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Railroad Show & Collectors Market Slated For March 12
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2016 • VOL. 47, NO. 9
You’ve Been Framed! Newcomb-Macklin: America’s Most Prominent Frame Makers
The Harrisburg Chapter National Railway Historical Society’s annual Railroad Show and Collectors Market will take place Saturday, March 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The show will be held at a new location at the First Church of God located at 245 West High St., Middletown, Pa. The show is celebrating its 30th year and will feature model railroads, railroadiana, train layouts in
several gauges, movies, and a test track. A recommended donation of $5 will be accepted at the door. Children under the age of 12 will be admitted free of charge. Proceeds benefit the chapter’s perservation initiatives. There will be a snack bar on the premises. A one-hour selection of vintage steam and diesel railroad movies will be shown at 10 a.m., followed
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From Our Files By Andrew Richmond S.H. McElswain founded a framing company in 1871 in Evanston, Ill., but the name by which it is known to collectors today comes from a partnership that began 12 years later in 1883, with McElswain’s bookkeepers Charles Macklin and John C. Newcomb, who formed a partnership in order to assume command of the business. The company, which would have enough success to support showrooms in Chicago and New York as well as a crew of traveling salesmen, owed much of its early success to the relationships it established with schools of artists, like the American Impressionists and the Taos School, as well as with specific artists such as John Singer Sargent, Maxfield Parrish, George Bellows and many others. By working directly with their important artist clients to develop frame styles and finish treatments to complement their paintings,
Show vice chairman Eric Ohstrom is shown here admiring one of the operating train layouts on display at the Harrisburg Chapter National Railway Historical Society’s annual train show and market.
A portrait of a girl by Martha Walter framed in an exceptional Newcomb-Macklin frame, based on the design by Stanford White. It sold for over $60,000 at Garth’s Auctions in 2009. Newcomb-Macklin developed powerful relationships and placed their frames in the finest art collections in the country. They also worked with only the best in terms of designers and
Van Dyck: The Anatomy Of Portraiture
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A Look At Wallace Nutting’s Floral Still Life Scenes on page 14
A Newcomb-Macklin frame with what could be described as fish scales sold at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers in 2011 for nearly $6,000.
Housing a Provincetown harbor scene by Henry Ryan MacGinnis, this NewcombMacklin sold for just over $4,000 at Rago Arts in 2013.
This Maude Drein Bryant winter landscape is nicely complimented by a NewcombMacklin frame. It sold for $4,130 at Brunk Auctions in September of 2015.
This Arts and Crafts frame by Newcomb-Macklin sold for $2,400 at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers in 2014.
Anthony van Dyck’s “Self-Portrait” circa 1620-21, oil-on-canvas, is courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time. He enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the court of Charles I in England. Van Dyck’s elegant manner and convincing evocation of a sitter’s inner life, whether real or imagined, made him the favorite portraitist of many of the most powerful and interesting figures of the 17th century. His sitters were poets, duchesses, painters, and generals, represented the social and artistic elite of his age, and his
Anthony van Dyck’s (1599-1641) portrait titled “Queen Henrietta Maria with Her Dwarf, Jeffery Hudson” from 1633, oil-oncanvas, is courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Samuel H. Kress Collection. achievement in portraiture marked a turning point in the history of European painting. The exhibition “Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture,” on view only at New York’s Frick Collection, looks comprehensively at the artist’s activity and process as a portraitist. It is also the first major Continued on page 2
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In This Issue SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . on page 11 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 8
FEATURED AUCTION: Witman Auctioneer - February 27, 2016 in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania - page 2
AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19