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So, you know, you sort of, you pick your way along, and you have to be opportunistic. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sobecause I downsized my companies. There's one area I meant to touch on, and that is the competition, the relatively recent change, as you talked about the auction houses becoming retail and directly competing with galleries, even though galleries offer this tremendous educational service. JUDITH RICHARDS: Was that based on a body of work that the galley owns? CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's a big change, yes. Mr. Schorer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in the start-up acquisition and development of small and mid-sized companies. And, you know, you have this big triangle already. CLIFFORD SCHORER: It's been a very long-term loan. And they basically said, "Well then, audit any course you want." ", CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, I mean, "A Molenaer is more than $20,000?" JUDITH RICHARDS: [Laughs.] So. So did that affect your interest at all? I mean, I wasyou know, I had negative $8,000 to my name. [They laugh.] And they didn't hire me as a senior programmer analyst, but they did hire me as a programmer analyst. So it was very depressing. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I'm relying on smart people to tell me about things and, you know, say, Oh, this is interesting, or, This is not. And I was still trying to buy, you know, what I could buy with a little bit of money in the stamps and coins world. [Laughs.] [00:04:00]. 750 9th Street, NW So I came to that same point, that same impasse, in stamp collecting, where, okay, I have every single U.S. issue, except for these 27. JUDITH RICHARDS: You mentioneddid you grow uphow long did you live in the city where you were born? JUDITH RICHARDS: Yeah, that's so interesting. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. And I think it's working in a sense that people think of us a little bit differently than they did Agnew's under the old ownership, and I think we've come full circle; I think the five years that we've been operating in business, Anthony has done a wonderful job, you know. And I said, you know, "Thanks for that." So that's where, obviously, you know, this is coming to the end of the period when I thought that it was practical to buy these things. CLIFFORD SCHORER: My first car was my grandfather's van. And also, there were many dealers where I could suss out instantly that they knew absolutely nothing, and they were talking nonsense, and that drove me mad, so I would literally just turn around on my heel and walk out the booth. Schooner - Nassau, 1898/99. JUDITH RICHARDS: Did your other business interests then also take a step back? I mean [00:47:59]. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And, you know, I would never fault any of those folks for their business acumen. No, no. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And the flea markets then were. JUDITH RICHARDS: involve yourself in your conversation about this. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, yes. I mean. JUDITH RICHARDS: Over many years? Do they focus entirely on Rubens or Rubens and his, CLIFFORD SCHORER: Rubens and his orbit, yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, in Virginia you can get a license at 15. But, yes, I believe so. [00:52:00]. I would just go up and talk to them, and we would talk for half an hour, and I'd walk away. This exhibition reconsiders Homer's work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career. It's oftenit's often not of the period. And it was an area I didn't know, and you know. I would saysometimes I still go over to the Natural History Museum just to poke around. JUDITH RICHARDS: And is there official paperwork that goes along with that? And they're outside smoking cigarettes, and they're not talking about art. So I got the job and I went to work there. JUDITH RICHARDS: This is Judith Olch Richards interviewing Cliff Schorer on June 7, 2018, at the Archives of American Art New York City offices. And it's not really suitable for old art. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, they do publish, especially catalogues for exhibition and shows and things like that, yeah. SUBSCRIBE. CLIFFORD SCHORER: managing their affairs. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, the experiences, the moments, and all of that. We didsoand I decided to do my homage to Carlo Crivelli. [00:42:00], CLIFFORD SCHORER: we closed, yeah, yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I went to TEFAF. I mean, I would call Frederick Ilchman; I would call somebody, and I would say, "Who should I talk to about this person?" So it was sort ofyou know, it was sort of an early-days discussion. I used to go to TEFAF all the time. But, yes, I mean, I think having a high-end warehouse where, you knowI would like to be the service provider in that equation and not the gallerist, because, to me, it'sno matter what you do, it's a clinical experience. JUDITH RICHARDS: Given that you were obviously a smart child. Matter of fact, from day one I should have just bought a Dunkin' Donuts. So, you know, we can fight that territory one collector at a time, and if that means a deep engagement with one person to try to interest them in something that we think will be rewarding for them, JUDITH RICHARDS: I assume participating in art fairs is a way of broadening your audience, JUDITH RICHARDS: Perhaps collaborations within some other [00:46:02], JUDITH RICHARDS: symposium or whatever you can imagine doing, JUDITH RICHARDS: that will bring in people andyeah, and then convert that, JUDITH RICHARDS: current interest in only contemporary and Modern to, CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, our first TEFAF, for which we received some praise and some criticismwhich is exactly what I wantas the radio personality says, "One star or five stars, and nothing in between." So, those days are long over, and to imagine what a business becomes when you were a thousand paintings a year to 12you know, and that'sand that each one of those 12 takes as much work as 17 to 20 of the pictures you sold in 1900. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is it an intended gift or. I'm not, JUDITH RICHARDS: Is there a board that you're, CLIFFORD SCHORER: The structure is executive director is Anthony Crichton-Stuart, yeah. JUDITH RICHARDS: I mean, was there a dollar figure, or just call you "Chairman's Circle"? CLIFFORD SCHORER: That's a tough question. And they tended to be a little unstable. Traditional age to start college? I mean, you know, obviously, I love the writing style of Simon Schama. And if the auction house can earncan tell a client, "Well, we're not going to charge you anything; we'll charge the buyer. My father got me fired. This is the flotsam and jetsam of my other businesses. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. I can point out that prices at auction are still 40 percent below the price that a well-executed private sale treaty could be done at, if the buyer and the seller are fully informed and have all the information, understand the importance or lack of importance of the work, you know, the things that an auction doesn't allow for. In the case of the Museum of Science, I think initially they wantedinitially I was anonymous, and then I think they really wanted my name. [They laugh.] Schorer. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Meaning, I bought a company. So when I turned 15 and a half, I think, I was legally able to leave high school. [00:10:00]. So rather than go back to schoolI wasn't going back to schoolI went and got a programming job at Lifeline Systems, which was a very short, concentrated project. CLIFFORD SCHORER: and he said, you know, "You need to be involved in this museum; you need to be involved with this museum." Eagle Head,Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide), 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Herring Net, 1885 Art Institute of Chicago Winslow Homer is undoubtedly one of the foremost artists of the United States in the 19th century. Not a lot of pieces, because they were much more expensive. You're going to findthere are going to be many more. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is there a certainand that's a kind of a new model of art storage, with viewing facilities. But in general, we're not [laughs] going to be the maker of manners in that conversation. So, yes, something like that that comesan opportunity like that would derail any project for a period, but then we'd come back to our projects, you know. Raised in Massachusetts, he apprenticed in a lithography shop in Boston in the mid-1850s and soon secured work as a freelance illustrator. So that'syou know, the reality is though, that that painting will never come my way, so I have toto go back to this question, has my philosophy about this changed in the course of it? I don't know exactly how long, but he lived a long time. If there's anything that somebodyI mean, two weeks from now in San Francisco, two big Pre-Raphaelite paintings will be in their Pre-Raphaelite show [Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco]. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I mean, I think that, in general, they just wanted an opinion. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And easy to walk around, and easy to spend three days there, you know. I said, "Well, you know, that's exciting news." I went to a boarding school in New Hampshire called Kimball Union Academy, that was not in and of itself a bad high school experience. JUDITH RICHARDS: for profit. JUDITH RICHARDS: Wow. We're not going to determine [laughs]you know, we're not going to insert that Magnasco into the artist's oeuvre or get it out there for the public and change the perception of that artist. [00:48:00]. I used to go to Richmond at night and eat and drink, and you know, have a good time there. And I saw my name alone in a category, and I was very shocked, because I had never said, "You may do that." And just, you know, wander around and pull books. CLIFFORD SCHORER: We will have a viewing space in New York, but that's all. You know, fake labels from Mathias Komor. answer in a very finite category of pictures. And you know, I got to know him less and less during that period. And, you know, we were talking yesterday about the Museum of Science. [Laughs.] They just simply said, you know, "No mas." CLIFFORD SCHORER: In that field, I have them now, and ironically, I didn't have them then. JUDITH RICHARDS: because of these paintings? They will charge the buyer 20 to 25 percent." And, you know, a picture that always has its place in art history, always has its story, and more than that, it's a segue into the story of the person in the painting, the sitter of the painting. That market is extremely weak now, and, you know, in a way, it's good comeuppance, because there was a long period of time when all the boats were lifted by the tide, the good, the bad, and the ugly. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, they weren't targeted. Or you found that going. But certainly, it'sthere are some artists who, in a combination of craft and conception or conceit, jump off the page at me, and I say, This is an artist I want to own. [00:52:00], So, you know, in that case, I went myself; looked at it; liked it; made an irrevocable bid; and bought it at the auction and then brought that immediately to London; gave it to them; and they're running with it. CLIFFORD SCHORER: No. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Now, the difference is if the artist is alive, and the dealer is alive, and you've got, you know, sort of some other motivations. JUDITH RICHARDS: Was there a particular person who was your mentor? And I'm sure it was with my grandmother. JUDITH RICHARDS: You were traveling a lot in the '80s. Because in those days, you had to have the paper, you know; not everybody was online. JUDITH RICHARDS: What's the name of the curator at the Met again who did the Gossart? $17. To have the picture debuted with this book about how it's a masterpiece; have it not sell. I mean, it's not a viewing area; it's not a formalI mean, it, you know. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes, when I got involved. Some of them were total disasters, like the fish tank building in Miami where the fish boiled. JUDITH RICHARDS: Well, I want to talk about the gallery tomorrow. So we're changingone by one, we're changing the buildings. JUDITH RICHARDS: yeah, but it's so different to really try to do it yourself, JUDITH RICHARDS: read about it in a book. Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. It was never conceived as sort of being able to carry, you know, a 19th-century or earlier painting. He's like, "Well, I can't tell you much, but there were some payment issues." CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, we were in the marketplace. Payntars are Dutch, yeah. JUDITH RICHARDS: An investor rather than a conductor. CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, it's very arbitrary, and I think maybe they were going to open it later, and maybe they weren't. [00:16:00], You know, she was waving me away. And that's not my world at all. No one, you knowother than school trips, people didn't really think of it as a great collection. Yeah. Our older colleagues might have found it charlatanism, but that's understandable. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. JUDITH RICHARDS: In those yearsso we're talking about your teens and maybe early 20s. "All in the Gay and Golden Weather", published June 12, 1869. And since I'm, you know. His paintings cover a wide range - from the Civil War to rural hamlets and a multitude of seascapes with the ocean and . [1] So it really was a question of lobbying to say, "Look, I'll make this better for you over a period of years," than doing it this way. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. So, yeah, they've been very sort of, again, inadvertent mentors. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you moved on after about three and a half years. JUDITH RICHARDS: Was that coincidence that you ran into them? So [00:48:00], JUDITH RICHARDS: But you didn't havethat were well-managed, and you didn't have to, CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well-managed, I have two dinners per year with the management team and. I do like art storage. What kind of high school experience did you have? You know, we saywe say that probably a little tongue in cheek because we know, of course, they would've loved to sell them as archaic objects, even when they weren't. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I liked Boston, I felt that it, CLIFFORD SCHORER: it's a good city. CLIFFORD SCHORER: You know, selling a 50,000 work when you have 800,000 in overheadif you're on a commission basis, you have to sell a lot of 50,000 works. She was getting her start around then. JUDITH RICHARDS: Where is the Gropius house? When Harper's sent him to Virginia to cover the Civil War, he found his forte in closely observing camp life, attending to "the ordinary foot soldier," Cross notes, "not the general . I mean, it wasn't really, JUDITH RICHARDS: You mean give up all your other. JUDITH RICHARDS: There isn't a lot of coverage of Italians, CLIFFORD SCHORER: I read articles in the Burlington, I read articles in, you know, Prospettiva, you know, yes. 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