by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip
Mary Marguerite Porter Zwicker (Canadian, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1904–1993), view of Nova Scotia fishing shacks, watercolor over print on paper, signed “M. Zwicker” in block.
Under the harsh yoke of slavery one of the most powerful American folk traditions was born. From the dense cotton fields of the South rose up a mighty song. The Negro spiritual gave expression and hope to many a captive…
Appraisal Fair
Gas Lamp Antiques Mall will have their second Appraisal Fair on Saturday, August 7, 2010. The first Appraisal Fair, held May 1, was “very successful despite the rains and start of Nashville’s great flood,” according to Gas Lamp…
The owners of Finer Things Gallery, Kim Brooks and Rusty Wolfe, lost almost everything in the historic Nashville flood. Their home, studio, workshop, and outside sculpture garden were all destroyed. Several member galleries of the Nashville Association of Art Dealers…
06.29.2010 | ANTIQUES, EVENTS, JEWELRY, NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT
American Lithographed Tin Wind-Up Character
Toy “Charlie McCarthy,” Louis Marx Toy Company, Circa 1930s
Master of innuendo and snappy comebacks, wisecracking ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy was the creation of Edgar Bergen. Slow-witted Mortimer Snerd, man-hungry spinster Effie Klinker, and Charlie…
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Imagine a scene so foreign it seems out of a fairy tale. A woman is the center of all attentions in a fashion atelier. The room teams with life: the snip of…
06.3.2010 | ANTIQUES, NEWS, VIDEO, VISUAL ART
Polynesian Adze Handle
Cook Islands, Mangaia, third quarter 19th century, length 24 inches.
One of the aspects of dealing with “things” is the wonderment of how they get from point A to point B. Case in point, this Polynesian Island…
If you love spending a weekend afternoon viewing beautiful art that you can also take home, you won’t want to miss the wonderful variety of art and handcrafted works on display during the Temple Arts Festival (TAF) in Nashville the weekend of…
03.31.2010 | ANTIQUES, DRAWING, EVENTS, JEWELRY, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT, VISUAL ART
by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip
Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch.
Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s.
Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide.
This panel belt with matching pouch is…
For centuries in Europe patronage of the arts and appreciation for the artfully arranged garden were inextricably intertwined. Wealthy dilettantes enjoyed a stroll in a perfectly trimmed maze of geometric hedges or a seemingly wild tangle of delicate blooms…
Wasabi-Panko Crusted Ahi Tuna by Nancy Vienneau | photography by Peyton Hoge 9-10 oz ahi tuna steak flour egg wash Panko Bread Crumb Mixture Sesame Cucumber Salad Soy Dressing canola oil and olive oil A ruby plank of ahi tuna seared in crisp wasabi-scented crust, plated with Sesame Cucumber Salad makes a striking Zen-like pairing. Its meld of sweet and salt, spice and heat both [...]
