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to work with another friend decrease in his purchases, but and architect, Edward Vason the number jumped again in Jones. Shutze’s last major res1953. From that point on, for idential commission came in the remainder of his life, 1957, the Charles Daniel Shutze made only a few major house in Greenville, South purchases each year. Carolina. After living with his During his early collecting sister and her husband for years, Shutze took a few trips thirty-two years, he moved to the Northeast, accompainto an apartment on nied by friends, because he Peachtree Street in 1959, in did not drive. The Shutze the same complex where his archives contain numerous sister and brother-in-law had letters from dealers in New Above: Shutze in his apartment on Peachtree Street, where he moved in 1959. moved. York, Pennsylvania, and New According to his records Left: Kitchen in Shutze’s apartment with his blue and white Chinese Export England. From 1949, dealers and correspondence, Shutze displayed on the open kitchen shelves. in Boston and New York began buying furniture and wrote to say that they enjoyed Below: Throughout his apartment, Shutze created “tablescapes” such as this ceramics seriously in 1949; his one in his apartment living room with the Chinese Export “Hong” punch bowl seeing him and Mr. and Mrs. sales receipts jumped from a and large Staffordshire figure of Bacchus and Ariadne in the center of the gate- (James) Means in their shops. leg table. dozen purchases in 1948 to From 1950, Melvin Hubely more than one hundred the following year. But the real exploand the Art Exchange recollected favorably his recent visit to sion in Shutze’s buying came in 1950, when he bought furniture their shops in Boston and New York with the Joneses (Mr. and ceramics from Ginsburg and Levy, David Stockwell, Melvin and Mrs. Edward Vason Jones). There are also many references Hubely, Arthur Sussell, and Joe Kindig, and ceramics from the to advertisements in The Magazine ANTIQUES. Indeed, Art Exchange. The years 1951 and 1952 marked a 50 percent Shutze must have read his monthly issue of Antiques the way
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