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RE: Auction on December 5th
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director@thomascole.org
Dear Graham,
What
an amazingly generous spirit you have! The world would be such a
beautiful place if everyone felt and acted the way that you are doing
now. I really don’t know what to say except, wow.
Thank
you for the letter template which I will certainly send (substituting
Thomas Cole Historic Site) to our collector friends. I have just the
right program in mind to benefit from the proceeds. Each year we take in
three or four college students to take part in our “Thomas Cole
Fellows” program. We give them free housing right here at the historic
site, as well as a stipend, and then they have the opportunity to become
part of our staff for 5 months. We put them through extensive training,
give them access to networking with other professionals in the field,
include them in our staff meetings and decision-making, give them career
counseling and resume-building, and supervise them as they give tours
to the public and perform valuable new research in art history. The
young people are so inspiring to us, and they have gone on to start
exciting careers in art history as museum professionals, history
professors, etc. Everybody wins. The funding that we receive through
your generous offer would go to this program, if you like the idea.
Betsy
From: graham arader [mailto:grahamarader@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:16 PM
To: Elizabeth Jacks
Subject: Re: Auction on December 5th
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:16 PM
To: Elizabeth Jacks
Subject: Re: Auction on December 5th
ps
To give you an idea of a "template" for a possible mailing to your maling list, please see below for what my friend Nigel Bowles has sent to his mailing list. He is the director of the Rothmere American Institute at Oxford University. My son is at Oxford and is a friend of his.
He writes as follows:
To give you an idea of a "template" for a possible mailing to your maling list, please see below for what my friend Nigel Bowles has sent to his mailing list. He is the director of the Rothmere American Institute at Oxford University. My son is at Oxford and is a friend of his.
He writes as follows:
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Dear Friends of the RAI,
As you might have seen in this month’s RAI Matters email, the Rothermere American Institute stands to be a major beneficiary of an extraordinary charity auction taking place on December 5, 2012 at Guernsey’s auction house at 1016 Madison Avenue, New York City. The auction is filled with significant Americana in the fields of American paintings, colour plates, books, maps, atlases, natural history watercolours, and globes.
The consignor to the sale, Graham Arader, is a good and valued friend of the RAI and one of the United States’s leading experts in early American cartography, natural history works, and rare books. He has generously offered to give to the Institute 10% of the hammer price in cash and 15% as a credit for acquisitions from him for any lots purchased in this sale where the buyer designates the RAI as the beneficiary. With some $20,000,000 of artwork in this sale, there is the potential for $5,000,000 in gifts to the RAI.
Most lots have no reserves so there is exceptional potential for buyers to find attractive items. All lots are on view at 1016 Madison Avenue in New York City.
The live auctioneers’ site can be found via the following link:
As you might have seen in this month’s RAI Matters email, the Rothermere American Institute stands to be a major beneficiary of an extraordinary charity auction taking place on December 5, 2012 at Guernsey’s auction house at 1016 Madison Avenue, New York City. The auction is filled with significant Americana in the fields of American paintings, colour plates, books, maps, atlases, natural history watercolours, and globes.
The consignor to the sale, Graham Arader, is a good and valued friend of the RAI and one of the United States’s leading experts in early American cartography, natural history works, and rare books. He has generously offered to give to the Institute 10% of the hammer price in cash and 15% as a credit for acquisitions from him for any lots purchased in this sale where the buyer designates the RAI as the beneficiary. With some $20,000,000 of artwork in this sale, there is the potential for $5,000,000 in gifts to the RAI.
Most lots have no reserves so there is exceptional potential for buyers to find attractive items. All lots are on view at 1016 Madison Avenue in New York City.
The live auctioneers’ site can be found via the following link:
http://www.liveauctioneers.
The catalogue of the sale can be found at http://www.aradernyc.com/
The catalogue of the sale can be found at http://www.aradernyc.com/
The
auction presents a tremendous opportunity both to acquire art and
artefacts of exceptional quality, and to support the Rothermere American
Institute.
With very best wishes
Dr Nigel Bowles
Dr Nigel Bowles
Director, Rothermere American Institute
1a South Parks Road
University of Oxford
Oxford, OX1 3UB
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Elizabeth Jacks <director@thomascole.org> wrote:
Dear Graham,
What
an extraordinary sale! Thank you for alerting me to it. I am going to
forward this information to several of my board members who I think will
be very interested in knowing about it. I would so like to get to the
city before the sale and it is extremely kind of you to offer a personal
tour. It doesn’t look like I can get there in time, however. I would
very much like a printed catalogue if you have an extra one on hand. I
would love to see some of the objects that are described in the notice
below. What has convinced you to part with them all? It must be hard to
see them go! How truly lovely that the sale will be supporting some good
causes. I hope that others will follow your excellent example here.
Betsy
Elizabeth B. Jacks
Director
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
218 Spring Street, PO Box 426
Catskill, NY 12414
(518) 943-7465
www.thomascole.org
Director
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
218 Spring Street, PO Box 426
Catskill, NY 12414
(518) 943-7465
www.thomascole.org
From: graham arader [mailto:grahamarader@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:31 PM
To: Elizabeth Jacks
Subject: Auction on December 5th
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:31 PM
To: Elizabeth Jacks
Subject: Auction on December 5th
Dear Elizabeth,
Hope
all is going well with you. Wanted to let you know about an auction at
Guernseys being held at my gallery at 1016 Madison Avenue on December
5th. Featured are more than 280 lots the include exceptional historical
maps, rare books, American and European oil Paintings, and natural
history engravings and watercolors incluidng over 80 lots of John James
Audubon's birds and mammals.
The exhibition is up and on view and I would love to give you a personal tour next time you are available in NYC.
There is also a printed catalog that I would be delighted to send you if you wish.
Here is the link to our .PDF catalog:
You can browse lot-by-lot through LiveAuctioneers at this link:
10%
of the hammer price for any lots purchased through you will be donated
to the charity of your choice or refunded to you. It's our way of
thanking you for participating while supporting the charities and
institutions that make this world a better place.
Below
is a description of the sale. Thank you very much for considering my
suggestion. Look forward to working with you in December.
Very truly yours,
Graham
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Historic
Maps, Rare Books, Natural History Watercolors & Color Plate Books,
New York-centric Art and American and European Oil Paintings all to be
featured in Guernsey's December 5th Auction.
Here is the link to the sale http://www.aradernyc.com/
On
December 5th, Guernsey's is honored to be conducting the sale of
hundreds of treasures acquired over the last four decades by noted
gallerist Graham Arader. Recognized internationally for his extraordinary collections, Mr. Arader is generously supporting several
fine universities by turning auction proceeds into meaningful donations. Prospective buyers should note that the majority of auction
lots will be sold either without minimum reserve or with reserves well below the amounts Mr. Arader purchased the items for over the years.
gallerist Graham Arader. Recognized internationally for his extraordinary collections, Mr. Arader is generously supporting several
fine universities by turning auction proceeds into meaningful donations. Prospective buyers should note that the majority of auction
lots will be sold either without minimum reserve or with reserves well below the amounts Mr. Arader purchased the items for over the years.
The
exhibition of the full catalog is now on view until Dec 5. The auction
will be held live at Arader's beautiful Beaux Arts flagship gallery on
New York City's Madison Avenue at 78th Street. Naturally, Guernsey's
will be accommodating those unable to attend by making absentee bidding
available via the Internet (liveauctioneers.com)
and telephone. A handsome auction catalogue (available from Guernsey's
or Arader) thoroughly depicts and documents the extraordinary offerings.
At
this sale 10% of the hammer price will go to the charity designated by
the buyer of each lot. This is Arader's way of showing respect for the
great museums and Libraries that preserve and teach using these cultural
icons.
Featured
categories include eighty two of John James Audubon's stunning copper
engravings of Birds and lithographs of Quadrupeds (Lots 1-82). Many of
the most sought after drawings, virtually all in uncut, pristine
condition will be sold. Arguably the finest selection of historic maps
and rare globes ever to come to auction will include the extremely rare
hand-colored woodcut map of the Atlantic Ocean by Martin Waldseemüller,
centerpiece of his groundbreaking 1513 atlas (Lot 140). The Natural
History Section of the auction (Lots 83-138) will contain sixty six lots
of beautiful watercolors and color plate books including a magnificent
collection of the books of John Gould, without question the most
prolific ornithological artist of the 19th century. Fifty nine lots will
be devoted to handsome watercolors and maps depicting early scenes of
New York City (Lots 191-250). Auction lots include a 19th century
landscape of Manhattan as seen from Hoboken (Lot 191), a wonderful Great
Gatsby-era birds-eye view of Long Island's then-developing Gold Coast
(Lot 230), and an extremely rare secret plan of the City created by a
British officer on the eve of the Revolution (Lot 227). Additionally,
there will be a fine offering of American and European paintings by such
noted artists as Thomas Hill (Lot 265) and George Henry Durrie (Lot
271).
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