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(Auction)Toomey & Co. Launches
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
When an e-mail arrived in late December 2017 announcing the breakup of Treadway/Toomey Auctions in Oak Park, Illinois, it seemed to come out of the blue.
The news marked the end of a successful 30-year era in which John Toomey hosted sales ... (Read More)
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(Show)An Invitation Worth Accepting
Midwest Antique & Art Show and The Collector's Eye, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Thom Rawson had been after me for at least three years. "Come to my show," he would say when I'd see him at events in Indiana or Illinois. And yet his semiannual Midwest Antique & Art Show and its ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fraktur by Christian Beschler Sells for $39,500
In his article in the Spring 2008 issue of Antiques & Fine Art, antiquarian Donald M. Herr, a retired Lancaster, Pennsylvania, veterinarian, identified the Sussel-Unicorn Artist as Christian Beschler, a schoolmaster in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. When Herr photographed Thomas Umholtz's fraktur collection for the article, he told ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Salmon Ship Portrait Brings $48,000
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
Bidders have come to expect good marine paintings at a Northeast Auctions sale, and the highlight of the April 7 and 8 spring weekend sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was an 1808 portrait of the Liverpool privateer Ceres, a 331/4" x 521/2" oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Koekkoek Tops Eldred's Auction
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Ten phones mustered for lot 29 at Eldred's April 6 and 7 Americana and paintings sale at the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. A 241/4" x 193/4" oil on panel winter landscape with wood gatherers and a village in the distance by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Executive Director of Winter Antiques Show Named
Winter Antiques Show dealers were recently informed by e-mail of a "significant development" concerning the show. They were told that "As a result of our discussions with Catherine Sweeney Singer, we have decided that she will be stepping down as Executive Director. We are pleased that she will be available ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Showtime Auction Services to Hold Auction in New Venue
Showtime Auction Services will hold its first big auction event of 2018 at a new venue on new dates. The auction will be held the weekend of April 20-22, about three weeks later than usual, at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, 10871 Quirk Road in Belleville, Michigan. Belleville is located east ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Fine Art at Swann
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Swann Galleries, New York City, is the only major auction house to hold dedicated African-American fine art sales, and its spring sale on April 5, which set records for artists Beauford Delaney, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others, was the house's highest-grossing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Expands to Atlanta
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will open its newest location in Atlanta, Georgia, this spring. In September 2017 the auction firm announced its expansion into Atlanta after hiring director of business development Mary Calhoun. Before that announcement, in April 2017, Michael Shapiro, former director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonne Scores Court Win
On April 5 Judge Andrea Masley dismissed a lawsuit filed in a New York court by the Mayor Gallery, Ltd. against the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonne LLC and several individual defendants. The judge also ordered Mayor Gallery to pay the legal fees of the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonne LLC and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealers In and Out of the Philadelphia Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, April 20-22 at the Navy Yard, will jointly benefit the Philadelphia Museum of Art's initiative for global access through digital engagement and interpretive programs and Penn Medicine's investment in the conservation and digitization of the records of Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital, founded ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Folk Art Exhibition at San Francisco Airport
San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy SFO Museum
Collectors and fans of traditional American folk art living in California know that it's easier to collect moon rocks than folk art on our left coast. There are only a few major folk art dealers along the West Coast, and there is very little folk ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London; April 2018
This column, as it says at the top of the page, is called "Letter from London," but with some of the capital's salerooms rather slow getting into their full stride, this month's copy also draws additionally on a couple of provincial sales and another held in Hong Kong by Bonhams, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tim Isaac's Easter Monday Sale
Tim Isaac Antiques Art & Auctions, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
All prices in Canadian funds; U.S. funds in parentheses
On April 2 Tim Isaac Antiques Art & Auctions had a great sale at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, featuring the collection of the Reverend ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime History Prevails at Hap Moore Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
The most historically significant items in Hap Moore's March 31 auction in York, Maine, came from a single New England family. Among the top lots was a signed miniature watercolor of U.S. Navy Captain Edward Trenchard (1784/85-1824), paired with an engraving of his son Rear ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Future Farmer by Falter
An oil on panel painting by artist and illustrator John Philip Falter (1910-1982) sold for $92,400 (including buyer's premium) in a sale held on March 31 by Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rendered around 1955, the painting depicts a Future Farmers of America student, with his father, receiving a check ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pook & Pook: A Family Partnership in Pennsylvania
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
All prices include buyer's premium.
In 1984, Ronald and Debra Pook made the transition from touring the show circuit as antiques dealers to running their own auction house in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Best known for their presentation of distinguished Americana collections, the firm ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions: April 2018
Artist unknown (Mexico), Saint Michael the Archangel, 18th century, oil on canvas, 61 5/8" x 41 5/16". Collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
-Through April 22-Middlebury, Vermont
Middlebury College Museum of Art presents Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art. The museum's website notes that "Spain, a formidable colonial power, kept a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Institutions are Heavy Buyers at Printed and Manuscript African Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
At the podium before the start of Swann Galleries' auction of printed and manuscript African Americana on March 29, Nicholas D. Lowry, the house's president and chief auctioneer, congratulated book department director Rick Stattler. The kudos were due for successfully "stepping into the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Salts, Flasks, Inks, and Targets Keep Heckler's Auction 159 Interesting
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Auction 159, the Norman C. Heckler & Company event that ended on March 28, included not only types of early glass that the organization knows inside and outside-historical flasks, whiskeys, sodas, inks, bitters, and pattern-molded glass-but also ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Manigault Bowl, Found at Show, Goes to Art Institute of Chicago
In October 2016 I headed to the Morristown (New Jersey) Armory Antiques Show on a Sunday afternoon, not to shop but to pick up a receipt for a painting I had bought from one of the exhibitors a few months earlier. The dealer left me a pass at the door, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Craig McElroy, Kingston Consignments, Kingston, New York
In the Trade
Years ago my mother worked in a Ridgefield, Connecticut, consignment shop called the Silk Purse. The operation always struck me as a good business model, especially when compared to the way your average antiques dealer works. Standard-model antiques dealers, after all, shop at venues, such as auctions, where ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Searchers; April 2018
Computer Column #351
The number of popular Internet search engines has declined as existing ones have refined and added features. A few specialized search engines are not well known but might be useful to antiquers.From the earliest days of the Internet, users have created indexes of specific sites or kinds of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Connecticut Spring Antiques Show
Hartford, Connecticut
Dealers and collectors have traditionally looked forward to the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show. The very name is suggestive of freshness. The show opened in 1974 at the massive granite Connecticut State Armory and Arsenal in Hartford. It has moved around some but has been back at the armory since ... (Read More)
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(Show)Raleigh Extravaganza Stories
Raleigh Antiques Extravaganza, Raleigh, North Carolina
"There are eight million stories in the naked city." From March 23 to 25, Raleigh added a few more.On opening day at the Raleigh Antiques Extravaganza, M.A.D. met Kim Reed of Kim Reed Oriental Rugs and Antiques, Mohnton, Pennsylvania. Reed, a first-timer at Raleigh, brought ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ninth Annual Antiques Show at the Madeira School
McLean, Virginia
I must confess that I missed the first eight annual antiques shows at the Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. I am very sorry that I did. The Madeira show is produced by Dordy Fontinel Show Management, Inc. I have covered Fontinel's shows in Annapolis, Maryland, and Middleburg, Virginia, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Estate Auction
Caddigan Auctioneers, Inc., Dedham, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Caddigan Auctioneers
I'm glad to be back in Dedham," said Joan Caddigan regarding the site of Caddigan Auctioneers' March 25 sale. "Buyers will come to this location," she said of the Holiday Inn of Dedham in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Joan Caddigan is seen here standing beside the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Legendary Shenandoah Valley Redware Lamb Brings $49,200
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
On March 24 the Zipp family of Crocker Farm held their first sale of 2018, a 474-lot sale that grossed $663,190. An uncataloged group of pottery was sold directly following the main sale. It is difficult to think of another auction company that has ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Monumental March" Produces Record-Breaking Prices
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
The spring estates auction at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans was known as "Monumental March" around the gallery. As it turned out, bigger was better-the crowd on the floor saw wall-spanning paintings by three important southern artists set record prices. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toys at Auction
Pook and Pook, Inc./Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook and Pook/Noel Barrett
There were 25 bidders in the salesroom and two online bidding platforms active. "That's the way it is these days," said Noel Barrett as his toy sale at Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, was about to begin on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A 1700-Gun Salute at Julia's-Will the Last One Out Please Turn Out the Lights?
James D. Julia Inc., Fairfield, Maine
At a total of nearly $15 million and with a puny 13% buy-in rate, it was a fitting close to James D. Julia's auction career. As most of the auction world now knows, James D. Julia Inc. has been sold to Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Is a Trump Card
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
A rare Tiffany Bamboo leaded-glass and bronze floor lamp, circa 1910, sold for $241,900 (includes buyer's premium) at the March 23 and 24 sale at Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York. It was the top lot.
Buyers loved the Tiffany brand. A vintage Tiffany 5.25-carat diamond ring sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Alexander Hamilton Letter Leads Waverly Sale
Waverly Rare Books, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Waverly Rare Books
Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinn's Auction Galleries, held a catalog auction of books, manuscripts, and maps on March 22 at Quinn's showrooms in Falls Church, Virginia. Catherine Payling, newly appointed director of Waverly Rare Books (see M.A.D., September 2017, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A.E. "Beanie" Backus Painting Breaks Record
On March 18 in Vero Beach, Florida, Ron Rennick Auctions, Inc., sold a landscape by Albert Ernest "Beanie" Backus (1906-1990) for $50,600 (includes buyer's premium), establishing a new auction record for the Florida artist. Old Boats on the Shoreline, a 24" x 30" oil on canvas depicting boats built by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Spring Sale Loaded with Primitives
Laughlin Auctions, Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. held its 31st annual spring auction on March 17 at its facility in Edinburg, Virginia. As expected, the main sales floor was loaded with a wide variety of offerings, and because Laughlin does not offer online bidding, there was a very ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Catesby Engravings in "Fabulous" Condition Sell at Auction
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Two hand-colored engravings by English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749), estimated conservatively at $250/500, raised a few eyebrows when they realized $7080 for the pair (including buyer's premium) to become the top lot of the day during a sale of American and Continental fine and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Margaret Bourke-White Images Found in Cleveland Bring Top Dollar
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
The year was 1994, and Rachel Davis of Rachel Davis Fine Arts had one of those experiences auctioneers dream about. The daughter-in-law of a Cleveland artist and photographer had been going through items she had inherited from her father-in-law and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Downer and Stinson of Tremont Auctions Dissolve Partnership
Brett Downer and Doug Stinson, the two principals of Tremont Auctions of Newton, Massachusetts, have agreed to a parting of the ways. The partnership was dissolved on January 15, as the two longtime antiques dealers and auctioneers are going in different directions.
Brett Downer (left) and Doug Stinson during a June ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Robert Cheney's Dream Job
When Robert Cheney was six years old, he made his first visit to the rural homestead in Grafton, Massachusetts, where members of the famed Willard family first began making clocks. Privately owned and seriously run down, the home and workshop were endangered. Robert's father, clockmaker Bradford W. Cheney, was hoping ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Norman and Mary Gronning, Shaftsbury, Vermont
In the Trade
For more than half a century, Norman and Mary Gronning have been selling period American antiques. They've developed an inventory that is both broad and deep. They sell formal, high country, and painted furniture from the 17th through the early 19th centuries, along with paintings, folk art, metalwork, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Session Six of the Portzline Costume Jewelry Collection
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Ripley Auctions
Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana, held its sixth session of the Portzline collection of costume jewelry on March 12. Andrea Hastings, vice president, head of inventory, has been working at Ripley Auctions for 15 years. She has seen a lot of jewelry hit the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Massachusetts Attorney General and Berkshire Museum Agree on Plan
After eight long months of outcries from residents and a few Norman Rockwell descendants, protest marches, injunctions, and copious numbers of documents, the Massachusetts attorney general's office and the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, have agreed on a plan for the sale of up to 40 artworks to address the financial ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques & Arts Show
Exton, Pennsylvania
The 36th annual Chester County Antiques & Arts Show took place March 9-11 and was held in a new place-the gymnasium of the Church Farm School in Exton, Pennsylvania. It was held earlier in March than in the past and was six weeks before the Philadelphia Antiques & Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fox Valley Frenzy
Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, St. Charles, Illinois
If you think that shows are independent entities or that the world of antiques shows is not interconnected, think again. We learned the truth when we arrived at the 61st Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, held by the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Intarsia Patchwork Table Cover Tops Auction
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's
Cowan's sale of fine and decorative art held March 10 in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered an international buffet of consignments while also keeping a wide array of Americana on the table. Although the U.S. goods were strong, as is usually the case at Cowan's, it was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Storm Disrupts Americana Auction
John McInnis, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Even the best-laid plans of mice and men are subject to the vagaries of weather. John McInnis Auctions' March 9 and 10 estates sale of Americana was a major-league victim of said vagaries when the nor'easter that blanketed much of the Northeast left the Amesbury, Massachusetts, auction ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Using Collectibles as Ad Props: A Good Sign?
It's encouraging to see the props that were chosen for this TD Ameritrade ad: a small collection of early telephones, along with a Big Ben alarm clock that could be vintage. There are also some old books, a couple of them set up as they might be for a trompe ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Expert Opinion
The Young Collector
When you are a librarian, everyone wants you to be on their team for Trivial Pursuit. "You know all the answers," they say. "No," a fellow librarian once said, "I know how to find all the answers." That conversation is the intersection of our understanding of the difference ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show
The 56th Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show has new support. The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and Penn Medicine have become joint beneficiaries of the show, and the PMA will gradually assume full responsibility for the show's organization and management in the following years and apparently become its sole beneficiary.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Boston's Ayer Mansion Seeks Its Missing Tiffany Vase
Photos courtesy Ayer Mansion
A preservation organization that is renovating a historic house in Boston's Back Bay is asking collectors, dealers, curators, and others to be on the lookout for a vase by Louis Comfort Tiffany that has gone missing. It was one of three that Tiffany designed for Frederick Ayer ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art Dealers Association of America Art Show
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show is a fair for lovers of art.
The dealers who are invited each year to exhibit bring their finest offerings, and many of them dedicate their booths to one artist or a group of artists from the same period and/or genre. "The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
Arriving at Skinner in Boston for the March 3 Americana sale, one couldn't help noticing three men in Colonial dress among the crowd waiting to be admitted upstairs to the auction gallery. Had we stepped into the past? One thought was "How nice. Skinner is presenting men in ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Prairie
Arthur, Illinois
The kitchen might not have been the most important part of A Gathering on the Prairie, but it did say something about the show. More on that shortly.
Held March 3 at the Otto Center in Arthur, Illinois, A Gathering on the Prairie, now in its 15th year, is the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Spirit Antique Show
Arcola, Illinois
Shortly before the opening of her Country Spirit Antique Show, promoter Jill Mattingly likes to post images on Facebook depicting some of the show's dealers standing next to hand-picked favorite items from their booths. It's a good way to market the event while also giving the sellers added exposure. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rural Life Antique Show
Tuscola, Illinois
Kyla Ruf was on the move. It was 10:30 a.m. on the first day of the Rural Life Antique Show, held in three venues in Tuscola, Illinois, March 2 and 3. The show had been going on for two and a half hours, and Ruf was seeing her most ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)French Furniture Soars in Tarheel Country
A Restauration ormolu-mounted marble-top inlaid bibliotheque basse(low cabinet) by Pierre-Etienne Levasseur or his son Pierre-Francois Henri Levasseur, circa 1820, stamped "E. Levasseur," soared to $224,200 (includes buyer's premium) at Leland Little's March 3 sale in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
The bibliotheque basse was from a private North Carolina collection and had been ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Internet Browsers
Computer Column #350
Many of us spend part of every day staring at a web browser on a computer, perhaps buying, selling, or researching antiques or maybe just checking the news and gossip. We all have our favorite browsers, yet browsers are still evolving. New features are worth taking a look ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, March 2018
The longest piece in this month's selection focusses on the always fascinating and sometimes unexpectedly costly world of antiquities, but room is also found for the return of Lord Nelson, for a couple of remarkable celestial globes, and a really old master discovery.
Tsar Nicholas I's passion for military uniforms provides ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newel Welcomes The Silver Peacock to Its Showroom
The fourth generation of the Baer family is now in charge of Newel, the antique furniture and decorative arts business started in 1939 by Jake Baer's great-grandfather, and things are moving and shaking at a fast pace these days.
Not only has 30-year-old Jake expanded the company's movie and television props ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Klansmen Made of Lead: Antiques and Evil
Opinion
One of the finest equestrian statues in the nation stands in a park in Memphis, Tennessee.* Designed by an accomplished sculptor working in the Neoclassical manner and cast in bronze in Paris, the century-old monument is a historic landmark and an important feature in the city's history.
I'd like to take ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wedgewood Society of Boston
Wedgewood Society of Boston
For more than 50 years, the Wedgwood Society of Boston has brought together New England collectors, ceramics enthusiasts, and lovers of the decorative arts and history to share new findings, build greater understanding, and enjoy the fellowship of lively and engaging fellow members and guests. We welcome ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, March 2018
William Kidd (b. 1961), Crusty Vase, 2003, earthenware. Promised gift of Sidney Swidler.
-Through March 31-Flint, Michigan
Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) presents The Art of Containment: Vessels from the Sidney Swidler Collection. Swidler's fascination with ceramics collecting was influenced by his work as an architect and designer. Swidler has amassed more ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fake Civil War Masterpiece: A Tale of Two Photographs
It's one of the best folk art fakes of all time. It fooled them all: dealers, curators, vetters, journalists, and more. Had it not been for one grainy 72 dpi digital photograph, the dogged persistence of a concerned group of antiquarians, and a dealer who eschewed embarrassment and confronted the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Part Two of the Frent Collection Surpasses $1.3 Million Mark
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The second installment of Heritage Auctions' sale of the collection of David and Janice Frent is in the books, and with it came a sale total of more than $1.3 million along with some jaw-dropping moments. There is no better way to lead ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Four Sandzen Paintings Sold in Kansas
Woody Auction celebrated the grand opening of its new Douglass, Kansas, auction hall with an antiques and fine art auction on Saturday, February 24, that featured four paintings by Swedish-born Kansas painter Birger Sandzen (1871-1954).
Cedars and Rocks, an oil on canvas landscape of Manitou Springs, Colorado, dated 1922, 36" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African Americana Sells at Quinn's
Quinn's Auction Galleries and Waverly Rare Books, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction GalleriesAll prices include buyer's premium
On February 22 Quinn's Auction Galleries through its Waverly Rare Books division held a single-consignor sale at its Falls Church, Virginia, location. The Johnson collection of black Americana and ephemera consisted of 256 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Bartlam Teapot Sells for GBP575,000 ($804,098)
A small teapot with a reglued handle and missing its lid, bought by a collector online from a general auction in Lincolnshire in the U.K. for GBP15 (about $20) in 2016, sold for GBP575,000 at Woolley and Wallis auctioneers in Salisbury, U.K., on February 20.
The buyer in the salesroom was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale in New Hampshire
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
"Americana seems to be alive and well," said a pleased Bill Smith during his midwinter auction on February 19 in Plainfield, New Hampshire. Smith was selling to a packed house, with patrons lining up the sides and filling most ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rock Star Fizzles, but Totaig Wins by Several Lengths
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
As often happens in the auction world, the rock star of the February 16-18 auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, twinkled out without a sound. A 28" x 52" (sight size) oil on canvas by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) was signed and ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Indian Art Show: Marin
San Rafael, California
As at every show, there were winners and not winners. At the 34th annual American Indian Art Show: Marin held February 17 and 18 in San Rafael, California, the balance seemed to tilt toward the nots. Many dealers were not willing to be quoted about their sales at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Nashville Show by Jenkins: Buy and Sell, Meet and Greet
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville in mid-February has always been a favorite multi-venue destination where exhibitors from all over the country can sell to fresh buyers, exchange merchandise with one another, and get together with fellow marketers and favorite customers. Dealers from New England and mid-Atlantic states interact with merchants from the Southeast ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southeastern Wildlife Expo Auction Garners $1.8 Million
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Charleston, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
The Southeastern Wildlife Expo is the place to be for those who love the best of the best where decoy and sporting art is concerned. The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) first took place in 1983 and included 100 exhibitors ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Zook Record Broken
On February 17 Witman Auctioneers Inc., Manheim, Pennsylvania, sold two large three-dimensional diorama artworks by Abner Zook (1921-2010), breaking the auction record for the artist. A painting of six dapple-gray horses pulling a Conestoga wagon coming out of the forest and crossing a stream with waterfalls in the background sold ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Single-Owner Fine Jewelry Collection Exceeds Expectations in Seattle
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Mroczek Brothers Auctioneers & Associates
The February 15 auction of a single-owner 142-lot fine jewelry collection held by Mroczek Brothers Auctioneers & Associates, also known as MBA Seattle Auction House, was a white-glove sale (all lots sold, none passed). The results, Michael Mroczek said, "doubled our ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photo Sale Offers Iconic Americana, Including Lewis W. Hine's Child Laborers, Immigrants, and Men
Swann Galleries, New York City
Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Swann Galleries
A collection of photographs by Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), each with the hand stamp for his studio in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, was the undisputed highlight of Swann Galleries' "Icons & Images" sale on February 15 in Manhattan. The auction house offered two ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Tennessee Show: An Antiques Valentine
Lebanon, Tennessee
The third annual Heart of Tennessee opened with a Valentine-themed flourish at the festive preview party on the night of February 14. The crowd of collectors, which filled the parking lot, were obviously devoted to the pursuit of Americana, but they also enjoyed a most generous buffet provided to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painted Box with Drawers Brings $263,250
If it is fresh to market and has painted decorations, you never can tell what it will bring at auction. At Cordier Auctions on February 11, what was cataloged as a southern folk art painted sugar chest, probably Kentucky, early 19th century, provoked a long bidding battle between New Oxford, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Business as Usual at Julia's-But Not Quite
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
It was business as usual for James D. Julia's two-day fine art and antiques auction on February 8 and 9 in Fairfield, Maine. Almost. The logo on the phone-book-size catalog read "James D. Julia, Inc. / a division of Morphy Auctions." As most of the antiques ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Please Remember": The African Americana Collection of Avis and Eugene Robinson
Skinner, Inc., Boston, MassachusettsPhotos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
A collection of African Americana assembled by Avis Collins Robinson, an artist, and her husband, Eugene Robinson, a reporter, editor, foreign correspondent, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, was sold in the Boston gallery of Skinner Inc. on February 9, 2018.
The approximately 300 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)More Than Flurries
The end of 2017 brought more than a flurry of interesting news.
- The biggest surprise was that Fairfield, Maine's James D. Julia has been acquired by Morphy Auctions. Jim Julia, who took over his father's small auction house, built it into a multimillion-dollar business with a combination of savvy dealing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Frank Daley and Judith Engel, Modern on the Hudson, Hudson, New York
In the Trade
No matter how you may feel about mid-century modern, you've got to be curious about anyone who buys Eames chairs by the gross.
That's what Frank Daley and Judith Engel do. It may not be the major part of their business-and they certainly don't consider it the most exciting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ludlow Antiques Show to Continue Under New Management
The Ludlow Antiques Show-one of the five shows that make up Antiques Week in Vermont-will continue this year under new management. Kris Johnson and Steve Sherhag, promoters of the Okemo Antique Show and the Vermont Picker's Market, will now manage the show, assisted by Robert Conrad, promoter of the New ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Dodges and Their Potteries
There are many noted families that produced red earthenware in New England's 18th- and 19th-century pottery industry, such as the Parker family in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the Osborn family in Peabody, Massachusetts, and the Corliss family in Maine. These families often receive high praise today from collectors, museums, and scholars. It ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barnebys Buys Collectors Weekly
Barnebys, an Internet search engine for design, antiques, and art, has acquired Collectors Weekly, according to a press release.
Based in San Francisco, Collectors Weekly is a website that lists hundreds of thousands of objects in almost 2000 collecting categories. The site attracts roughly 1 million visitors every month. In addition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The York Show
The Semi-Annual York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
The 170th Semi-Annual York Antiques Show in York, Pennsylvania, February 2-4, was on Super Bowl weekend. Nevertheless 96 dealers set up in Memorial Hall East hoping they brought the right stuff to appeal to the regulars who came on Friday, a slew of new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Classical Furniture at Academy Mansion during Master Drawings New York
In light of the successful sale of Classical furniture from the Patricia M. Sax collection at Sotheby's during Americana Week, M.A.D. wanted to see what New York City dealer Carswell Rush Berlin had brought to the Academy Mansion on East 63rd Street during Master Drawings New York the following week, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2018
Discerning Drinkers-Raise Your Glasses to the Kaplan Collection!
There have been moments when I wished that I had decided as a young man to collect beautiful old drinking glasses. Instead, I took to filling my home with books, and, though I continue to enjoy drinking beer, wine, and peaty malt whiskies, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Cloud Storage
Computer Column #349
We often have written about cloud storage of computer files. Recent changes in some cloud systems have greatly increased their usefulness. Cloud storage is a figurative reference to storing your computer files on some company's large computer system reached over the Internet. The object is to protect the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Met Changes Admission Policy
It was a tightwad's best secret-the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) had only a "suggested" admission price, not a mandatory one. On January 4, it was announced that the policy would be rescinded and a mandatory admission fee would be charged beginning March 1.
The updated policy, which received approval from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Bowl, Estimated at $1000/2000, Brings $200,000
A Chinese green-glazed footed porcelain bowl, estimated at $1000/2000, brought $200,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Nye & Company Auctioneers on January 31 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. "I would have to judge this sale a huge success, with strong bidding across all categories, led by the Chinese porcelain bowl, the true ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Morphy Auctions Merges with James D. Julia, Inc.
On December 20, 2017, it was announced that Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, and Las Vegas, Nevada, has merged with Fairfield, Maine, auction house James D. Julia, Inc., which will become a division of Morphy Auctions. Terms of the deal, which was finalized on December 14, were not announced.
James Julia, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Show 2018
Winter Antiques Show, New York City
For 64 years, the Winter Antiques Show has filled the grand Park Avenue Armory for ten days in January to benefit East Side House Settlement's educational projects ranging from early childhood to college preparatory. It was one of the first antiques shows created as a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lebanon Antique Show
Lebanon, Ohio
Shortly before the opening of the Lebanon Antique Show, held January 27 and 28, Deborah Fisher stopped to pet a pig for luck. It was an interesting gesture but also totally unnecessary. An enthusiastic crowd forming outside the doors would soon see to that.
Deborah Fisher bought the cast-iron pig ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Cathedral Antiques Show
Atlanta, Georgia
The Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta is home to the Cathedral Antiques Show, a show with 26 dealers, five of whom are members of the Antiques Council. The Antiques Council is a professional nonprofit association with over 80 members in North America and Europe. It currently manages four ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heron Takes Flight
Arader Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Arader Galleries
There was plenty of action at Arader Galleries' auction on Saturday, January 27, which occurred during the last weekend of Americana Week. The entire staff, along with principal Graham Arader, was camped out on the second floor of 1016 Madison Avenue taking bids ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Begins Its Year in Grand Style
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company kicked off its 2018 auction schedule with a spectacular sale of antiques and fine art. The 400-lot auction was held on January 27 at Potomack's galleries in Alexandria, Virginia. Well-known auctioneer, appraiser, and antiques personality Tim Luke was on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and International Auction
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
When Pook & Pook's warehouse is overflowing, a sale is necessary. That's why Pook & Pook scheduled a catalog sale for Saturday, January 27, and an online sale on the following Monday, January 29. It was just two weeks after Pook ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Father of Our Country Wins the Day
Case Antiques Auction, Knoxville, TennesseePhotos courtesy Case Antiques
The Case Antiques winter auction on January 27 was, as always, an intense one-day sale that presented almost 900 lots from a broad spectrum of specialties. The expected regional furniture, fine art, and decorative arts alternated with surprising offerings from a variety of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Buck Doesn't Stop Here: He's Going Strong
Daniel Buck Auctions, Lisbon Falls, Maine
Daniel Buck Soules is a survivor, having survived a possible heart attack, a fearsome bout with Lyme disease, some personal calamities, and a rocky start-up to his auction business. But it looks as though all that is in the rear view mirror. On January 27 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Paintings
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Maine collector, businesswoman, gallerist, and philanthropist Linda L. Bean outlasted all comers at Skinner's January 26 sale of American and European works of art in the Boston gallery when she took an oil on canvas by N.C. Wyeth for $339,000 (including buyer's premium). Wallace Draws the King's ... (Read More)
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