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Learn more about his work in horology in art here. Bulova Archive Series Mens Watch, Stainless Steel with Black Leather Strap Lunar Pilot Chronograph, Silver-Tone (Model: 96B251) 1,239. Frishman currently serves as HSNY’s Exhibit Curator. His lecture on horology in art, which took place at HSNY’s monthly lecture series on January 10, 2017, can be found here. : The Art of Horology in Geneva: Patek Philippe Legendary Watches: Important Collectors Watches, Wristwatches, and Clocks: Property of Various. Proof of vaccination and masks are required.įor more on Bob Frishman, please visit. HSNY is located at 20 West 44th Street, Suite 501, New York, NY 10036. To visit, please schedule an appointment here.

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Visits are free of charge and timed tickets are required to visit the “Horology in Art” exhibition, currently on display from Tuesday, November 23 until April 2022. The different depictions of watches and clocks in art help us learn about how time was perceived in the past while helping to advance the art of horology today.”

All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. “Thanks to today’s technology, I am happy to share my archives of over 2,000 examples of timepieces displayed in artworks through a continuous slideshow exhibition. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation. Yes, horology is artas any true fine watch enthusiast would passionately admit. “Curating these artworks for my personal collection, and now for the public to view, has been a two-decades-long passion project for me,” said Frishman, who has been a clock restorer and writer-lecturer on horology for more than 30 years. Horology refers to the study of time and the art of making timepieces. Vintage photographs include two rare mid-19th century daguerreotypes, cabinet cards, cartes de visites, glass lantern slides, and several examples of Mathew Brady Civil-War-era portraits, whose subjects share the scene with his studio’s “Reaper” figural mantel clock. Iconic artists represented in the exhibit’s prints include Salvador Dali, Jan Steen, Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer, and Giovanni Piranesi. Nearly all the artworks are on loan from HSNY Exhibit Curator Bob Frishman, who created HSNY’s inaugural loan exhibit in early 2020 and now returns with a fresh theme accompanied by a 16-page illustrated catalog.Īmong the original artworks are a circa 1830 folk-art portrait of a mother and child holding a pocket watch the preparatory watercolor by Anatol Kovarsky for a 1961 New Yorker cover showing a watchmaker in his shop and a portrait miniature on ivory, circa 1840, in which a young woman’s watch and chain are visible.

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