Bob Frishman, Fellow Of The National Association Of Watch And Clock Collectors, To Lecture At The Horological Society Of New York

For more than 2,000 years, timekeepers have appeared in art. An ancient Roman mosaic depicting Plato’s Academy shows a pedestal-mounted sundial, a 1285 manuscript illuminates a water clock, several sixteenth century Renaissance portraits by Titian feature small gilt mechanical table clocks, American folk and genre painters include shelf, banjo, and tall clocks in their domestic scenes, Marc Chagall often depicts a German wall clock from his Eastern European boyhood home, and Jamie Wyeth’s 1994 view on Monhegan Island has his teenage model Orca Bates posed next to a stately grandfather clock.

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