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(Auction)Ohio Valley Americana Concentration
Garth's, Delaware, Ohioby Don JohnsonJeff Jeffers had a simple way of looking at the results from Garth's May 4 and 5 sale, which included the company's first-ever session concentrating on the Ohio Valley. "If it's a little special, the price becomes a little special too," said Jeffers, Garth's president.Indeed, there ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stowe Away!
Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, MaineStowe Away!by Mark SiscoHistory and folk art always seem to mix well at Timothy Gould's signature "fresh to the market" auctions, and his May 12 offering in Gardiner, Maine, was no exception. Some classic early American samplers led the sale, followed by some historic artifacts of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Heartland Antiques Show
Richmond, Indianaby Don JohnsonLate in the morning of June 2, during the one-day Heartland Antiques Show, held at the Wayne County Fairgrounds on the edge of Richmond, Indiana, a Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup truck hitched to a cargo trailer was parked between two of the main exhibition halls. At ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fund-Raising Auction for Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center
Old Saybrook, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferKatharine Hepburn starred in two very different worlds. One was international. She was famous around the globe for her theater performances on and off Broadway and in films and television. During her 62-year film career, from 1932 to 1994, she was in 45 movies, usually in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Marburger Farm Antique Show
Round Top, TexasMarburger Farm Antique Showby David AndersonThis year Easter Sunday fell on an unusually late date and threw some turmoil into the beginning and ending of what is informally known as Texas Antique Week. Several shows and individual vendors participated the week just before Easter, many others picked the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unsigned Firehouse Painting Paces Julia Auction
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maineby Mark SiscoWhile it didn't quite set the house on fire, the biggest success at James Julia's May 5 auction in Fairfield, Maine, was a 19th-century firehouse painting, generating lots more than just local interest. It was an unsigned oil on canvas of what is believed ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Los Angeles Antiques Show: Change Happens
Los Angeles, Californiaby Blanche MossIn a town where nothing succeeds like excess, they came, they saw, and they bought at the sexy and dynamic April 25 opening night party for the April 26-29 Los Angeles Antiques Show, hosted by a new charity beneficiary, P.S. Arts. "I loved the energy of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quiet Sale Produces Healthy Gross
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshireby David HewettThere wasn't any blockbuster furniture in Northeast Auctions' sale on May 19 and 20 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and there was only a smattering of art objects. In fact, there wasn't anything of note evident in a quick perusal of the catalog.The second session ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fun and Fantasy at Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck, New Yorkby Fran KramerIf Washington Irving's character Rip Van Winkle had opened his eyes after a 31-year sleep (instead of 20) at the May 26 and 27 Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, he'd be amused, amazed, and a little befuddled.He'd recognize the show management-efficient, organized, dealer-friendly-and even a few of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hibbard Vermont Landscape Tops Rockport Art Association Annual Fundraiser
Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusettsby Rose SafranThe Rockport Art Association's annual art sale is one of this writer's favorite auctions. The principal fundraiser for the venerable Rockport Art Association (RAA), it is held in May in the organization's charming headquarters in the heart of this popular destination for artists and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chippendale Secretary Leads
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoAs a group, some ship paintings by Badger and Stubbs were the strongest offerings at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries sale on May 26 and 27 in Thomaston, Maine. With items representing four continents and numerous countries, it was a wide-ranging sale.The small ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revelations about Smuggled Whale's Teeth
Revelations about Smuggled Whale's Teethby David Hewett
In April, antiques dealer Martin Schneider, 60, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to smuggling "hundreds" of the raw sperm whale's teeth from 1995 through 2005, so many that his sales of the teeth netted him over $500,000. "That's just the tip of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Reingold Sculpture Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Rago Arts and Auction Center
Dr. Marvin Reingold and his wife, Eileen, collected American sculpture and art pottery passionately for 40 years. "We were first at every sale at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Doyle's, and we went to sales in upstate New York in snowstorms. We ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dawson & Nye Expands into New England
Andrew K. Holter, director of business development at Dawson & Nye Auctioneers/Appraisers in Morris Plains, New Jersey, a former Sotheby's officer, and specialist in furniture, decoys, and fine art, always nurtured a dream to live in New England. With more property being consigned from the north and with two young ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Philadelphia Antiques Show Cuts Down to 51 Dealers
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Six dealers will not return to the Philadelphia Antiques Show next April when it moves to the Navy Pier at Philadelphia's Navy Yard, April 11-15. The dealers are G.K.S. Bush, New York City and Nantucket; Marcy Burns, New York City; F.J. Carey, III Antiques, Ambler, Pennsylvania; Charles ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Legislation in New York Aims to Forbid Chandelier Bids
Legislation in New York Aims to Forbid Chandelier Bids
by Jessica Best and Betty Flood
Sham or chandelier bids from auctioneers would be prohibited, unless the bids are identified with the phrase "for the consignor," under legislation introduced in both houses of the New York State Legislature. Also known as a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Dolly Johnson Antique Show
Fort Worth, TexasThe Dolly Johnson Antique Showby David AndersonWith spring just around the corner, the Dolly Johnson Antique Show opened in Fort Worth, Texas, March 10 and 11, for the 44th time, making it one of the longest-running antiques shows of its kind in Texas and, perhaps, nationally. The show ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Southern Art Market: Those Rebel Yells Get Louder
Southern Art Market: Those Rebel Yells Get Louderby Jeanne SchintoThe market demand for southern art began to rise sharply about ten years ago, according to Shannon C. Foley, a private art dealer born and raised in New Orleans. "Before that, there was interest, but not the prices that there are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Topnotch Evans Furniture Comes to Market
Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions, Lambertville, New JerseyTopnotch Evans Furniture Comes to Marketby Lita Solis-CohenAlong with a selection of Nakashima furniture, some monumental gong sculptures by Harry Bertoia, a few choice pieces of Wharton Esherick's artistry in wood, and its phonebook-size catalog, Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions' spring sale on April 21 and 22 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)John Scudder and Family: From Skilled Craftsmen to Leaders of Men
John Scudder and Family: From Skilled Craftsmen to Leaders of Menby David A. Sperling, M.D.Imagine drawing a triangle on a map of 19th-century New Jersey connecting Newark, New Brunswick, and Flemington. Inside this triangle lived the cabinetmakers who produced the finest Federal tall-clock cases ever made in the state.Within this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Sells Local Collection for $501,650
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, VirginiaThe Potomack Company Sells
Local Collection for $501,650by Robert KyleThe Potomack Company, which
opened just last fall, made a positive and enduring impression on the Washington,
D.C., auction scene on April 28 with a solid half-million-dollar one-day single-owner
sale. The property included a collection of nearly ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)The Contrarian Path to Happiness
The Art of MarketingThe Contrarian Path to Happinessby David VazdauskasIt's too bad that contrarians get a bad rap. We're seen as being unjustly negative and dour. We're serial pessimists. We see the glass as half empty. We argue that the glass would be even more empty if it were bigger.I'm ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Big One!
Auction Law and EthicsThe Big One!by Steve ProffittIn June,
I began answering several questions a reader posed. When I filled my space for
that column, I hadn't even gotten to my big point. Here's the letter-my big
point follows.I consigned a nice collection to an auctioneer to sell in what ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Charles and Rebekah Clark, Woodbury, Connecticut
In the TradeCharles and Rebekah Clark, Woodbury, Connecticutby Frank DoneganI first met Charles and Rebekah Clark in New York in the mid-1990's. We were all setting up for the American Classicism show at Alexander Gallery on Madison Avenue. Charles and Rebekah were wearing white cotton curator's gloves. I said to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Collector Within: Joseph Cornell
The Collector Within: Joseph Cornellby Jeanne SchintoJoseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in more than 26 years, presents 180 of his finest pieces of "assemblage," the most celebrated of which are his box constructions. The intimate scale of the boxes, none of them ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan's, Cincinnati, OhioAmerican Indian and Western Artby Don JohnsonThere was the Henry Farny painting that sold for $1.16 million (includes buyer's premium), and there was the sale total of $2.7 million. The most intriguing story, however, to come from Cowan's latest sale of American Indian and Western art, held March ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Terry Walker Collection: Part Two
Chris Huntington, Truro, Nova ScotiaThe Terry Walker Collection: Part Twoby Chris BeckettAll prices in Canadian funds; rounded U.S. figures in parenthesesThe trouble with announcing your retirement, especially if you're an auctioneer, is that the sale opportunity of an entire career could be just around the corner. Well-known Maine and Maritime ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Amoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Million
Amoskeag Auction Company, Manchester, New HampshireAmoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Millionby Robert KyleAhh...Springtime in New England. Daffodils are blooming. Atlantic salmon are swimming back to their parent streams for spawning. And machine guns in Manchester are in their full glory.That was the scene on May 19 when Amoskeag Auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mary Merritt Doll Sale II
Noel Barrett and Andy Ourant, Wyomissing, PennsylvaniaThe Mary Merritt Doll Sale IIby Lita Solis-CohenSimone Saurland bid on line from her house near Brighton in the United Kingdom during the first Mary Merritt Doll Museum sale on September 30 and October 1, 2006, and was not successful. That's why she came ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Firearms Column
The Firearms Columnby Robert KyleSometimes it may seem that most of the gun auction action takes place on the right and left coasts. Certainly, many important and historic arms have changed hands for impressive prices in New England and California, but tucked away near Topeka is an outfit where you ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Graham Gallery Celebrates 150 Years in Business
Graham Gallery Celebrates 150 Years in Businessby Lita Solis-CohenJames Graham & Sons, the Madison Avenue gallery in New York City, is celebrating a century and a half in the art business with a low-key exhibition of the paintings, sculptures, and American silver that the firm had sold over the years ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tapply Flies and Furniture at The Cobbs
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New HampshireTapply Flies and Furniture at The Cobbsby Mark SiscoThe Cobbs were pleased to present a portion of the sporting collection of the late H.G. Tapply at their auction on April 21 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The Tapply items sold well, but it was early furniture ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)QUILT REPAIR USING COMPUTERS
QUILT REPAIR USING COMPUTERSby John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netEvery so often the search for ways for antiquers to use computers takes me to an unexpected destination. That is the way it was when I discovered using computers for quilt restoration. This is an established field practiced by skilled needleworkers who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marathon Spring Catalog Sale in Manheim
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Marathon Spring Catalog Sale in Manheim
by Karl H. Pass
Conestoga Auction Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania, held its two-day spring catalog sale on May 4 and 5. The 1411-lot sale was much larger than the typical multi-consignor catalog sales conducted by Conestoga. The large sale grossed over $750,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Editorial: A Brave Goodbye
A Brave GoodbyeRichard Withington, New Hampshire's oldest auctioneer (near 90) and the holder of New Hampshire auctioneer's license No. 1, shocked the standing-room-only crowd at his on-site sale in Keene on June 7 when he announced that his brain cancer was incurable and doctors have given him four to five ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Larson Clock Collection: Rare and Right
Cottone Auctions, Leicester, New YorkThe Larson Clock Collection: Rare and Rightby Jeanne SchintoWe've been asked to make it clear at the outset. Lindy and Karen Larson of Westminster, Vermont, are not going out of business, and they are not getting a divorce after 38 years of marriage-far from it. Neither ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Treasures at Doyle's May Americana Sale
Doyle, New York CityTreasures at Doyle's May Americana Sale by Lita Solis-CohenDealers always check out Americana sales at Doyle New York knowing that 70% of the goods come from estates. Sometimes they find treasures among undercataloged lots with low estimates.The publicity for the sale on May 1 touted a silver-hilted ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tenth Annual Historic East Berlin Antique Show
East Berlin, PennsylvaniaThe Tenth Annual Historic East Berlin Antique Showby Karl H. PassMay 17-19 marked the tenth annual Historic East Berlin Antique Show. All proceeds from the show go to the nonprofit East Berlin Historical Preservation Society and are used to maintain five buildings in its care: a 1790's stone ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Pleads Guilty in Investment Fraud Scheme
Art Dealer Pleads Guilty in Investment Fraud SchemeArt dealer Thomas Hugh Akins, 52, of Rockville, Maryland, pleaded guilty on May 17 to wire fraud.Akins owned and operated the Thomas H. Akins Company, Inc., which traded as Galerie Elan in Ellicott City, Maryland, according to the plea agreement. "Between 2002 and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bloomsbury Auctions Expands to Big Apple
Bloomsbury Auctions Expands to Big AppleBloomsbury Auctions is opening a New York City salesroom. According to the firm's Web site, a schedule of six book auctions will be announced for the autumn of 2007, and specialist departments for prints and photographs will open in 2008. Bloomsbury has locations in London ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Ceramic Circle Book Award
American Ceramic Circle Book AwardThe American Ceramic Circle has announced the creation of an award that recognizes publications that make major contributions to the field of ceramics. Known as The American Ceramic Circle Book Award, it will be granted annually to a book or exhibition catalog that either advances scholarship ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coffman's to Close
Coffman's to CloseAfter 19 years of business, Coffman's Antiques Market at the Jenifer House Commons in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, will close on July 31, according to a press release from the firm. "Sudden and rapidly failing health has been the primary reason we are closing," cited Don Coffman.The Coffmans opened ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judgment in Flag Libel Lawsuit Stricken; Leads to More Court Action
Judgment in Flag Libel Lawsuit Stricken; Leads to More Court ActionA communication error has caused the default judgment in a lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, M.D., of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, against David Martucci of Washington, Maine, to be stricken. The determination of damages in the suit, $39,750, has been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nan Gurley Launches New Show
Nan Gurley Launches New ShowCornish, Maine-based antiques show promoter Nan Gurley has scheduled a new show at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, on Sunday, July 1. The location, an Arts and Crafts mountaintop estate, was built in 1914 by Thomas Gustave Plant.According to a press release, Gurley ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gifts from Hilda Chester
Gifts from Hilda Chester by Henry I. KurtzOn June 10, a 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers autographed team baseball with many original signatures and a New York Giants team ball from the same period were offered at Philip Weiss Auctions in Oceanside, New York. The Dodgers ball sold for $904 (includes buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Annual NHADA Show Turns 50
Annual NHADA Show Turns 50 The 50th annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) show will be held August 9-11 at the Radisson Hotel, Center of New Hampshire, in Manchester, New Hampshire. The show focuses on Americana, folk art, paintings, and formal and primitive American furnishings. Yankee magazine editor Polly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Old Fort Western Seeks Fort Descendants
Old Fort Western Seeks Fort DescendantsOld Fort Western, the 1754 National Landmark fort, store, and house historic site on the riverfront in downtown Augusta, Maine, would like to be in touch with the descendants of people who lived in the fort's main house between 1840 and 1920. The project is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pigeon Target Ball Flies
Pigeon Target Ball FliesOn April 16 American Bottle Auctions of Sacramento, California, sold an Agnew Brown target ball with an embossed pigeon for $28,000 (including buyer's premium). According to the auction house, there are only two examples known, and this one came from the collection of the late Alex Kerr, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Needlework at the Rufus Porter Museum
Needlework at the Rufus Porter MuseumA special loan exhibit of historic schoolgirl needlework will open June 28 when the Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton, Maine, begins its summer and fall season. There will be 27 pieces of early needlework on exhibit, dating from the 1600's to 1840. Many are from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Remmey Stoneware Pitcher Found in a Well Highlights Sale
Remmey Stoneware Pitcher Found in a Well Highlights Saleby Karl PassNewly unearthed from the bottom of a well, where it had been buried for likely 175-odd years, an elaborately decorated stoneware pitcher attributed to Henry Remmey Sr. sold at Crocker Farm's May 19 sale in York, Pennsylvania, for $69,000 (including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Wicker Exhibition
Antique Wicker ExhibitionThe Sheffield Historical Society will host American Antique Wicker, an exhibition of woven furniture from the 1870's through the 1920's. Four major styles of wicker evolved during that Golden Age, and many period pieces will be on display at the Old Stone Store, the society's museum building on ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Must-Attend Event for Glass Collectors
Old Greenwich, ConnecticutA Must-Attend Event for Glass Collectorsby David HewettIf you're a serious glass collector, there are two must-attend events in your collecting life. One is the Cape Cod Glass Show, sponsored by the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in September; the other is the Westchester Glass Club Collectors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mulliken Tall Clock, Found on West Coast, Sells for $33,350 at Kaminski
Mulliken Tall Clock, Found on West Coast, Sells for $33,350 at Kaminski by Jeanne Schinto On Sunday, April 22, the same weekend as the Schmitt auction (p. 16-D), Frank Kaminski of Kaminski Auctions, Beverly, Massachusetts, offered 520 items, including a tall clock made by Joseph Mulliken (1765-1802) of Concord, Massachusetts. ... (Read More)
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(Show)40th Annual Wilton Historical Society Show a One-Day Affair This Year
Wilton, Connecticut40th Annual Wilton Historical Society Show a One-Day Affair This Yearby David HewettThe exhibitors and show manager Marilyn Gould were equally apprehensive about this year's Wilton Historical Society Antiques Show in Wilton, Connecticut.Neither knew how a mix of conditions would affect their spring show, the most obvious being a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, MaineSpring Auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleriesby Mark SiscoSome fine ship paintings and other artworks were at the heart of the March 31 and April 1 auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, but it was a little carved cup that drew the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hiram Powers Has a Major Show
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OhioHiram Powers Has a Major Showby Ernest Rohdenburg IIIHiram Powers: Genius in Marble, the first major exhibition devoted to one of the most celebrated 19th-century American sculptors, opened at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 18. Co-curated by Lynne D. Ambrosini, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Changing Art Market: Skinner Sells Modern
Skinner, Inc., Boston, MassachusettsA Changing Art Market: Skinner Sells Modernby Jeanne SchintoWith its latest sale of paintings on Friday, May 18, Skinner signaled its readiness to keep pace with today's art market when it offered as its cover lot Abstract in Green by Zao Wou-Ki, who was born in Beijing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Results from Diverse Fine Art
Shannon's, Greenwich, ConnecticutStrong Results from Diverse Fine Artby Ed PfeifferShannon's fine art auction on April 26 at the Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, was obviously a success, achieving about $3.6 million in total sales. Gene Shannon said that figure was the fourth highest achieved in the gallery's history of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wall Regulators Rule at Spring Clock Sale
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New HampshireWall Regulators Rule at Spring Clock Saleby Jeanne SchintoAmerican weight-driven wall regulators dominated the bidding at R.O. "Bob" Schmitt's latest auction on April 21 and 22, just as they do at most clock sales these days. The cover lot, a circa 1905 Seth Thomas ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Americana Auction
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, PennsylvaniaSpring Americana Auctionby Lita Solis-CohenEnd-of-the-season Americana sales are tough for auctioneers. When the weather is gorgeous the golf course, the tennis court, and the garden beckon, and only the most passionate dealers and collectors can be found in a salesroom."We are all tired after a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Special Spring Sales in New Brunswick
Tim Isaac Antiques and Auctions/Kevin Bond, New Brunswick, CanadaSpecial Spring Sales in New Brunswickby Peter SmitAll prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses). No buyer's premium chargedSome special sales took place this spring in New Brunswick. On April 9 Tim Isaac Antiques and Auctions sold the contents of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's Sells DeHardit Estate
Motley's Auction & Realty Group, Richmond, VirginiaMotley's Sells DeHardit Estateby Walter C. NewmanIn 1989 John E. DeHardit retired to his Gloucester, Virginia, home, Wareloch, following a distinguished law career that had culminated with more than 30 years as judge of Virginia's Ninth Judicial Circuit. Judge DeHardit passed away in July ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early Map Surprises at Spring Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, MaineEarly Map Surprises at Spring Auctionby Rose SafranIt may have been the timing, for an optimistic spirit certainly prevailed at the Friday afternoon preview of Hap Moore's spring auction, where two items sold in the five-figure category and plenty of interest was indicated in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Chicago, IllinoisThe Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair by Danielle ArnetChicago's Merchandise Mart gave a wonderful party April 27-30, and a great time was had by all. More to the point, the Mart's four-day Artropolis extravaganza ushered in a new era of hosting major antiques shows. And you can put your ... (Read More)
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(Show)Early Birds Get the Worms at the King City Show
King City, OntarioEarly Birds Get the Worms at the King City Showby John NorrisAll prices in Canadian funds; rounded U.S. dollars in parentheses "We've been opening the show at one p.m. for twenty-two years now," said Sam Halpern, promoter, with his wife, Sandra, of the King City Show, held April ... (Read More)
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(Show)12th Annual Hunt Country Antiques Fair
Leesburg, Virginia12th Annual Hunt Country Antiques Fairby Robert KyleThe Hunt Country Spring Antiques Fair has endured over the years by changing with the economic times and adjusting to meteorological uncertainties. Once a gala outside event with majestic pointed white tents on the grounds of the historic Oatlands Plantation south of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Comprehensive Edward Hopper Retrospective
Museum of Fine Arts, BostonComprehensive Edward Hopper Retrospective by Rose Safran"He became, in the public's mind, a down-to-earth, stalwart, quintessentially American artist, a realist whose style was associated with truth telling and admirable independence."-Carol Troyen, curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from the exhibition catalog essay "A Stranger Worth Talking ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McKenney Collection Called Fantastic
Green Valley Auctions, Inc., Mt. Crawford, VirginiaMcKenney Collection Called Fantasticby Walter C. Newman"Fantastic!" That was the word that floated about from the 550-plus bidders who attended Green Valley Auctions' March 23 and 24 sale of the personal collection of Dorothy and Henry McKenney. "Dolly" and "Mac," as everyone knew them, ... (Read More)
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(Show)York Shows Together Yet Separate
York, PennsylvaniaYork Shows Together Yet Separateby Karl H. PassShow managers Jim Burk of the Greater York Antiques Show and Sale and Barry Cohen of the York County Classic Antiques Show combined their shows on the York, Pennsylvania, fairgrounds the weekend of May 18 and 19.The single-admission event in Memorial Hall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whole New Territory Achieved for Decoys at Auction
Guyette & Schmidt, St. Charles, IllinoisWhole New Territory Achieved for Decoys at Auctionby Karl H. PassOn April 26 and 27 the decoy auction firm of Guyette & Schmidt, Inc. conducted its 22nd annual spring auction at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois. The total gross of the 671-lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gee's Bend Quilter Files Lawsuit
by David Hewett
In a complaint filed on June 1 in the Southern District of Alabama, nearly 80-year-old quilter Annie Mae Young asked for compensatory and punitive damages from the people and the organizations that have prospered from her labors. Young, a resident of rural Gee's Bend and a descendant of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Museum Head Pleads Guilty in Federal Court
by David Hewett
On June 4, former Independence Seaport Museum president John S. Carter, 57, pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax evasion charges in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Carter admitted that he took well over $1,500,000 of museum funds for personal use between 1997 and 2006, during the 17 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eleventh Annual Antiques in Alexandria Show
by Robert Kyle
The mid-March Antiques in Alexandria show in Alexandria, Virginia, falls at an opportune time of year. It's too chilly for outdoor shows, and there are no competing indoor antiques events in the Washington, D.C., area. So why isn't this classy show mobbed? It is, more or less. It ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston Welcomes Its New Antiques Shows
by Jeanne Schinto
Promoter Marvin Getman's latest effort attracted one of the largest crowds in recent memory to an antiques show in Boston. Actually, it was a triple bill. It combined an antiques show, an antiquarian book and ephemera fair, and what is believed to be Boston's first-ever antique textile and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Honor Founder Rob Lambert
by John Norris
All prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses)
Thirty-three years have slipped by as if it were just yesterday when Nancy and Rob Lambert promoted the first Bowmanville show in Bowmanville, Ontario, then called the April Antiques and Folk Art Show. Nancy died a year later, but ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Computer Column #222: Writing, Cataloging, and Listening
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net A change in Microsoft Word, simple software for collectors, new features of on-line antiques newsletters, and a really simple word processor are the topics this month. -New Microsoft Word Microsoft Word dominates the personal computer word processor market. Its file format has been the de ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great American Cover Up
The exhibition The Great Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors, organized by Lee Kogan, curator of special exhibitions and public programs, will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City from June 5 to September 9. This is the museum's first presentation ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Reaching Out
Finding new collectors is expected to be a major push in the industry in the coming months. In early May, a group of around 30 movers and shakers in the market got together in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to brainstorm on ways to attract new blood to what is perceived to be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques in a Cow Pasture: New Sponsor, Fuel Discount
Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need, is the new sponsor of Barn Star Productions' Antiques in a Cow Pasture antiques show in Salisbury, Connecticut, on September 9.
Show promoter Frank Gaglio said, "Habitat for Humanity... has a solid foothold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Cyclorama Sold
The Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama, a monumental (22' x 376') early 1880's oil painting by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux and nearly identical to the one displayed at the Gettysburg National Military Park, has been acquired by a group of North Carolina investors.
According to a press release, Larry D. Laster, a Winston-Salem, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Jussel Goes to Freeman's
Chris Jussel has been named head of the decorative arts departments at Freeman's in Philadelphia, according to Beau Freeman, chairman, and Paul Roberts, president.
"I will be overseeing and assisting department heads in Americana, English and Continental furniture, twentieth century, and Asian arts," said Jussel in a phone interview. "It is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Print: Kane Reports a Discovery
Patricia Kane, curator of American decorative arts at Yale University Art Gallery, reports in the May issue of The Magazine Antiques on the progress of Yale University's ongoing project to record Rhode Island furniture makers and their products created between 1636 and 1800. She has added the name Ichabod Cole ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dealers competed for collectors' dollars in three locations during Antiques Week in Philadelphia in April. The five-day Philadelphia Antiques Show at the 33rd Street Armory attracted the largest crowd, and dealers there did the most business. Barn Star Productions' Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show on April 13-15, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Erotic Art Auction in Arizona
by Alan M. Petrillo
Classique Erotique Auctions, Phoenix, Arizona, conducted its first-ever sale of erotic material in the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale on January 27 and scored. Amanda Collins, gallery director of the associated Martin Gordon Gallery in Phoenix, said they "attracted a great deal of different people." She added ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Goodbye Peter's Party Complex, Hello Auction Gallery
by Fran Kramer
Just 18 hours after being on the world's longest flight, from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, in 18 hours, I joined a full house of other auction-goers on April 7 in Leicester, New York, for Samuel Cottone's last major sale at Peter's Party Complex.
Others had traveled from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Maine Coup: Lunder Collection to Colby
At press time, we learned that Maine art collectors Peter and Paula Lunder have pledged their art collection'over 500 works, including examples by John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, and Paul Howard Manship'to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine.
We'll have more details when they ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
by Don Johnson
There was something different about Cowan's sale of furniture, paintings, and decorative arts, held on February 17 in Cincinnati, Ohio. With a gross of more than $974,000, the auction looked good on paper, but the event had a certain lackluster feel.
C. Wesley Cowan, the company's president and principal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ann Arbor Antiques Market Changes Management
by Beth Pulsipher
The Ann Arbor (Michigan) Antiques Market is now under new management. Beginning its 39th season, the show had been managed by longtime dealers Nancy and Woody Straub for the past eight years. In the fall of 2006, show owner Tom Monaghan gifted the show's proceeds to the Father ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques, Garden & Design Show
I call this the show shuffle. Crowds on Friday morning were so dense that one could view some areas only in a slow-moving single file. Still, spirits were high. Here viewers admire Luncheon on the Terrace by Joseph O'Sickey (1918-2013). The 72" x 84" oil on canvas on the back ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freedman's Bank Pays Big Dividends
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
In the waning moments of Bertoia's spring "Signature Sale" on April 27 and 28 in Vineland, New Jersey, a New York City collector quietly closed the deal at $132,000 (includes buyer's premium) for a Freedman's mechanical bank. The transaction promptly transformed grapes into ... (Read More)
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(Show)A New Beginning: The Monroe Antique Collectibles Show
Monroe, Washington
Unlike the fall leaves that were dying and falling from the trees, the Monroe Antique Collectibles Show in Monroe, Washington, was more like a phoenix, arising after a brief hiatus. Fall 2017 saw the promoters who started the show retiring after a 24-year stint. Indecision about whether the show ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques and Allen Michaan: The Perfect Mix and Match Covers All Corners of the Market
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Michaan's Auctions
Prices in captions include the buyer's premium.
Allen Michaan of Michaan's Auctions, Alameda, California, has always been an entrepreneur. An early interest in the architecture of historical movie theaters led to a passion for a wide range of artifacts from the past. When the Bay ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's spring auction of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts on March 27 offered over 400 lots, and the hours-long sale totaled $998,281 (including buyers' premiums) with a sell-through rate of 81%. The presale estimate for the total sale was $954,450/1,446,900.
There were 15 to 20 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Those Weren't the Days
The Young Collector
As the last boy in his generation in our family, Nat has inherited all the LEGOs. And we do mean all. We have cardboard boxes filled with more than 50 pounds of LEGOs, but for someone who is an engineer in the making, one who enjoys the process ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farewell to Treadwell Auction
Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates, LLC, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The word "bittersweet" and the phrase "last hurrah" hung in the air at Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates' August 18 auction at the Treadwell Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Billed as "Our Farewell to Treadwell Mansion" in advertising, the auction attracted buyers old and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online American Art Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Unlike other auction houses, Christie's has held online-only American art sales since 2016. Offering lots over a two-week period was not a new endeavor, and the 87-lot sale that ran from July 23 through August 7 appeared to run seamlessly. The auction totaled $3,973,250 with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Circus, Sideshow, and Oddities Sale
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
A smart bidder can find just about anything in a Chicago auction, from a Meissen monkey band to prime mid-century furniture. But one auction house has traveled a different path. Tucked into a North Side neighborhood in the upscale Lincoln ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2021
Peter Blin, court cupboard, 1685-1700, oak, maple, and pine. The Wallace Nutting Collection, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1926.
-Ongoing -Hartford, Connecticut
Humans have an innate tendency to transform the shape and decoration of even mundane items in an effort to satisfy our aesthetic aspirations. Design in the American Home, 1650 to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Jersey Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair Moves to New Location
The New Jersey Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, produced by Tina and John Bruno of Flamingo Eventz, LLC, will be in a new location this year. The long-running show will be held on Friday, December 6, 5-9 p.m., and Saturday December 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at The Bethwood, an events ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin's Sells the Kimball Collection
Farrin's Country Auctions, Newburgh, Maine
"It's like a lumberjack going at a big wood lot." Those words were from Randolph, Maine, auctioneer Rusty Farrin, shortly before his firm's two-day single-owner on-site sale of the Amos Kimball estate in Newburgh, Maine, July 29 and 30.
The sale was less "wood lot" and more ... (Read More)
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