50% OFF EVERYTHING (SATURDAY) Fabulous Sale of a Life Well-Lived (Art-Ephemera-Dolls)

You do not want to miss this opportunity to take a glimpse into the life of the Artist.  Please join us for a very special sale reflecting the passions of beloved local artist Sylvia Kleindinst, paper doll artist extraordinaire, painter and avid ephemera and doll collector. 

Sylvia saw beauty all around her from the rusty bits and bobs collected over the years to snips of ribbon she included in her assemblages. 

As a young child, Sylvia would spend hours in the dark at the local movie theatre, drawing the outfits of the stars she saw on the silver screen.  This early exposure inspired a life-long passion for fashion and later in her life, would rekindle her love of paper dolls.

Sylvia studied art education, receiving multiple degrees.  She began her teaching career at the campus school in Brockport,NY and Spencerport,NY and later Lancaster Central School in elementary art.  She also worked with Gowanda Central School teacher Diane Dye to create an art exchange with students from Russia.  Diane’s American Indian students were asked to produce artwork that portrayed the Seneca Nation way of life.  In return they received more than 50 artworks from Russian students, ages 12 to 17, depicting every day life and Russian fairytales. 

Sylvia was a fearless creator, always experimenting and evolving.  Her art has gone through various periods from drawing paper doll sets to using vintage photos as inspiration for drawings and as primary elements in her mixed media collages. Sylvia also embraced technology utilizing Photoshop as yet another medium to explore and create.

Explore the life of this amazing individual and take home a piece of the world that inspired her each and every day. 

Included in the sale will be a vast collection of ephemera and books (fashion, ballet, art as well as antiquarian). 

There is a huge collection of early sheet music with fabulous graphics, vintage Ballet Russe programs, scrapbooks, old photo albums, old photos, cabinet cards and paper dolls.

The vintage magazine collection is stellar and includes: 

McCall’s (1900s, teens, twenties, thirties, forties,  fifties, sixties), The Munsey (1890s and 1900s), Vogue (teens, twenties, thirties, forties,  fifties, sixties, seventies), Modes et Travaux (1930s), Vanity Fair (1930s), Harper’s Bazaar (teens, twenties, thirties, forties), Cosmopolitan (1900s, 1920s, 1940s), The Theatre (1900s, 1910s, 1930s), The Delineator (1890s, 1900s, teens, 1920s), The Dance (1920s, 1930s), Photoplay (1940s, 1950s), Motion Picture, Hollywood Life Stories, Screen Album, Movie Star parade, Screen Stories, Hollywood Life Stories (1950s), Movie Story (1940s, 1950s),  Movie Life, Modern Screen, Movie Stars Parade, Movie Land, Silver Screen, Movies, Movie Story (1940s), Theatre Magazine (1920s, 1930s), Good Housekeeping (teens, 1940s), Life (1930s, 1940s, 1950s), Woman’s Home Companion (teens, twenties, thirties, forties), The Ladies Home Journal (1900s, teens, 1920s), L’Illustration (1920s, 1930s, 1940s), Stage (1930s), The Sketch (1900s), The Designer (1900s, 1920s), Woman’s World (1920s), Pictoral Review (1900s, teens, 1920s), Children’s Vogue (1920s), Vogue Pattern Book (1940s, 1950s), The Ladies World (teens), The American (1940s), Life (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s), Needlecraft (1930s), The Designer (1900s, 1920s), Woman’s World (1920s), Pictoral Review (1900s, teens, twenties), Children’s Vogue (1920s), Vogue Pattern Book (1940s, 1950s), The Ladies World (teens), The American (1940s), Marie Claire (1930s), Woman’s Day (1940s), Screenland (1930s), Flair (1950s), Children’s Activities (1930s), Childlife (1930s), Play Mate (1930s, 1950s)

There are loads of current issues as well as boxes of vintage magazine loose pages perfect for collage art and colored advertising plates and covers for framing.

There is a lovely doll collection which includes Gene and Tonner fashion dolls, Effanbee, Madame Alexander, Ideal Toy, composition bride dolls, Shirley Temple, Kish, Bluette and art dolls.  There are bins of doll accessories and handmade doll clothing including charming feed sack dresses.

Also included in the sale are: Joe Namath 1968 Topps pop-up card, vintage 1960s robot tin toys, vintage clothing, an abundance of high-end art supplies in of a variety of mediums, tons of rubber stamps, sewing patterns (lots of vintage ones), fancy yarns, roving wool, vintage trims and sewing notions galore, vintage textiles and bins of fabric perfect for quilting and doll clothing.  

There will be a substantial amount of original art created by Sylvia herself in various mediums.  Her collection of Russian prints and originals will be available for purchase along with original paper dolls/clothing by various artists as well as collages, photos, prints, altered and hand-made books etc.

Of special interest is a spectacular hand-made cypress and oak table with copper accents made by Larry Kinney.

Sign up sheet will be posted at the residence on Thursday the 7th at 9:00am.