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Bonhams Skinner – American History In Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection
Sun Feb 12, 2023 - Wed Feb 22, 2023
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Bonhams Skinner – American History In Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection
February 12 – 22 | Online
www.skinner.bonhams.com
americana@bonhamsskinner.com
1 508-970-3200
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Bonhams Skinner will present a single-owner collection of wood works, American History in Wood: The Levine Folk Art Collection, February 12-22. Decades in the making, Bob and Anne Levine’s unique collection contains an impressively wide range of one-of-a-kind items all carved from wood with a particular focus on American political, military and entertainment figures.
Varied in terms of both age and the subjects depicted, many examples from the collection are contemporaries or near contemporaries of their subjects’ place in the long and complex history of the United States. Beginning with Leif Erikson’s arrival in Newfoundland and ending with the September 11th attack on New York’s World Trade Centre, the history of the United States is captured in the handiwork of those who built and continue to build it.
A highlight of the collection is a late Nineteenth Century architectural relief sculpture of US President George Washington emerging from a boat beside an allegorical figure of Lady Liberty or Columbia holding a spangled flag ($4/8,000). Additionally, the sale will feature a carved and painted life-sized bust of US Army General George S. Patton, an important military figure during World War II, by Armand LaMontagne (b 1939), estimated at $3/5,000.
Contemporary history is also represented with a carved relief depicting firemen raising the flag at Ground Zero in Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks, based on the iconic September 24, 2001 cover of Newsweek magazine, by Gil Russell (b 1948), estimated at $1/2,000.
Previews are February 20-22, at the Marlborough facility, 10 am to 4:30 pm, or by appointment. Bonhams Skinner is at 274 Cedar Hill Street. For more information, 508-970-3000 or www.skinner.bonhams.com.
Preview: Marlborough, MA – February 17, 21 & 22
ARCHITECTURAL RELIEF
SCULPTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON UNITED STATES, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Contact Us:
+1 (508) 970 3200 americana@bonhamsskinner.com
www.skinner.bonhams.com
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