The Winter Show is excited to announce exhibitor and programming highlights of its 71st edition at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Taking place January 24–February 2, 2025, the Show features rare and exceptional art and antiques from over 70 exhibitors, spanning from antiquity to today.
With dealers from across the Americas and Europe, the 2025 edition of The Winter Show will once again showcase the finest museum-quality works to an international audience of collectors, connoisseurs, and enthusiasts, alongside an acclaimed program of talks, panels, and events with leading experts in art, antiques, and design.
All ticket proceeds from the fair and its benefit events directly fund East Side House Settlement. Chubb returns as The Winter Show’s presenting sponsor, celebrating 29 years of partnership and support.
Executive Director Helen Allen said,
“With every edition of The Winter Show, we look forward to sharing the world-class works our dealers bring to the fair. This year, we are particularly pleased with the exciting range of works across periods, styles, cultures, and makers. We are proud to uphold our extremely high standards of excellence among our exhibitors, ensuring a selection of truly unique and remarkable works for collectors and fairgoers of every variety. As always, the experience will be enhanced by complementary programming featuring panels and lectures by experts across the fields of art and design.”
The Winter Show maintains the most exacting standards of quality in the art market, and all objects are rigorously vetted for authenticity and condition.
Each work on display at the Show undergoes thorough examination by over 120 specialists across 30 disciplines to assess authenticity, quality, and value, ensuring excellence in standards and authoritative transparency for collectors and clients.
Exhibitor Highlights for The Winter Show 2025:
- Robert Young Antiques (London, UK) presents a drawing of a sailboat made by a young King Charles III while a pupil at Cheam School circa 1957.
- Daniel Crouch Rare Books (London, UK; New York, USA) exhibits a selection from the world’s largest collection of playing cards, held by the French artist Jean Verame; the display includes a deck from the 12th century, uncut sheets of cards from 1480, and a transparent Surrealist deck of cards.
- Lillian Nassau LLC (New York, USA) featuring a selection of works by Tiffany Studios glass, including an exceptional stained-glass window depicting a lush bouquet of peonies.
- Wartski (London, UK) shows fine antique jewelry and decorative objects, including a rare silver cigar cutter in the shape of a carp, produced by Carl Fabergé.
- Didier Ltd (London, UK) features jewelry designed by 20th-century masters like Alexander Calder, including a silver tiara designed for Rose Masson, wife of the French artist André Masson.
- Elle Shushan (Philadelphia, USA) exhibits a pair of extremely rare prints depicting King George III and Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, originally made to celebrate their 1761 coronation.
• Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, USA) will present a major work by German American artist Winold Reiss, which coincides with the gallery’s survey exhibition of the artist’s evocative portraits from the first half of the 20th-century.
• Cove Landing (New York, USA) stages an early 19th-century period room, including a collection of 27 watercolors of interiors and a rare surviving pair of German Biedermeier cabinets.
• Les Enluminures (Chicago and New York, USA; Paris, France) shows dual exhibitions in their booth, including “Crosses as Jewelry: Ancient Symbol, Timeless Style” and “In Her Hands: Women and Medieval Manuscripts.”
• Jonathan Boos (New York, USA) exhibits a special presentation on 20th-century modernism, featuring a sculpture by Richmond Barthé, the preeminent sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance.
• Peter Harrington (London, UK) displays a rare collection of 11 works in 43 volumes from 1830 by John Gould, “the Bird Man,” a noted illustrator and taxidermist whose many scientific samples influenced Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
• Eguiguren Arte de Hispanoamérica (Buenos Aires, Argentina) presents a rare painting by Spanish Baroque painter Juan van der Hamen y León (1596–1631).
Antiquairs
• Rountree Tryon Galleries (Petworth, UK) shows a 1918 oil painting by Sir Alfred James Munnings that was gifted to Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, by the Canadian Forestry Corps after the First World War.
• Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (New York, USA) brings priceless antiquities from ancient Greek and Rome, as well as ancient Egyptian objects including a gilt wood mummy mask from the Late Dynastic Period (c. 664–32 BC).
• Jeffrey Tillou Antiques (Litchfield, CT, USA) highlights rare pieces of Americana, including a copper weather vane rendered as a four-masted sailing vessel, purportedly once mounted atop a building in the famed Shiverick Shipyard in Dennis, Massachusetts.
FOCUS: Americana
Returning this year is the special exhibition FOCUS: Americana, celebrating Americana design history and showcasing a selection of exceptional early American fine art, folk art, and antiques. Curated by Alexandra Kirtley, the Montgomery-Garvan Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with exhibition design by Erick J. Espinoza, Creative Director of Anthony Baratta, the exhibition features essential, established exhibitors David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles American Antiques (Woodbury, CT, USA), Kelly Kinzle Antiques (New Oxford, PA, USA), Levy Galleries (New York, USA), Nathan Liverant and Son (Colchester, CT, USA), Olde Hope (New York, USA), Jeffrey Tillou Antiques (Litchfield, CT, USA), Allan Katz Americana (Madison, CT, USA), and Elle Shushan (Philadelphia, USA).
Public Programs and Events
The Winter Show presents a suite of public programming and special events throughout the run of the fair that offers visitors opportunities to deepen their knowledge and engage with current trends and topics. Emphasizing the Show’s collaborative focus and educational approach, the panel discussions and talks feature experts in art, antiques, and design as well as leaders from museums and other institutions.
Public program highlights include:
- “Art and the Great Expositions: The World Wide Web of Taste 1890–1910,” a discussion with Bonhams’ Dessa Goddard and Joe Earle, curators Medill Higgins Harvey and Mark Mitchell, and art historian Annette Blaugrund, on January 25 at 3 PM
- “Cultural Custodians: How America’s Collections Preserve and Propel History,” presented in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, on January 25 at 5 PM
- “Ann and Gordon Getty: Patronage, Philanthropy, and Legacy,” moderated by Christine Donahue Kavanagh of Sotheby’s, with Maria Santangelo and Caitlin Yates of Bullimore Partners, on January 26 at 1:30 PM
- “From Generation to Generation: How HIV/AIDS Changed the Design Community,” a discussion with Adam Charlap Hyman, Charles Renfro, Carl D’Aquino, Asad Syrkett, and Wendy Goodman, on January 26 at 3:30 PM
- “Past as Prologue: Collecting Americana for Tomorrow,” led by 1stdibs’ Anthony Barzilay Freund, with interior designer Brad Ford, Boscobel Executive Director Jennifer Carlquist, designer Elizabeth Pyne Singer, and Hirschl & Adler Director Elizabeth Feld, on January 28 at 2:30 PM
- “Classic Meets Contemporary: The Inspiring Story behind a Glorious Parisian Home,” a conversation between designer Aline Hazarian and Galerie Editor in Chief Jacqueline Terrebonne, on January 29 at 3 PM
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- “Crosscurrents: Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century,” moderated by Daniella Berman, PhD, Head of Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives at The Drawing Foundation, with collector Alan Templeton; Jonny Yarker, Principal at Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, and Laurel Peterson, Curator at the Yale Center for British Art, on January 31 at 12:30 PM
- “The Forgotten Women Polymaths of Design,” moderated by Laura Jacobs, Arts Intel Report Editor at Air Mail, with Patricia Meares, Deputy Director of the Museum at F.I.T., and fine jewelry expert and author Ruth Peltason, on January 31 at 4 PM
- “Voyages of Creativity: The Influence of Travel on Design,” moderated by Peter Lyden, President of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, with designers Suzanne Tucker and Charlotte Moss and architect James Carter, on February 1 at 2:30 PM
- “The Piece I’d Never Part With: Treasures for New Tastemakers,” a panel discussion with writer Patrick Monahan and dealers Adam Calvert Bentley, Will Elliott, Harry Gready, and Cordelia Bourne, on February 1 at 4:30 PM
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