Incollect Magazine - Issue 3

David A. Schorsch EileenM. Smiles American Antiques 358 Main Street South, Woodbury, CT 06798 • 203.982.7574 contact@schorsch-smiles.com • www.schorsch-smiles.com Antiquarian Equities, Inc. ~ A RARE LANDSCAPE BY A FRAKTUR ARTIST : one of a handful of related watercolors by Johannes Bard (1797-1861) that were discovered in a book kept by the artist that descended in his daughter’s family.The fanciful doorway and distinctive coloring of the building in this work resembles his watercolor of a church in the Johnson collection, possibly “Kreutz Kirche” (Holy Cross Church) in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, which Bard attended as a young man, illustrated in Lisa Minardi, “Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the collection of Joan and Victor Johnson,” cat 175, pages 206, 214, 239.