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Artwork for sale Mayoral QuestionnaireA Brief History

In the mid-nineteenth century, an influential New Yorker named Henry Bergh was so appalled by the mistreatment that animals were subjected to, he founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("ASPCA"). Being a gentleman of influence, Mr. Bergh was able to finesse from the State Legislature a unique charter that legalized the protection of animals and gave the society the unheard of power to enforce the new anti-cruelty law and prosecute its violators. [Resource: "Angel in Top Hat," Zulma Steele; 1942, Harper & Brothers, New York]

Zulma Steele Portrait of A Girl

Signed "Zulma Steele"
28" X 25" oil on canvas
influenced by The Armory Show of 1913
which she attended
price: $20,000
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Zulma Steele studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Boston Museum School, and the Pratt Institute where she met the influential teacher and theoretician Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow encouraged Steele and her colleague, Edna Walker, to join the Byrdcliffe colony where the two women designed floral decorations for furniture. She took painting classes with Birge Harrison who taught at Byrdcliffe and later at the Art Students’ League summer school in Woodstock. She was a member of the National Arts Club where she exhibited with such Modernist artists as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Abraham Walkowitz, and Marguerite and William Zorach. In the early 1920s Steele went to France and studied with Cubist André Lhote. She married Neilson Parker in 1926 and until 1967 she worked in the studios of the large stone house they built near Woodstock. Steele is now the most revered of the Byrdcliffe designers SOLD

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Zulma Steele Odalisque

Painted in France where she Studied with DHote and visited with Matisse.
The "settle" upon which she resides was designed and manufactured at
Woodstock and was recently sold at Sotherby's.
Two pieces of furniture designed and made by Dawson Dawson-Watson failed to sell. The unique "Tirol" settle, circa 1904, designed by Dawson-Watson and branded "Byrdcliffe 1904" with the colony’s lily cipher, was offered along with working drawings and estimated at $100,000/150,000. A "Tirol" library table based on northern Italian Gothic designs also came with working drawings and was estimated at $80,000/120,000. Neither was fresh to the market. According to the trade, within the last 18 months the table had been bought in at Sotheby’s and the settle has been offered on Edwards’s Web site.
Price: $50,000

Mayoral QuestionnaireA Brief History

In the mid-nineteenth century, an influential New Yorker named Henry Bergh was so appalled by the mistreatment that animals were subjected to, he founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("ASPCA"). Being a gentleman of influence, Mr. Bergh was able to finesse from the State Legislature a unique charter that legalized the protection of animals and gave the society the unheard of power to enforce the new anti-cruelty law and prosecute its violators. [Resource: "Angel in Top Hat," Zulma Steele; 1942, Harper & Brothers, New York]

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John F Folinsbee Woodstock 1912

Painted at Woodstock in 1912.This is one of earliest if not the earliest paintings
of John Folinsbee Signed and dated 1912 oil on board 8"X 10"

John Folinsbee, High River, n.d., oil, 24x30, courtesy of The Newman Galleries It [the Woodstock School] was training that supplied energy, credibility, and mood to his work at ever stage of his career. -Peter Cook, John Folinsbee, 1994

Inspired by a copy of Birge Harrison's Landscape Painting, given to him by then-girlfriend Ruth, Folinsbee enrolled in 1912 at the Art Students League Summer School at Woodstock, New York. Harrison directed the school, and taught there, emphasizing a tonalist approach. He dictated to students, "Get the value right and the color will take care of itself." From Harrison's teaching, as well as that of John Carlson, Folinsbee learned to construct paintings with a solid and dynamic structure, based on the use of light and dark. At Woodstock, Folinsbee met Scotsman Harry Leith-Ross, with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. As part of weekly critiques of students' work, instructors awarded the best work a place of honor. By the end of the summer, Folinsbee and Leith-Ross tied for the highest number of those awards, but Folinsbee won the overall first prize (earning him $25) at the final Summer Concours.
Woodstock Period
During the summers of 1912 and 1913, Folinsbee studied with L. Birge Harrison and John Carlson at the Art Students' League summer school in Woodstock, New York. From his teachers, Folinsbee acquired a sense of light and atmosphere that grew directly from the traditions of French Naturalist and Barbizon painting.
John Fulton Folinsbee Folinsbee at Woodstock

John Folinsbee, High River, n.d., oil, 24x30, courtesy of The Newman Galleries It [the Woodstock School] was training that supplied energy, credibility, and mood to his work at ever stage of his career. -Peter Cook, John Folinsbee, 1994

Inspired by a copy of Birge Harrison's Landscape Painting, given to him by then-girlfriend Ruth, Folinsbee enrolled in 1912 at the Art Students League Summer School at Woodstock, New York. Harrison directed the school, and taught there, emphasizing a tonalist approach. He dictated to students, "Get the value right and the color will take care of itself." From Harrison's teaching, as well as that of John Carlson, Folinsbee learned to construct paintings with a solid and dynamic structure, based on the use of light and dark. At Woodstock, Folinsbee met Scotsman Harry Leith-Ross, with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. As part of weekly critiques of students' work, instructors awarded the best work a place of honor. By the end of the summer, Folinsbee and Leith-Ross tied for the highest number of those awards, but Folinsbee won the overall first prize (earning him $25) at the final Summer Concours.
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