American Folk Art

Contact

• New York

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    John Hays

    Deputy Chairman, Christie’s Americas

    John Hays

    Deputy Chairman, Christie’s Americas

    John Hays, who joined Christie’s in 1983, is considered the premier auctioneer of Americana sales and has presided over such landmark events as the auction of The Collection Mr. & Mrs. Eddy Nicholson (1995) and the unprecedented sale of the Nicholas Brown Chippendale desk-and-bookcase, a $12.1 million result which remains the world auction record for American Furniture (1989). In January 2006, Mr. Hays directed the highest selling single-owner collection of Americana - The Property from the Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair featuring the seminal portrait by Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at Princeton, which sold for $21.2 million, setting a work auction record for an American portrait. Another highlight included a Taunton, Massachusetts William and Mary diminutive paint decorated pine chest-of-drawers by Robert Crossman, which realized $2.9 million. Mr. Hays brings tremendous expertise and insight to the field of Americana. He is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a BA in Art History from Kenyon College.

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    Sallie Glover

    Associate Specialist, Americana

    Sallie Glover

    Associate Specialist, Americana

    sglover@christies.com

    Since joining the department in 2015, Sallie Glover has been instrumental in the successful sale of works of important American furniture and paintings by seminal American folk artists such as Joshua Johnson and Edward Hicks. Sallie also oversaw the landmark white glove sale of bird decoys from The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, which achieved a world auction record for a swan decoy. She received her BA in Art History and American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has completed the Winterthur Institute.

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    Cara Zimmerman

    Head of Americana and Outsider Art

    Cara Zimmerman

    Head of Americana and Outsider Art

    CZimmerman@christies.com+1 212 636 2230

    Cara Zimmerman is a Vice President, Head of Americana and Outsider Art. Since joining the company in 2014, Cara has developed and expanded Christie’s Outsider Art sales, creating stand-alone auctions for the category and achieving world auction records for important Outsider artists including William Edmondson, William Hawkins, Bill Traylor, and Carlo Zinelli, among many others. She has also been instrumental in highly successful Folk Art sales, which have achieved top prices for works by artists including Edward Hicks, Ammi Phillips, Wilhelm Schimmel, and Samuel Addison and Ruth Whittier Shute.
    
    Before joining Christie’s, Cara worked for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and served as Executive Director for the Foundation for Self-Taught Artists in Philadelphia. She has edited and written for catalogues published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill, San Jose State University, and the University of Delaware University Museums. Cara received her AB from Harvard University and her MA from the University of Delaware. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Delaware.