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(Feature)Brimfield, Brought to You by Budweiser?
EditorialCorporate sponsorship of antiques shows could be getting more common if readers of the on-line journal Media Life Magazine heed its advice. The February 6 issue urged advertisers to reach out to the antiques show-going public, citing attractive demographics.Media Life Magazine relied on figures from Scarborough Research that looked at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heavenly Brumidi Sells in Boston
Stephen Fletcher, Skinner's Americana department director, with the study for The Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi. Schinto photos.by Jeanne SchintoOn Sunday, March 4, at Skinner's Americana sale in its Boston gallery, a 351/4" diameter oil on canvas study for The Apotheosis of Washington by Constantino Brumidi (1805-1880) sold to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tiffany Settee Sells for $422,500 at Doyle New York
Photos courtesy Doyle New York.
by Lita Solis-Cohen
There is a strong market for masterpieces. At a Belle Epoque auction at Doyle New York on February 8 in New York City, a carved ash, satinwood, and mahogany settee with glass ball feet, designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Samuel Coleman for the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Proposed Law Would Force Dealers to Display Metal Prices
by Betty FloodBusinesses in New York, including antiques dealers and auctioneers, that purchase gold, silver, and platinum will have to display the current prices, if legislation sponsored by New York Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow of Mount Vernon is passed. The purpose of the bill, according to Pretlow, is to make ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Volunteers Needed for Digital Archive Project
The Warren County Historical Society of Lebanon, Ohio, is actively seeking volunteer interns for its 2012 edition of its digital archive project. This is a multi-year project that, when completed, will provide an index and/or catalog of the thousands of letters, records, reports, photos, genealogy records, and other documents housed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Early Buying Added for 2012 Indy Advertising Show
For the first time, the Indy Antique Advertising Show will open with an early-buying preview, on Friday, March 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. for $50 per person (early buyer tickets are $40 when ordered in advance before March 1).After 40 years of no early buying, B & D Promotions ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western Art Showcased at Santa Fe Art Auction
Apsaalooka Horse Hunters, Martin Grelle (b. 1954), oil on canvas, 48" x 66", signed and dated 2008 lower right, $268,800.Studio Fireplace, Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), oil on linen, 30" x 25", signed lower left, titled and signed on reverse "Studio Fireplace Ernest Blumenschein," $476,000.Upon the Crag - Golden Eagle, 2007, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Native American Art at Bonhams
A Northwest Coast feast bowl sold for $15,000 (est. $30,000/50,000) to the European buyer.A Tlingit canoe-form bowl sold to a European buyer ("new to us, and he bought several things," Haas said) for $23,750 (est. $12,000/18,000).Bonhams, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy BonhamsBonhams' Native American art specialist, Jim Haas, was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany and Mid-Century Modern Top 20th-Century Design Sale
Auctioneer LaGina Austin is shown at the podium with department director Jane D. Prentiss, seated. In front, the circa 1989 Ziggurat console table in tubular steel and etched glass sold for a mid-estimate $711. The two acrylic on canvas paintings by Martin Kreloff (b. 1944), Geisha and Kabuki Actor, fetched ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buys and Dolls
Jules Steiner series B bebe doll with only inconsequential blemishes, marked in red script "Steiner B. S.G.D.G. Paris Bourgoin succ.," $21,850. Julia photo.American National fire truck pedal car with five wooden ladders, original paint, and interior dashboard, $20,125.On this Bru Bebe, marked "Bru Jne 7," the bisque forearms were appropriate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Orientalia Still Coming on Strong
Among several Oriental items that skyrocketed was this Daoguang period (1821-50) deep bowl, 6" diameter, decorated with red and green dragons, scholar's tools, and pearls. Marked on the underside, it sold for $14,950. Thomaston Place photo.A Chinese white jade ovoid footed censer, 5" tall, with relief decorations and reticulated phoenix ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Good to Bad
by Steve ProffittThe February issue of M.A.D. contained another chapter of sad news reported by my colleague David Hewett. The story was news because it involved yet another instance of defalcation from consignors. The matter was particularly sad because the alleged wrongdoer occupied a position of trust-an auctioneer. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Auction in Maine
The background on this Maine folk art decorated box appeared to be composed of wooden matchsticks inlaid with mahogany images of diamonds, a star, two bears, and two clasped hands. It sold for $165.This oil on canvas, probably of a Gloucester or Provincetown, Massachusetts, harbor scene, was by J.J. Enwright, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Sale Features Selection of Antique Jewelry
This rare pair of Holbeinesque enameled gold earrings, circa 1870, 2 1/8" long, is attributed to Hancocks and was retailed by S.J. Phillips Ltd., both of London. They are pictured in Understanding Jewellery by David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti. They came to the sale from a consignor that Rago's Sarah ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's Marathon Sale
Attributed to Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848), this profile portrait of a young woman, pastel and graphite on paper in a painted frame, 181/2" x 131/2", sold on the phone for $26,200 (est. $3000/5000) to the trade, underbid by a collector in the salesroom.Needlework picture, "Wrought by Abigail F. Cunningham under ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metropolitan Museum of Art: In the Folk Art Tradition
Private collection. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Auction Records for a Zoot Suit
Wow! What can we say? What a session of bidding occurred when this man's wool zoot suit, 1938-42, came up for bid. Four phones battled each other, and Karen Augusta and Bob Ross fielded bids on their individual phones. The excitement began at $500 against a $700/900 estimate and spiraled ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Doug Ramsay, DBR Antiques, Hadley, Massachusetts
Doug and Rui Ramsay.View of the Connecticut River from Ramsay's home.Delicate New England demilune table with pegged construction in Spanish brown paint over red stain, $1400. On top, a mid-20th-century sheet metal weathervane of a coupe, $1850.Polychrome carved pine eagle that Ramsay dates to the late 19th century, $2850.Gold-painted model ... (Read More)
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(Show)First Fairfield County Show a Chancy Move for All
The Hanebergs Antiques, East Lyme, Connecticut, showed two brace-back, continuous-arm Windsor chairs with slight differences. The chair at left cost $2500; the one at right, $2800.Scott Bassoff, Sandy Jacobs Antiques, Swampscott, Massachusetts, showed a toy made in Keene, New Hampshire, around 1920. The 13" long Kinsgbury Automatic Fire Station with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Classic Chinese Furniture and a Sleeper Self-Portrait
A 20" x 16" oil on canvas self-portrait of Augustus John (1878-1961) sold for $44,250 (est. $2000/3000). The sleeper of the sale, it bore a gallery label from Arthur Tooth & Sons of London and is going back to London, said Michael B. Grogan.A 58" long 19th-century Chinese nine-dragon embroidered ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Taking Notes
Note taking software displayed in front of the Web page it has just clipped and saved.Computer Column #279by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netWork on this column begins each month with a flurry of note organizing. A folder for the new subject is set up in the Web browser "Favorites" or "Bookmarks." ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
This scroll-back armchair, made in 1807 for William Bayard's brick residence at 6 State Street at the tip of Manhattan, is among the earliest documented Phyfe furniture in the Neoclassical idiom. It was among the 12 chairs purchased by Henry Francis du Pont in 1929 along with their original bill. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
Perry-Joyce Fine Arts, Sawyer, Michigan, offered mostly 19th-century British needlework pictures, paintings, ceramics, papier-mache, and metalwares, including furniture with needlework upholstery priced from $125 to $4000.Wesley Sessa, Heller Washam Antiques, and Dixon-Hall Fine Art together furnished a large stand that resembled a Main Line Philadelphia living room. The circa 1775 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chippendale Corner Chair Tops Auction
This Chippendale mahogany corner chair has a tooled Portuguese leather slip seat, well-formed ball-and-claw feet, pierce carved splats, and turned baluster posts. It sold for $34,500.This 10" x 14" oil on board by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait of a mother quail and her brood sold for $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Chinese Is Hot!"
This Japanese scroll print showing lobsters and crabs in semiabstract style, possibly by an artist named Qi who may have passed away around 1990, according to the underbidder, sold for $13,225 (est. $100/200). Cobbs photo.First edition of A Book of Cats by Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, signed copy #59 of 500, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comOnly a couple of new year sales feature in this month's reports, but 2012 sales should have gained more momentum by the time my next copy deadline comes around. Thankfully, I still had plenty left on my files from the old year, and this month's selection includes ... (Read More)
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(Show)Dealers' Eyes Were Shining at the Monroe Antique Show and Sale
A steam and sailing ship diorama featuring the City of Rome was offered by Kathy and Paul Johnson of Seattle Folk Antiques, Seattle, Washington. The actual City of Rome was built in England, launched at Barrow on June 14, 1881, and sailed her first voyage from Liverpool on October 13 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Who's Who Sale Is a Masterful Success
A signed late 19th-century carved and painted life-size Cuban tobacconist figure sold for $36,800. She was mounted on an original stenciled and iron-wheeled base.William Hawkins (1895-1990) created this very large (541/2" x 48") enamel on plywood Northeast View from the State House Grounds, signed and dated 1983. Bidding started in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)At the Louisiana Purchase Auction Exotic Lots Fly Like Tropical Birds
This view of a lonely cabin at Manchac, across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans, was attributed to Marshall Joseph Smith Jr. (1854-1923) and had descended in the family of artist William Henry Buck. Both men had been students of landscape painter Richard Clague Jr. The work brought $79,950.Southern collectors seek ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Vintage Redux: Repurposed Antiques
by Danielle ArnetThe old way of antiquing is, to borrow from the Monty Python parrot routine, dead, dead, dead. There's a new way to play antiques today. Younger buyers can't afford the old rubric and find it fusty anyway. Too traditional, irrelevant, and bluntly old. This is a cohort that ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Pastors & Patriots
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvaniaby Lisa Minardi, a special issue of Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow), Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 45, Number 1, 2011, 95 pages, softbound, $24.95 plus $6 S/H from the Pennsylvania German Society, (717) 597-7940.
The exhibition catalog Pastors & Patriots: ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beyond the Verdict: How LaSalle and Zaplin Won the $51 Million Bouguereau Suit
Notre Dame des Anges.by David HewettOn Monday afternoon, January 9, a six-person jury returned to a courtroom in the Supreme Court of the State of New York building in Albany and delivered a verdict that surprised those who had been following the tale of two art dealers who were accused ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Boston Museum Buys John Axelrod's African-American Art Collection
John Axelrod and Nonie Gadsden, the MFA's Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, at an art and design show in Boston in 2011.John Biggers (1924-2001), Shotguns, 1983-86, charcoal and conte crayon drawing. Provenance: Michael Rosenfeld to John Axelrod collection. One of the latest works in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brady Camera and Kennedy Rocker Take Top Bids in Americana Auction
Documented as the last rocker President Kennedy sat in (at the Rice Hotel in Houston the day before his assassination), this straight-back wooden rocking chair sold for $65,725.This early 1860's Mathew Brady wet plate studio camera, mounted on an 11" x 15" base rail, sold for $65,725. This historic camera ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J.P. Richardson Estate Makes for an Unusual Sale in Unusual Ways
The 21/4" high x 21/4" diameter firkin in green paint, signed "RH" for Reuben Hersey and "1859," opened at $3000 and sold for $10,530. It has other pencil inscriptions, but the maker, color, date, and condition make it outstanding.The miniature (13/4" high x 21/4" diameter) tub in red finish, stamped ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit Filed over Sale of Lichtenstein's "Girl in Mirror"
by Daniel GrantJan Cowles, the art collecting mother of one-time Artforum publisher and former Manhattan gallery owner Charles Cowles, has sued New York City's Gagosian Gallery for selling a 1964 enamel on metal painting by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from her collection without her consent and for considerably less than ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review---Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England
by Lita Solis-CohenThomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian Englandby Patricia Phagan, with essays by Vic Gatrell and Amelia RauserThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2011, 184 pages, hardbound, $59.95 plus S/H from ACC Distribution, (www.accdistribution.com/us) or (212) 645-1111."The talent to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Four Artists in Search of Found Objects
John Sideli in his studio in Wiscasset, Maine. Photo by Michael Fredericks.
John Sideli, Planter of Seeds, 23" x 20" x 13", $6500.
John Sideli, Trio, 39" x 20" x 133/4", $6500.
Rick Zonghi at NK Gallery, Boston, with Easy Rider, wood and metal, 181/4" x 133/4", $2400.
Rick Zonghi, Measuring Time, wood, metal, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Americana Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this Virginia Chippendale walnut corner chair that dates from the second half of the 18th century and is attributed to an unidentified maker in Isle of Wight County in southeastern Virginia. The chair features a broad D-shaped arm rail with rounded out-turned ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David Horst to Head Americana Division at Morphy Auctions
Pennsylvania antiques dealer David Horst has joined Morphy Auctions as chief consultant to the company's Americana department. Horst will handle consignments and cataloging of all Americana and folk art auctioned by Morphy's, while retaining his presence as a dealer on the antiques show circuit.Originally from Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Horst, 39, earned ... (Read More)
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(Feature)'Twas Inspired and Delightful l
Ready to roar and looking positively kingly, this large (45" long) Steiff mohair lion was lounging prominently in the booth of Seattle area dealers Marian and Phil Lanahan of Shades of the Past. They sell at local shows, and the lion once belonged to their son. It is in mint ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: A Kind of Archeology
by Lita Solis-CohenA Kind of Archeology: Collecting American Folk Art, 1876-1976by Elizabeth StillingerUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2011, 464 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University of Massachusetts Press, (www.umass.edu/umpress) or (800) 537-5487.Fifteen years in the making, this sequel to The Antiquers, Stillinger's 1980 landmark exploration of pioneer collectors of American ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: New York Minutes
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondFrantic has a sound. At 1:30 in the morning, it sounds like a baby with teething-related night terrors. At 4:30 in the morning, it sounds like a spouse who has overslept and is about to miss his flight to New York City for Americana Week. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Met Gets a New Wing, George Washington Gets a New Frame
Emanuel Leutze's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware as reframed by Eli Wilner for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new American Wing. Photo courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.Eli Wilner's master carver Felix Teran carves the eagle for the crest. Photo courtesy Eli Wilner.The Mathew Brady photo, one of two that Eli ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Fall Edition
Equestrian painting of Master Charlie by Edward Burn, oil on canvas, dated 1925, with a plaque listing 1924 winnings, $3750 from Susie Burmann of New London, New Hampshire.Aunt Jemima Pan Cake Flour wooden crate, $275 from Terrell Medd of History Haven Antiques, Connersville, Indiana.Chuck White of Chuck White Folk Art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Glory Flies High and Proud
Pair of carved wooden 45-star American flags, probably from a G.A.R. organization or other patriotic group, $14,950.Gould's research indicated this family register may well have been created by Samuel Lawhead of Dixfield, Maine, known as the "Heart and Hand" watercolorist. In its original frame, it recorded the vital records of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Collecting Modern: Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Since 1876 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)No Prior Knowledge: Notes on Research and Discovery
From the family Bible, 1825.On back: "Peter Atherton-Grandpa Atherton's Father. A.F. Morse, Photographic artist, Hallowell, Maine."On back: "For Frank and Family. Grandfather Atherton. William P. Atherton-Hallowell, Maine."On back: "Grandfather Atherton's place, Hallowell, Maine. Frank C. Atherton's father's home. Father (William P. Atherton)."by R. LapidesOf the familiar list of useful guidelines ... (Read More)
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(Show)PAD New York 2011
New York City dealer Todd Merrill used Beth Katleman's Folly as wallpaper for his stand filled with Paul Evans sideboards, chairs by Yard Sale Project, England, and a black walnut cupboard by Michael Coffey priced at $165,000. Katleman exhibited Folly at the Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lalique Frosted Glass Fox Stars at Wiederseim Sale
The rare frosted glass Rene Lalique figure of a prowling fox with a long tail sold for $204,750 to a private collector from the U.K. bidding by phone, underbid by another private collector from the U.K. also bidding by phone.This circa 1800 gilt-decorated three-part mirror with three original eglomise panels ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
John La Farge (1835-1910), Red Hollyhocks, circa 1863, encaustic on panel, 373/4" x 201/4", inscribed "John La Farge" on the reverse, $1,874,500 (est. $500,000/ 700,000) on the phone to a private collector. La Farge did at least three versions of hollyhocks on wood panels and continued to paint watercolors of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century and Modern Auction
Johnny Swing (b. 1961) created this Nickel Couch of approximately 7000 nickels and stainless steel (and thousands of welds) in 2003. It is number five of a proposed edition of 25 and was purchased from the artist. It has a metal tag reading "5.5404 KKW Johnny Swing, LHR." The 31" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Toys, Automata, and Americana
Fishing lure trade sign, full-bodied, painted wood, fish with open mouth, glass eyes, and metal fins, detailed incised carving, defined mouth, tail, and neck area, allover speckled surface, offered with early hanging stanchion with wrought-iron chains, 38" long, some wear and cracks to glass, $19,550 (est. $1500/2500) on the phone. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)What Happened in New York City during the Americana Week Auctions?
Document cabinet signed by John Townsend, consigned by the Chipstone Foundation to benefit its acquisition funds, sold to dealer Bill Samaha for $3,442,500 at Christie's. Christie's photo.Mary Antrim's 1807 sampler, sold for $1,070,500 to Woodbury, Connecticut, dealer David Schorsch at Sotheby's Betty Ring auction. Sotheby's photo.Early Connecticut carved and painted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Faces Criminal Charges
Manhattan art dealer Robert Scott Cook was charged on January 26 with defrauding one of his clients out of more than $4 million worth of art, including works by Pablo Picasso, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sale Kicks Off American Paintings Week
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), Park along the Shore, oil on canvas, 201/4" x 24 3/8", signed "Prendergast/ CP" in the hand of his brother Charles Prendergast on the lower right, $206,500 (est. $150,000/250,000) to a collector in the salesroom.Harry Herman Roseland (1866-1950), The Lucky Card, oil on canvas, 10" x ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second Cache of Coca-Cola Memorabilia Headed to Auction
The circa 1896 Coca-Cola cameo paper sign, 40" x 30", printed by J. Ottmann Litho. Co., New York, sold for $123,900 at the September 17 and 18, 2011, sale. It had been professionally restored.The biggest and oldest items from the Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia will be sold March 24 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historical Society Receives Gift of Brunner Records
by Karl H. PassThe Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, located at 237 West Main Street in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has received a donation of daybooks kept by pioneering antiques dealer Hattie Brunner. Gifted by descendant Raymond Brunner, the ledgers record her sales from 1929 through 1976, according to ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Opinion Peace, Part Two
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the December 2011 issue, back before the blur that was the holidays, we tackled that touchy subject about what to do if you see something misidentified or miscataloged when at an auction or a show. We hear from people regularly who have found themselves ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2011 Delaware Antiques Show
The Pennsylvania chest made for Catherine Wereley (b. 1762), Northampton and Lehigh Counties, was $85,000 from Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania. It is similar to the chest made for her sister, which is now in the Winterthur Museum's collection. Their father was one of the founders of Lehigh County. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Music Valley in Nashville: Moving Day Is Around the Corner
Karen and Charley Buckingham of Burleson, Texas, were pleased to sell the weathered but true Windsor chair to young collectors on Friday morning. The display was anchored by a canopy bed with turned posts for $1250. The 18th-century Massachusetts hanging cupboard in the corner with red finish was $2400.Canadian Grenfell ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Note to 19th-Century Primitive Artists: It's Not What You Know, but Who Knows You
The girl in this 26" x 22" oil on wood panel by Zedekiah Belknap, painted in 1823, was identified on the reverse as Alvina (or Elvina) Smith, born August 1819. It sold for $34,500.Bidding was lively on this small New Hampshire pine cupboard in well-worn red paint with a wide ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings at Freeman's
Two phone bidders competed for this watercolor on paper by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Blue and Opal-The Photographer, 4 15/16" x 81/2", painted in Dieppe, France circa 1885. It was from the estate of Gerald M. Bordman of Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, who bought it in 1959 from Hirschl & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The American Art Fair 2011
The American Art Fair filled three floors of the Bohemian National Hall November 27-December 1, 2011. Alexander Acevedo's Alexander Gallery and Thomas Colville shared the balcony space on the fifth floor. "Nobody wanted to be up here. We wanted to charge more for these larger spaces, so since we own ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Low-Key Auction Still Breaks $1 Million Mark
There were five to six phone bidders when this pair of Paris porcelain vases came up for bid. The field soon narrowed to two. One of them paid $68,440 for the 14 5/8" high vases with depictions of America's second and third presidents on them. There was repaired breakage to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Another New York County Charges Auctioneer Timothy Conroy
by David HewettOn December 14, 2011, auctioneer Timothy Conroy appeared in Madison County Court and pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree grand larceny, stealing of consignors' funds, a felony in the Empire State.In the sealed indictment handed up by the Madison County Grand Jury, Conroy was charged with ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Cataloging Software
NM Collector JE is a simple, inexpensive, versatile collection cataloging program that will run on a Windows, Linux, or Macintosh computer.Computer Column #278by John P. Reid, e-mail It has been three years since this column surveyed cataloging software for antiques dealers and collectors. We will update the survey. One specialized ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Marks Farmer's Fall Sale
This cast-iron toy bus from the Arcade Manufacturing Company, Freeport, Illinois, is a souvenir of the 1933-34 A Century of Progress International Exposition, commonly referred to as the Chicago World's Fair. The two-piece toy consists of a tractor with a bus-configured trailer and retains the original Arcade sticker as well ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Stories of Three Collections: Key West, Jack London, and Bookends
One of several panoramic photographs of Key West in the 1870's, taken from Tift's Tower, a lookout for wreckers searching for distressed ships. The panoramas preserve what Key West looked like before the 1886 fire that destroyed the entire downtown. Courtesy Scott DeWolfe collection.A Key West cigar-box label from circa ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Benefit Auction Breaks Records, and Mystery of "Daguerreian Holy Grail" Revealed
A daguerreian brooch encasing a 11/4" x 1" image of a child with a curl and a toy trumpet brought $1100. It was the top price of the vintage material in the sale.A 31/2" x 21/2" tintype of a Native American family with a White man, perhaps a scout, sold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the trade: Benjamin Wilson and Kathy Pakay, Hudson, New York
Kathy Pakay and Ben Wilson.Wilson's and Pakay's shop at 529 Warren Street, Hudson, New York.An Adirondack desk chair in a nice dark old surface is $675.An early 19th-century Connecticut cupboard with raised panel doors in cream and yellow over red (this is the type of surface Ben Wilson loves) is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fine Art Show Gives Boston's Art World "Critical Mass"
This 14" x 21" watercolor on paper by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was $100,000 from Sunne Savage Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts. It was out on approval a few days after the show. Titled Breaking Wave, it was accompanied by a letter of authentication by Homer scholar Abigail Gerdts. "People who want a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Tailgate Antique Show in Nashville Merges with Music Valley
Rick Norton of Noblesville, Indiana, called his diverse display "Merch 1." A standout item at the center was this swan fountain for $6500-perfect for a New Orleans courtyard.Antiques & Beyond, Atlanta, Georgia, had set up a display designed to appeal to private and commercial decorators. They had already sold an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Op Art Options at Rachel Davis
Julian Stanczak (b. 1928), Black Daisy, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 341/2" x 28", $44,250. See the story for more information about Stanczak.Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Jitterbug, aluminum sculpture, 81/2" high, signed, edition of 150, very good condition, $3422.Aaron H. Gorson (1872-1933), Steel Mills on a River, signed "A.H. Gorson" lower right, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Questions Than Answers
Relief carving of the goddess Minerva by Bozanico, inscribed on the reverse, Continental, under glass, 193/4" x 151/2", $58,750.The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories by John James Audubon (1785-1851), seven-volume set, New York and Philadelphia, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860, royal octavo, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Approaching the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, visitors immediately perceive the unity of art, architecture, and nature. At the center of the circle stands Yield, a 2011 sculpture of polished stainless steel by Roxy Paine (b. 1966). At its base grow native Arkansas blue stem grasses.The curving concrete walls ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comThe emperor Qianlong is said to have been very taken with this form of Buddhist alms bowl when visiting a temple at Jiannan in 1758 (on one of his "Southern Grand Tours") and to have subsequently requested, or perhaps ordered, that examples of such bowls be carved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crowell Standing Redhead Drake Highlights Sale
An important full-size standing redhead drake by A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) of East Harwich, Massachusetts, sold for $241,500 (est. $140,000/160,000) to a buyer in the South. "It's a beautiful piece of art," stated one collector. It had near-mint original paint and very fine detail and had Crowell's oval brand on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The World of Duncan Phyfe
by Lita Solis-CohenStuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler Galleries imparted his passion for the furniture of Duncan Phyfe to his daughter, Elizabeth, and together they have put together a selling exhibition, The World of Duncan Phyfe, at their stunning new galleries on the fourth floor of the Crown Building at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)December Jewelry Auctions
Platinum and diamond ring. It has one octagonal step-cut diamond of approximately 10.56 carats and two baguette-cut diamonds of approximately 0.30 carat total and it weighs 3.50 dwt. The ring was accompanied by a GIA diamond grading certificate stating, "color: G, clarity: VS2, polish: good, symmetry: fair, fluorescence: none." Drawing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Go for "Safe Bets"
Arizona Twilight by Dale Nichols (1904-1995), a 30" x 40" oil on canvas, brought $72,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Shannon's had previously sold it for $50,400 in October 2007.Greenwood Lake, a 12" x 20" oil on canvas painted in 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), was the sale's top lot at $252,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dara Mitchell Leaves Sotheby's after 26 Years
by Lita Solis-CohenIn June 2011, Dara Mitchell, head of Sotheby's American art department and one of eight executive vice presidents of Sotheby's North and South America, decided to retire by the end of 2011. Her children, ages 18 and 22, are out of the house. It is not that she ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Sign of the Times
During Memorial Day weekend 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, landlord Jamie Hein banned a young African-American girl who was visiting her father from swimming in the pool at the duplex Hein owns. According to a complaint filed with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC), Hein claimed that the girl used chemicals in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tricks and Treats at York Show
Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine, asked $5500 for the architectural blanket chest with scalloping in original green paint decoration. The large wooden hatbox with freehand decoration was $2800.The Norwoods' Spirit of America wanted $995 for this cast-iron stove plate with door from the Oley Furnace.This brightly colored 20th-century hooked rug framed ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 75th Augusta Armory Show
A well-painted $550 Tammany nodding bank sat next to a square Columbian Safe Deposit bank at the booth of Doug and Tania Carnrick of Odds 'N Sodds, Winslow, Maine. The $900 Columbian was the black-painted version, a souvenir of the 1894 Chicago World's Fair, a.k.a. the World's Columbian Exposition, with ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: William Birch: Picturing the American Scene
by Lita Solis-CohenWilliam Birch: Picturing the American Sceneby Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 340 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from University of Pennsylvania Press, (www.upenn.edu/pennpress) or (800) 537-5487.This fresh look at the life and work of William Birch (1755-1834), one of the most ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence
by Lita Solis-CohenExpressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume IIEditors Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, catalog by David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, photography by Gavin AshworthMarquand Books, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011, 452 pages, hardbound, $95 plus ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Lowdown on Underbidders
by Steve ProffittThe modern world is fast turning the bedrock concept of individual privacy into a relic that will be remembered only in history books. The increasing intrusiveness of government with its telescopic eyes in satellites, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, supercomputers for data mining, facial-recognition software, tracking devices of every kind, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
This realistic copy of a mid-18th-century fireplace stopped us dead in our tracks. So we asked dealer Bob Jessen of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, to stand next to it. According to Jessen and his partner, Jim Hohnwald, the color is "Nanking," a period hue.We admired the original green paint on the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What a Crock!
This stoneware jug, stamped "E.H. Maxwell/ Wine & Spirit M'c'ht/ 79 & 81 Broad St./ Boston./ 3," with a pair of blue cobalt birds facing one another, led the sale at $8360.Seth Thomas oak-cased regulator clock, $1100.This painted John Rogers statue, Checkers Up at the Farm, with a provenance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction at Christie's
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), The Piazzetta with Gondolas, executed 1902-04, watercolor with pencil on paper, 10" x 14", $842,500 (est. $600,000/800,000) to private dealer Michael Altman in the salesroom sitting with a collector. The painting is a dynamic example of Sargent's favorite subject painted during one of his annual visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832-1932), Sunset in the Florida Everglades, signed, oil on canvas, 17 1/8" x 24", $74,500 (est. $25,000/35,000) to a private collector on the phone.Landscape of Mt. Washington, with the signature "V.B. Crocker" and the date "1864," oil on canvas, 30 1/8" x 50 1/8", sold for $10,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Getman Buys Boston Book Show; New Venue Found
Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group, Lexington, Massachusetts, has acquired the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show from promoter Bernice Bornstein.Bornstein started the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show 15 years ago as a satellite show to the fall Boston Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) International Book Fair. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)How History Unfolds on Paper, Part I: The Eric Caren Collection
The auction highlight of the first part of Caren's collection was the 1674 manuscript authorization for Edmund Andros to take possession of New York from the Dutch, signed by Charles II, King of England. The magazine Manuscripts described it as "New York State's Birth Certificate." It is a letter signed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early Photography at Americana Sale Soars
A half-plate daguerreotype portrait of two hunters with game and a sleeping dog was the top lot of the early photography portion of the sale, bringing $18,960 (est. $1500/2500).A quarter-plate daguerreotype of students in a classroom fetched $15,405 (est. $1000/1500).A half-plate daguerreotype of an architect at work in his office ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Layoffs at Iroquois Indian Museum
by Betty Flood and Alyssa PlockThe employees of the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New York, have been notified by the board of trustees that the entire staff will be laid off as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. The financial problem reared its ugly head, despite the fact ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)19th-Century Maritime Art
The inset is Buttersworth's "Madeline" and "Sappho" off Sandy Hook Lightship, oil on canvas, 30" x 40". It's also shown in the catalog with a closeup. The catalog is available from Monmouth University, Pollak Gallery, 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ 07764. Price is $20 at the gallery, $30 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amendment to California's Secondhand Dealers Law Would Allow Seizure of Dealer's Inventory
by David Hewett"California is very much into getting income from everyone and anyplace it can find it now. We're in big-time debt." That came from Michael Ogle, co-owner of American Garage, a popular folk art business in Los Angeles.The debt problem was never acknowledged as the reason for the introduction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bid-Rigging Charges Dismissed
by Elizabeth DinanA judge has dismissed the charges that Portsmouth, New Hampshire, auctioneer Stephen Bennett rigged the bidding for a nautical painting. The judge's ruling stated that the New Hampshire attorney general's office, not the Portsmouth police, had exclusive authority to prosecute the case.Bennett was charged with three misdemeanors alleging ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Sale for Cordier in New Facility
David Cordier took turns auctioneering with colleague Ellen Miller. Pass photo.This uncirculated 1911-D Indian head $2.50 quarter eagle gold piece was a highlight among the roughly 100 lots of coins. It sold for $7130.Cordier Auctions & Appraisals, Harrisburg, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassPhotos courtesy Cordier Auctions & AppraisalsDavid Cordier of Cordier ... (Read More)
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