Timeless Antiques with History to Share
May 18, 2021
3 minutes
Text by Katherine Cloninger Ellis
Photography by John O’Hagan
t the young age of 16, Dr. John E. Crews excitedly purchased his very first antique—a Grand Tour bronze (a sculpture of sorts) made in the 1880s. It was perhaps a peculiar acquisition for an Indiana farm boy, but there was something special about the object that spoke to him. “I saw it, and I could immediately appreciate the object aesthetically,” he recalls.
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