Duwamps Fine Art & Antique Appraisals

07/25/2021

OBJECT IN FOCUS || William (Wilhelm) Frederick (German-American, 1864–1949), "Grand Marina, Capri," oil on board. Measures 16" x 20."

(Image Source: Bonhams, California Art Auction, April 20, 2021, Lot 110 (Los Angeles, California).)

07/21/2021

OBJECT IN FOCUS || hand-carved (a shale-like black stone) sculpture of a standing Haida chief or clan leader, ca. 1890. The figure is wearing a woven spruce root basketry hat topped with two "skils," or hat rings, and grasps in his hands a "copper," a shield-like object made of hammered copper sheet engraved with the face of a bear - both symbols of high status in Haida culture. Measures 11 x 3.5 x 2.75 in.

Image Source: First Arts Premiere, Inc., Inuit & First Nations Art Auction, July 13, 2021, Lot 16 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Sold for $20,397 USD (excluding Buyer's Premium).

07/11/2021

Diego Rivera’s massive 1940 mural "Pan American Unity" is a kind of “metaphorical bridge between the Mexican culture and the tech culture of the United States.” Seldom visited in its former home at the City College of San Francisco, the mural underwent a four-year, multimillion dollar move to SFMOMA where it will be enjoyed by many. Here’s the story of its transport, including a front row seat for the installation via time lapse video:

Diego Rivera’s rarely seen “Pan American Unity,” which celebrates the Americas, has been carefully extracted from its home at City College and moved to SFMOMA.

03/13/2021

OBJECT IN FOCUS || ALONZO VICTOR LEWIS (b. 1886 Logan, Utah; d. 1946 Seattle, Washington), "He-Mene-Mox-Mox 'Yellow Wolf' - Nez Perce," oil painting on canvas, ca. 1910 - 20 (* ca. 1911 - 1915, while residing in Spokane, Washington *). | Promised gift of Lindsey and Carolyn Echelbarger, Cascadia Art Museum (Edmonds, Washington).

03/12/2021

OBJECT IN FOCUS || - - polychrome painted carved wooden crest hat, featuring the Teikweidi clan's crest animal, a brown bear, jumping through a copper shield, with abalone shell inlay and sea lion whisker enhancements, ca. 1860. Measures 13" x 19." Formerly in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American (02/9138), repatriated to the Central Council Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska and the Angoon Community Association in 2018.

READ MORE about the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's repatriation efforts to Tlingit communities (Anne Bolen, "Restoring Balance: A Two-Decade Effort Shepherds Dozens of Tlingit Objects Home", p. 8 - 17): https://content.yudu.com/web/442k4/0A1r2jl/W20/html/index.html?page=10&origin=reader

03/03/2021

OBJECT IN FOCUS || Grouping of hand-carved marine mammal ivory figurines, depicted in traditional Haida and European attire, ca. 1840. Measure 1-1/4" - 2" H.

Sold at Sotheby's, Royal & Noble Auction, January 14, 2021, Lot 113 (London, England) for 75,600 GBP ($103,489 USD).

03/02/2021

The long-missing Panel 28 from Jacob Lawrence’s series “Struggle: From the History of the American People,” titled "Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820-1840—115,773,” hung on a residential wall in Manhattan for two decades. It will join an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum later this week.

READ MORE about the discovery of the painting via The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/arts/design/jacob-lawrence-painting-resurfaces.html?fbclid=IwAR2iNaig7OgaHV1Bf5joSRM0-c2Pk2TvlWCgGRrkuIfRUgQIJ2FeiBB-V3Q

03/01/2021

Subscribe to Tacoma Art Museum's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/tacomaartmuseumEnjoy a virtual tour of Forgotten Stories: Northwest Public Art of the 193...

02/26/2021

Lee Krasner’s 1960 painting “Night Watch” will be acquired by the Seattle Art Museum, along with 18 other pieces from Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang’s collection of abstract expressionist postwar art.

Read more about the major gift on The Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/seattle-art-museum-gets-a-major-gift-a-prized-modern-art-collection-estimated-at-400-million/?fbclid=IwAR24Q9V7F7VLadH2AlnkNS4K7Dk8pH7JjeJLc8QzgUChmn8vobObNZiGjOQ

02/25/2021

Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually.

02/17/2021

A group of cerulean blue Venetian glass beads - of a variety known as “Early Blue” and “Ichtucknee Plain” - dating to the fifteenth century have been discovered at sites visited in the past by inland Inuit peoples in northwestern Alaska, representing what might be the first documented finding of European materials in the Western Hemisphere. The beads would have traveled some 10,500 miles via China’s Silk Road and across the Bering Strait.

The beads, located in three Indigenous sites in Alaska, date to the mid-to-late 15th century, prior to Columbus's landfall.