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...more than half a century Gushing vanes pirouetted in the wind. Finally, in the 19203, the work of Waltham's anonymous craftsmen was discovered by folk-art collectors. Edith Gregor Halpert, founder of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, busily stripped the New England skyline of more than a hundred vanes, sold them to museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art sent some abroad in an exhibition of American folk art. Seeing the show in Paris, Pablo Picasso exclaimed: "Cocks have always been seen, but never as well as in American weather vanes...
...Gushing firm has long been out of business, but Collector Halpert knew that some of the old iron molds must still be around. She searched for ten years up and down New England, finally, last year, found a jumble of 350 Gushing molds in the yard of a Chelsea (Mass.) junkman. Last week in New York's Associated American Artists Galleries, 16 new vanes shaped from the old molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they...
...limited number of each vane (an average of 20) will be reproduced for collectors at prices up to $500 (price in the 1850s: about $60). After that, Antique Hunter Halpert will donate the molds to a museum, and folk sculpture of weather vanes is likely to become as extinct as figurehead carving for clipper ships...
...hate to be an old bastard, but I want you to line up Lady Halpert and your Art section editor long enough for me to whisper something in their shell-pink ears. The reproduction of Knight's Farmhouse Gossip is a very poor copy of an original painting called A Secret. . . . The original was photographic in style and a hell of a lot better than the foul copy "originated" by Mr. Knight...
...Shame on Dealer Halpert and on TIME'S Art editor for not recognizing a secret when they...