Friday, June 25, 2010
RANDOM WEEKEND
pansypoo is leaving or her 1st art fair in spring green. no lol cherch, so be excellent to each other.
pansypoo is leaving or her 1st art fair in spring green. no lol cherch, so be excellent to each other.
RANDOM 341 OBJECT
Antique WILLIAN REINDEL Impressionist OIL PAINTING 1910-$368
First, just so you won’t have to think about it – the condition is excellent, and it’s even clean. I think the family had it cleaned when they had it reframed. The frame they chose is just exactly what Mr. Reindel would have chosen himself – except he’s dead now and wasn’t there to help them make their selection.
First, just so you won’t have to think about it – the condition is excellent, and it’s even clean. I think the family had it cleaned when they had it reframed. The frame they chose is just exactly what Mr. Reindel would have chosen himself – except he’s dead now and wasn’t there to help them make their selection.
The work is signed and date, lower right: “W. G. Reindel, 1910.” NOTE: That might be 1919 rather than 1910. I wasn’t going to remove it from its frame just to fine out something that doesn’t mean a hill of beans anyway. He painted it when he was either 39 or 48 years old.
Did I mention he was from Cleveland? Well I think he was, and he was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists, the Chicago Society of Illustrators and the Chicago Society of Etchers. Most of his etchings and engravings were done in the 1920s and 1930s. I think he simply got tired of cleaning brushes, so he switched from oil painting to drypoint. (I made that last part up, but it makes sense to my tiny little reptilian brain.)
That’s why I didn’t monkey around with it. But see the old tag the framer transferred to the new backing. It’s important on several levels.
The label tells us the title: “Winter Landscape.” It also tells us he is listed in Who Was Who in American Art.
But here’s the interesting part. It says “Oil on Canvas.” That is either a clerical error, meant to say “oil on panel,” or the family had the “painting on canvas” laid down on a panel. Tap on the back, and it’s easy to tell it is either backed by, or painted on, a panel. (It sounds like Masonite to me.) And no - I’m not going to disturb the paper just to find out something that shouldn’t make a difference anyway.
See what I mean about the frame being ideal for the painting? And of course, it is also in fine condition.
Just one more thing, and then I’ll let you go since I know you’re busy.
This particular creation seems to comment on the tenacity of youth even in the presence of impending death. Young samplings, having survived perhaps their first winter, feel spring in the air and are already popping out green sprouts all over the forest floor, which is dominated by older trees struggling to leaf out. Kinda like an old man sitting in his easy chair watching a puppy play.
FRIDAY ART BLOGGING
quannah. there is a new book on quannah parker. gotta get those accidental hits now.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
RANDOM 341 OBJECT
RARE 1895 Train LOCOMOTIVE Railroad Engineers BOOK-$33
The title of this rare hardcover book is Gardenier’s Ready Help for Locomotive Engineers “Being an Educational Chart for Locomotive Firemen Seeking Promotion, for the Scholar and Student, and for the Help of the Examiner when Employing or Promoting New Men; and is a Ready Help to Engineers While on the Road ~ It Comprising a Remedy for Every Conceivable Breakdown or Disorder that may occur to a locomotive.”
It’s rare. There’s only one for sale right now by any of the thousands of internet booksellers. And the condition—let's just say that this one is better AND it’s a first edition (1895 instead of 1900).
Publisher: David McKay, Philadelphia ~ Author: Norman Gardenier.
Copyright 1865 ~ first edition.
SIZE: About 4-1/2” x 6”; 119 pages. There are 596 questions…followed by the 596 answers. Q: What must you be particular about when firing soft coal, on engines that have a brick arch?
CONDITION: I doubt you’ll ever find one in better condition. Former owner name & city/state neatly written in pen on ffep. Tight binding…browning/foxing of paper…seldom used if condition is a clue. Expect tiny flaws.
Both cover & spine have gilt lettering…locomotive illustration on cover.
Contents include: Emergency Repairing on Locomotive; Treatise on the Air Brake; Suggestions to Firemen; Air, Steam, Water, Smoke; Index. Additional include Conductor’s Valve, Feed Valve, Brake Cylinder, Hose, Main Reservoir, Pump, Whistle & Stop-cock…plus others. You just may need this book.
RANDOM 341 OBJECTS
Antique MANDOLIN Lamp CANE Vase Dolphin + I NEED ADVICE-$46
Putting all this stuff together is, I guess, blatant commercialism, but I couldn’t help myself. I wanted as many folks to see this listing as possible in hopes someone with the eye of an interior designer would take my side in an argument I’m having with “you-know-who.”
But first: The stuff I’m selling in this auction.
There is an old gooseneck desk lamp with places for inkwell inserts and stamps etc. Then there is a piece of unmarked Nippon, and a lusterware jumping dolphin. It’s china of a quality not often seen other than in bowling alley gift shops. The poor old mandolin is decorative as all getout, but it has a crack on the front which matches the one on the back. The cane handle is ebony and brass.
The shade is brass, and the stem is “flexible.” The base is cast iron.
Oh Lord! It’s filthy. I’ll wipe it off a little before I ship it to you.
