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(Auction)"Environs of Milford" Tops American Art Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
A 142-lot auction of American art at Sotheby's in New York City on the morning of September 17 totaled $3,740,250 (with buyers' premiums). The sell-through rate was 62%.
Sotheby's offered bidders the opportunity to bid online before the live auction-a first for one of its American ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Native American Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"We always had modern material sprinkled around our December and June auctions," said Ingmars Lindbergs, Bonhams' Native American art department director, of his first auction to focus on contemporary and 20th-century modern Native American art at Bonhams in Los Angeles.
"Now there is more material in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)100% Sold at Litchfield Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Litchfield Auctions
Litchfield Auctions' sale of jewelry on September 15 yielded a "white glove" result-100% sold-with "most items selling at or above estimate," according to a post-sale press release. The 360-lot auction realized $960,500 with buyers' premiums.
"With a live crowd of auction-goers present at the gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Third Time's the Charm at Thompson's Point Show
Maine Antiques Exposition at Thompson's Point, Portland, Maine
When I approached the entrance to Goosefare Antiques and Promotions' Maine Antiques Exposition at Thompson's Point, Portland, Maine, held on September 14 and 15, I passed Maine and Texas dealer Gordon Stanley heading out after making the rounds of the show. I asked ... (Read More)
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(Auction)September Is a Very Hot Month in New Orleans
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
Fall is famously a strong season at the Neal Auction Company. While collectors anticipate the Louisiana Purchase Auction in November, the fall estates auction, held this year on September 14 and 15, has become a major occasion with strong results of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art+Design and African American Fine Art
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
Treadway Gallery continued to show its influence in the market for African American art during its auction in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 2019. While the Art+Design session featured an array of decorative arts typical of Treadway's sales, a session of African American art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Weschler's Sale Not Jinxed by Friday the 13th
Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers, Rockville, Maryland
Photos courtesy Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers
Weschler's Auctioneers and Appraisers held its cataloged fall Capital Collections auction on September 13. The sale consisted of 259 lots of fine antiques and contemporary art from across most categories. While there were exceptions, this sale was dominated by examples ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Connoisseurs of Blue Glass Enjoy Session II of Aprill Collection
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
"There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine," wrote the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954). Those who desire blue antique glass and bottles couldn't agree more.
Session II of the sale of the Dr. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sammons Sentenced to Prison
Timothy Sammons, 63, a former art sales agent operating in New York and London, was sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for stealing at least $10 million through a criminal scheme involving the sale of valuable artwork.
On July 2 Sammons pleaded guilty to all 15 counts in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Blue Dog" Benefit
Leading the Benefit Shop Foundation's Red Carpet auction on September 11 was Dreaming of You, one of George Rodrigue's "Blue Dog" paintings, which sold for $25,600 (includes buyer's premium). The title, Dreaming of You, and the year 2000 are handwritten on the reverse of the painting.
"This signed painting was acquired ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ivan the Terrible Returns Home
On September 9 a ceremony was held in the gallery of The Potomack Company in Alexandria, Virginia. The event was the culmination of nearly two years of research, investigation, and diplomatic discussions related to the return of a large oil painting to Ukraine. Among those present at the repatriation ceremonies ... (Read More)
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(Auction)There's a New Kid on the (Auction) Block
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Andrew Davis is the answer to the always troubling question of why younger people aren't getting into the antiques business. The answer is that they are. Davis isn't new to the auction business, but he is new to his own auction business. He held his first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Valuable Words to Remember: Hunter Family
Wooten & Wooten Auction & Appraisal, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
When antiques show dealers query your reporter, their questions are always the same: "What's selling?" For dealers in the South, Jeremy Wooten's auction on September 7 in Camden, South Carolina, provided a quick and reliable answer: furniture made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art of the West
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The American West has long fascinated historians, filmmakers, and artists. The unsurpassed beauty of rugged mountain ranges, wide-open vistas, spectacular sunsets, and free-roaming wildlife has been a source of inspiration and imagination for Americans since speculators and settlers first began venturing into new territories ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art and Americana in a New Location
Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers
A sandstone carving tucked in a corner of the room said a lot about the country Americana sale held by Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers on September 7 at the company's new location, the former Municipal Light Plant in Columbus, Ohio.
In ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chester County Antiques Show Gets New Managers
"Change is good," said Allison Snavely, the director of development at the Chester County Historical Society (CCHS), in response to being asked why the CCHS is changing managers when Wesley Sessa had kept the Chester County Historical Society Antiques & Art Show running for 37 years.
Sessa had recruited new dealers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Mall Owner Charged with 34 Counts of Conversion
Antiques Mall Owner Charged with 34 Counts of Conversion
On February 14 Parke County (Indiana) Prosecutor Steve Cevengos requested that the Indiana State Police investigate Jill Dixon, 54, of Cayuga, Indiana, owner of Timeless and Classic Antique Mall LLC, for failing to reimburse consignors. The findings of the investigation were presented ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Have a Little Faith
We spend a lot of time on the road, and there are only so many rounds of the "alphabet game" one can stand-or only so many columns one can hear hashed out (if you asked the kids)-so we have become huge fans of podcasts. Podcasts might seem daunting and newfangled, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Blackwell Auctions Recovers Antique Silver Stolen in 2011
Blackwell Auctions, Clearwater, Florida, returned several dozen antique silver items, including an 1804 Saunders Pitman coin silver pitcher and tumbler set, after the auction house discovered that the collection had been looted from a Baltimore silver dealer, Imperial Half Bushel, in 2011.
"A retired dealer consigned a box of assorted silver ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith Labor Day Auction
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
The large auction hall was full to overflowing for the annual William A. Smith, Inc., Labor Day antiques auction in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on September 2. At least part of the reason was that Smith does things the old-fashioned ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Alleges He Was Suckered
New York City collector Stuart Pivar thinks he got suckered, and on July 16 he filed a lawsuit in Supreme Court of the State of New York against attorney John McFadden. The case revolves around the sculpture Mlle. Pogany II by Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957).
According to court papers, in April 2019 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
Baltimore, Maryland
The 39th annual edition of the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show was held over Labor Day weekend, August 29-September 1, at the Baltimore Convention Center. Officially named the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, the event is staged and managed by the Palm Beach Show Group. Following its format from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Auction Signals Change of Season
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
By the beginning of September the Maine summer visitor season is almost over. As he's done for the last several decades, auctioneer Robert Foster laid out his traditional end-of-summer Labor Day weekend auction in Newcastle, Maine, held this year on September 1. He offered the usual ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Wins Arbitration Case against Christie's and Collectrium
In 2017 Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, filed suit against Christie's and Collectrium, a Christie's company.
Heritage accused Christie's and Collectrium of "scraping" the website of Heritage Auctions to appropriate information and images without permission. Heritage alleged copyright infringement, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, violation of the Digital Millennium ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2019
So many splendid summer sales from which to choose and, as a consequence, a good many wonderful things by necessity held over for future issues.
A is for Antiquities, and this month's selection includes a very expensive but trouble-making pharaoh before presenting a selection that has a definite animal theme to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Winter Show Announces 2020 Exhibitors
Collectors and those who look forward each year to the grand January conclave of connoisseurs now known as The Winter Show (sans the word antiques) anticipate the publication of the list of dealers new to the show in the same way sports fans follow the NFL Draft. New players in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diamonds Are an Auctioneer's Best Friends
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Rockland, Maine
After diverting much of his attention to appraisal work for the Robert Indiana estate, Bruce Gamage is back in full auctioneering mode. Historically, his late August sales have kicked off a week of wall-to-wall Maine auctions. But with various other scheduling changes, this year his August ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Firewall Holds
The Americana market, which has faced serious questions, faced a crucial test in early August. The six shows that make up Antiques Week in New Hampshire-now the most important cluster of American antiques shows-provided a reading of the pulse of the market. If New Hampshire Antiques Week encountered the problems ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifty Years in the Trade for Veilleux
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
This year, Kaja Veilleux marks a half-century of working in the antiques trade. As the owner of and lead auctioneer for Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, he celebrated the 50-year mark with a strong three-day sale from August 23 to 25, topped by a contemporary marine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Log Cabins and a Bit of Buzz
Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show, Oakland, Illinois
Christy Morrow was enjoying herself. From inside the schoolhouse at Independence Pioneer Village, just north of Oakland, Illinois, Morrow was one of about a dozen dealers set up during the fall installment of the Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show, held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 2019
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Head of a Young Man (Tete de jeune homme), 1923, grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 241/2" x 18?". Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. (c) 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
-Through October 13 -Brooklyn, New York
Showcasing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shem Drowne Weathervane Acquired by Museum of Old Newbury
When a historical relic that anchors a town's history is acquired by the town, it is a time for celebration. Space, Light, and Ornament: Early Meeting Houses of Old Newbury,an exhibition at the Museum of Old Newbury, Newburyport, Massachusetts, celebrates the acquisition by the museum of a gilded weathercock made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armed Robbery at Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
On August 23 deputies from the Orange County Sheriff's Office responded to a call about an armed robbery at the Mebane Antique Auction Gallery in Mebane, North Carolina. Two men had entered the business through an unlocked door and robbed the owner at gunpoint. A short time later, deputies arrested ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Summer Show
Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, Damariscotta, Maine
The 22nd Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, held this year on August 21, looked like a carbon copy of last year's show. The long-term relationship with the Round Top Farm is history, and the new location at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Names Emerge from Rural Maine
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Visit a Charles M. Talbot Associates auction, and you might feel as if you've stumbled into some kind of time warp. The old Talbot homestead is nestled in the foothills of Turner, Maine, overlooking a beautiful vista of the White Mountains. On a clear day, ... (Read More)
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(Show)"A Tradition of Trust and Integrity"
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
The Ellsworth Antiques Show at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, which ran this year from August 15 to 17, opened on a pleasantly warm day, unbedeviled by weather concerns. But it was a day following a spectacular 3% drop in the S & ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Canes, Collectors, and Corn
On August 15, at the end of a cornfield, just a tractor's drive from Grand Rapids-no, not the big one in Michigan (population 188,031), but the two-block-long version (pop. 965) in Ohio and not too far-as the crows fly, and they often do-from Toledo, we were at Whalen Realty & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Forke Collection of Americana Sold
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
A New England collection formed in Nebraska speaks of love. The collection of Don and Marilyn Forke was gathered carefully and in meticulous detail over the last half century. They kept records of the objects they acquired: from whom, from where, and provenance, construction, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The NHADA Show 2019
New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
Several weeks after Antiques Week in New Hampshire was finished, dealer Arthur Liverant succinctly summed it up: "It's the womb of American antiques."
Liverant, whose family business, Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, is approaching its 100th year selling antiques, set up for the 15th ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques In Manchester 2019
Manchester, New Hampshire
Antiques In Manchester: The Collector's Fair set up shop in the Sullivan Arena on the campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 7 and 8. This year was the eighth incarnation of the show, which continues to get better.
The 68-dealer show uses the tag ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Collector's Prime Directive: Be Prepared
A seemingly unremarkable event got me thinking about a broader antiques-collecting issue. Recently I received an e-mail from well-known dealers who were having a sale. The correspondence was nicely done-good photos, tempting prices. An Indian basket in two or three colors was listed. My wife and I had a place ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty-Five Years, and the Sky Is Still Blue
MidWeek One Day Antiques Fair, Manchester, New Hampshire
When Frank Gaglio, manager of Barn Star Productions, greeted us as we walked into his 25th MidWeek show in New Hampshire (23 held in Manchester and two in nearby Concord), part of Antiques Week, he said, "When I first suggested another antiques show ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration 2019
Concord, New Hampshire
"I had a great gate, and the quality was high," said promoter Peter Mavris about his show-Americana Celebration, the third event of Antiques Week in New Hampshire, held on August 6 at the Douglas N. Everett Arena in Concord, New Hampshire. "I thought it went great, I really ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Specialist Kathy Wong described Bonhams' August 6 auction of California and Western paintings and sculpture as "very strong-especially great for late summer standards, but great overall."
Late summer sales can be "hit or miss," she said, "with many clients away on holiday. But there was a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Deerfield Antiques Show 2019
Deerfield, New Hampshire
The only show during Antiques Week in New Hampshire that involves some outdoor booths is the long-running Deerfield Antiques Show at the fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, about 30 minutes east of Manchester. Yes, there are two large indoor halls, but the apple pie lady and a few ... (Read More)
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(Show)Repurposing the Maine Antiques Festival-Not Your Mother's Antiques Show Anymore
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
The Maine Antiques Festival, held this year in Union, Maine, August 2-4, is changing, slowly but surely. The decades-old complaint of veterans of the antiques business has been that not enough young people are taking up the trade. But show owner and manager Paul Davis has ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Fresh to Market" at Milford Antiques Show
Milford, New Hampshire
Every antiques show that manager Jack Donigian presents in Milford, New Hampshire, is a new show in terms of merchandise. Considering that he puts on shows every Sunday from October through March, with special ones on occasions like Antiques Week in New Hampshire each August, that is an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Art, and Marine Auction
Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Rafael Osona Auctions
The indefatigable Rafael Osona was at the auction podium for nearly eight hours without a break for his Americana auction on Nantucket on Saturday, August 3. Osona has many auctions over the summer months. The August 3 Americana sale was his specialty ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dealers for Original Midweek One Day Antiques Fair
Barn Star Productions' Original Midweek One Day Antiques Fair on August 7 in Manchester, New Hampshire, will include several new exhibitors.The Midweek roster will now include Bill Powell, Blue Dog Antiques, Thurston Nichols, Mark and Lynda Suozzi Antiques, Steve Smoot Antiques & Navajo Textiles, Randi Ona Early American Antiques, Tom ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips
A Book Review
My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, Volume 1, and My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, Volume 2, by David R. Allaway are available online to read for free at (https://issuu.com/n2xb).
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), the most prolific American country portrait painter of the 19th century, worked during a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rago and Wright Merge
David Rago and Richard Wright have been collecting and selling 20th-century design for decades. David Rago's first love, as a young dealer, was art pottery, Arts and Crafts furniture, and decorations. Richard Wright is known for his refined taste for 20th-century design, and modern, manufactured furniture and furnishings from the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit Filed Asking for Return of Two Louis Comfort Tiffany Paintings
Timo and Gordon Platt, co-trustees of the Platt Family Artwork Trust that was formed in 2018 to hold family paintings that had been held by Louise Platt (1902-1992) during her lifetime, filed suit in federal court in May against Allen Michaan and Michaan's company, Auctions by the Bay, Inc., in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope to Open New York City Gallery
"It was too good an opportunity not to act," said Patrick Bell the day after he signed a five-year lease for a 700-square-foot gallery space at 115 East 72nd Street in New York City for a new Olde Hope gallery, the business he and his business partner, Edwin Hild, operate."I ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Show 2019: Antiques, Art & Exquisite Objects
Middletown, Rhode Island
With an emphasis on "feel good" and "carry-out" purchases, The Newport Show opened its doors on Friday, July 26, to a lively crowd of supporters.
Now in its 13th year, the July 26-28 show, which eliminated the word "antiques" from its title in 2018 (as have other shows, including ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thanksgiving Comes Early at Farrin's
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Rusty Farrin of Farrin's Country Auctions holds an annual "Thanksgiving in July" auction at his Randolph, Maine, hall. This year, Thanksgiving came on July 28, featuring lots of painted furniture, some good primitive artworks, and one outstanding clock, with about 90% of the sale coming from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indian Hill Antiques Fair
Indian Hill (Cincinnati), Ohio
The Indian Hill Antiques Fair, a summer tradition in northeast Cincinnati for 37 years, held its latest edition on July 28. Although the event was notably smaller than in the past, promoter Doug Supinger saw the show's size as one of its strengths.
"The smaller shows are the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Making Hay While the Sun Shines
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
During the first seven months of 2019, the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) presented three major estates sales, with smaller specialized events in between. The most recent of the large auctions, held on July 27 and 28, consisted of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic Setting Is Boost for Annual Show
Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show, Zoar, Ohio
The tents were a dead giveaway. Rounding the corner into Zoar, Ohio, during the last weekend in July, the huge white tents bordering cornfields could mean only one thing. The 46th annual Zoar Harvest Festival was underway, and with it antiques. Clarification: great ... (Read More)
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(Auction)John McInnis Has a Field Day
John McInnis Auctioneers, East Boothbay, Maine
On July 27 and 28 John McInnis auctioned the contents of the 18th-century Colonial homestead known as the Murray House in East Boothbay, Maine. With help from a personal connection to the owners, McInnis was able to snatch it away from other more local auctioneers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Migration on the Cape
Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
Part three of the annual summer decoy migration took place July 25 and 26 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Judy and Ted Harmon's Decoys Unlimited, West Barnstable, Massachusetts, continued the auction of prized decoys migrating from one collection to another. Collectors know the birds, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Man of Sorrow: A New Bronze Face of Lincoln
Few members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ever win an Oscar. The success rate for sculptors is even slimmer. Robert Merrell Gage (1892-1981) did not win an Oscar himself, but his stunning display of narrated sculpture-making in the 1956 film The Face of Lincoln was responsible for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Substantial sections of this "Letter" are devoted to matters Russian, among them pictures, revolutionary ceramics, and a Faberge menagerie, and to a spectacular Tompion clock with royal connections that made close on $2 million.
Chairs, ceramics, and other Chinese treasures are also represented, along with a fine Modigliani portrait and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scrimshaw Lives at Marine Auction
Eldred's Auctioneers and Appraisers, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
The question of the day before Eldred's July 25 marine sale was "Will it or won't it?" Three tornados had passed through the area, knocking down trees and disrupting power. For Eldred's staff, the prospect of a maritime sale conducted with only ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plover Trio Stars in Sporting Sale
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Everything was in place for a booming sporting art sale at Copley Fine Art Auctions on July 25 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and no one was disappointed. The sale brought over $3 million. A large part of that was the $1,140,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amusing Style Selections
Wright, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Wright
When a sale is announced as "The Amusing Style," one has to wonder. Amusing in what way? As in ha-ha? Perhaps as offbeat and unusual? Or maybe silly?
Fortunately, the July 24 sale at Wright in Chicago came with an explanation. The expression is a construct articulated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sheldon Peck: Footsteps of His Life
Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, Illinois
Sheldon Peck would head out from his Babcock's Grove, Illinois, homestead clean-shaven and with little in his pockets but would return with a full beard and a full wallet from painting portraits, mostly of contemporaries in the antislavery and social justice movements.
The itinerant painter earned $50 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Long Island's Leading Silversmith
A Book Review
This book about the life and work of Southampton, New York, silversmith and entrepreneur Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810) makes the past come alive. It will give those who read it something to think about when stuck in traffic on Long Island's Route 27 on the way to the Hamptons. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders and Birds Deliver at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The annual fowl and feathers week in New England began on July 23 with the Guyette & Deeter two-day auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The swarm of buyers were focused on prized decoys from such well-known collections as those of Ginny and Gordy Hayes, Richard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Can You Do Better?"
Haggling. Dickering. Lowballing.
Sally Schwartz, founder of Randolph Street Market in Chicago, recently forwarded us an Internet thread that discussed dealer responses to customers asking for discounts. The answers ranged from hilarious to frustrating and came from both from buyers and sellers.
Now that summer is here-the time of big shows packed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traveling up the Mountain to Scenic Cashiers
Cashiers Benefit Antique Show, Cashiers, North Carolina
Tourists, retirees, and vacation homeowners long ago discovered the forested Highlands-Cashiers Plateau in western North Carolina. With 16 golf courses and 29 exclusive communities, it is both popular and upscale. That level of prosperity has made the annual Cashiers Benefit Antique Show a destination ... (Read More)
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(Show)Buying Heats Up in Rockport
Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, Rockport, Maine
When it comes to the Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, held at the Camden-Rockport High School in Rockport, Maine, each year, you can almost set your calendar by the weather. If it's the hottest day of the year to date, it will be the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dutch Watercolor Leads at Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers, Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers held a midsummer auction at its Madison, Virginia, gallery on July 20. If anyone had forgotten that it was summer, the 100 degrees recorded on the time and temperature sign down the street should have been a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for a Face Vessel
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipps of Crocker Farm celebrated 15 years in the auction business on July 20 with a 543-lot sale at their facility in Sparks, Maryland (37 additional uncataloged lots were sold at the end of the auction).
"People really responded, in terms of consignments and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 2019
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Weeping Willow and Water Lily Pond, 1916-19, oil on canvas, 783/4" x 703/4". On loan from private collection.
-Through September 15 -Fort Worth, Texas
The Kimbell Art Museum is hosting Monet: The Late Years, a selection of 50 paintings on loan from major public and private collections in Europe, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hurry to See WALL POWER!
The exhibition WALL POWER! Quilts from the Werner and Karen Gundersheimer Gift will open on August 6 at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City. It will be on display for only four weeks-through September 1. Included in the exhibition will be quilts recently gifted to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standout Furniture and Decorative Arts
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
An attractive consignment of Americana in a July 17 and 18 fine furniture, decorative arts, and silver sale at Chicago's recently revamped Hindman Auctions told a silent tale of two sisters.
The pair shared well-known collectors as parents-Willard and Faith Henoch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who contributed to varied ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Highlights and a Packed House at The Cobbs Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire, held an antiques and fine art auction on July 13. Highlighting the sale was a group of jewelry from an estate that had been collected in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Shanghai.
An Art Deco Burmese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Case's Best Summer Auction Ever
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
John Case is a "big picture" kind of guy. He wants to know not only what happened, but why it happened. The firm's annual summer sale on July 13 produced the highest total results in Case Antiques' history. And although a precise figure was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Auction
Willis Henry Auctions, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Since 1982, Willis Henry Auctions' annual Shaker auctions have become a well-attended affair. The July 13 event at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was no exception.
Willis and Karel Henry, who by 1982 were dealing in antiques, were introduced to the Shakers in 1971 or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Curator of American Art at the Michener
Dr. Laura Turner Igoe is the new curator of American art at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Igoe has broad curatorial experience including the Harvard Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Barnes Foundation. Exhibition projects she has contributed to include Nature's Nation: ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Launches Monthly Online Fine Art Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, will launch monthly fine art auctions this summer. The monthly auctions, which will be held the second Thursday of each month, will complement Heritage's live auctions and other current online auctions of prints and multiples and photographs. The sales will feature a combination of material primarily ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Get On Board
The Young Collector
Part of our impetus for uprooting our lives so completely a couple years ago was the desire to be part of a community. We both grew up in small towns, the kind of place where you saw your teacher at church and the cashier in the grocery store ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signed Newport Fly Tea Table Shown in Reopened Museum
When the Whitehorne House Museum at 416 Thames Street, Newport, Rhode Island, reopened on May 29, it put on view a tea table with the chalk signature of joiner Joseph Sanford. The Newport Restoration Foundation bought the table at Sotheby's in January 2019. Armin Allen, a foundation trustee, did the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Multiple Lists, Desktops, and Monitors
Computer Column #366
Doing research for something as simple as this column can result in piles of notes. Sorting and organizing such notes amounts to organizing the column or another research report.
In high school we old-timers were taught to put the notes on file cards. This still works. A book collector ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, July 2019
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Monet: The Late Years by George T.M. Shackelford (Kimbell Art Museum and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Stuff about the Stuff: The Value and Imperiled Future of Collectors' Papers
Part II of II
As an antiques reporter, I have always loved best the assignments that send me into archives to read the papers of collectors from past generations. Besides enjoying the guilty pleasure associated with reading other people's mail, I have found these troves to be filled with fascinating and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In the Trade: Christopher P. Settle Antiques, Newton, Massachusetts
In the Trade
Some might say that Massachusetts dealer Christopher Settle took a circuitous route to dealing in fine antiques. But that would not be true. At loose ends after college, where he'd been an English major, he took a job as a packer for an Ann Arbor, Michigan, moving company. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Augmenting the Canon
What a great title for a catalog that brings new scholarship up to date in the field of American Neoclassical furniture and decorative arts. Augmenting the Canon is the latest addition to a shelf of catalogs written by Stuart Feld, this one with his daughter, Elizabeth. The first catalog in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Another Look for Ten Bucks
Editorial, July 2019
In early April an intriguing new service was added to eBay. Before bidding on or buying Asian art, eBay users in the United States can now pay $10 via PayPal to have the object looked at-via the eBay listing and not in person-by an expert in Asian art ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Glass: The Collections at Yale
The Francis P. Garvan Collection at Yale University has been the focus of studies of American furniture, pewter, silver, and clocks, making it one of the best known in the country. After a three-year study by John Stuart Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires a Landscape by Duncanson
Museums are making up for the fact that African American artists have rarely made it into the mainstream of art history by making an effort to tell a more inclusive story. Winterthur is the latest to announce an important acquisition to this end. It has acquired a major oil painting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chippendale's Drawings for the Director
Two hundred and seventy-five years ago Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) opened a cabinet shop on St. Martin's Lane in London and published The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, which became the most famous furniture pattern book of all time. Most of the original drawings for the 160 engravings in this first edition ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques and Artisans in the Churchyard
South Salem, New York
The tradition continued July 4 on the grounds of the Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church as D. Turi Antique Shows took over the management of the one-day holiday show.
Celebrating the 27th iteration of Antiques in the Churchyard, and with the addition of the word "artisans" in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)N.C. Wyeth Exhibit at Brandywine River Museum and Somerville Manning Gallery
N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, an exhibition organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, will fill galleries at the Brandywine River Museum of Art June 22 through September 15 before being exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty Historic 13-Star Flags to Be Displayed Together
A New Constellation: A Collection of Historic 13-Star Flags opened on Flag Day, Friday, June 14, and will be on view through Sunday, July 14, at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. "It is the first time a major exhibition of thirteen-star flags has been put together, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Deerfield Antiques Show Adds Shuttle Bus
The August 5 Deerfield Antiques Show at the Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, will add a shuttle bus to transport customers to and from the parking area. Promoters Joshua and Rachel Gurley of Gurley Antique Shows also plan to move the line closer to the show and into the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Advisor Sues Over Nonpayment
A New York City artist and advisor is claiming that a Florida woman owes her a cut of a million-dollar sale of a Mary Cassatt pastel.
On May 10 Christine Keefe of New York City filed suit against Rosalie James of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for breach of contract. The lawsuit ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Attorney General Acts in National Book Auctions Case
Portions of this article were originally published in the Ithaca Times.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially taken action against National Book Auctions, the disgraced consignment and auction business formerly stationed in Freeville, New York.
In special proceedings filed on May 15 in Tompkins County Court, the attorney general's office ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Hamilton Letter Resurfaces
On February 27, 1950, Francis E. Kelly, the attorney general of Massachusetts, sent a four-page letter to dealers of rare books and documents, informing them that the attorney general's office was investigating the loss or theft of "irreplaceable" historical documents taken from the Massachusetts Archives. The letter listed missing documents ... (Read More)
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(Show)Locust Grove Antiques Market
Louisville, Kentucky
David P. Taylor was off to a good start, and things were just beginning to heat up, figuratively and literally. It was early during the Locust Grove Antiques Market, held June 30 in Louisville, Kentucky, and Taylor had just sold a sugar chest. "I put it upside down in ... (Read More)
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