Winter 2016

Winter 54 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Highlights The New Fielding Wing at the Huntington The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, Calif. For more information call 626-405-2100 or visit www.huntington.org Just opened, the new American wing at the Huntington is named for the lead donors to the $10.3 million building project. The Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing is an 8,600-square-foot addition to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. The wing includes 5,000 square feet of gallery space, with an inaugural exhibition of more than 200 examples from the Fielding’s collection of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century American works. The exhibition, Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection , include paintings, furniture, and related decorative art—some of which are promised gifts to the Huntington. Designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, the new Fielding Wing features eight new rooms for art display as well as a stately glass entrance and lobby on the south side of the building that mirrors those on the north side. With more than 700 examples of American painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, metal, needlework, and related decorative arts, the Fieldings’ collection is widely regarded as one of the most significant of its kind in the United States. “We hope the new gallery will give visitors the pleasure of seeing and learning about this intuitive, inventive art, the product of an optimistic and earnest young America,” say Jonathan and Karin Fielding. Important Jewelry, Timepieces & Vertu Rago Arts & Auction Center, 333 North Main Street, Lambertville, NJ Sunday, December 4, 2016; Catalog online November 11, 2016 at ragoarts.com Exhibition begins November 26, 2016 Rago’s principal jewelry sale of the year showcases important gemstones, fine and period jewelry, timepieces, vertu, luxury goods, unmounted gemstones and antiquities, that satisfy both classic and modern tastes with offerings from antique to contemporary, including signed pieces from such great houses as Tiffany & Co., Buccellati, Bulgari, Harry Winston, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and David Webb. Important Belle Époque pear-shaped diamond. An old pear cut diamond, weight 28.67 cts. GIA clarity and color reports I, vvs1, supported by a delicate platinum wire basket with a round brilliant cut diamond accent, suspends from paperclip link chain. Unmarked. 19", drops 1". 6.9 dwt. In original fitted case. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Joseph Proctor (attributed, active, 1860), Still Life with a Basket of Fruit, Flowers and Cornucopia, 19th century. Oil on canvas, 46 x 48 x 1½ in. Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Ellis, A. Portrait of Albert G. Gilman, 1831. Oil on bass- wood panel. Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.