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Volume 32 Number 5 September-October 2020
SKIING HISTORY
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Corporate Sponsorship • Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On a cold Manhattan night in January, there are close to 50 people sitting in the loft space of Swann Galleries, not far from Gramercy Park. Another half-dozen are connected by phone from Aspen, Stowe and various European cities. Their attention is focused on a circa-1935 poster by Sascha Maurer depicting a woman in a single chairlift, her wooden skis pointed skyward, the profile of Smugglers’ Notch, Vt., in the background. Quickly a finger stabs the air here, a numbered paddle pops up over there, and before long a gavel curtly signals that a deal is done at $1,100. A few minutes later, all eyes are on a brightly hued poster of skiers circling the Round House restaurant at Sun Valley. The gavel closes the bidding at $3,000. At the center of the action is Nicholas Lowry, a featured appraiser on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow, auctioning off yet another selection of vintage ski posters. “Ski posters are bought for the destination, the artist and the design, among other reasons,” says Lowry, 35, the president of Swann Galleries, a New York—based auction house established in 1941. At Swann, Lowry also serves as The Art of the Hill