Antique Prints in a Mountain Home

It is always very exciting to see the inventory of Arader Galleries, Denver in our clients' homes, and of course it is so thoughtful for them to share with us. Below are pictures of a cabin home in Montana, designed by DM Leuschen Designs.

Contact Info:
Diane M Leuschen
Bozeman, Montana
Studio 406.586.9684
dleuschen@aol.com

Here is Audubon's 'Snowy Owl' over the fireplace

Above features a set of misc. Western views from the 18th century

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How to Decorate with Maps

Typically when one thinks of decorating with maps, a study or office comes to mind....which is certainly a most appropriate room for maps where one can demonstrate their love of history and travel, and in which this room above so beautifully demonstrates. However, maps can be featured in any part of the home....

Here are some examples of maps for sale at the Arader Gallery, Denver location. Please contact us for prices and more information.

Henri Abraham Chatelain, “Carte Tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud...”From Atlas Historique, Paris: 1719. Hand-colored copperplate engraving, 33” x 55 1/2”; 39” x 63”

Gerard and Rumold Mercator, Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio... Engraving with original hand color: 111/2” x 203/4” Duisburg, 1587 (1595)

Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) America sive novi Orbis, nova descriptio… Hand-Colored copperplate engraving

Charles Varle, Map of the United States Partly from the New Surveys Dedicated to the citizens thereof, by their humble servant Chas. Varle. Engineer and Geographer 1817. Published Baltimore 1817, Engraving. This is also framed.

McKenney & Hall Early 19th Century Native American Portraits from History of the Indian Tribes of North America

Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, A selection of portraits from the History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Philadelphia, 1836

From 1816 until 1830, Thomas McKenney was Superintendent of Indian Affairs and one of a very few government officials to defend American Indian interests. When a large delegation of Indians came to see President Monroe in 1821, McKenney commissioned the fashionable portraitist Charles Bird King to paint the principal delegates, dressed in costumes of their choice. Many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century were among King's sitters, including Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. The portraits hung in the War Department until l858, when they were moved to the Smithsonian Institute. Most of King's original portraits were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian in 1865, so their appearance in McKenney and Hall's publication is the only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century: Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola were numbered among King's sitters.

Andrew Jackson dismissed McKenney in 1830, but allowed him to have the portraits copied by Henry Inman, so that lithographs could be made from McKenney's "Indian Gallery." Additional images were taken from paintings by James Otto Lewis, George Catlin and other artists. James C. Hall, a Cincinnati judge and novelist, contributed an historical and anecdotal text. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their own publishing enterprise, saw their work as a means of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. The portfolio nearly bankrupted McKenney as well as the two printing firms who invested in its publication. But their work proved to be much more valuable contribution than they imagined. Catlin's paintings of Indians were destroyed in a warehouse fire; and James Otto Lewis' watercolors burned along with those by King in the Smithsonian fire of l865. The McKenney and Hall portraits remain as the most complete and colorful record of the native leaders who made the long journey to Washington to speak for their people.

Chief of 6 Nations, Chippeway Widow, Hoo Wan, Ojibway Woman

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Highlights from the 2009 Denver Antique Show

Featuring prints from the Arader Gallery, Denver collection and design trends in black and white!


Pictured above: Georg Boeckler (active 1644-1698)A selection from Architecturea Curiosa Nova Pars Tertia, Engravings, Framed sizes: 19 ¼" x 15 ¾"Nuremburg: Paulus Fürst, 1664

William Hamilton. A selection from Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Honorable William Hamilton…Aquatint engravings in black and terra-cotta ink, Naples, 1766-1767


Furniture Prints, C. 18th Century