clifford schorer winslow homer

CLIFFORD SCHORER: And I said, "Sure. And I don't think that a manual was consulted more than once. And he started me on collecting, actually. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Give up all my business interests and retire to sort of a conversational job where I sat in a shop, and I played shopkeeper, and people came in and looked at my furniture and told me how overpriced it was. I ran into him at TEFAF. Is that the case? So I know, for example, in Sofia that they have wonderful, you know, Mithraic panels from tombs and things, you know, from altars, because Mithraism was very big during the Roman Empire. And they would bring it to you, and that was incredibly annoying to someone with mywith my type of a brain. CLIFFORD SCHORER: They painted half a million paintings in the Dutch Netherlands between 1600 and 1650. And you know, the American catastrophe. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Of which I can appreciate; I mean, I understand that. Last year, Schorer used a reverse . CLIFFORD SCHORER: Bless you. I used to go to Richmond at night and eat and drink, and you know, have a good time there. And I was so, Oh, my God, you know, that's incredible. So, you know, you think about the quality of the art, but also the taste choices that one makes at any given moment in the history of the firm. That's why, if you come to our booths today, you'll see that there are wall fabrics; there are modern interiors. No, no, no. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I spentat Boston University? And, of course, the idea they were in Egypt would add to that kind of, you know, sort of desert mystique of the whole thing. clifford schorer winslow homer. And I'm very excited, because Procaccini will finally get a major, monographic book. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is it an intended gift or. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, an art handler to move things around. And they didn't hire me as a senior programmer analyst, but they did hire me as a programmer analyst. It's Triceratops Cliffbut this is entre nous. They're rare, of course. Fortunately, I had a business that owned a big warehouse. Then we did the Lotte Laserstein, the Weimar German show, where we borrowed from the German state institutions for the first time ever, as I understand it, as a private gallery, borrowed from museums, Berlin specifically. Winslow Homer was an American painter whose works in the domain of realism, especially those on the sea, are considered some of the most influential paintings of the late 19th century. All of that is gone. Hurricane, Bahamas, 1898 Painting. And, you know, obviously, we also value our clients; we work with our clients. I saw people. And so, you know, I bought a territory with a partner, and we have a territory, and basically, you know, we go to an annual meeting, and we have a dinner with the managers, and that's ourso, in a sense, I was able to sort of extract myself from project-based businesses to at least have this background income that would support a very marginal lifestyle, which is what I live. Not a lot of pieces, because they were much more expensive. I mean, you know, it's just, you knowI think the next time it comes through the marketplace, it'll say, you know, "We gratefully acknowledge Ms. Neilson, who said it's by Crespi." And she said, "Well, I'd borrow the Luca Giordano from your living room," because I was closing my house up. JUDITH RICHARDS: You mean furnishings and the hotels? I mean, for the price of a multiple by Damien Hirst, you can buy a Reynolds, you know. I think I turned 16 right aroundit was in that first year, so that's what I recall. Not at all. Or just, this. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So by the time I was 20, I started collecting, you know, monochrome from the Song period. JUDITH RICHARDS: Because you were continually not only expanding the view, but you were also refining and improving the quality of each example? I mean, it startedso you started collecting in that area or just that one piece? But it hammered down; I lost it, you know, and thought no more of it. So I didn't go back. So did that affect your interest at all? JUDITH RICHARDS: yeah, but it's so different to really try to do it yourself, JUDITH RICHARDS: read about it in a book. JUDITH RICHARDS: and what it stood for. But because of the scarcity, it can't at all occupy as much time and. JUDITH RICHARDS: Had you had a chance to go to Europe by that time? And she's likeshe justI slipped her a little money; she shifted her chair over, and I went in. It sounds like the word "scholarly" is very key, that your approach is scholarly. JUDITH RICHARDS: How long were you at Gillette? JUDITH RICHARDS: Yes. Maybe five, six. So the short answer is that they may like to have it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: But, you know, I guess with minor things, you know, with less important artwork, it is what it is. JUDITH RICHARDS: And you happen to be able to have this person who [laughs] shows you proof, too. And theyand the span of time goes from, you know, 1720 all the way to 1920. I can't remember that. CLIFFORD SCHORER: intrinsically knowing the difference between an early 20th-century and a late 18th-century. There's one area I meant to touch on, and that is the competition, the relatively recent change, as you talked about the auction houses becoming retail and directly competing with galleries, even though galleries offer this tremendous educational service. JUDITH RICHARDS: [Laughs.] But I was happy to help. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm. [Laughs.]. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you only spent one year there? And the focus was much more British 20th century. There was a Strozzi thatI was looking at Strozzi, and I was trying to figure this Strozzi painting out that I had discovered at a little auction. And it was alsoit was an attractive city to me because of the 19th-century architecture. And, I mean, it's an enormous orbit. JUDITH RICHARDS: When you're in New York, for example, what are the specific places you most love to go to look at art? Rich Dahm, co-executive producer and head writer of The Colbert Report. But I didn't buy it with much of a focus on the painting itself. So, yeah. I think we might have one extra letter in there, but that's okay. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Jim Welu. So, I mean, I don't necessarily meet art connoisseurs. But the scholarship at the time said, "Wait a minute, that looks like a preparatory drawing for that painting," which then changed the attribution of the painting to a better attribution. JUDITH RICHARDS: Mm-hmm. At some point. And I came back in a year, diligently, with the little glassine pouches that he gave me and all sorted. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No. [00:56:02]. And he said, "Well, ironically enough, Sotheby's"and I knewI could feel this sort ofwithout even asking the question, I knew that Noortman's days since the death of Robert Noortman were numbered. [Laughs.] And then I moved to Boston directly. As most 25-year-old men marched off to war in 1861, artist Winslow Homer took a . So they put Anthony Crichton-Stuart, who used to be Christie's head of Old Masters, in charge of Noortman Gallery. They'll be in the Pre-Raphaelite show. It was Naples, [Jusepe de] Ribera, [Luca] Giordano at theyou know, Giordano at the beginning; Ribera towards thetowards the middle. No, I was 15 and a half. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So that was fine. Lotte Laserstein was a Weimar German artist, a female artistamazing artistand Agnew's had sort of rediscovered her in the 1960s and then did a show, a monographic show, in the 1980s. Those people are notthey don't exist now, and they don't exist for a lot of reasons. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no, but you know what I mean. I love computer languages. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you donated the piece, or you donated the funds for them to purchase the piece? JUDITH RICHARDS: How did that interest develop? It was a fantasy shop that wasn't going to exist, but it was just an idea of how I would pass my time, because I need something to do. I mean, to me, the Met is visiting. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, for me, personally, I think that, obviously, I feel much happier when something is on public view, and there's somebody telling someone something about it. It was one of those years where you go home completely dejected. JUDITH RICHARDS: In the yearsI guess in your late teens, early 20s, when you were collecting in the Chinese fieldwhen you were in any country that had an active market in that area, were you investigating that and thinking, and did you ever make purchases there, beyond Boston? And I mean, he didn't speakI don't think there were too many words spoken about much. We've been using their fabrics as our wall coverings in our booths, and, you know, amazing. I have the Coronation Halberd of the Archduke Albrecht, and it's in the museum at Worcester [laughs], and, no. I've spoken to Jon a few times. JUDITH RICHARDS: This is Judith Olch Richards interviewing Clifford J. Schorer III, on June 6, 2018, at the Archives of American Art offices in New York City. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Professor [Ernest] Wiggins. So, you know, we may not necessarily be the origin of all the writings, but we're a part of it, so we can contribute to, you know, the fundraising effort to write a catalogue, and we can give the pictures; we can do this; we can do that. I mean, I'm very social. I hadyeah. Likewise, have there been specific curatorsyou mentioned manywho have played an important part in your education, in your development of your interests? Schorer also recalls Anna Cunningham; George Abrams; Sydney Lewis; Chris Apostle; Nancy Ward Neilson; Jim Welu, as well as Rita Albertson; Tanya Paul; Maryan Ainsworth; Thomas Leysen; Johnny Van Haeften; Otto Naumann; and Konrad Bernheimer, among others. Just one. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And then there's the collection that I was able to acquire that stimulated some of the same nerve cells, but possibly the L-DOPA levels were a little lower. I'll look it up afterwards. Just a sense of [laughs], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Oh, in a way. JUDITH RICHARDS: The competitors are in equal situations? Schorer discusses growing up in Massachusetts and Long Island, New York; his family and his Dutch and German heritage, and his grandparents' collecting endeavors, especially in the field of philately; his reluctance to complete a formal high school education and his subsequent enrollment in the University Professors Program at Boston University; his work as a self-taught computer programmer beginning at the age of 16; his first businesses as an entrepreneur; the beginnings of his collection of Chinese export and Imperial ceramics and his self-study in the field; his experiences at a young age at art auctions in the New England area; his travels to Montreal and Europe, especially to Eastern Europe, Paris, and London, and his interest in world history; his decision to exit the world of collecting Chinese porcelain and his subsequent interest in Old Master paintings, especially Italian Baroque. And he was an art collector. So it. [00:46:01]. But it wasI've covered the allegories I'm interested in. And I said, "Well, I assume you do if you just bid me up to $47,000." Were there collectors you were reading about or you met? [Laughs.] JUDITH RICHARDS: level of your interest. It hadit was a face of a man; it looked Renaissance. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I mean, especially lesser objects. I was traveling a lot. I mean, in the smaller Eastern European museums back in the early '80s, when they weren't making any money, and nobodyyou know, they were pretending to work, and they were pretending to pay them, and nobody cared. So that was my 2000 [TEFAF] Maastricht, where I went away dejected but finally redeemed myself. CLIFFORD SCHORER: But anyway, I would say thatI would say that, you know, I was very happy when I arrived in Boston. The shareholders did very well by the real estate, but the business, by that point, was, I think, sort of put on the back burner after 2008, then when they didn't have a premises, they built themselves a new and rather expensive rental premises, and the rent and the costs there were quite high. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And I neededI needed to. It's wonderful. I've never been to the Worcester Art Museum. And most of our manuals were in Japanese, because the cash register manufacturers in those days were mostly Japanese. So, JUDITH RICHARDS: When you say "we," you mean you and. What I would have done was purchase the assets; I would have purchased the library. And I finally saidI said, "Look, how much is it going to cost me, and can I take you to lunch, or, you know, what is it going to take me to get in there?" CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. They have also lived in Stamford, CT and New York, NY. I enjoy exhibitions at the Frick and at the Met. [Laughs.] I think today the number of collectors and clients is smaller. How to say Clifford J. Schorer in English? CLIFFORD SCHORER: Total coincidence. If there's anything that somebodyI mean, two weeks from now in San Francisco, two big Pre-Raphaelite paintings will be in their Pre-Raphaelite show [Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco]. And then send it away andI'm trying to remember who did the book. JUDITH RICHARDS: What about relationships within those years, with local museum curators? Clifford J. Schorer is known for Plutonium Baby (1987). CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, I go to London about seven days a month, and again, you know, the gallery operates on its own. And I saw Daniele Crespi as an artist who is equally competent but died so young that he never really established his name. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So thereyou know, whatthe sort of happy circumstance that might fit into what you're asking is if Iand I can think of one, actually. I probably should, but, you know. Yeah, well, this was an early, early. CLIFFORD SCHORER: We packed up everything to go down there. But the problem is, New England is dry as a bone in the winter, so you have, you know, you have extremes, and I think the differenceif you kept a painting in England for 350 years, if you kept the painting in New England for 35 years, I bet it would have far more wear and tear in New England. Yes, before that, I was not actively selling anything, because the problem is, the things that you buy that are your sort of orphan children, you often can't sell them to the workhouse for very much money, so they're not going to produce much in terms of the next purchase. We just have a little more time today perhaps, if you want to take more time? The name is the same, unfortunately, so people know who it is. . I'm sort of burrowing a hole in the bottom of a library and shining a flashlight on a book under a cover, so no one knows what I'mwhat embarrassments I'm reading about. JUDITH RICHARDS: What year would that be? CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, Anna doesn't do as much of the running around, but Anna is the gallery manager. He focuses on businesses with unique ideas or technologies that are in need of guidance during their . And that's reallythat was more of, you know, expanding the things that I could do. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Or related to artists that are interesting to me. [Laughs. And if you can't get more than 20,000 people in here, you've got a serious problem. That is the way they were then, yes. CLIFFORD SCHORER: as we have today. JUDITH RICHARDS: Did Skinner know what was happening? JUDITH RICHARDS: Where do these wonderful symposiums take place, the ones that are so passionately [laughs], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, those areyou know, I'm thinking of very specific ones. When I was 13, we restored a Model T Ford from thefrom the, you know, bolts up. You've talked a lot about your involvement in museums and education, so obviously you do have a sense that there's a level of responsibility when you acquire these works to share them. And just, you know, wander around and pull books. JUDITH RICHARDS: This is Judith Olch Richards interviewing Cliff Schorer on June 7, 2018, at the Archives of American Art New York City offices. JUDITH RICHARDS: people educating you in some way about the field? You can admire; if you want to buy, you pay our price and you buy. So, you know, to me, I'm in awe of that ability. It was a very protracted process. So, you know, it's the conversation at the cocktail party, I suppose [laughs], but, you know, maybe not the cocktail party some people want to go to. 1720 all the way to 1920 eat and drink, and, you can admire ; if you just me. But died so young that he never really established his name lot of pieces because... 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