New Director Helen Allen Whips Up a Splendid Array of Art, Antiques and Design at The Winter Show in New York

The 65-Year-old Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory is the leading art, antiques, and design fair in America.  Under its new Director, Helen Allen, it features 68 of the world’s leading galleries, experts in the fine and decorative arts.  The result is an eclectic array of stunning items.

 

The Winter Show is renown for maintaining the highest standards of quality in the art market. Each item in the show is vetted by a large team of experts – 150 – who approve on authenticity, date, and condition.  From antiquities of more than 5000 years as presented by Charles Ede of London who displays ancient objects from Egypt, Greece, and Rome,  to contemporary photography as shown by Peter Fetterman Gallery of Santa Monica, the past and present are richly displayed.                                                                                                                                                                                               

The Winter Show, which highlights a different Loan Exhibition each year, selected “Collecting Nantucket” in which the Nantucket Historica Association showcases several of its treasured collection.  This includes a 1764 oil by John Singleton Copley and a 1888 oil by Gilbert Stuart.  

The Winter Show, which highlights a different Loan Exhibition each year, selected “Collecting Nantucket” in which the Nantucket Historica Association showcases several of its treasured collection.  This includes a 1764 oil by John Singleton Copley and an 1888 oil by Gilbert Stuart.  

Opening night preview featured a veritable group of famous collectors, stars and distinguished people from around the world.  

This famous Show is an annual benefit for East Side House Settlement, a community-based organization serving the Bronx and northern Manhattan.  The philanthropic charity focuses on education and technology as gateways out of poverty and the keys to economic opportunity.  #