AFA Summer 2021

2021 Antiques & Fine Art 67 Fig. 7: American Character Beauty. Clipping from New Yorker September 1941 featuring one of the any portraits by William M. Prior acquired by the gallery. Downtown Gallery records 1824–1974, bulk 1926–1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Reel 5558, frame 882-883. Purchased: Cambridge, Massachusetts 11/39 EGH NYC. Sold: Edson 4/12/41. “Used as advertisement in ‘class’ magazines by Shulton, Inc. / with whom Miss Edson is associated. This advertisement appeared in the NEW YORKER, Sept. 1941 (from which this was clipped).” Fig. 5a: Downtown Folk Art Gallery label for Fig. 5. National Gallery of Art; image courtesy of Fenimore Art Museum. Fig. 6: “Portraits of the Eddy Twins by Joseph Stock,” The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, Springfield, Mass., January 3, 1932, page 6E. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Reel 5642, frame 1029.