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Every once in a while, we get a really interesting curiosity out of Europe, a beautiful antique that is all new to us. This advertising sign was designed to mount to the roof of a French taxi. The three-dimensional chromed and...
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Several months ago we acquired Der zwölfjährige Jesus I’m Tempel (The 12-year-old Jesus in the Temple) by Ernst Zimmerman portraying a young Jesus among the elders of the temple in Jerusalem. The painting was originally hung at the 1879 Munich International...
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With paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian, Hermann Herzog (German-American, 1832-1932) was among the first artists to travel to the American West. Herzog trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. Before moving to the...
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In 1865, Brigham Young, Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Governor of the Utah Territories, invited the celebrated artist Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (American, 1831 – 1915) to Salt Lake City. There, Perry...
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In 1897, All Angels Church on 80th Street in New York City commissioned the largest Delft tile painting in the world. The 500-tile work was hand-painted by Leonardus Senf, designed by Adolf Le Comte, and manufactured in Delft Joost Thooft....
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