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OLD IVORY, OHME PORCELAINS SOCIETY WILL CONVENE APRIL 12â14 IN TEXAS
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NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS â The Society for Old Ivory and Ohme Porcelains has announced plans for its 12th annual convention, Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, at the Fredonia Hotel.
This annual meeting is held each year for collectors and admirers of this porcelain made by the Ohme Porcelain Works in Silesia from 1881 to 1928. Past meetings have been held in Kansas City, Mo.; Dayton, Ohio; Baton Rouge, La.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Portland, Ore; Boston; Lincoln, Neb.; Archbold, Ohio; St Charles, Ill.; and Rochester, Minn.
Many programs have been scheduled as well as both a silent auction and an live auction of Ohme porcelains. On the final night a banquet will be held at the hotel for all convention attendees.
In April 2008 the meeting will be in Bangor, Maine; in April 2009 in Baton Rouge, La.; and in 2010 in Spokane, Wash.
Officers of this group are Gary Hamlin, Spring Valley, Minn., president; Robert Herb, Hillsboro, Ore., vice president; and Patsy Fitzwater-Wiemken of Milwaukie, Ore., and Ridgeville Corners, Ohio, secretary-treasurer.
Directors are Linda Christensen, Kansas City, Mo.; Jenna Kuttruff, Baton Rouge, La.; Clair Fisher, Tonasket, Wash.; Rhonda Lambes, Hinckley, Ill.; and Don Reily, Lufkin, Texas. Jeff Gerbracht, Brooktondale, N.Y., is the webmaster; Dianne Buck of Lincoln, Maine, serves as the historian, and Carl and Jenna Kuttruff of Baton Rouge are the newsletter editors.
For information, www.soiop.org or write SO/OP, 1650 SE River Ridge Drive, Milwaukie OR 97222. All interested parties are invited to attend this meeting. Nancy and Don Reily of Lufkin, Texas, are the general chairmen of the convention.
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AUTHORS OF PLANNED AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY PUBLICATION SEEK SUBMISSIONS OF WORK
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BOSTON, MASS. â Stephen B. OâBrien Jr Fine Arts, LLC is planning to publish the most comprehensive book to date on sporting artist Aiden Lassell Ripley (American, 1896â1969) and is seeking submissions. The book, which will be released in conjunction with the Aiden Lassell Ripley exhibition scheduled at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Mass., in August 2008, will showcase the painterâs large body of work in a hardbound volume comprising more than 160 pages and with more than 125 color illustrations.
Ripley is perhaps best known for his skill at capturing outdoor sporting scenes. He spent much of his career traveling to plantations to paint commissioned shooting scenes. Vanderbilt, Mellon, Marshall Field and Carnegie are among the prestigious names of families who commissioned Ripleyâs work.
In this new survey of Ripleyâs oeuvre, the authors will include watercolors, oils, drawings, magazine covers, portraits, commissions and public murals. Subject matter will cover not just the sporting paintings, but the artistâs wide range of talents â from early impressionistic landscapes of Europe and New England to later realist works depicting the outdoor life in places from the Deep South to Cape Cod.
The publication will cast this important but often overlooked artist in a new light. Known today for his realist sporting scenes of the 1940s and 1950s, Ripley was a highly trained early Impressionist who followed the strictures of the Boston School. His looser works of the 1920s and 1930s are comparable to the work of the top-ranked Boston School Impressionist Frank W. Benson, with whom he studied.
The book will be the first major publication on Ripley since The Guild of Boston Artists put out Aiden Lassell Ripley: Paintings in 1972. Sporting art specialist Stephen OâBrien Jr and art historian Julie Carlson are co-authoring the work after years of primary research.
OâBrien is seeking quality submissions for inclusion in the book. These can be submitted for consideration to: bea@americansportingart.com or Stephen OâBrien Fine Arts, 268 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116.
Submissions should include all possible information about the works, including subject matter, medium, dimensions, signature and provenance.
For information, 617-536-0536.