I went to Thessalonica; I got in a rental car. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So one branch of the family were the owners of the Deed of Queens, New York, whenback when the Dutch were here. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah, we have to pick our battles carefully. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yes. And the focus was much more British 20th century. And I said, "I'm not going back to school. I was likethis is incredible. So I wrote that program in a month. Like a Boule chandelier. So I was. Hunter Cole, artist. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. And that was very funny, so. I mean, Iwell, maybe a little more. I think I was a substitute hitter that day, sobecause I think they had somebody else lined up who couldn't make it. I'm at a Skinner auction. JUDITH RICHARDS: When youin those early years, did you have a goal? I mean, I know that. So I bought the picture, took it to the Worcester Art Museum. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Corsini. I think I was 20 or 21. And today, you know, a good example is, in 1900 the gallery sold 1,001 paintings, and some of them were sold12 in a row to Frick; the next nine to Mellon; the next 12 to Morgan. And did art play any role in that? And then my junior year, after, I think, the second or third day, I quit high school. I would. But when I finally did that, I did start, likeI made, like, display walls of, you know, particular things. We had four years of consultancy by Christopher Kingzett and Julian Agnew, who were running the firm before. You know, there was aI forget who the famous collector was, that says, "I deal to collect." She wrote the Crespi book. I sold it all. Fortunately, I had a business that owned a big warehouse. So what I had done was I worked for Gillette for a while. It wasit was basically an operation with an advance guard. And they said, "You're out of your mind." I would say George Abrams is the kind of collector that, you know, is, you know, someoneI spent, I don't know, nine hours with him on Sunday. But I didn't buy it with much of a focus on the painting itself. JUDITH RICHARDS: Just that it's private. And so theyI put it on a seven-year loan there, and then at the end of seven years, there were a number of stipulations. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Oh, all the time, yeah. You know, but in general, I mean, it's usuallyshe has a pretty good eye and I respect her. They had good people; they had good people. And recently, Milwaukeeso I love Tanya Paul; she's the curator at Milwaukee. My partner and I were going through Plovdiv, and I went to what used to be the Communist Workers' Party headquarters in town, which is now kind of a little makeshift museum. Had you been involved with other institutions before then? This is a taste period that is clearly distinct from the prior taste period and, you know, probably will be distinct from the future taste period, because if we don't evolve in that way, we will basically fail. And heby the time I knew him, he had retired as, I think, the 50- or 60-year chief engineer of Grumman Aerospace, sofor their plants, not for their aircraft manufacturing. Yes. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So it's a simple fact of plentiful quantities, disparity in quality that I could see and discern, and you could have entry-level objects at $50. JUDITH RICHARDS: Yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: it's ano, it's a part gift, part sale, and in the end, it hadthe strings that I had, they met them all, which were that they're going to do a focal exhibition on paleontology in thebecause they're doing a re-jigger of many of their exhibitions. So I love to do a little bit of everything. Well, I mean, there was a collector-dealer, I think. So that doesn't happen. Mr. Schorer is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in the start-up acquisition and development of small and mid-sized companies. You know, they can figure outso, JUDITH RICHARDS: I think I came across the name Schorer. The discovery hinges on the unlikely meeting of two men: Clifford Schorer, an entrepreneur and art dealer who specializes in recovering the lost works of Old Masters, and Brainerd Phillipson, a. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I do not. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you had developed an interest in architecture? And they are identical sizes; they're both signed; and to me, this is the project that shows Procaccini as the truly important artist that he was, not simply a Lombard artist, but a great artist. So we went down thereat 13, when he moved down there. But, but then, you know, many, many years later, basically, it was all dissipated. CLIFFORD SCHORER: these are bigger projects. clifford schorer winslow homer. And then the real estate. How long did you continue collecting in that field? CLIFFORD SCHORER: they were also a very closed set. You know, and I was trying to do my best to go along with that because I thought it was a ticket to yet another city. JUDITH RICHARDS: Okay, rabbit-skin glue. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Sure. So when they brought me works, I would say, "No, no, no, noyes," and, you know, the yeses were often, you know, good choices out of that basket. But that's very time-consuming, because you have to be your own registrar. JUDITH RICHARDS: Is that a new revelation? I needed to think about walls. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I always liked authenticity in the architecture. The auction house will charge me zero." He was a dealer and, you know, and an ennobled Italian, and it was in his collection. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Well, for me, personally, I think that, obviously, I feel much happier when something is on public view, and there's somebody telling someone something about it. Their father was in the artwas sort of a discoverer. So, you know, we've had the gamut; you know, we've had the gamut. [00:14:00], So the little paintings on my Chinese export porcelain, the engravings on the Columbus series of stamps, theyou know, all of those things, all of those, you know, progressing all the way up to, you know, big, narrative, allegorical paintings of the Baroque: those are all this kind of marriage of conception and highly skilled craft. He started his career as a freelance illustrator. And I know them, and I know the pictures, and I won't say more than that. Come to it if you want. CLIFFORD SCHORER: and previously had been unassociated. A Massachussetts man filed suit against Sotheby's on Monday, saying he's the rightful owner. Where you. So, you know, I love that. 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. And I remember having some words with Mr. Lewis about his mud horse. And also, my grandparents wanted me to be a child. [00:54:00]. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I know that Colnaghi has managed to navigate those waters for the last 60-odd years since the originalyou knowwell, even more than 60 for thesince the original founders were out of the picture. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Hence, the doorway into paintings. I could see the entry drug of drawings is one that I probably never would have left, because it'sthat's actually a little broader a field. I have a very common eye, meaning that, you know, obviously, I can go through his catalogues, and I call him up about four lots, and he says, "Yes, you and every other dealer," meaning that, you know, of course, those are the four lots that, you know, that the 12 people that he knows are going to call him about. So in that archive, every time I open any given artist, I will find something astonishing that I didn't know about andyou know, so thatto me, that's justit's, like, literally a treat a day. So you have to have a different model. When the mainland Chinese entered the marketplace, it was all changed. And then, you know, I appreciate it; even if they don't know who I am, I appreciate it. [00:28:00]. And I've been in Boston ever since. I had to advocate and argue for it, and that did sort of achieve the goal I had set for it, which is a relatively universal acceptance. Are there any people there who sort of are the continuation? How to say Clifford J. Schorer in English? JUDITH RICHARDS: everything that's going on. I mean, as a matter of fact, CLIFFORD SCHORER: There was a day when I all of sudden said, you know, I can collect paintings. World War II. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose. Race, War, and Winslow Homer The artist's experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Whatever you want to do, it's fine. [00:02:00]. CLIFFORD SCHORER: History. JUDITH RICHARDS: You talked about "everything." CLIFFORD SCHORER: I, you know, I'll let, CLIFFORD SCHORER: I'll let posterity decide that. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I'm starting to meet people. [00:31:59]. [Affirmative.] CLIFFORD SCHORER: No, no, no, no, no. JUDITH RICHARDS: Climate-controlled art storage? I mean, obviously, the team is small, so we have to pick our battles carefully. He said, "Who are you?" I said, "One of the greatest bronzes on the planet is in Plovdiv in the Communist Workers' Party headquarters in a plastic box." CLIFFORD SCHORER: So, eventually, I was accepted to a few colleges in Boston. Winslow Homer Biography. And if the auction house can earncan tell a client, "Well, we're not going to charge you anything; we'll charge the buyer. CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I would say most of that traveling was on my own. But we have some legacy of where certain pieces went, and I was able to track some pieces down later in life. Those people are notthey don't exist now, and they don't exist for a lot of reasons. If I quit my day job, then I would put an extraordinary amount of undue pressure on the gallery to be earning period by period, and I think that would be to the detriment of the galley. JUDITH RICHARDS: I notice that there was a major contribution from, maybe, from your business to the Museum of Science. That'sthose are the best. I'm thinking that we want Agnew's to be scaled for the marketplace, and I don't think that being that large is the correct scale today. She just, actually, sold one of my earliest acquisitions to one of her collectors because, you know, now I'm not so focused on that. He says, "You want to have lunch tomorrow?". You know, bringing an efficiency model to a museum can destroy a museum. We know that T Dowell, Tylden B Dowell, and five other persons also lived at this address, perhaps within a different time frame. And also, you have to catch them at their exact moment in time, because they erode as they emerge, so if you don't find them as soon as they start to emerge, then, you know, you lose them to time. I mean, sure. I mean, I'm trying to think. I had no idea why I was fired. But I was happy to help. And we're not really going to move into, you know, Ab Ex or anything, you know, sort ofWorld War II, I think, is kind of where I get a nosebleed, because it starts to get into other people's knowledge base and other people's territory. And eventually we agreed to part friends. So I was going to the library at Harvard and at other places and reading the catalogues for all the Drouot sales and, you know. JUDITH RICHARDS: So you talked about what's important and what was significant art historically. CLIFFORD SCHORER: That's all over the place. So, yes, I mean, you're talking about a razor-thin equation which is, you know, buy, consign, don't buy. Yeah, they close rooms. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And actually go to the apartments where they were. Is that the case? But for me, it's the combination of the conception and the craft, so the conception is very important to me; knowing that [Guido] Reni stole his figure from the Apollo Belvedere because it was here when he was there is interesting to me and Iyou know, to find that out, if I didn't know it before, either by accident or by some kind person sharing it with me, I'myou know, it adds a layer to my experience of the art that's different from my aesthetic experience of the art. CLIFFORD SCHORER: It was a good, you know, three or four years of financing deals that, you know, I found particularly exciting and interesting, and the paintings that we were ablethat I was able to sort of touch in an abstract way were paintings I could never otherwise touch. In the archive there are astonishing surprises. But the languages that I really learned and loved were French and the Slavic languages. Clifford lived on month day 1984, at address, North Carolina. And, you know, I basically said, you know, "Is there anything you'd like from me?" Again, an opportunity. But I wouldin France and Europe, I generallynobody had the money to just go wander around. And those days are now over, because the auction companies have created a broader market. [00:52:00]. I've also had some crazy requests that I won't honor, you know, museums in France that want to do awant to recreate the human digestive system, and they want toyou know, they want to have thisI have a painting by [Pieter] Huys, H-U-Y-S, and it's ait's this screaming woman. Someone mentioned the name Mark Fisch to meJon Landau. So that is something I did with them. CLIFFORD SCHORER: And everywhere I went, I met people. The circle was so small that you were sitting at a table with everybody that could be interested in that same object, at the same table, and you could actually talk to all of them. JUDITH RICHARDS: And you talked about enjoying lending. [00:04:00]. JUDITH RICHARDS: You just didn't want to think about selling? It's King Seuthes III. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I was 16 going on 17, yeah. [Laughs.] CLIFFORD SCHORER: Yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: For paintings, well, we have to divide that now. Then I went back off to high school. JUDITH RICHARDS: in an understood way to further this. I think they also probably were in New York at that point. JUDITH RICHARDS: [Laughs.] They would have Saturday gatherings where people would set up folding tables. JUDITH RICHARDS: Are you involved in creating those settings in the booths, as you described? CLIFFORD SCHORER: They painted half a million paintings in the Dutch Netherlands between 1600 and 1650. They werethey wereI mean, in France, of course. I packed it up in the overhead. [00:08:03], CLIFFORD SCHORER: Chris Apostle from Sotheby's. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I was a willful and independent child. [They laugh. We did a Baroque-style porcelain fireplace by a Japanese artist named [Katsuyo] Aoki, this amazingly modern, white porcelain, beautiful fireplace. JUDITH RICHARDS: What was the interest in traveling through those countries? But the problem is, New England is dry as a bone in the winter, so you have, you know, you have extremes, and I think the differenceif you kept a painting in England for 350 years, if you kept the painting in New England for 35 years, I bet it would have far more wear and tear in New England. If I saw something in the shop, I would buy it. So that's why it's amazing now, because we're at a time when people are out hunting all the time, which is great. CLIFFORD SCHORER: My understanding is it's around 1911 and '12, yeah. CLIFFORD SCHORER: So I wrote back, and I said, you know, "I told you, you've got to have kids." Schorer. CLIFFORD SCHORER: when I bought the company that year. I'm done. CLIFFORD SCHORER: I think so, yes. 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