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Specializing in Stickley, Limbert, Roycroft, van Erp, Grueby, Newcomb, Rookwood,Handel lamps, plein air paintings, woodblocks, and more; fine examples of the American Arts and Crafts movement 1896-1916.


NORMAL SHOP HOURS :  SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS
11 TO 5 AND BY APPOINTMENT.                                                                                     

                                           


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   I'm taking a break from shop sitting starting January 1st. The shop will
be open through Sunday, December 29th and then it's "time out" for three months. The shop will re-open Saturday, April 4th. Happy Holidays all!  

                                          See you again this Spring!
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                               Featured Inventory

                                              Rare Sophie Newcomb College linen

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A Newcomb College Silk on Linen Crash Embroidered Wall Hanging, early 20th c., depicting a full moon behind a branch with Magnolia blossoms, length 35 in. width 16 in. Excellent original condition. $12,000

Another view of the wall hanging in bright light against a dark background which captures its artistry and the luminous nature of its many interwoven colors .

     Newcomb textiles are exceedingly rare. This one, by descent in the family, comes directly from the artist's granddaughter. What follows is her recollection of its maker and the linen's history:

      Edith B. H. was born in 1903, in New Orleans. She lived on Constance Street.
She was my maternal grandmother.

      Edith attended and graduated Sophie Newcomb College, and decorated pottery which was
sold in the shop.

      Students were required to develop an original embroidery stitch. The embroidered hangin represented her stitch style. She told me that the silk threads were from China, and that the dyes or formulas for the colors of the threads "were lost", and no longer available after World War I.

      Sadie Irvine was my grandmother's teacher and also her life-long friend.
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      My grandmother gave me the hanging for my thirteenth birthday.

The wall hanging is complete, with no tears or missing threads. It needs to be pressed as it has been rolled up for quite a good number of years. That will be left to its next owner! Fortunately, being rolled up has protected it . There are perhaps fifteen colors of thread employed here and a variety of stitching styles as well.

Enigmatic, this New Orleans moon.

This close up communicates best both the subtle choices of many colors as well as the techniques and excellence of the hanging's remarkably original condition.

  Here follow two anecdotes about Mrs. B. her granddaughter shared with me. She has given me permission to share them with the public now as well: 

   My grandmother, known as Dee Dee, applied for scholarships to defray tuition costs for Newcomb but evidently did not inform her parents. She applied to the Daughters of the Confederacy under her maternal grandfather, Charles Barnes. She was denied and simultaneously discovered "the family secret": Charles Barnes had been a drummer boy for the Union Army.

   After graduating Newcomb, Dee Dee took a brief librarian position in Texas, leaving her belongings at the family home in New Orleans, including many pieces of her decorated pottery. She returned to find that her mother cleaned house, and sold everything, from family antiques to my grandmother's possessions, to a junk man for twenty dollars.
                         
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   My grandmother was childhood friends with Carl Weiss. His father was a family friend, and also a surgeon. The elder Dr. Weiss operated on my grandmother when she was three, saving her life. Carl went to the office of Huey Long and confronted him with a gun. Huey Long was shot, and history says that Carl Weiss shot him. My grandmother said Huey Long's guards were the ones who actually fired. Someone in my family has my grandmother's photo books from high school, with photos of Carl Weiss as well as the very handsome Maria Gonzalez....


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The Dirk van Erp Exhibition

​THE DIRK VAN ERP EXHIBITION IN HOLLAND ENDED OCTOBER 28TH. YOU CAN SEE INFORMATION ABOUT IT IN THE ESSAY SECTION ON THIS SITE. IT WAS SPECIAL!

The founding brick in the lightwell of the old shop on Neuwestaad.

Outside the old shop when van Erp was still apprenticing there.

A stroll along this Leeuwarden canal leads one toward the historic location of the Van Erp shop.

Isak Lindenauer                                                                               
4143 19th Street                                                     
San Francisco, California                                         
94114   
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