Midwinter Focus

The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory returns for its 64th year

The Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory returns for its 64th year

Now in its 64th year, the Winter Antiques Show features 70 of the world’s top dealers of fine and decorative arts. January 19 through 28 the show returns to the Park Avenue Armory. among the exhibitors are Michael Altman Fine Art, Jonathan Boos, thomas Colville Fine Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery. Net proceeds from the show benefit East Side House Settlement, which works with community organizations to bring education and resources to the South Bronx and Northern Manhattan.

“The show has always been a focus of collectors in midwinter. It’s the after Christmas, lots of people are in the city, and lots of serious collectors come,” says Thomas Colville of Thomas Colville Fine Art. “that’s the reason I’ve done the show for 25 years. It’s different from the other shows in that you can find good quality American works, but it’s also the premiere place to buy furniture and folk art.”

Included in the works that Colville will bring to the show are David Blythe’s 1859 oil January Bills and Winslow Homer’s 1875 portrait In the Garden. Gerald Peters Gallery will show Frederic Remington’s painting A Revolver Charge, which was inspired by the artist’s trip to northern Africa.

“Each year, we present a special loan exhibition from a museum or historic house collection; this year’s exhibition is especially appropriate for the Winter Antiques Show, as it focuses on the patrons whose gifts formed the collections at the virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” explains Catherine Sweeney Singer, executive director. titled Collecting for the

Commonwealth/preserving for the Nation: Celebrating a Century of Art Patronage, 1919-2018, the loan exhibition features works from throughout the museum’s century-long history, including paintings by John Singer Sargent and Robert Henri. a lecture series on the exhibition will take place throughout the week.

The show kicks off January 18 with an opening night party, and gives visitors a chance to browse the booths before the show officially opens. a Young Collectors Night on January 25 brings together emerging philanthropists and budding art collectors together for cocktails and a chance to meet Wendy Goodman, design editor of New York magazine, and Zac Posen the creative director of Brooks Brothers women’s collection, and on January 26, the Expert Eye Evening is a night of booth talks, wine tastings and conversation about design.

Ronald Hurst, Mitchell Reiss, Arie Kopelman and Lucinda Ballard. Courtesy BFA / Angela Phan and Rommel Demano.

Elizabeth Turk, Ribbon # 9, Sphere, 2008. Grecian Pentelicon, 10 in. Courtesy Hirschl & Adler Modern.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910), In the Garden, 1875. Watercolor on paper, 14 x 10 in., signed and dated lower left: ‘W Homer 1875’. Courtesy Thomas Colville Fine Art.

Visitors socialize at the 2017 Opening Night Party. Courtesy BFA / Angela Phan and Rommel Demano.

Frederic Remington (1861-1909), A Revolver Charge, 1894. Oil on canvas, 35¾ x 60 in. Courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery.

David Gilmour Blythe (1815-1865), January Bills, 1859. Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in., signed lower right: ‘Blythe’. Courtesy Thomas Colville Fine Art.

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), Here Comes Daddy, 1950. Oil on pressed wood, 8 x 9⁄ in. Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne.