Appraisal: 1930 - 1938 Wood & Curry Oil Paintings with Sketch
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Watch Alasdair Nichol appraise 1930 - 1938 wood & curry oil paintings with sketch in Vintage Madison 2024, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: 1930 - 1938 Wood & Curry Oil Paintings with Sketch
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Watch Alasdair Nichol appraise 1930 - 1938 wood & curry oil paintings with sketch in Vintage Madison 2024, Hour 2.
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And so I was thrilled when you came in the door with, with these three works.
GUEST: Mm-hm.
APPRAISER: We have John Steuart Curry, we have Grant Wood, and can you perhaps tell me a little bit about how you came by these works?
GUEST: Well, my grandmother went to school with Grant Wood in Iowa and remained his friend.
And when she married my grandfather, he came to know Grant Wood, too, and they supported him.
They bought several works of art from him in-- earlier in his career.
And then when John Steuart Curry became artist-in-residenceat the university here in 1936, they got to know him, too.
APPRAISER: The whole thing about the Regionalists, who flourished in the early 1930s, during the Depression, was that rather than looking to Paris and Modernism and everything that was going on there, they looked into the heartland.
They looked towards American subjects.
GUEST: Mm-hm.
APPRAISER: They would pick farm scenes, there'd be some political paintings.
Subjects would be handled in a humorous way sometimes.
Sometimes they were satirical.
But the ones that you've brought today are certainly not typical...
GUEST: No.
APPRAISER: ...Regionalist paintings.
When one thinks of John Steuart Curry, one might think of "Tornado Over Kansas..." The John Brown-- GUEST: John Brown.
(chuckles) APPRAISER: John Brown-- exactly.
Grant Wood, of course, American Gothic.
Great painting that hangs in Chicago.
These are a long way from that.
This is a very lyrical evocation of a-a river and reflections in a river.
And this is a very simple still life of zinnias.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: They are both signed, of course.
GUEST: Right, both done in 1930.
APPRAISER: Yeah, and can you perhaps tell me a little bit about this little one, which is depicting what?
GUEST: The founding of the national Progressive Party by Phil LaFollette here at the University of Wisconsin.
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: It's a drawing inscribed to my grandmother.
He gave it to her for a birthday present.
APPRAISER: It's a-- well, it's a wonderful record of that time and of the politics of that time, and wonderful, too, that it actually happened here in Madison.
GUEST: Here, yeah.
APPRAISER: They're not typical works, but obviously these are major, major American artists, so these will still certainly have some value.
The John Steuart Curry, at auction, $25,000 to $40,000.
GUEST: Mm-hm.
APPRAISER: This one, I'm going to say $2,000 to $3,000 at auction.
And for the Grant Wood, it's a terrific thing, but a long way from the rolling hills, et cetera, et cetera.
GUEST: Right.
Right.
APPRAISER: Which, frankly, have made millions at auction.
GUEST: Mm-hm.
APPRAISER: A painting like this still would make, I would think, quite comfortably $50,000 to $80,000.
GUEST: That's great.
APPRAISER: But it would not surprise me the way the market is going for Grant Wood if it even made more than that.
Appraisal: 1808 Johann Gottlob Heberlein Violin
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 37s | Appraisal: 1808 Johann Gottlob Heberlein Violin (2m 37s)
Appraisal: 1937 - 1942 Edward Weston Photographs
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 45s | Appraisal: 1937 - 1942 Edward Weston Photographs (2m 45s)
Appraisal: 1961 Fender Stratocaster Guitar
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 35s | Appraisal: 1961 Fender Stratocaster Guitar (1m 35s)
Appraisal: Aesthetic Movement Painted Pier Mirror, ca. 1900
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 43s | Appraisal: Aesthetic Movement Painted Pier Mirror, ca. 1900 (1m 43s)
Appraisal: Alton Trevaise Art Glass Vase, ca. 1907
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 21s | Appraisal: Alton Trevaise Art Glass Vase, ca. 1907 (21s)
Appraisal: American Pond Yacht, ca. 1900
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 25s | Appraisal: American Pond Yacht, ca. 1900 (25s)
Appraisal: Apollo 11 Astronaut-inscribed Book & Letter
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 19s | Appraisal: Apollo 11 Astronaut-inscribed Book & Letter (2m 19s)
Appraisal: Armin Carl Hansen 'Before the Wind' Oil, ca. 1920
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 58s | Appraisal: Armin Carl Hansen 'Before the Wind' Oil, ca. 1920 (1m 58s)
Appraisal: Austrian Pearl Earrings & Emerald Ring
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 3m 35s | Appraisal: Austrian Pearl Earrings & Emerald Ring (3m 35s)
Appraisal: Barnes Tool Co. Table Saw, ca. 1890
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 32s | Appraisal: Barnes Tool Co. Table Saw, ca. 1890 (32s)
Appraisal: Caughley Porcelain 'Toy' Service, ca. 1780
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 55s | Appraisal: Caughley Porcelain 'Toy' Service, ca. 1780 (2m 55s)
Appraisal: Civil War Watch & Veteran's Medal
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 3s | Appraisal: Civil War Watch & Veteran's Medal (1m 3s)
Appraisal: Duck Decoys Attributed to Chris Powers, ca. 1950
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 3s | Appraisal: Duck Decoys Attributed to Chris Powers, ca. 1950 (1m 3s)
Appraisal: English Memorial Bracelet, ca. 1885
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 43s | Appraisal: English Memorial Bracelet, ca. 1885 (43s)
Appraisal: French Figural Clock, ca. 1830
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 31s | Appraisal: French Figural Clock, ca. 1830 (31s)
Appraisal: French Liqueur Decanter Glass Set, ca. 1890
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 18s | Appraisal: French Liqueur Decanter Glass Set, ca. 1890 (18s)
Appraisal: Italian Faience Centerpiece, ca. 1880
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 33s | Appraisal: Italian Faience Centerpiece, ca. 1880 (33s)
Appraisal: Italian Lava & Conch Shell Cameos, ca. 1900
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 3m 12s | Appraisal: Italian Lava & Conch Shell Cameos, ca. 1900 (3m 12s)
Appraisal: Louis Floutier Oil Painting, ca. 1920
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 39s | Appraisal: Louis Floutier Oil Painting, ca. 1920 (39s)
Appraisal: Persian Bakshaish Rug, ca. 1885
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 23s | Appraisal: Persian Bakshaish Rug, ca. 1885 (2m 23s)
Appraisal: Plains Indian Doll, ca. 1880
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 16s | Appraisal: Plains Indian Doll, ca. 1880 (2m 16s)
Appraisal: Rockford Watch Co. Watch, ca. 1895
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 1m 18s | Appraisal: Rockford Watch Co. Watch, ca. 1895 (1m 18s)
Appraisal: Trippensee Planetarium, ca. 1910
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 12s | Appraisal: Trippensee Planetarium, ca. 1910 (2m 12s)
Appraisal: White Jade Pendant & Serpentine Frame
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 25s | Appraisal: White Jade Pendant & Serpentine Frame (2m 25s)
Appraisal: WWII Leather Blood Chit
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 45s | Appraisal: WWII Leather Blood Chit (45s)
Appraisal: 1976 Frank Sinatra-signed Letter
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 4m 2s | Appraisal: 1976 Frank Sinatra-signed Letter (4m 2s)
Appraisal: George Nakashima Walnut Trestle Table & Sketch
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 58s | Appraisal: George Nakashima Walnut Trestle Table & Sketch, ca. 1955 (2m 58s)
Appraisal: 1849 Prince Albert Presentation Horn
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Clip: S28 Ep21 | 2m 34s | Appraisal: 1849 Prince Albert Presentation Horn (2m 34s)
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