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Gallery News

The Well-Appointed Room: This highly successful auction at Doyle New York showcased items from our Gallery. See photos of the preview exhibition and items sold here.

Sphere of Influence: The Robb Report magazine, which focuses on luxury goods, features our Early American globe by James Wilson in the January 2010 issue.

The Adventurer: Out magazine selected our black ocean globe as a great gift for a personality they describe as "the Adventurer" in their Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010 issue.

Schoolhouse Decor: The interior designers who run the firm S. Russell Groves made a black ocean globe from the George Glazer Gallery part of the design scheme for their vacation home, featured in a photo layout in the New York Times on August 5, 2009. Read more here.

Hudson River School: The Gallery loaned a Fanny Palmer lithograph to Home on the Hudson, a 2009 summer special exhibition at Boscobel House and Gardens museum. The Palmer print was also reproduced in the accompanying catalog. Read more about the exhibition here.

Take a Stand: Need a stand to display a small art object or collectible? See our Custom Display Stands page.

New Items

Globes

  • Star Turn: Kelvin & Hughes Star Globe in wooden box, maritime navigation instrument, London: c. 1975 (Jan. 27)
  • French Art Deco: Floor globe by J. Forest, Paris: c. 1924-30s with Art Deco stand and colorful horizon band (Jan. 13)
  • That's Puzzling: Geographic Educator jigsaw puzzle globe, New York: Late 1920s (Oct. 20)

Maps, Celestials & Views

  • Aerial Central Park: Fine, rare, and important large panorama of the park by John Bachmann, c. 1875 (Feb. 2)
  • Fly to L.I.: Rare and unusual aluminum pictorial map of Long Island for pilots, 1937 (Jan. 7)
  • We'll Drink to That: Bootleggers Map of the U.S., humorous pictorial map satirizing Prohibition (Aug. 11)

Decorative Arts

  • Headlight?: Ceramic and metal skull candle holder, Japan, 20th C. (Oct. 28)
  • Skiographe: French 19th C. scientific instrument, possibly meant to plot the location of shadows (Sept. 23)
  • Hand Crafted by Crafts: Covered bridge relic wood gavel by Edward Crafts, boy scout, 1936 (Aug. 17)

Prints, Art & Books

    Landscapes
  • Fire and Ice: Soho winter street scene in 1857, featuring firemen rushing past sleighs and pedestrians (Nov. 3)
    Maritime
  • Water Fight: The Siege of La Rochelle, three 17th C. etchings by Jacques Callot form one large naval battle scene (Jan. 11)
  • Pierhead Paintings: Folk art paintings of steamships framed in lifesaver-shaped frames, British: 1923 (Jul. 2)
    Sporting
  • All Dunn: Pair of watercolors featuring polo players and riders by J.W. Dunn (Aug. 11)
    World History
  • Land Ho: Jacquard silk weaving of Columbus and crew sighting America for the first time, 19th C. (Oct. 16)
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