Philadelphia Antiques Show 2016_

✷ 140 ✷ FROM THE COLLECTION OF… FROM THE COLLECTION OF… ELLIOTT & GRACE SNYDER ELLIOTT & GRACE SNYDER ANTIQUES, SOUTH EGREMONT, MA irty-two years ago, while Elliott was away in Pennsylvania doing a show, I was home alone, lea ng through the Newtown Bee. ere was a picture of this fantastic, utterly charming hooked rug about to come up for auction. It was the dead of winter, I was about nine months pregnant, and only had an unheated, uninsulated cargo van at my disposal—but I was determined to purchase this rug. I arrived at the sale after a long drive on snowy roads. After a bit of a battle, I prevailed and bought the rug. Obviously, Elliott loved it too and it has hung over our son’s bed ever since, even though Zack hasn’t lived at home for years! VICTORIAMANNING SOMERVILLEMANNING GALLERY, GREENVILLE, DE Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) Martin Castle, 1989 Mixed media 29½" x 21½" Jamie Wyeth collects Martin bird houses and frequently used them as subjects during the late 1980s and 1990s. A friend gave Jamie this antique, authentic French Art Nouveau Martin house as a gift and he created several paintings of it in mixed media, a new medium for him at the time. Now Wyeth uses this combined media exclusively, consisting of watercolor pigment and varnish on paper, replacing his prior watercolor on paper. Jamie told me he was particularly fond of this Martin house because of the detail and unusual style, thus he painted it frequently. I chose this example from his birdhouse collection for the beautiful colors and the composition of the house, birds, and green landscape background. One can feel his excitement and creativity in the painting as the sense of history in the birdhouse and the new medium inspired him.