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Thursday, September 24, 2015
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Fine example of a "found-object" as Modern Art. 1930's Northern Wisconsin ice fishing tip-up. Fabulous sculptural appeal and 100% original paint. We have several of these in stock and this is by far the coolest one. Think of it has a hillbilly Alexander Calder mobile. Ready to hang or mount on a stand for 3-D effect.
Friday, May 15, 2015
From the "Heres a Museum You Have Never Been To" Department: The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Frederick, Maryland. Divided by Conflict, United by Compassion. The ugly reality of the cost of freedom combined with good that has been gained from this four year long, living laboratory of trauma. 1861-1865.
From the museum website: Our main museum, located in historic downtown Frederick, Maryland, contains five galleries, over 1200 artifacts and knowledgeable docents as well as a gift shop and research facility. It is located at 48 E. Patrick Street in the Carty Building, a building that once belonged to furniture maker James Whitehill in 1832, and was the site of his undertaking business, which he sold to Clarence Carty after the Civil War. Nestled in historic downtown Frederick, MD, considered the crossroads of the Civil War, the Museum is surrounded by eclectic museums, shops and restaurants as well as scenic vistas and numerous yearly special events.
The History
The creation of The National Museum of Civil War Medicine started as
the idea of Gordon E. Dammann, D.D.S., whose collection of medical
artifacts from the Civil War forms the core of the Museum’s holdings.
Dr. Dammann began collecting in 1971, and felt that a museum would be a
good way to share his collection and the story of Civil War medicine
with the public. With the help of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.; Sam
Kirkpatrick, M.D.; John Olson; the Reverend John Schildt; and Thomas
Adrian Wheat, M.D., the idea began to take shape. The Museum was
incorporated in 1990, and the Board of Directors began the search for a
location for the Museum.
Once a location was established, the board began a fund-raising campaign and hired the Museum’s first executive director in March 1994. Local banks, the City of Frederick, Frederick County and numerous private citizens donated to the cause. The board and staff’s efforts received a major boost when the State of Maryland awarded the Museum a $1 million challenge grant for the much-needed renovation of the historic Carty Building.
A membership program was instituted and the Museum began publishing its quarterly newsletter, Surgeon’s Call.
On June 15, 1996, the first exhibits were opened to the public. These
exhibits included dioramas, cases and informational panels on
recruiting, camp life, medical evacuation, field hospitals, pavilion
hospitals, and the home-front. The displays were highlighted by a
Confederate ambulance on loan from the Lincoln Memorial University, a
nineteenth-century holding coffin, stretchers, amputation kits, uniforms
of medical personnel, and numerous other medical and surgical items.In July 1997, the Museum received a $1 million gift from the Judge Edward S. Delaplaine Charitable Trust, fully matching the State of Maryland’s challenge grant. Plans for the major renovation of the building and the design and installation of new exhibits began in earnest, and a temporary location was found so that the Museum’s exhibits, store and research library could remain open to the public.
A team featuring the exhibit designers, board members and staff
planned the layout and the content of the new exhibits in the renovated
building. The restrictions imposed by the floor plan of the historic
structure had to be considered in the design process, but the goal of
the team was to tell the story of Civil War medicine in much the same
order as it would have been experienced by the soldiers themselves. In
the finalized layout, the first gallery establishes the context for the
Museum by discussing the state of medicine and medical education at the
beginning of the war. The remaining galleries follow the soldiers
through recruitment, camp life, the evacuation of the 
wounded, field
dressing stations, field hospitals, and pavilion hospitals. The last
gallery highlights specific subjects such as indigenous plants used by
the surgeons, embalming the dead, the Civil War hospitals in Frederick,
and a comparative look at modern military medicine.On October 21, 2000, the newly-renovated Museum opened its doors to the public. In addition to the two floors of exhibit galleries, the Museum features a large Dispensary Store at the front of the building, the Delaplaine Randall Conference Room on the second floor, a secure, climate-controlled collections room, and a research center and administrative offices on the third floor.
All photos courtesy of The National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Monday, May 11, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Bizarre, satanic, outsider art drawings by Clifton Harvey 1979 discovered during an inspection of an abandoned Detroit home.
(From the Detroit Metro Times, Thursday April 23rd, 2015)
We don't know anything about the artist other than that one of the pages is signed “Clifton Harvey” and dated “12/79." We dig his depiction of Satan as a giant with a snake arm and a three-headed snake pitchfork, and the drawings remind us of the works of Henry Darger and Hieronymus Bosch.
Enjoy. (And if you know who Clifton Harvey is, please drop us a line at arts@metrotimes.com.)
[Update 8:09 a.m. Friday, April 24, 2015: We asked Goeddeke where the drawings were found. "As I recall, east side. The area between Cadillac Blvd and St Jean, and Jefferson to Mack Ave," he says. "I found them last summer and they have been in my desk since, so I’m trying to recall. As you probably know, there are thousands of homes demolished each year, so I don’t think I can pinpoint an address, but it was definitely in that area."]
Trip out on these Satanic drawings found in an abandoned Detroit house
Posted By Lee DeVito on Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:28 AM
Reader Joseph Goeddeke found these drawings in an abandoned Detroit house that he was inspecting for asbestos while working for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The house was scheduled to be demolished later that day, and Goeddeke (who says he's "not an art guy" but thinks "they are great drawings") decided to save the art and send it to us. We're glad he did.We don't know anything about the artist other than that one of the pages is signed “Clifton Harvey” and dated “12/79." We dig his depiction of Satan as a giant with a snake arm and a three-headed snake pitchfork, and the drawings remind us of the works of Henry Darger and Hieronymus Bosch.
Enjoy. (And if you know who Clifton Harvey is, please drop us a line at arts@metrotimes.com.)
[Update 8:09 a.m. Friday, April 24, 2015: We asked Goeddeke where the drawings were found. "As I recall, east side. The area between Cadillac Blvd and St Jean, and Jefferson to Mack Ave," he says. "I found them last summer and they have been in my desk since, so I’m trying to recall. As you probably know, there are thousands of homes demolished each year, so I don’t think I can pinpoint an address, but it was definitely in that area."]
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Collector Car Pioneer Leo Gephart Dies at 85.
As I have mentioned here in previous posts my fondness for Classic and Antique automobiles was passed on to me by my dad. Dad is a collector, historian and a true "car nut". My earliest memories include heading to Auburn, Indiana every Labor Day weekend for the annual gathering of Auburn, Cord and Dusenberg Collectors from all over the world. Besides the Club activities, Kruse Auction Company was just getting started in the collector car sales business. Their first sales were on the grounds of the Dekalb County High School football field. Most of my memories include dew soaked tennis shoes and dodging giant rain and mud puddles. They also include my father mentioning Leo Gephart when ever we saw him. Dad would always point out "that big time collector from Ohio". In my 12 year old mind, I pictured barns full of gleaming boat-tailed speedsters, L-29's and Murphy-bodied Dusenbergs on a mysterious farm near Sidney, Ohio. Anyway, thanks for the memories dad and RIP Leo.
"He certainly wasn’t the first person to recognize the collectibility of old cars, but Leo Gephart did help lay many of the stones in the foundation of the collector car hobby as it exists today, leading many to mourn his death last week at the age of 85.
Born in 1929 on a farm near Sidney, Ohio, Gephart started working on old cars – including his first, a 1932 Ford roadster – as a teenager during World War II, and through his family’s acquaintance with Charles Kettering, soon became involved with the Antique Automobile Club of America. After a stint in the Air Force in his early 20s, Gephart returned to Ohio in the early 1950s, got a car dealer license, and began to sell new Studebakers.
At the same time, though, he also started buying and selling those older cars increasingly being recognized as classics (or Classics, depending on the definition) and took a keen interest in Duesenbergs. He sourced old cars from estate sales, used car auctions, and through word of mouth, but during the 1960s developed another method of buying and selling collector cars.
“He realized that if collectors would travel from state to state looking for old cars at estate sales, a lot of collectors could be expected to show up if a huge number of cars was gathered for sale in one place,” Jim Donnelly wrote in his profile of Gephart for the May 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car.
So Gephart, prodded on by the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Club, approached
Russell Kruse with the idea of transforming the Kruse family’s longtime
construction equipment auction business into a collector car auction
business. Kruse held the first such auction in 1971 behind a Dairy Queen
in Auburn, Indiana. Kruse subsequently grew the business into one of
the world’s largest, helping establish Labor Day in Auburn as one of the
anchors on the collector car calendar. RM Auctions – now RM Sotheby’s –
bought the business and the auction park from Dean Kruse in 2010 and
today operates it under the Auctions America banner.
That same year, Gephart approached a pair of car show organizers in Scottsdale, Arizona – Tom Barrett and Russ Jackson, the former Gephart had known from a Cadillac V-16 transaction – and convinced them to also put together a large-scale collector car auction in Scottsdale. Though Scottsdale isn’t a town rich in automotive history like Auburn, it does at least offer a preferable winter climate, one that attracted and continues to attract the same sorts of people likely to buy and sell collector cars. Barrett-Jackson has remained in Scottsdale and grown over the years to bring in bidders from all over the world, to inspire other auction houses to conduct their own sales during the same week in January, and to attract live television coverage.
“I grew up with Leo,” Craig Jackson said in a statement on Barrett-Jackson’s website. “He was an innovator and a visionary whose legacy will remain for years to come. He will be missed.”
Along the way, Gephart essentially founded two ancillary industries. He started Frosty’s Delivery Services, a car transport company that specialized in collector cars, which he later sold to Robert Pass (who renamed it Passport Transport), and which has since become a subsidiary of FedEx. And he became one of the first people involved in collector cars to offer appraisals on older cars to determine their market value.
“He was one of the three kings of the collector car trade,” said concept car collector Joe Bortz, who had known Gephart for decades. “Along with Tiny Gould and Bob Adams in Wisconsin, they were the guys who made the hobby what it is today.”
Gephart himself relocated his business to Scottsdale around 1981 and in later years he operated his own auctions and even partnered with other collector car dealers in the area to start an auto museum, though none of those ventures ultimately panned out. In about 2012, citing failing health, he scaled back his collector car business. The phones at the business have since been disconnected".
(courtesy Hemmings)
"He certainly wasn’t the first person to recognize the collectibility of old cars, but Leo Gephart did help lay many of the stones in the foundation of the collector car hobby as it exists today, leading many to mourn his death last week at the age of 85.
Born in 1929 on a farm near Sidney, Ohio, Gephart started working on old cars – including his first, a 1932 Ford roadster – as a teenager during World War II, and through his family’s acquaintance with Charles Kettering, soon became involved with the Antique Automobile Club of America. After a stint in the Air Force in his early 20s, Gephart returned to Ohio in the early 1950s, got a car dealer license, and began to sell new Studebakers.
At the same time, though, he also started buying and selling those older cars increasingly being recognized as classics (or Classics, depending on the definition) and took a keen interest in Duesenbergs. He sourced old cars from estate sales, used car auctions, and through word of mouth, but during the 1960s developed another method of buying and selling collector cars.
“He realized that if collectors would travel from state to state looking for old cars at estate sales, a lot of collectors could be expected to show up if a huge number of cars was gathered for sale in one place,” Jim Donnelly wrote in his profile of Gephart for the May 2008 issue of Hemmings Classic Car.
That same year, Gephart approached a pair of car show organizers in Scottsdale, Arizona – Tom Barrett and Russ Jackson, the former Gephart had known from a Cadillac V-16 transaction – and convinced them to also put together a large-scale collector car auction in Scottsdale. Though Scottsdale isn’t a town rich in automotive history like Auburn, it does at least offer a preferable winter climate, one that attracted and continues to attract the same sorts of people likely to buy and sell collector cars. Barrett-Jackson has remained in Scottsdale and grown over the years to bring in bidders from all over the world, to inspire other auction houses to conduct their own sales during the same week in January, and to attract live television coverage.
“I grew up with Leo,” Craig Jackson said in a statement on Barrett-Jackson’s website. “He was an innovator and a visionary whose legacy will remain for years to come. He will be missed.”
Along the way, Gephart essentially founded two ancillary industries. He started Frosty’s Delivery Services, a car transport company that specialized in collector cars, which he later sold to Robert Pass (who renamed it Passport Transport), and which has since become a subsidiary of FedEx. And he became one of the first people involved in collector cars to offer appraisals on older cars to determine their market value.
“He was one of the three kings of the collector car trade,” said concept car collector Joe Bortz, who had known Gephart for decades. “Along with Tiny Gould and Bob Adams in Wisconsin, they were the guys who made the hobby what it is today.”
Gephart himself relocated his business to Scottsdale around 1981 and in later years he operated his own auctions and even partnered with other collector car dealers in the area to start an auto museum, though none of those ventures ultimately panned out. In about 2012, citing failing health, he scaled back his collector car business. The phones at the business have since been disconnected".
(courtesy Hemmings)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Rare ca.1880's Victorian, sterling silver and mother-of-pearl nursery rhyme baby rattle, whistle and teething toy.
Here is a cool, and rare, old, English-made nursery artifact. Bells, whistles and teething toy. These could be seen on Downton Abbey. Features "Hey Diddle Diddle the Cat and the Fiddle" on one side and Lady Liberty on the other. This is available for sale here
Monday, April 6, 2015
Antique, carved and painted, lidded box. Made by an American of Norwegian or Scandinavian descent here in north central Wisconsin. Ca. 1890's.
Crazy the stuff you find mixed together when you go on a house call. Yesterday I wrote about the great piece of 1970's abstract sculpture by Dan Blue of Chicago, Illinois we found Sunday. Today I want to show you an amazing folk art box from the same house. This piece originated here in north central Wisconsin. It was made by a person of Norwegian, Scandinavian or possibly German descent. The "dragonzied" lion animal is common in all of those cultures and this part of Wisconsin was settled by people of those extractions.
How do we know it was made here in Wisconsin and not in the Homeland?. The box is all pine, a very common American and Wisconsin wood. Also, the lid was made from a 19th century American advertising or shipping crate. It has faux ball and claw feet which is a really nice folk art touch. The surface is 100% original. Dry, crusty and awesome. This box is available for purchase here.
How do we know it was made here in Wisconsin and not in the Homeland?. The box is all pine, a very common American and Wisconsin wood. Also, the lid was made from a 19th century American advertising or shipping crate. It has faux ball and claw feet which is a really nice folk art touch. The surface is 100% original. Dry, crusty and awesome. This box is available for purchase here.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Kellog Lumber Company Log Train Season of 1914. Antigo, Wisconsin
We always have a great selection of local history ephemera is stock. We sold this old photo postcard last week. You can see what have in stock now here
Monday, January 12, 2015
1965 Honda CA95 Benly Touring 150. Unbelieveable condition.
Another 2014 highlight was the acquisition and sale of an amazing mid-1960's motorcycle. Remember, we view everything as an object with style and design elements in mind. Look at this item for it's sculptural appeal. It is a piece of art just as it sits. The awesome thing is that it ran beautifully, making it a rolling piece of art.
When I got it we rode it down the sidewalk and into the store. It was in the front window for a couple months before it sold and there was not one drop of oil on the floor under it. Interestingly, the new owner wanted the bike for the same reason we did, design and style.
When I got it we rode it down the sidewalk and into the store. It was in the front window for a couple months before it sold and there was not one drop of oil on the floor under it. Interestingly, the new owner wanted the bike for the same reason we did, design and style.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Rick Hall American (1964-2012)
One of the highlights of 2014 was the acquisition of the estate paintings of Wausau, Wisconsin Rick Hall. These works had been unseen since 1992. Rick was influenced strongly by the New York School, modernism, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and of course Picasso.
Rick was self-taught but vigilant in improving his craft. His daughter confirmed that many nights she never saw him as he went to the basement to paint everyday after work. The results speak for themselves. These paintings are vivid, bold, full of energy and color. Please enjoy looking.
All paintings are 48" x 48" acrylic and oil on 1/4" masonite and share varying degrees of moisture damage about 1"-2" up on the bottom. Structurally sound but stained.
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SOLD.
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