steady stream of book and magazine work for an artist by now very much in demand. A founder member of the London Sketch Club, Aldin was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1898. The following year, he won further acclaim with a set of six sporting prints showing horses and hounds, a particularly popular Aldin theme.
At about the same time, Aldin began to experiment with commercial poster production, a medium that clearly suited his inventive humour. In the event, he produced a wide range of adverts for such products as Zebra grate polish, Colman’s Blue and Starch, Rudge Whitworth Cycles and Cadbury’s Cocoa among many others.
He also became involved in producing wallpaper friezes and even handmade and painted rocking horses and other animals for children’s nurseries. There also followed a veritable avalanche of commissions to illustrate children’s books.
Another, perhaps less well known, aspect of Aldin’s work was a “travelogue” of old inns, coaching roads, cathedrals and his beloved Exmoor. Numerous books and prints flowed from his studio.
Latterly, Aldin began to suffer badly from arthritis, not helped by his frequent riding to hounds in all weathers, and he was advised to seek a warmer climate. He and his wife, Rita, moved to live in Majorca in 1930, where he built a studio. There he took up dry point etching and some writing, but his health declined further. Homesick and ill, Aldin decided to return to England but suffered a massive heart attack on board ship. He died in a London hospital in 1935.
Poor John Emms (1841-1912) was a dog artist of great ability, but his downfall was his near addiction to alcohol. Born into an artistic family in a village near Norwich, Norfolk, he was one of seven children for whom life was always going to be tough.
His big chance came in the 1870s, when he was invited by the celebrated Frederic Lord Leighton to accompany him to the New Forest to help paint the fresco of Lyndhurst Church. While doing so, he lodged in the village and met his future wife, Fanny Primmer, who at the time was still a schoolgirl.
They married in 1880 and had four children – three daughters and a son – and emigrated to New Zealand. However, their son died there and the family returned to Lyndhurst in 1883, moving into a house they had built on the edge of what was still then a village.
Perhaps it was the death of his son, or perhaps it was simply as his popularity as an artist began to wane, but Emms hit the whisky bottle. Bar bills at the Stag Hotel in Lyndhurst soared as Emms downed the drink in ever-increasing quantities, to the point where the money started to run out.
Thankfully, however, hotel host Ernest Harris was an art-lover – or else a very astute businessman – because he allowed Emms to finance his weakness in kind, handing over many of his oil paintings and sketches in payment.
Either Harris drove a hard bargain, or else Emms drank an extraordinarily large quantity of whisky, for when the landlord’s son emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, he took more than 100 paintings by the Stag’s best customer.
When two of those bartered paintings surfaced at auction in the 1990s – both featuring dogs – they sold together for £103,000, more than two and a half times estimate. Poor Emms could scarcely give them away in the 20 years before his demise in 1912 … except for another bottle of drink.
If it’s good pedigree you’re after, leading any roll call of must be Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) the painter credited with starting the Victorian craze for dog pictures.
Landseer went as far as studying dissection and anatomy to perfect his drawing of animals and was subsequently commissioned by Queen Victoria to paint her pets. Patronage such as that ensured Landseer’s popularity, and a great many of his paintings were reproduced as engravings to be enjoyed by the less affluent.
He was also commissioned to model the bronze lions in Trafalgar Square and is well known for his Scottish scenes depicting Highland cattle. He is also worthy of mention for having also turned down the chance to be President of the Royal Academy, to which he was elected in 1865.
But then, he was like that. A melancholic man, he suffered from fits of depression – made worse by his liking for the bottle – and madness. He died in 1869 and is buried in St Paul’s Cathedral.
One strong contender for Landseer’s crown was Richard Ansdell (1815-1885). Ansdell was President of the Liverpool Academy and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840, but he remains in the shadow of the master.
Maud Earl (fl.1884-1908) was another to be commissioned to paint the dogs kept by Queen Victoria and, later, King Edward VII. She specialized in sentimental pictures of dogs and dramatic paintings with such titles as Dogs of Death.
She had been influenced, no doubt, by her father, George (fl.1856-1883), who specialized in sporting scenes such as grouse shooting and stag hunting, while a third Earl, Thomas (fl.1836-1885), is best known for his pictures of dogs and rabbits.
Portrait of a seated fox terrier, an oil on canvas by John Emms. It sold for £4,600. Photo The Canterbury Auction Galleries
Cracker and Micky, sporting artist Cecil Aldin’s favorite dogs, a limited edition, signed and dated drypoint etching, titled A Temporary Partnership, sold for £1,400. Photo: Capes Dunn Auctioneers
BIRMINGHAM, UK – Fellows’ auction of antiques and fine art on Monday, March 30, will offer the rare opportunity to own a “secret gem,” giving the buyer insight into the private life of a former king of England – featuring a scandalous affair.
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Lot 411 features a handwritten love letter from former Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII to his mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, estranged wife of a Liberal member of parliament. This letter, dated Dec. 23, 1919, portrays a man frustrated to abandon his lover over Christmas for work commitments. Writing only hours after their parting, he passionately describes his hatred for leaving her on the train platform that morning, and his longing for her reply. The prince describes his Royal duties as “tedious chores,” tearing him away from his love and one person in the world he feels at home with.
A similar letter, consigned by a different vendor, was sold by Fellows for £5,100 in November 2013.
Fellows expects great interest in this next, four-page, instalment, addressed to his “vewy vewy own precious darling beloved little Fredie.” The present letter has been consigned by a different private vendor, and if anything is even more explosive.
Edward wrote to his mistress frequently throughout their relationship, each letter filled with as much passion and infatuation as the last. A collection were kept and preserved by Freda’s family, of which now single letters occasionally appear on the open market.
Wearing the crown for less than a year, Edward VIII famously abdicated to marry the American divorcee, Wallace Simpson. However, it is his previous affair, with Freda, which has been revealed to the world through secret handwritten love letters to his mistress. Now etched into the gossip pages of royal history, the love letters give a rare glimpse of the innermost private lives of the British monarchy, and furthermore of a man completely besotted with his lover.
From secrets of the British monarchy to items of fine porcelain from the Orient, another highlight from the auction is a selection of Chinese porcelain including a stunning Chinese Ming-style bottle vase. Featuring elegant blue and white foliate decoration to the whole, this vase is sure to attract some international attention.
A collection of clocks to be offered will be of interest to all collectors and horologists, but furthermore, even magicians and illusionists will find something to catch their eye; a rare mid-19th century French “mystery clock” by clock maker and illusionist Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. Houdin’s mystery clocks amazed and astounded spectators upon their first release with their seemingly invisible movements. These illusions captivated young Hungarian-American illusionist Ehrich Weiss and even provided the inspiration behind his stage name Harry Houdini.
For the collectors and engineers out there, a good live steam scale model “Showman’s” type Ransomes Sims & Jefferies traction engine is definitely a lot consider. Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies was founded in Ipswich in 1789 by Robert Ransome. His patents for cast-iron plough shares, chilled cast-iron and interchangeable plough parts formed the foundations for the firm’s success.
The auction will also offer an interesting assortment of curios and beautiful works of art, including an African carved wooden tribal mask, an impressive bronze eagle by Mark Rudolf Coreth, a fine selection of microscopes such as a good 19th century example by Henry Crouch of London, and superb pair of Royal Worcester porcelain vases painted by Harry Davis.
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Impressive bronze eagle by Mark Rudolf Coreth. Fellows image
Handwritten love letter from former Prince of Wales and King of England Edward VIII, to his mistress, Mrs. Freda Dudley Ward. Fellows image
Rare mid-19th century French glass and ormolu mystery clock. Fellows image
Imposing Chinese Ming-style porcelain bottle vase. Fellows image
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A stunning presentation of American folk art made primarily in rural areas of New England, the Midwest and the South between 1800 and 1925 opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City March 28. A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America celebrates art rooted in personal and cultural identity and made by self-taught or minimally trained artists and artisans.
Drawn from the prestigious collection of Barbara L. Gordon, A Shared Legacy highlights 63 outstanding examples of American folk art. Vivid portraits, still lifes, and landscapes, as well as distinctive examples of painted furniture from the German American community, carved boxes, sculpture and decorative arts of the highest quality offer an introduction to more than a century of America’s rich and diverse folk art traditions and exemplify the breadth of American creative expression.
“We are immensely grateful to Barbara Gordon for sharing these remarkable works from her collection,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. “The appreciation of A Shared Legacy provides a path to our visitors seeing the importance of folk traditions and their significant conversation with academic art in our own collection.”
These works did not always adhere to the academic models that established artistic taste in urban centers of the East Coast. Yet, because of the large number of professional and amateur artists who created folk art in the years following the Nation’s founding — and the sheer quantity of art they produced — folk art was the prevalent art form in the United States for more than a century. A Shared Legacy was organized by Art Services International of Alexandria, Virginia, and debuted at the American Folk Art Museum in New York in Dec. 2014. When the exhibition closes in Kansas City July 5, it moves to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and continues in various cities in 2016 and 2017.
“From engaging portraits and painted chests made to enhance the home to towering trade figures and even a carousel elephant that occupied commercial and recreational spheres, the collection of American folk art brought together and shared by Barbara Gordon not only highlights diverse artistic and aesthetic traditions, but rich personal, community, and cultural traditions as well. In that powerful way, the collection continues to resonate today,” said Stephanie Fox Knappe, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins.
A Shared Legacy provides an opportunity to examine both the aesthetics and meaning in a large body of American art and American life.
“Folk art speaks to the eye and the heart,” said Gordon. “For me, folk art represents the quintessential American art, growing indigenously out of the American experience. American folk art tells the story of our country in vivid colors, shapes, and forms. The paintings document individuals, places, and memories. The decorated furniture and domestic items, that brought color and style to a home, tell the story of daily life. Wood carvings, like cigar store figures, trade signs, and carousel animals, tell stories of commerce and recreation in earlier times.”
American folk art has a rich past. In the years immediately following the end of the Revolutionary War, Americans started leaving the places where their families had been rooted to explore new lands being opened to settlement. Government policy, coupled with the number of immigrants who sought to settle tribal lands, eventually increased the size of the United States and altered the natural landscape. Settlers brought with them the social and political organization and customs from their Eastern towns to create a comforting sense of continuity. As the outposts of settlement in the Northwest Territory grew, many assumed the appearance of New England villages. Distinctive cultural practices — the houses they built, the foods they ate, and the farming practices they employed — recreated the lives they had known in the East.
Art was another need to be met. Rooted in the family as well as the preservation of personal and cultural identity, art was one means by which Americans living far from their places of origin maintained a bond to the lives they had known. As communities were established and became prosperous, many people sought tangible evidence of their success. In Eastern cities, the well-to-do patronized trained artists who had studied at home or abroad. However, to meet the demand of customers who were living far from urban centers, self-taught or minimally-trained artists arose to create art for customers or for their own pleasure. A need for art in outlying areas fostered the emergence of several generations of artists who were responsible for a pivotal development in the history of American art.
“We are excited to present the first exhibition of American folk art to be held at the Nelson-Atkins in the last 20 years,” said Catherine Futter, Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator of European Arts. “When the museum’s collection was formed in the late 1920s and early 1930s, American folk art played an important part in displaying the world’s, especially American, art and culture. The exhibition of Barbara Gordon’s collection is also an opportunity for the museum to display highlights from the museum’s holdings of American folk art.”
A complementary installation, American Folk Art from the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, is on view through Nov. 1 in gallery 214. This exhibition includes portraits, landscapes, and samplers, from about 1784 to 1953, and even a cow weathervane. Many of the objects were collected by Kansas Citians in the 1930s and 1940s.
A Shared Legacy is accompanied by a full-color catalogue co-published by ASI and the international publishing firm SKIRA/Rizzoli.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Over the past decade, Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers has been known for their refined selection of European and Asian fine arts. The auction house presents its March 29 auction, Important Collection of Antique Glassware, Asian & European Fine Arts Auction, featuring over 300 lots of exquisite antiques and decorative arts.
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The highlight of this auction, garnering interest from various collectors and enthusiasts, is the exceptionally vibrant assortment of glassware consigned by collectors from across the globe, including lot 252, an early 19th century four-piece Bohemian green glass decanter set. This exquisite set is beautifully decorated with gilding and vibrant enamel floral paintings, estimated between $8,000 and $10,000.
Lot 248, a Bohemian milky white and maroon, three-layer glass decanter with hand-painted gilt detailing of flowers and birds, estimated between $3,000 and $3,500.
Lot 236, a pair of Bohemian glass bonbonieres in a stunning imperial yellow opaline color glass were made for the Islamic and Turkish market in the early 20th century. Each bonboniere is surmounted by a French cast bronze pear, and stands upon a foliate cut matching dish, estimated between $5,000 and $10,000.
Additionally, bidders will find a unique timepiece in lot 17, a magnificent 19th century blue opaline glass mantel clock. This piece has been delicately hand-painted with scrolling white and gilt designs, estimated between $6,000 and $8,000.
The sale consists of other noteworthy items, such as a curated selection of fine Chinese carved jade, European paintings, KPM porcelain plaques, Chinese porcelain and cloisonné, Chinese archaic bronzes, Asian gilt bronze Buddhist figures, and luxury watches and jewelry.
The auction will commence at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on March 29 at Artingstall & Hind’s showroom at 403 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
For more information, please contact Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers by e-mail at info@artingstall.com or by telephone at 310-424-5288 or 310-274-6604.
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Nineteenth century blue opaline glass mantel clock, hand-painted with scrolling white and gilt designs. Estimate: $6,000-$8,000. Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers image
Bohemian three-layer glass decanter with hand-painted gilt detailing. Estimate: $3,000-$3,500. Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers image
Pair of Bohemian glass bonbonieres made for the Islamic and Turkish market in the early 20th century. Estimate: $5,000-$10,000. Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers image
Early 19th century four-piece Bohemian green glass decanter set decorated with gilding and enamel floral paintings. Estimate: $8,000-$10,000. Artingstall & Hind Auctioneers image
CHICAGO (AP) – The two Chicago universities in the competition for President Barack Obama’s library came together Monday to send a message to the White House: Choose either one of us, just don’t pick New York.
Officials from the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others gathered in a crowded hotel ballroom for what was billed a “Unity Breakfast.” Speakers took turns reminding the president and the first lady where their roots are and implored them to “bring it on home,” as Carol Adams, a member of the University of Chicago’s Obama library community advisory board, put it.
“Chicago is the only place with the historic political trajectory of President Barack Obama, and his presidential library should be erected here,” said Adams, a former president of the DuSable Museum of African American History. ”’For indeed, he did get there from here.”
The effort to convince Obama to build his library in the city and not at the University of Hawaii or New York’s Columbia University has been a major story in Chicago — and has even made its way into next month’s mayoral election between Emanuel and Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Emanuel, Obama’s former White House chief of staff, has pushed hard for the library and was dealt what was widely seen as a blow to his campaign when it was reported earlier this month that the Obamas would delay announcing their decision until after the April 7 runoff election.
The mayor did not receive nearly as much support among black voters in last month’s primary as he did when he was elected in 2011, after a campaign in which he made no secret of his access to the president.
Now, those same voters Emanuel is trying to win back have overwhelmingly supported a project that would bring thousands of jobs and tens of millions of dollars to one of two predominantly black communities that are in desperate need of some good financial news.
“It can be on the South Side, it can be on the West Side, but it cannot be on the Upper West Side of Manhattan,” Emanuel said.
The mayor also alluded to Garcia without saying his name during a later press briefing, drawing a contrast between himself and his challenger, who initially opposed the transfer of park land on the South Side.
Emanuel even seemed to suggest that the library foundation wanted to make sure he was re-elected before awarding the library to Chicago _ though individuals with knowledge of the delay told the AP last month that the foundation decided to delay because it did not want to inject itself into a campaign or be seen as giving Emanuel an unfair advantage.
“I do think the foundation made a decision because they believe leadership counts, and having strong leadership that can make sure you not only have a plan but that you can see it through will help us secure the library,” he said.
Garcia’s campaign did not immediately return a call for comment.
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