58th annual Winter Antiques Show
The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 58th year as America’s most distinguished antiques show, featuring exceptional objects exhibited by 75 specialists in American, English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts from antiquity through the 1960s, all vetted for authenticity. U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management will again sponsor the Opening Night Party. All net proceeds from the Show benefit East Side House Settlement and contribute substantially to its work in the South Bronx. The 2012 loan exhibition, Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller Patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country, marks the 60th anniversary of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s founding of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, now Historic Hudson Valley. The exhibition showcases fine and decorative art from Phillipsburg Manor, Van Cortlandt Manor, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, Montgomery Place, and the Union Church of Pocantico Hills. For the sixteenth year, the loan exhibition is sponsored by Chubb Personal Insurance. Show hours are 12 p.m.-8 p.m. daily except Sundays and Thursdays, 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Daily admission to the Show is $20, which includes the Show’s award-winning catalogue. To purchase tickets for the Opening Night Party or Young Collectors Night call (718) 292-7392 or visit the Show’s website at www.winterantiquesshow.com. IMAGE: John Wesley Jarvis (1721-1814), Washington Irving (1783-1859), New York, 1809, Oil on wooden panel
