Stanley Museum Auction – Information for Bidders

METHODS OF BIDDING

THERE ARE FOUR METHODS FOR PLACING A BID

1.         Live participation at our Auction (Floor Bidder)

2.         Having Stanley Museum, Inc./Thomaston Place Auction Galleries personnel bid for you (Absentee Bidder).

3.         Bidding live via Internet through Invaluable (Internet Live Bidder)

4.         Leaving an absentee bid via the Internet through Invaluable.com (Internet Absentee Bidder)

FLOOR BIDDERS

As in the past, our Auction will be conducted under a tent behind the Stanley Museum, 40 School Street, Kingfield, ME.   We will have pre-ordered box lunches available for $9 – contact the Stanley Museum at 207-265-2729 or maine@stanleymuseum.org to order.  All bidders must register at Museum and provide a valid driver’s license or other means of identification.

 ABSENTEE BIDDERS

Absentee Bidders must fill out the ‘Registration & Absentee Bid Sheet’ and submit this form no later than noon on the day preceding the auction.

These forms are available from the following sources:

a.          Auction Catalog

b.         On line at www.stanleymuseum.org and at Invaluable

c.          At the Stanley Museum

d.         Stanley Museum will mail, FAX, or email forms upon request

e.          Via this link (below):

Stanley Museum Auction Registration & Absentee Bid Form

The following information must be provided in order for us to process your bid:

a.       Name

b.      Address

c.       Phone Number

d.      Email (Optional)

e.       Tax Resale # (if applicable)

f.       Credit Card Information*

g.      Signature and Date**

* If electronically filling, you must telephone the Stanley Museum and provide the credit card information.  Credit card information cannot be provided electronically.

** Not required if filling out electronically.

Once filled out, all forms must be mailed, faxed, or emailed to us and must be received no later than noon on the day preceding the auction.  Bid Forms received the day of the auction MAY NOT BE PROCESSED.

 INTERNET LIVE AND INTERNET ABSENTEE BIDDERS

To place bids at the auction via the internet, you must register and get approved to bid through Invaluable (www.invaluable.com).

Registration:  To register, follow the instructions provided by the online bidding service at Invaluable.

Stanley Museum Auction Catalog

The Stanley Museum’s Eighth Consignment Auction of Steam Cars, Parts, Literature & Memorabilia will be held Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 9:00 am in Kingfield, Maine. Follow the link below to view and download a copy of the official Auction Catalog:

Stanley Museum 8th Consignment Auction Catalog 2012

AUCTION! AUCTION! AUCTION!

THE STANLEY MUSEUM

EIGHTH CONSIGNMENT AUCTION OF STEAM CARS, PARTS, AND LITERATURE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012, 9:00 am

KINGFIELD, MAINE

Dust off all of your excess steam car parts and itemize your wish lists as we gather in Kingfield for the 2012 edition of the Stanley Museum’s Steam Car & Parts Consignment Auction! We have over 400 lots of vintage parts, photos and literature already consigned, with at least five fine steam cars lined up, and more on the way! The auction preview will be Friday, September 7, 2012. You can pre-register by contacting the Stanley Museum at 207-265-2729 or at maine@stanleymuseum.org. We are currently finalizing arrangements with our auctioneer regarding absentee and online bidding, and details will be available soon. We hope you can join us in Kingfield the weekend after Labor Day!

The Auction Preview will be Friday, September 7, 2012

The Auction will be Saturday, September 8, 2012, under the tent in Kingfield

Come Join Your Friends at Another Great Stanley Museum Auction!

Proceeds from the Stanley Museum Auction are vital to the support of the Museum and its programs. As always, we are grateful for your support! THANK YOU!

Two New Dorothy Stanley Emmons Paintings Added to Collection

“Strawberry Maple” by Dorothy Stanley Emmons Whitchurch. Oil on Canvas. Stanley Museum Collection.

We are pleased to report that the Stanley Museum has received a donation of two original oil paintings by Dorothy Stanley Emmons, daughter of Chansonetta and niece to the Stanley Brothers. The paintings were donated to the Museum by Lucille Treamer Burgess of Cape Elizabeth, Me. Mrs. Burgess, now 89, had contacted the Stanley Museum years ago about donating the paintings to the Museum as she wanted them to go back to Kingfield.

The first painting is entitled Strawberry Maple and is signed Dorothy S.E. Whitchurch, dating it between 1947-1960. Oil on canvas, measuring about 24″ x 25″, it depicts a Fall scene, thought to be Vose Mountain near Kingfield. It is a lot more colorful than the other examples of her work at the Museum.

The second of the two Dorothy Stanley Emmons paintings donated to the Museum is a city scene entitled Old Gate, Charleston, S.C. Oil on Artists’ Board, measuring

“Old Gate, Charleston, S.C.” by Dorothy Stanley Emmons. Circa 1926-7. Oil on Artists’ Board. Stanley Museum Collection.

approx. 14″ x 12″ the painting depicts a large wrought iron gate in Market Square in Charleston with a church steeple and other buildings in the background. There is an exhibition label on the back from the Spring Exhibition of 1927 of the Portland (Me.) Society of Art, which dates the painting to 1926/27 following Dorothy & Chansonetta’s Carolina trip in 1926. This painting is a particularly welcome addition to our collection, as we did not have a Carolina painting at the Museum, nor did we have any cityscapes represented.

The paintings came with a fascinating historical provenance supplied by the donor. To illustrate her tale, Mrs. Burgess pulled out a copy of the new edition of the Museum’s publication of Chansonetta’s The Old Table Chair.  Lucille, it turns out, is the daughter of Nellie Gray Walker of New Portland, Me., who was photographed by Chansonetta in Old Table Chair No. 4. Nellie was the younger sister of Villa Walker True, captured by Chansonetta in Old Table Chair No. 3. Villa, known in the family as “Aunt Vi,” was a cousin of Augusta Walker Stanley. (Augusta was Mrs. F.E. Stanley. Two other cousins, Emma Walker and John Allen, were long-time Stanley employees.)

Chansonetta and Dorothy spent several summers at the True Homestead (the setting for The Old Table Chair), and Dorothy gave the paintings to “Aunt Vi.” The paintings passed down to Villa’s daughter, Hazel True Newman, who you may remember was the subject of another famous Chansonetta photo, “Feeding the Hens.” When Hazel died in Farmington, Me., the paintings went to Nellie (Lucille’s mom) who was actually Hazel’s aunt although they were nearly the same age. Nellie had married Harold W. Treamer, a WWI veteran and railroad agent, and they settled in Lynnfield, Mass. During the research for The Old Table Chair we had traced Nellie as far as Lynnfield. Lucille brought the story – and the paintings – up to the present day.

After accepting the two paintings for the Museum, I met with Cathleen Miller, the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection, and Stanley Museum Trustee Cally Gurley, the Director of Special Collections at the University of New England, and we spent some time looking at the Chansonetta inventory for possible other images of the Market Square gate. Cathleen and Cally came up with a Chansonetta glass lantern slide of the same gate, taken from the opposite side. Compare this view with the painting.

I also recalled a Christmas card design from a scrapbook collection of Dorothy’s that I inventoried several years ago, and found that it matched the scene in the painting almost exactly.

We at the Stanley Museum are indebted to Mrs. Burgess for these wonderful additions to Stanley art and history.

Christmas Card Design, Dorothy Stanley Emmons Whitchurch. Circa 1950.

“Market Square Gate, Charleston, S.C.” Photograph by Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, circa 1926. Hand-colored Glass Lantern Slide. Stanley Museum Collection.

Stanleys and All that Jazz

We had a wonderful night at the February 3, 2012 First Friday Art Walk at the Stanley Museum. The evening featured a live concert by the Foothills Jazz Quartet, who entertained an overflow crowd of enthusiastic visitors.

The concert was sponsored by the Kingfield Pops with funding from the Maine Expansion Arts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. The Stanley Museum has long been a supporter of the Kingfield Pops in its efforts to bring art and music programs to the Kingfield area. The Stanley family, both F.E. & F.O., were strong supporters of the arts. They supported the work of many artists and musicians, and built concert halls at their homes, at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and at the Hunnewell Club in Newton, Massachusetts. F.E. himself first became a self-made business man through his portrait studio in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine, and both he and his brother took up violin-making as more than a hobby. Their homes were filled with artwork, some of which has survived in the collection of the Stanley Museum, which continues to collect art when possible today.

In between jazz sets, visitors were given special tours of the artwork and artifacts in the Stanley Museum. Here, Mark Smith (right) of the Museum’s Steam Team explains some of the workings of the Stanley cars on display.

Of course, the cars also served as a backdrop for group photos of the band and their hosts: (L to R) Debbie Smith (Stanley Museum trustee), Siiri Stinson, Dan & Jim Perkins, and Andy Buckland (Foothills Jazz Quartet), Ellen Hurlburt (Stanley Museum volunteer), and Vici Robinson (Kingfield Pops).

What with the concert being the first in a series of Art Walk musical programs, the musicians found themselves turned into art – here Siiri Stinson, vocalist of the Foothills Jazz Quartet, works her way through a song.

Bass player Andy Buckland also found himself captured in an art work just as those on the wall behind him, as visitors react to a couple dancing around the Museum floor. The next Art Walk in Kingfield is scheduled for Friday, September 7 (the evening of the Museum’s Auction Preview – we hope to have some live music on the program!). The Stanley Museum will once again be open from 5 to 8 pm. Please join us!

Live Jazz Concert at the Stanley Museum!

Raymond Stanley with his 1914 Stanley Special

Live Jazz Concert at the Stanley Museum! The Stanley Museum, in association with our friends at the Kingfield Pops and the Kingfield First Friday Art Walks, is pleased to host a live jazz performance by the Foothills Jazz Quartet on Friday, February 3, from 6 to 8 pm. Everyone is welcome and admission is Free!

The Stanley Museum will also have a special display of local paintings by Dorothy Stanley Emmons, as well as some jazz-era photographs of the artist and her contemporaries to complement the musical performance.

This joint event is the first in a series of live music performances in conjunction with the popular Kingfield First Friday Art Walks, sponsored by the Kingfield Pops thanks to funding from the Maine Expansion Arts Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. For more information contact the Stanley Museum at 207-265-2729 or maine@stanleymuseum.org, or info@kingfieldpops.com. More information at https://stanleymuseum.wordpress.com/ and www.kingfieldpops.com. Hope to see you at the February First Friday Art Walk Jazz Concert! Bring your Valentine!

Season’s Greetings from the Stanley Museum!

Season’s Greetings from the Stanley Museum!

[Color lithographed greeting card by Dorothy Stanley Emmons (Stanley Museum Collection)]