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Page 30 The Antique Shoppe March, 2017
THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN Pop Up on Palm Avenue Comes to Sarasota
WITH AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND CIRCUS MEMORABILIA SARASOTA— Pop Up on Palm
- WBG Fine Art will transform the
Tarpon Springs– An exciting and extensive collection of American circus storefront located at 60 S. Palm Avenue in
paintings, posters and other circus collectibles dating from 1900-1950 will be downtown Sarasota into a pop-up gallery.
The inaugural exhibition “Four Centuries
featured in the Gallery of Anne of Art,” will explore the evolution of
Smith at ‘Court of Two Sisters’. painting and sculpture from the eighteenth
The unique Exhibition will run thru century, realism and impressionism of the
Sunday, March 19th. nineteenth century, modernism and abstract
Featured will be two paintings expressionism of the twentieth century, and
showing a circus parade by Roland finally, the pluralism of contemporary art.
Schweinsburg and a large portrait Highlights in the show include a
of three circus performers by watercolor “Lady with Sheep,” by Jacob
Gerrit Hondius. Other paintings van Strij (Dutch, 1766-1815) of a resting
and several vintage posters along shepherdess and her sheep. A related drawing
is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in
with toys, books, and ephemera Amsterdam. Van Strij paintings are also in
are also included in the exhibit. the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York. Twentieth century works related to the
Smith collected most of circus by Marcel Vertes capture the whimsy
these items over 30 years while of a show rider in full costume and plumed hat while Martin Cherney’s oil painting
living in upstate New York. She depicts a circus performer playing a musical instrument. Cherney exhibited at many
has collected and specialized in major American museums in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Whitney Museum of
exhibiting American paintings American Art and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. American and French
for the past 48 years in the Impressionism captured in the boulevards of Paris and the skyline of New York will also
Hudson River Valley, N.Y., New be featured in the “Four Centuries of Art” show.
This special “Pop-Up on Palm Avenue” exhibition will run until April 14. Gallery
York City and Baltimore, MD. owners and artists, Keith and Cordelia Oehmig, have owned and operated the Wiscasset
Court of Two Sisters in Tarpon Bay Gallery in Maine for 32 years. Although WBG Fine Art will only be open for two
Springs is located at 153 East months on Palm Avenue, the Oehmigs hope their debut in the Sarasota art world will lead
Tarpon Avenue. Open Monday to a more permanent gallery space in the future.
thru Saturday 10-5, Sunday 12- For further information, visit www.wbgmodern.com or call the gallery at (207) 751-
5. For more information call: 727-934-9255. 1193. WBG Fine Art is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm.

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