Bearsville Theater
Woodstock Fine Art Auction to benefit the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum
Noon-1pm Picture Frame Liquidation 100+ Hand-crafted Showroon Smaoples from DIego Salazar, NYC
2pm Fine Art Auction - 200+ Paintings, Sculpture, Fine Prints, Erc
Explaining plans to move the annual Woodstock Artists Association and Museum's Labor Day Auction to the Bearsville Theater, event planner James Cox recalled that two years ago the popular event attracted a standing room only crowd. "Last year you could barely get in the doors of the venerable WAAM" Cox observed. "I promised the crowd that we would find larger quarters for the next sale, and we have." On August 31st the benefit will be held at the Bearsville Theater (just two miles away from the WAAM). "The new venue will provide ample parking and sumptuous comforts," Cox said. A partial list of featured artists appears below.
The streamside facility is located in a Woodstock complex famous for fine eateries, live entertainment and historic recording studios. "It should prove to be a perfect location for this auction which has become our biggest fundraiser," enthused Josephine Bloodgood, Executive Director of the WAAM. Other additions to the largely no-reserve auction include a one-hour pre-sale mini auction devoted exclusively to an extensive private collection of fine, craftsman made picture frames. The collection of finely crafted hand carved and water gilded frames is being consigned by Long Island City collector and frame maker Diego Salazar. "I am increasingly devoting my efforts to collecting and restoring high end antique picture frames," Salazar explained. "For nearly two decades I have attended frame auctions in New York, London and Paris as well as buying privately. Our inventory has reached a point where I need to sell off many of my second tier frames. I think this auction is a perfect venue to connect with dealers, collectors and artists who have an interest in fine frames."
New offerings also include a Week II (online only) eBay Live sale of fine prints, works on paper and affordable art for the frugal connoisseur. This online auction will be held one week after the Labor Day weekend sale. Woodstock, which has been a lively center of the arts for more than a century, has turned out to be a treasure trove of consignments, according to Cox. "We are offering artwork that is totally fresh to the market and includes a stunning variety, much of it acquired 50 years ago or more''. He further explained that many artists collected through trading or receiving gifts of fine art created by friends. "In the period between the wars Woodstock painters circulated between Ogunquit, Taos, Key West, Colorado Springs and other centers of creativity...to escape the Catskill winters, to teach or to just cavort with other bohemians. They collected art during these travels and now their descendents are selling." Cox noted. There is a fine example of Nantucket Harbor by Frank Swift Chase who lived in Woodstock and operated a school of painting on the island during the 1920's and 30's. Doris Lee, who moved between Woodstock and Key West is represented by whimsical paintings of both locales. Marion Greenwood traveled to Haiti and also befriended Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros in Mexico. Greenwood paintings from both locals are represented in the sale.
Partial list of artists: March Avery, Will Barnet, Robert Beauchamp, Cecil C. Bell, Ludwig Bemelmans, Auriel Bessemer, Allen Blagden, Lucile Blanch, Oscar F. Bluemner, Ilya Bolotowsky, George de Forest Brush, Claude Buck, Paul Burlin, Petra Mearns Cabot, Jo Cantine, Samuel S. Carr, James Chapin, Frank Swift Chase, Eduardo Chavez, Tricia Cline, Allen Cochran, John Costigan, Florence Cramer, Konrad Cramer, Jose De Creeft, Julio de Diego, Adolf Dehn, Pele deLappe, Peggy Dodds, James Dougherty, Olin Dows, Ralph Fasanella, John Fenton, Ernest Fiene, Josef Foschko, Emil Ganso, Xavier Gonzalez, Harry Gottlieb, Marion Greenwood, William Gropper, Philip Guston, Bernard Gutman, Robert Henri, John Hare, John Hultberg, Wolf Kahn, Louise Kamp, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Sidney Laufman, Doris Lee, Hayley Lever, Ward Lockwood, Nicholas Luisi, Ethel Magafan, Reginald Marsh, Fletcher Martin, Austin Mecklem, Marc Moon, Elie Nadelman, BJO Nordfeld, Tosca Olinsky, Marguerite Pearson, Lilla Cabot Perry, Robert Phillipp, Joseph Pollet, Harold Rabinowitz, Charles Rosen, Andree Ruellan, Rolph Scarlett, Andrew T. Schwartz, David Siqueiros, Sigurd Skou, John Sloan, Jehudith Sobel, Miron Sokole, Eugene Speicher, Zulma Steele, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Walters, and more!
WAAM Board Chairman Lee Sider noted, "Each year I am amazed by the quality of the work and the cultivated eye of the collectors. I think this year we will break all records." For more information call the WAAM at 845 679 2940 or the James Cox Gallery at
845 679 7608 Online catalog soon available.
291 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY - (845) 679-4406