The Nantucket Summer Antiques Show returns this to the idyllic island of Nantucket for four days of fine art and antique exploration. The show features more than 30 handpicked fine art and antiques dealers from America and beyond, offering art and antiques in every specialty, including marine pieces, traditional and contemporary art, fine antiques and many more. Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924), Coming Through the Rye. Oil on canvas, 32½ x 26 in., signed and inscribed Paris.

“It’s been going for almost 40 years and has had an incredible roster of dealers from the United States and abroad showing a vast array of high quality antiques and art,” says David Bernard, Nantucket Summer Antiques Show liaison. “Nantucket may seem as if it’s in the middle of the Atlantic ocean (it’s not), but when the population in the summer swells from 5,000 islanders to over 40,000 it is certainly in the mainstream of art collecting.”Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921), New York Yacht Club Race, 1878. Oil on canvas, 22 x 36 in., signed and dated 1878. Courtesy Rehs Galleries.

Every edition of the Nantucket Summer of Antiques Show includes a wide range of American artists—in addition to British and Continental works—and this year is certainly no exception. Bernard cites Rehs Galleries in New York, which will be bringing to the event a superb and dramatic marine painting, New York Yacht Club Race, 1878, by Antonio Jacobsen; as well as a seashore scene, Surf at Low Tide by Edward Henry Potthast; and a recently discovered work by Daniel Ridgway Knight, Coming Through the Rye. Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), Surf at Low Tide. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. signed, titled and addressed on a label on verso. Courtesy Rehs Galleries.

James Gale Tyler (1855-1931), Rocky Coastal Scene with Crashing Waves, 1903. Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 in., signed and dated lower left. Courtesy Roberto Frietas.

“Another dealer, Roberto Frietas of Stonington Connecticut brings…some wonderful, rare artwork up to the late 20th century. This year he will be showing two particularly interesting paintings, the first of which is by American James Gale Taylor, circa 1903, Rocky Coastal Scene with Crashing Waves. Another is by contemporary artist, Stephen Scott Young, Decoy, circa 1906,” says Bernard. Other dealers in the 2022 show include David Brooker Fine Art, William Cook and Finnegan Gallery, to name a few.The Nantucket Summer Antiques Show opens with a preview party on the evening of August 4, benefitting the Nantucket Historical Association as part of that organization’s Nantucket by Design. The show continues through August 8. Hours are Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Monday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.—

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