Frishman currently serves as HSNY’s Exhibit Curator.
#The art of horology series
His lecture on horology in art, which took place at HSNY’s monthly lecture series on January 10, 2017, can be found here. 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. 1 He was a watchmaker who built complete watches by hand (including the case and dial). The book focuses on specific important men and the stories behind their watches and what makes them so special. George Daniels, CBE, FBHI, FSA, AHCI (19 August 1926 21 October 2011) was an English horologist who was considered by some to be one of the best in the world in the field of luxury mechanical watches and timepieces during his lifetime. This book does exactly what its title suggests. This number one bestseller naturally takes the first spot on our list of the best horology books.
#The art of horology free
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. A Man & His Watch: Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them Hardcover. 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.” “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. “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. 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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