Photo by Carolyn Bates

Spring is here, the doors are wide open, the front window of the gallery is newly painted - mint green. The lunchtime crowd has been enjoying the beautiful weather at the big wooden picnic tables along our street. We are ready for the season.

We've been working on our collections of vintage and contemporary art, furniture, lighting and objets and are looking forward to the summer's yard sales, flea markets, auctions and studio visits to add to our stock.

Every item at pine street art works is carefully selected and we stand behind everythng we show. We want nothing but the best and the most interesting for you, our valued clients and friends.

We like to think of this as a mini museum where everything is the gift shop. And on a museum note - Kory Rogers, Associate Curator at The Shelburne Museum, will be giving a talk here about collecting sometime this summer. Meanwhile, if you are in, or planning to be near, Shelburne, VT make sure to check out the terrific new shows there. www.shelburnemuseum.org

We're looking forward to seeing you, so make pine street art works your first stop for First Friday Art Walk, Friday June 1, from 5 to 8. And if you can't make it then, be sure to stop by another time. We're here Tuesday though Saturday from 11 to 5. And if you can't make it in at all, but see something you want, we can always take an order by phone or email.

cheers, Liza Cowan, Director

Butterfly

Houston,Texas artist Cara Barer returns for her second show at pine street art works. Cara's work continues to intrigue and thrill visitors to pine street art works, and now she is back with new work from her Book Series. This time, Cara continues to wet and shape books, but she is now exploring using books with more color and creating diaphanous shapes, including using doubled or mirrored shots to create images with the delicacy of winged insects.

In 2006 Cara was awarded Honorable Mention in the Aperture Foundation Prize Competition and was chosen for the book, Photography Now, One Hundred Portfolios.

Conversations With My Mother

Vermont artist Kathy Stark joins this exhibition in a counterpoint of text and handwriting. Kathy's mixed media collection is called "Conversations With My Mother" because in it she used scraps from her mother's letters and journals, to which she adds her written responses, along with color manipulated photographs and bits of ephemera.

Starks work has been shown widely throughout New England and New York City. Her work has been collected by the Biblioteque National, Smithsonian Institute and Chemical Bank, among others.

We were lucky to find this issue of Verve, An Artistic And Literary Magazine, No. 4 published in Paris in 1939 with text in English. The cover is by Roualt, with color prints inside by, among others, Toulouse-Lautrec, Joan Miro, Matisse (Henri, not Liza) and Heliogravure Illuminations from Les Grandes Heures D'ane De Bretagne, and Lithographs by Matisse and Derain. The quality of the reproductions is fantastic - way better than anything produced in a periodical today.

In The Garden Of Allah, a lithograph by Andre Derain, from Verve No. 4

This is from the Tacuinum Sanitatus or Compendium of Hygiene. 14th Century Italian School. Reproduced in Verve No. 4

And on a more pop note, we've been collecting some great old magazines and children's books. Here is The New Yorker, Oct. 15th, 1938, cover by Rea Irvin. A perfect gift for your favorite Modern Metrosexual. The issue includes cartoons by Charles Addams, James Thurber, Helen Hokinson.

September 1906 Ladies Home Journal features this adorable puppy drawn by Frank Guild. It measures 11x16, and the magazine includes a small ad for Malt Breakfast Food, factory:Burlington, VT.

And speaking of 1906, my cousin Barbara recently gave me a photograph of my grandmother Lena from that year. I've merged it with a 1950's Paint By Number image of turn of the century Paris. My grandmother lived in Chigago, but she probably visited Paris at some time. Those of you who know me may see the resemblence. If you knew me in my twenties, you'll find the similarity uncanny.

And don't forget, the Paint By Number show is coming up in August. We've collected over 100 vintage Paint By Number paintings and some very cool related ephemera and objects. It is going to be a majorly fun show.

We recently found this amazing old school map from the twenties. It rolls up like a windowshade.

Here is a detail.