Art Dealer Diaries Podcast

Ted Trotta: Native American Art Dealer/Expert - Epi. 42, Host Dr. Mark Sublette

March 20, 2019 Mark Sublette Season 1 Episode 42
Art Dealer Diaries Podcast
Ted Trotta: Native American Art Dealer/Expert - Epi. 42, Host Dr. Mark Sublette
Show Notes

Ted Trotta shares his experience working as a specialist in Antique Indian Art for PBS's Antique Roadshow.  Ted Trotta early life with the Vietnam war and his struggles and finding his way as a contentious objector. He explains how he started as an antique dealer before falling in love with Native American art. How Tony Berlant shared his knowledge of how to tell bayeta yarn in early Navajo blankets. Trotta-Bono, Ted Trotta's company which he shares with his wife Anna has been dealing in Native American antiquities art for nearly 40 years.