Guyette & Deeter, Inc. August Auction
August 8 & 9, 2023 I Portsmouth, New Hampshire I The Venue at Portwalk Place
410-745-0485 • www.guyetteanddeeter.com

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — On August 8-9, Guyette and Deeter will conduct its annual summer auction at the Venue at Portwalk Place. The sale is headlined by the decoy collection of Russ and Karen Goldberger of Rye, N.H. As a respected author, consultant and dealer of decoys and folk art for nearly 50 years, Russ Goldberger has been instrumental in the formation of some of the finest collections in America. After refining their own collection for decades, the couple’s assemblage includes some of the rarest and most desirable forms known, including works by Elmer Crowell, Obediah Verity, the Ward Brothers, Gus Wilson and many others.

The two-day auction will also feature the fine art collection of Kenneth and Betty Lay of Toledo, Ohio. The collection includes important works by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Childe Hassam, John Frederick Peto and John George Brown. Kenneth and Betty Lay were lifetime appreciators of art and would be excited to know that their collection will be cherished by a new generation of collectors, who will recognize the works’ importance and help preserve them for future generations. Fine art consultant and essayist Mehves Lelic, was invaluable in assisting with the presentation of the Lay collection in the Guyette and Deeter catalog. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Bard College, and serves as curator of the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Md., where she has curated more than 20 exhibitions, including “Mary Cassatt: Labor and Leisure.”

Another important highlight of the sale, is the first public offering of a Henry Gudgell (1829-1895) walking stick. Found in 1982 at an Indianapolis antiques show and recognized as being by the same carver as the one in the Yale University Art Gallery collection, the Henry Gudgell walking stick represents a bridge between African and American folk art traditions and the maker’s life experience represents the maturing of a new nation, a bridge from old ways to new.

Also in the sale are decoys, trophy fish and folk art from long-time Chagrin Falls, Ohio, collector George Quay. For decades Quay scoured the globe for the largest trophy fish he could find, and some of the rarest and largest examples known to exist will be sold by Guyette and Deeter in this and upcoming auctions.

Once again, Guyette and Deeter will offer a selection of cigar store trade figures from the collection of Mark Goldman, as well as others. From Audubon, Bard and Gruppe to Bernier the Lumberman, Edgar Tolson and Elijah Pierce, the sale offers something for all lovers of American art, decoys and folk art.

The Venue at Portwalk Place is at 22 Portwalk Place. There will be a preview party on Monday, August 7, from 4 to 7 pm. The auction will start at 10 am Eastern on both August 8 and 9.

For information, 410-745-0485 or www.guyetteanddeeter.com.

Cigar Store Trade Figures from the Mark Goldman Collection
A third-generation wholesale and retail tobacconist, Mark Goldman began collecting the figures of that trade in 1967. From carved Native American chiefs and maidens, Scottish highland lasses, and Punch figures, to cast zinc and iron counter top displays, Goldman’s collection of 100+ tobacco trade figures is the largest assembled anywhere in the world. Purchased from private collections, folk art and Americana dealers, and major auction companies over the last half acentury, Goldman has lived with and been caretaker of these important pieces of Americana in his downtown Manhattan loft. Many articles have been written about the collection over the last few decades and at least five figures from the Goldman collection were included in the 1997-1998 traveling exhibition produced by the Museum of American Folk Art. Cigar store figures from the Goldman collection featured in the August 8 & 9 auction. 410-745-0485 • www.guyetteanddeeter.com • 1210 S Talbot St, Unit A • St. Michaels, MD 21663 Jon Deeter• 440-610-1768 • jdeeter@guyetteanddeeter.com I Zac Cote • 207-321-8091 • zcote@guyetteanddeeter.com

The Kenneth and Betty Lay Collection of American Art
Every family collection tells a story. The Lay Family Collection consists of an admirable group of works by some of the most renowned American artists. Betty and Kenneth Lay, from Toledo, Ohio, collected with dedication and commitment, and demonstrated true stewardship -starting with an early interest in Edmund Osthaus in the 70s, they grew their collection to include great examples of Impressionism, including works by Mary Cassat, and Realism, as well as significant works from historically important art schools, among them the Hudson River School and the American pre-Raphaelite movement.
Winslow Homer, 20.5″ x 15″ $300,000 -$500,000
Mary Cassatt, 18″ x 15″ $400 ,000 -$600,000
Edmund Osthaus, 30″ x 34″ $20,000 -$30,000
Kenneth and Betty Lay were lifetime appreciators of art and would be excited to know that their collection will be cherished by a new generation of collectors, who will recognize the works’ importance and help preserve them.

George Bellows, 16.5″ x 24″ $120,000 -$180,000
John Frederick Peto, 6″ x 8. 75″ $15,000 -$25,000
John George Brown, 18.25″ X 14.25″ $30,000 -$40,000
Winslow Homer, 19.5″ x 25.5″ $40,000 -$60,000
Chi/de Hassam, 6.25″ x 9″ $15,000 -$25,000
Charles Burchfield, 11″ x I 7″ $10,000 -$15,000

An opportunity to aquire one of the most important African to American transitional art pieces offered for sale
The Henry Gudgell Walking Stick
Guyette & Deeter is excited to offer collectors aonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity to collectoneof the two surviving walking sticks by regarded American craftsman, silversmith, coppersmith, blacksmith, and wheelwright, Henry Gudgell ( 1829-1895). The other walking stick made by Gudgell is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Henry Gudgell was born into slavery in Anderson County, Kentucky in 1829 and died afree landowner in Livingston County, Missouri in 1895. His work significantly demonstrates the transition of artistic traditions from Africa to America. Like the cane in the Yale University Art Gallery collection, theuseof ebonized wood and the patterned relief carvings of reptile and human figures onthis walking stick present strong ties to Central African iconography and wood carving traditions, presumably learned from African born slaves in Gudgell’s community. Later walking sticks by different carvershave been found in Missouri carrying similar design elements, showing the influence of African traditions on early American folk art. The walking stick has been authenticated and covered extensively in academic articles, including those by art historian and curator Regenia A. Perry and curator Ramona Austin.
The object is accompanied by extensive documentation, including a photograph of Henry Gudgell’s great­ granddaughter holding the walking stick, a copy of the deed to the 22-acre land Gudgell purchased in 1870, and other important information onhis life history. The story of this walking stick canbe found in An Odyssey: Finding the Other Henry Gudgell Walking Stick in Folk Art, Fall 2008, American Folk Art Museum, available online.

Featuring the Russ and Karen Goldberger collection
As collectors and dealers of quality decoys and folk art for nearly 50 years, Russ and Karen Goldberger assembled an excellent collection of rare and important examples from around the country.
Outstanding black bellied plover, Elmer Crowell, East Harwich, Massachusetts, 1st quarter 20th century. {$150,000 -$250,000)
Exceedingly rare feeding dowitcher, Obediah Verity, Seaford, Long Island, New York, fast quarter 19th century. ($120,000 -$180,000)
Calling and swimming, wing-up black ducks, Gus Wilson, South Portland, Maine, 1st quarter 20th century. {$80,000 -$120,000)
Exceptional selection of miniature penguins, Charles Hart, Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1930. ($8,000 -$12,000 each)
Important heron decoy. Ex-Mackey collection.
Monumental spread wing eagle by Joseph “The Lumberman” Bernier. 61 ” wingspan
39″ long full body steel Full size rooster
steer weathervane carving. Stands 27.5″ tall