Philadelphia Antiques Show 2016_

✷ 116 ✷ FROM THE COLLECTION OF… FROM THE COLLECTION OF… DIANA BITTEL DIANA H. BITTEL, BRYNMAWR, PA At sixteen, with a new drivers license, I was sent to Pennypacker’s Monday Auction outside Reading, Pennsylvania, to try and purchase a table for my father who was at work. I was terri ed to not only drive that far but to raise my hand. I agreed to go if I could bid on this cow painting too. I raised my hand at my limit of $600 and practically passed out. Mr. Pennypacker stopped the auction and asked if anyone was going to bid against this child who had saved her money—all hands went down and the cow was mine! Somehow, I also bought the table. is experience was exciting, terrifying and unbelievably fun (particularly with someone else’s money). is is the piece I will not sell—I loved it then and I treasure it even more now because it represents the very beginning of my journey with antiques and the encouragement I was given by a father who was totally passionate about collecting. RICHARD ROSSELLO AVERY GALLERIES, BRYNMAWR, PA Elizabeth Sparhawk Jones was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and granddaughter of a mayor of Philadelphia. By the age of twenty she had already received rave reviews in the national press—no mean feat for a woman artist at the turn of the century! Her paintings have the bravura brushwork of William Merritt Chase, one of her teachers, and the urban grit of George Bellows. Her works are extremely rare because she stopped painting in 1913 due to a prolonged illness. When she resumed painting in the early 1920s, her style changed dramatically toward modernism. Since there are so few works available there are no reliable auction records, making their value di cult to appraise. I can only say that I can’t imagine parting with this masterwork of American Impressionism at any price.