Date: Fri 21-Aug-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: LAURAB

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Two Newcomers Named To 1999 Winter Antiques Show

NEW YORK CITY -- It doesn't take long for news of the Winter Antiques Show to

circulate in the antiques trade, particularly with hundreds of dealers and

collectors congregating in New Hampshire as they did during the first week of

August.

It was at Northeast Auction's annual summer sale in Manchester on August 1-2

that New York City dealer Carswell Rush Berlin found himself being

congratulated for an achievement he was not yet in a position to confirm: his

recent appointment to the 1999 Winter Antiques Show.

Berlin, who had just returned from his wedding trip to England and France with

his bride, Lori Morrissey, can now happily say that both unions are fact. The

news of his Winter Antiques Show appointment was made public this week by

Catherine Sweeney.

The Winter Antiques Show's director says that 72 exhibitors will participate

in the premier American fair opening at New York's Seventh Regiment Armory on

January 14 and continuing through January 24.

"I've wanted to be in the Winter Antiques Show for years," said Berlin, a

specialist in American Federal and Classical furniture who had repeatedly

written to the show's organizers. "I don't care how big my booth is or where

it is, I'm just happy to be in the show." Berlin enjoyed outstanding sales at

the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show in October, where he

exhibited for the first time last year. He plans to return to the event

organized by Brian and Anna Haughton this fall.

Returning to the 1999 Winter Antiques Show after an absence of several years

is Peter Tillou. The Litchfield, Conn., dealer, who participated in East Side

for 27 years, has recently opened a New York City gallery. "He has branched

out in all sorts of different directions, from Cycladic pieces to Flemish

paintings," said Sweeney, who indicated that Tillou's Winter Show booth would

be similarly provocative. Tillou, traveling in the Southwest through August,

was not available for comment.

With attrition rates low, Sweeney and Winter Antiques Show chairman Arie L.

Kopelman have had few opportunities to add new exhibitors. Vacancies were

created by the resignation of Michael Goedhuis, an Asian art dealer who, in

addition to exhibiting at two of the Haughtons' New York fairs, is expanding

his inventory of contemporary Chinese painting. Another Asian art dealer from

London, A & J Speelman, Ltd, has also resigned from the show.

Following last year's tribute to Historic Deerfield, the Winter Antiques Show

is again celebrating American decorative arts with a loan show of objects from

the collections of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown.

The year is an auspicious one for NYSHA, which marks its one hundredth

birthday in 1999.

One other item that should not go unmentioned is the impending nuptials of

Sweeney, who will be married in New York on October 17. Appropriately, the art

historian has chosen two architectural marvels built for Vanderbilt

granddaughters for the festivities.

Congratulations and best wishes to all.