WEBVTT 00:01.766 --> 00:04.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I served on Senator McGovern's staff for several years. One day, 00:04.933 --> 00:09.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% he opened up his vault and invited the staff to come in to choose various things 00:09.033 --> 00:14.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% if they were so interested in them. And I found this. And I said, "Senator McGovern, 00:16.100 --> 00:19.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% may I have this Calder poster?" And he said, "Well, sure." For many years, it remained in 00:21.200 --> 00:24.100 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the closet because my late wife didn't like it. Even though she also worked for McGovern... 00:24.100 --> 00:26.133 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPRAISER: (chuckles) Oh, right? 00:26.133 --> 00:28.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: (laughs) ...she did not like it. And then unfortunately, she passed in 2014. But 00:28.133 --> 00:32.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% a year later, I said, "Honey, it's going on the wall." I'm very proud of it, uh, 00:32.666 --> 00:37.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% 'cause it reminds me of my affiliation with, with, uh, the late senator, and, uh, which was 00:39.933 --> 00:43.400 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% a grand experience. But I've never known anything else about it other than Alexander Calder did it. 00:45.266 --> 00:47.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPRAISER: McGovern, of course, 00:47.200 --> 00:50.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% was the senator from South Dakota who ran against Richard Nixon in 1972. 00:50.400 --> 00:51.366 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% GUEST: Correct. APPRAISER: Doomed, doomed race. 00:51.366 --> 00:52.900 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: Doomed race, doomed race. 00:52.900 --> 00:55.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Nixon won by a landslide, two-third majority... 00:55.733 --> 00:57.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: You've... 00:57.333 --> 00:58.933 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% APPRAISER: McGovern... 00:58.933 --> 01:01.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: We carried Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. 01:01.166 --> 01:03.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: I feel like I'm, I'm, I'm teaching my professor here. (both laugh) McGovern, 01:03.900 --> 01:08.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% of course, ran on a anti-Vietnam War ticket. Nixon, not so. Calder, we know, 01:11.033 --> 01:15.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% was also vehemently against the Vietnam War, and worked on this as a contribution to the 01:17.800 --> 01:22.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% campaign. And these lithographs, which were done in a limited edition, were sold to raise 01:24.833 --> 01:29.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% funds for the McGovern campaign. Calder would make watercolor gouaches of these designs, 01:31.066 --> 01:35.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% which were then printed as lithographs. I actually know who did the printmaking... 01:36.433 --> 01:38.200 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Hm. 01:38.200 --> 01:39.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: ...and the work with Calder, 'cause it was my father-in-law. 01:39.033 --> 01:40.833 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: You're kidding. 01:40.833 --> 01:42.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: His name was George Goodstadt. He's no longer with us today. 01:42.500 --> 01:44.733 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: (laughs) 01:44.733 --> 01:47.133 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: But I have a close connection to these, too, just as you do with McGovern. My, 01:47.133 --> 01:50.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% my father-in-law was, was the printmaker working with Calder on these. 01:50.966 --> 01:53.200 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: That's unbelievable. 01:53.200 --> 01:57.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And then they were published by an outfit in New York called Styria Studios, 01:58.100 --> 01:59.300 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% and you can see the blind stamp... 01:59.300 --> 02:01.433 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 02:01.433 --> 02:03.900 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: ...for Styria down there, and signed by the artist. All of them were made 02:03.900 --> 02:08.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% in an edition of 200. This one says "McGovern for Government." There are other versions in color, 02:11.433 --> 02:14.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% also black and white, that say "McGovern for McGovernment." 02:14.333 --> 02:16.400 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Had no idea. 02:16.400 --> 02:20.433 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: And Calder's telltale, very characteristic geometric designs around them. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.933 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes, yes. 02:24.933 --> 02:26.533 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: So it does scream out at you as a Calder. They're popular on, 02:26.533 --> 02:30.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% on different levels, because of the historical nature of them, 02:30.300 --> 02:35.233 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% which you don't get with a lot of Calder's art, and what that campaign stood for. 02:35.233 --> 02:37.400 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Mm-hmm. 02:37.400 --> 02:39.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And also for just the artistry of what Calder did for a promotional poster, 02:39.833 --> 02:41.933 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% if you will. A lithograph poster. 02:41.933 --> 02:43.500 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes. 02:43.500 --> 02:45.566 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Yours looks like it's in great shape. Overall, 02:45.566 --> 02:47.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% it looks very much like it probably did when you got it out of the, the closet... 02:47.633 --> 02:49.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Sure does. 02:49.200 --> 02:50.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: ...in, in McGovern's office in... (chuckles) So have 02:50.400 --> 02:52.266 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% you ever had it valued? GUEST: Never. 02:52.266 --> 02:56.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: I would put a replacement value on this at around $5,000. 02:58.200 --> 03:01.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% GUEST: Well, I'm, I, I do cherish it, and will continue to do so.