Tuesday Treasures - July 22, 2025

 Rumor had it the Goodwill Outlet wasn't going to have glass anymore.  Turns out they will, they just have so much other stuff they've not put any out.  

So, now and then I stop in to see if there is any.  So far there there hasn't been.  But... I am so glad I walked to the back to look at the furniture (which is always a few dollars no matter if it's a chair, dining table with chairs, or a sofa).  They have had a Gaylord box (those huge cardboard boxes that fit on pallets) of toys for the past few months, a "free toy with purchase."  Next to that box was another, filled with framed art!  You may remember, frames with glass are 10¢ a pound!  I started reaching in (good thing I'm 5'9") and moving frames, hauling out smaller boxes, setting aside art.  I caught my son's eye and gestured that I needed a shopping cart.  (Did I ever mention they got HUGE new shopping carts?  They did.  Before there weren't enough carts, and they'd have to announce "One cart per person."  Those old carts weighed 30 something pounds, these new are over 50 pounds.  The problem is, they are so big they don't fit behind me as I look in the bins, leaving room for another to roll by.  They were free donations though, so they weren't going to say "No thanks!")  Interesting donation.  Someone is very invested in the comfort and efficiency of the Outlet store!

Anyway... I filled my cart with ten works of art.  The cost?  $2.90! So, 29¢ each!  I did go back the next day and get some just for the frames and found a numbered print shown last.  I cropped out the frames so you can see them better.  Other than the glass glare and reflections that is.

Fire in the Sky II, by Margaret Garrington - a digital print from the original pastel.  I don't usually buy digital prints, and it might not stay hanging long, but it's rather nice, professionally matted and framed.  It's a brighter fire color in person.

Also by the same artist, two original matted and framed pastels from 1997.  Not very good photos, there are reflections of me photographing them.  I gave these to a friend. Lots of reflections on these. 

Right: Waiting for Grace

Left: Vessel V

This woodblock print has some foxing due to it being matted prior to acid-free materials.  I put it in a new mat.  If you image search these you can find other copies.  

Antique (published in 1885) prints, six out of 44 color plates that would be included in a folio entitled "Uniforms of the Army of the United States Illustrated from 1774 to 1889" by Henry Alexander Ogden.  If you wonder how they were published in 1885, if the folio was entitled "... 1774 to 1889," there's a logical reason!*  

* The logical reason being, many of the prints were published individually as early as 1885, notably by lithographer G.H. Buek & Co., N.Y., which these were.  The complete volume of all 44 plates was officially published in 1890, the date usually cited for the full work.  So, these are from the initial run, early issues, before the full set was released, and possibly more collectible for that reason.

They are poorly framed, and I broke the glass in one. 

The next day I found: 

Fossil Find 7/30 signed Rose '82

I am attributing this piece to Roslyn Rose, based on the signature and a few of her other pieces in the same style from the early 1980s. Also, an image search with "Rose '82" and "Fossil Find" brought her up. I'd say it was a serigraph, or silk screen. 

Not framed or matted.  30" x 22"

I was in the right place at the right time that day!  

I seem to have developed a reputation with at least one of the employees.  She told me if she'd seen me come in she'd have told me about the artwork box!