Ferdinand Brader exhibit to be held at the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio, December 2014 – March 2015.

Search continues for missing Brader drawings. Currently only 150 of an estimated 980 drawings have been located. We need your help to locate the missing 830 drawing for the illustrated book which will accompany the exhibition and will list all his known drawings. Contact Brader scholar and researcher, Kathleen Wieschaus-Voss, at kwieschaus@aol.com .

Known Brader drawings by County and Township*

STARK COUNTY OH (73)

– Nimishillen: 16

– Washington: 9

– Lake: 8

– Lawrence: 8

– Plain: 8

– Marlboro: 8

– Osnaburg: 5

– Paris: 3

– Pike: 2

– Sandy: 2

– Perry: 1

– Bethlehem: 1

– Lexington: 1

– Canton: 1

WAYNE COUNTY OH (6)
– Baughman: 2
– Chippewa: 4
MEDINA COUNTY OH (3)
– Wadsworth: 3
COLUMBIANA COUNTY OH (1)

 

Ferdinand Arnold Brader, born in Kaltbrunn, Canton St.Gallen, Switzerland 1833, immigrated to America in the 1870s and for the next twenty years traveled through Pennsylvania and Ohio documenting rural life in America with hundreds of large scale detailed drawings. These unique pencil drawings are a glimpse into American life from 1875 to 1895 and are treasured by owners and collectors.

With meticulous care, Ferdinand Brader identified the owners and township of each property he visited and used a sequential numbering and dating system which helps scholars date the drawings. Research is underway to catalog the drawings as more examples of his work become known. The goal of the research and of the forthcoming exhibit is to trace and illustrate the path of Ferdinand Brader as he traveled through the countryside and to deepen our understanding of the American family heritage.

 

Please help out my friend and fellow appraiser with this project if you can!

http://www.braderexhibit.com/

New Rule on Cargo Is Shaking Art World

Let me first post the credits… New York Times, Randy Kennedy, Feb. 12th 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/arts/design/13transport.html?sudsredirect=true

Here’s the edited version:

…the stuff of real nightmares: the possibility that airline employees could open carefully crated works of art to search them the way checked baggage is sometimes searched now, poking around Picasso’s instead of sweaters and socks.  Art-shipping experts say that the burden of the new regulations will fall more heavily on galleries and private dealers than on museums, which typically plan exhibitions years in advance and can arrange for shipping that avoids passenger planes.  “And so you have a Ming vase in special foam, and an airline subcontractor has to take that out and then repack it because he got a false positive on an explosive swab test,” said Mary C. Pontillo, an assistant vice president of the DeWitt Stern Group.  “It’s a big understatement that that’s something you don’t want to happen.”  But the new rules could lead to delayed shipments. And even the faint possibility of an airline inspector with a screwdriver uncrating a Calder sculpture or an early Renaissance tempera painting could be enough to cause collectors to think twice.

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Although the Transportation Security Administration’s 49 CFR, subchapter 3, Civil Aviation Security, part 1549 (Certified Cargo Screening Program) [http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=669109c0a3a410a9af9e196c48076dcf&rgn=div5&view=text&node=49:9.1.3.5.15&idno=49] allows for the availability to apply for setting up a secure screening area, only the largest institutions will be able to consider the expense.

Can you imagine TSA inspectors inexperienced in art handling opening up valuable art and rummaging through it!  Will it be re-packed correctly for the rest of the journey?  The probability of inspections of crated artwork is low if not only because of the volume of cargo that is shipped on a daily basis. But IT CAN happen. 

Will insurance policies cover damage by a government agency? Is a TSA search considered a governmental action, thus excluded by many insurance policies?  Not to mention the inability to subrogate for damage caused by a governmental agency, even if covered by your policy. 

This regulation has far reaching impact on Collectors, Museums, Galleries and Insurers.  We will have to see what happens after this goes into effect after August 1st. I’ll watch for instances of damage, if reported, and report the results here on my blog.