Hiroshige "[His work], more than that of any other Japanese woodblock print artist, appeals profound-ly and directly to the modern viewer, regardless of his or her knowledge of ukiyoe." Read More... The Evolving Market for Tech-Art Artists are flocking to computers to create new works - art schools offer more and more courses with computer applications in the fine art and design areas - and a growing number of museums are acquiring and exhibiting new media, including digital art. Read More... Ewolfs.com, after Disappearing from the Internet, Resurfaces in an Attempt to Satisfy Consignors The news comes as a surprise to many consignors, clients and onlookers, as the firm enjoyed a successful, $1.3 million debut in April 1999 and conducted several popular auctions the following year. Read More... Perceiving a New Threat to Dealers on the Internet, the President of the FADA Takes Matters into His Own Hands "We feel we are caught in the middle here," says eBay representative Kevin Pursglove. "[We] won't be in the position of referee." Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Using the Online Auction Bonanza to Your Advantage Online auction spending is heftier than ever, with sales amounting to $556 million in May - a sum that can also mean good news for dealers. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Oriental Rugs in a Global Context In "The Splendor of Antique Rugs and Tapestries," author and collector Parviz Nemati explains cultural influences and historic events relating to rug production. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: What to Do in the Wake of Eppraisals.com's Demise The enormity of the reproduction industry - from glass, ceramics and furniture to ivory and iron - makes identifying a reproduction from a photo a tremendous challenge. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Maria Dewing's Flower Power Reveals Itself in Museums and at Auction In the past few decades, new attention has been cast on the careers of artists who happened to marry male artists. Sometimes recognition tends to come late. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Proliferation of Reproduction Antique-Cut Diamonds on the Market These pieces are fueling the creation of reproduction antique jewelry which - in many cases - is not being disclosed as such. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Dealers Russ Pritchard, III and George Juno Indicted for Fraud Pritchard and Juno, who made an infamous appearance on the "Antiques Roadshow," now face a 13-count indictment for their involvement in a mail and wire fraud scheme. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Fiestaware's Hot, but don't Get Burned Designer Monthly, an online magazine published by the Sheffield School of Interior Design, is inaugrating a new series that will feature regular discussions of designer collectibles. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Stolen Items on eBay Intersting journeys, with some happy endings. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Artnet.com Suspends Online Auctions, may Partner with eBay Premier The fine art niche in online auctions has lost a small but important player as artnet.com announces it will discontinue its e-commerce operations, which included online auctions and a print store. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: After Christmas, the Best in Vintage Toys are Found Online Without the Lines and Bare Shelves of Christmas Past to haunt you, paying a few hundred (and then some) dollars for these items may seem like child's play. Read More... Anatomy Lesson: Learning about Art from the Horse's Mouth Four books by artists for those who want to know art from the inside out. Read More... Cover Stories Marguerite and William Zorach: Harmonies and Contrasts The remarkable degree to which this talented team nurtured and inspired each other throughout their synergistic union is the theme of a splendid exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art. Read More... Christopher Radko: How the Crash of '83 Led to His Revival of a Lost Art Replacing shattered heirlooms became a mission of paramount importance to Radko, but when he set out on his buying quest, he soon found that mouth-blown glass ornaments were next to impossible to find. Read More... William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent Any study of Beckford must divide its focus between the man and his collection. The flamboyant personal legend of the collector has tended to overshadow the objects that he gathered and, in many cases, had created as a patron. Read More... 'American Radiance': Folk Art Illuminated Ralph Esmerian's collection, which includes many of the icons of the folk art world, will now be "singing" in public as 432 objects join the holdings of the American Folk Art Museum. Read More... Alex Katz: Small Paintings One of the most innovative and versatile leaders of the return to figurative realism among late Twentieth Century American artists, Katz has attracted an enormous following among critics and the general public. Read More... The Art of the Timekeeper: Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest With this major fall and winter exhibition, The Frick Collection introduces to the public a significant gift of clocks and watches from the estate of a remarkable collector and scholar. Read More... Remington, Russell, and the Language of Western Art This major loan exhibition, devoted to the two most celebrated and influential artists of the American West, is on view at the University of Oklahoma's Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art through December 9. Read More... Life at Winterthur: Henry Francis du Pont's American Country Estate On September 1, Winterthur continued its 50th anniversary celebration with an exhibition exploring its history as a great American country estate between 1902 and 1951. Read More... Images of Contentment: John Kensett and The Connecticut Shore As this Mattatuck Museum exhibition demonstrates, Kensett (1816-1872) was recognized in his own time, as he is in ours, as an American Master, an artist who changed the way the American landscape was seen and painted. Read More... Picasso: The Artist's Studio The manner in which this controversial and highly productive artist used the studio as an artistic theme during his seven-decade career is the subject of this splendid exhibition, currently on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Read More... American Identities: A Reinterpretation at the BMA To expand and enhance the visitor's experience of American art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has undertaken a major reinstallation of its American art holdings. Read More... Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site A number of significant objects have been added to the Cole artifacts and artworks already in the collections, while earlier gifts to the society have been returned to Cedar Grove. Read More... Early Women Artists at the Guild of Boston Artists For the first time, a major regional organization of artists has mounted a retrospective show featuring works by women members prior to World War II. Read More... Collecting Connecticut's Artistic Heritage The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company will donate its extensive collection of American art to the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, giving state residents and visitors greater access to these important paintings. Read More... Valley Furniture, Valley Tools This Connecticut Valley Historical Museum exhibition features approximately 35 examples from the museum's permanent collection, including chests of drawers, tables, chairs, sideboards, desks and children's furniture made in this area. Read More... Jewels of Time: Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute The aesthetic brilliance and exquisite craftsmanship of ornamented historical timepieces is featured in a major exhibition at the institute's Museum of Art. Read More... Picturing America The Newark Museum presents an entirely new experience of its American art collection - one of the most distinguished in the world. Read More... The Chipstone Foundation Makes Its Mark MILWAUKEE, WIS. — It is a curious fact that in Milwaukee one might dress differently for a visit to the art museum than for a trip to the concert hall, destinations that are a little more than ten blocks apart in this pleasant town of a million and a half people. This has to do with the tonic breezes that swirl up off of Lake Michigan and around Veterans Park, the waterside setting of the Milwaukee Museum of Art. Read More... Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Thiebaud is such a gifted, appealing artist and has produced such an outstanding, diverse oeuvre over the course of his long career, that it is astounding to note that this is his first major retrospective on the East Coast. Read More... Joseph Lehn and Lehnware The Heritage Center Museum's display introduces visitors to Lehn's life and work and his gaily painted woodenware so sought after by folk art collectors today. Read More... The Peabody Essex Museum Reveals the Secret World of the Forbidden City This summer in New England there is the opportunity to stand before the authentic throne of the Ming and Qing emperors and to glean imperial treasures that rarely travel beyond the walls of the Forbidden City. Read More... Collaborative Efforts of a Skilled Sisterhood: The Baltimore Quilt Tradition The exhibition, on view at the Maryland Historical Society through September 9, brings together more than 40 examples of these complex compositions and documents them for posterity in a companion catalogue. Read More... Within these Walls: The Smithsonian's Unique Look at 200 Years of American History In this latest effort, the museum, from the doorstep of one house, highlights five ordinary families whose lives became part of the great changes and events of the nation's past. Read More... Rare Civil War Relic Rediscovered: The Lincoln Assassination Flag Long believed to have been lost, Civil War historians and Lincoln assassination experts have verified that The Connecticut Historical Society holds in its collection one of five flags that decorated the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre the night of Lincoln's assassination. Read More... Seasons of Life: American Impressionism and Frank Vincent DuMond DuMond is hardly a household name today, but in his time he was an important figure in American art. A deft painter of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and murals, he was also one of the great teachers in our art history. Read More... America's Great Art Rescue: The Program to Repatriate Nazi-Looted Art In recent years, numerous articles have focused on a handful of artworks that were not rescued and repatriated by Allied forces. The bigger story is that over five million art objects were recovered, researched and returned to the countries where they had been owned prior to World War II. Read More... Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Bringing together over 200 works spanning the breadth of his long career, the Phillips Collection exhibition is the most complete assessment ever of Lawrence's artistic development and creative process and includes works that have never been exhibited before. Read More... Wilton's Heritage Project Takes Shape Over the last two months many antiques fans and readers of "Antiques and The Arts Weekly" have asked about the progress of the Wilton Historical Society's "Heritage Project." We have the report. Read More... Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People Spread throughout the spacious galleries of The Norman Rockwell Museum are more than 70 of the artist's original oil paintings and all 322 of his Saturday Evening Post covers. Read More... Light and the Industrial Age Shine at the Carnegie Museum of Art The exhibition brings together more than 300 scientific and historic objects, as well as the works of major painters and other artists of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, for the first time. Many have never been exhibited in the United States. Read More... Pendleton House in Providence Since 1906, RISD's museum has housed one of the best and oldest collections of American decorative arts, installed in what many consider the first American wing, Pendleton House. The Georgian-style mansion is an alluring blend of fact and fiction: part impenetrable fortress, part decorator showcase, part historic house museum. Read More... The Bicycle Takes Off: From Boneshaker to Boom Early bicycles with lyrical names like "Phantom," "Star," and "Rover" evoke the age-old yet elusive quest for a practical human-powered vehicle in this exhibition created by the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum. Read More... Painted with Thread: American Embroidery as Art Embroidery is an aesthetic act. Texturally lush and evocative works of art have been painted, not with oils or watercolor, but with thread. It is a medium that pleases the eye but also challenges perceptions about art. Read More... Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent Kent's combative views on political and social issues of the day often got him into trouble and overshadowed his artistic achievements, but today he is recognized as one of the finest realists of Twentieth Century American art. Read More... A Re-Creation of Georgia O'Keeffe's First Exhibition in the South WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — Georgia O'Keeffe, who has achieved a kind of enduring iconic status among American art lovers, is usually associated with New Mexico and to some extent New York City. Often overlooked is the fact that she lived for several years in Virginia and had an interesting exhibition at Williamsburg's College of William and Mary in 1938. Read More... Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion The first major exhibition devoted to Wright as collector, teacher, and dealer of Japanese art and the pivotal influence Japanese aesthetics had on his work is on view at Japan Society Gallery. Read More... American Folk: An MFA Blockbuster In this nationally significant show, masterpieces from the museum's collection are sprinkled among another 140 of the MFA;s worthy works and 60 examples from private collections. Read More... The Cos Cob Art Colony In a welcome display of inter-museum cooperation, two Connecticut institutions and a New York City museum are sponsoring complementary exhibitions this spring that highlight Connecticut's important but somewhat overlooked art colony. Read More... American Art at Yale NEW HAVEN, CONN. — Yale University Art Gallery prides itself on being the best teaching museum for American art in the country. But while its collections of American paintings, furniture, and silver are well known, the origins of its contents and the equally interesting history of their display are less familiar. Read More... Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries Both an overdue reminder of Stieglitz's pivotal role in the development of American art and a showcase for key artists he nurtured, this rewarding exhibition may well be the most important art-historical display in any American museum this year. Read More... From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art This extraordinary selection of approximately 80 works from the collection of the Musee de Picardie, Amiens, will open in California on April 24. Read More... Alice Neel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Alice Neel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Read More... Fanciful Flowers: Botany and the American Quilt The language of flowers developed by American quiltmakers during the Nineteenth Century is in full bloom at The Textile Museum. Read More... Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty: Faces of a Nation The evolution of two central symbols in the American identity is the focus of this exhibit at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages. Read More... Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s Although his art was generally celebrated, Homer's unconventionality also stirred tremendous controversy and brought harsh criticism from some of the art press. This exhibit, on view through May 6 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, explores Homer's pivotal role in shaping a national art. Read More... Gauguin's ‘Nirvana': Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889-90 Organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum, this exhibition reassembles more than 40 interrelated paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by Gauguin, de Haan, and others from collections around the world. Read More... Gerome and Goupil: Art and Enterprise at the Dahesh Museum of Art Gerome and Goupil: Art and Enterprise at the Dahesh Museum of Art Read More... Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre? The first New York exhibition of Salomon's work is on view at The Jewish Museum through March 25. Read More... Women Designers in the USA: Diversity and Difference at the Bard Graduate Center This brilliantly conceived show covers miles of artistic ground, from the personal creativity of pieced quilts and Native American baskets to professional pursuits such as architecture and Hollywood costume design. Read More... The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture Opens For years the New-York Historical Society has been able to exhibit only small portions of its vast museum holdings at any one time. Freed from the confines of off-site storage, nearly two-thirds of the collection - some 40,000 items - have found a new home at the Luce Center. Read More... One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N.C. Wyeth and James Wyeth Timed to coincide with this year's presidential election campaign and arriving in the nation's capital during presidential inauguration week, “One Nation" is both intriguing and thought provoking. Read More... Lions & Eagles & Bulls: Early American Tavern and Inn Signs The Dew Drop Inn and the No Tell Motel may be the stuff of ribald humor, but for sheer interest nothing surpassed the hostelries of early America. Every town had an inn, every inn had a sign, and every sign dangled some colorful enticement to tarry awhile Read More... Auction Watch Ruhlmann Desk, Poppy Lamp Dominate New York Twentieth Century Design Sale Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann's elegant and highly functional designs are expressions of the Modernist vision. The gallery offered a rosewood, ebony and nickel-plated desk he designed for the Parisian architect André Granet. Read More... Rare Atlas Lamp Carries the Weight of a World Record in Maine The lamp had reportedly at one time been part of the fixtures of a large Springfield bank and because of its outstanding nature may have originally been made by Handel for an exposition. Read More... Early Chest-on-Chest Finds an Eager Market at Pook & Pook On the long addendum sheet was a superb Philadelphia Chippendale Gostlowe-type figured mahogany chest-on-chest, circa 1775. "The estate wanted it sold - right away," said Ron Pook. Read More... German Gallery Reports World Record for Rare Typewriter Strong prices for early technical antiques were noted at Auction Team Breker's specialty sale, including a new world record for the first typewriter that was produced in series, the 1867 Malling Hansen Writing Ball, which sold for $84,000. Read More... George Luks Painting Headlines Phillips-Selkirk Missouri Sale The firm held its final auction of the year with a collection of Continental and American paintings offered to a packed house at 7447 Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton. Read More... Sports Memorabilia Tops $4.6 Million in Illinois The two-day auction, featuring 833 lots, included a number of record prices. Read More... Marble Auction Internet Bidder Wins $41,975 Lot Active bidding on "Population Portrait IX," crafted by studio glass artist Mark R. Matthews, highlighted the event. Matthews produced six such jars in 1994. Read More... $5.5 Million Bid for Boulle Armoire in New York Lands a Third Place Price for French Furniture The sum, according to Phillips, is actually the second highest ever achieved at auction for a piece of furniture by Andre-Charles Boulle. Read More... Osborne Shepherding Scene Wins Canadian Hearts and a $640,000 Bid Waddington's five-day sale in Toronto featured decorative arts and antique furniture, with 2,000-plus lots ranging from single consignments to entire estates. Read More... Beatle's Album Sells for $35,165 at Lelands.com The 36-year-old Help! LP was autographed by all four members (John Lennon twice, front and back) and a rare find. Read More... A 'Masterpiece' of Illinois Folk Art Fetches $835,750 at Sotheby's "At any other time, this painting would have easily gone over a million. I didn't think I had a chance at all," buyer Barbara Pollack stated. It had been estimated at $1.5/2.5 million. Read More... You Had to Be There This mantra applies to the masterfully orchestrated, 300-lot auction of the Hegarty toy trove, which harks back to the hobby's signature windfalls of yore: the Atlanta Toy Museum, Bernard Barentholtz, Leon Perelman, F.H. Griffith, Dick Keats, Stanley Sax, Lillian and Bill Gottschalk, and Carol Anderson. Read More... Pair of Italian Neo-classical Pier Tables Hotly Contested in Washington, D.C. Furnishings from Europe, Asia and America appealed to a wide range of tastes at Weschler's, with highlights in American silver, books and letters, Chinese Export porcelain and Italian furniture. Read More... Guyette & Schmidt's Latest Proves Demand for Decoys Remains on Solid Ground The top lot was a rare pair of woodducks, circa 1880s, by the Peterson Decoy Factory of Detroit, Mich., which fetched $66,000. A Canada goose by Sam Soper of New Jersey brought $46,750. Read More... Prints Break the $2 Million Mark for Swann Galleries "Despite economic instability, the print market remains strong, as [this] sale demonstrated," commented gallery specialist Todd Weyman. Read More... Cigar Store Indian, Pennsylvania Long Gun Headline York Town Sale The event was held in the old Main Building of the York Fairgrounds. Four hundred eighty-three bidding numbers were issued for the 1,300 catalogued lots offered, with additional uncatalogued lots, resulting in a gross of $411,000. Read More... Cottone Offers Estate, Museum Collections in Mount Morris, N.Y. In attendance were more than 700 eager buyers who seemed oblivious to the rain, wind, sleet and cold that accompanied the on-site sale. Some 1,500 lots of railroad, auto and firefighters' memorabilia, along with a variety of other antiques, were sold. Read More... London Dealers Purchase "Junk Shop" Jar for $1.09 Million No other Chenghua doucai jar has ever been offered at auction and no other jar with the rare tian mark is known to remain in private hands. Only 12 other Chenghua doucai jars inscribed with the tian mark are currently recorded in the world, all of which are in museum collections. Read More... Wristwatch Record Set in Geneva by Phillips Muscling in on Antiquorum territory, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg finds a place in auction history with a Patek Philippe rarity. Read More... Christie's Offering of Post-War Art Realizes $25.2 Million Andy Warhol's "Holly," 1966 a nine-panel portrait of art dealer Holly Solomon, and Willem de Kooning's 1951 drawing "Women," from the artist's seminal series exploring the female form, shared top honors, each realizing $2,096,000. Read More... Bidders Find Historic Firearms Irresistible at Maine Auction Nearly 1,200 lots across many popular categories were offered, among them a selection of shotguns from well-known manufactures. Read More... Buddy 'L' Motor Coach Outdistances the Competition in $1.7 Million Inman Auction Although the sale's inventory contained fewer lots from the Buddy 'L' archive than the $2.5 million Inman sale of last March, it still attracted a full house of eager bidders, intent on buying from the prestigious factory cache. Read More... Mixed Results for Impressionist and Modern Art in New York City Christie's offering of The Collection of Rene Gaffe, a group of 25 lots of Modern and Surrealist art, realized $73,325,775 and was 100 percent sold. Read More... Rago Lalique Sale Demonstrates the Mettle of Glass According to Nicholas M. Dawes, the Lalique specialist who organized the auction, "We had more bidders than lots offered, and were swamped with telephone and internet bidding." Read More... Deer Compote Highlights Pennsylvania Majolica Offerings The consignment from the Lieb estate accounted for 50 percent of the lots, 95 percent of which were sold. Strawser described "a very good crowd" filling the hall at the Alderfer Auction Center. Read More... New York Bidder Snags Top Axminster Rug at Doyle The carpet had been in the same family for more than a century, and once graced the living room of a grand apartment on Quai Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland. Its large, square size indicates that it was most likely made to order. Read More... Tiffany Wisteria Floor Lamp Lights Up $3 Million Fontaine Auction The lamp reached $324,800, while In the furniture category, a Wooton desk set a new world auction record when it fetched $123,200. Read More... Confederate Officer's Sword Draws $54,625 in New Orleans The sword, forged by Alexandre Henri Dufilho, a New Orleans sword maker, brought a record price at auction for a Confederate object. Read More... Virginia Gallery Hosts Annual American Glass Sale A yearly pilgrimage for many, the auction topped $400,000 and "produced numerous record highs for items in the upper three and lower four figure ranges. It's good to see that scarce pieces in the middle market are finally gaining the respect that they deserve." Read More... Boston Sampler Leads Solid Americana Sale at Skinner Sally Jackson's large sampler was an exceptional example of needlework and in astonishingly fine condition. The successful bidders were Carol and Steve Huber. Read More... Painting of Trinity Church by Guy Wiggins Steals the Hearts of Bidders in Connecticut The painting features the church, New York's oldest parish at Broadway and Wall Street, very near the site of the former World Trade Center buildings in lower Manhattan. Read More... Swann Sells Priciest Lot Ever in Record $1.4 Million Auction Photographs auctions in New York began at the gallery, where the top item of the week, a nearly complete set of Edward S. Curtis's magnum opus "The North American Indian," with magnificent photogravures printed on delicate Japanese tissue, sold for $607,500. Read More... Henry Ford Museum Purchases Rosa Parks Bus for $492,000 at MastroNet Officials at the Michigan museum confirmed their purchase of the bus on which Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat more than 45 years ago, sparking the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. Read More... Bids Are in but the Jury Is out on Early Philadelphia Chest at Christie's Philadelphia Museum of Art curator Jack L. Lindsey believes that because the top was glued to the secondary wood, it popped off over time. "It looks like whoever tried to repair it cut four to six inch windows and used the cut-throughs as anchors for the glueblocks. That failed as well, so the piece was a little weird." Read More... Sotheby's Offering of the Crawford Collection Gets a Thumb's Up from Americana Buyers The results were not all the York Avenue auction house had hoped for. Still, rare items in fine condition attracted ample attention and some brought prices that would be considered robust even in a bull market. Read More... Butterfields Hosts Varied and Successful Auctions at Los Angeles, San Francisco Locations Butterfields and Los Angeles Modern Auctions' first offering of Twentieth Century decorative arts brought more than $1,000,000 as a standing-room-only crowd vied against Internet bidders. Read More... All-Cane Firm Reaps More Records in Massachusetts The gross of $353,749 was the third highest ever for Tradewinds and the fourth straight sale that has exceeded $350,000, despite uneasy economic times. Read More... Americana the Beautiful: The Pursuit of Exceptional Items in New York City The annual fall Americana sales in New York got underway last week against the stark backdrop of war abroad and terrorist reprisals at home. Strain was evident in the general sales. Read More... Shakespeare's 'First Folio' Sets World Record Dated 1623, it was one of only five complete copies in private hands and fetched the highest price ever paid for a work by Shakespeare at auction and a world auction record for any Seventeenth Century book. Read More... Mahantongo Valley Chest Leads Pook & Pook Sale The rare and important circa 1830 pine Pennsylvania chest of drawers featured a molded frieze over a case with two short and three long graduated drawers. Read More... Violin Plays to the Tune of $38,000 in Detroit DuMouchelles Art Gallery Company auctioned an array of antiques, fine art and collectibles from across Michigan at its September sale. Read More... Market for Watches and Clocks Proves 'Stable' at Antiquorum "There was much concern in the moment preceding the auction, but overall the auction proved that watch collecting provides an excellent alternative to investing." Read More... Doyle Reports Strong Results for Estate Jewelry Despite having been rescheduled from an earlier date, the sale was characterized by extremely heavy telephone bidding and strong competition from a crowded salesroom, with many lots reaching beyond estimates. Read More... Unusual Dropleaf Table Headlines Record Nadeau Sale Connecticut furniture from the estate of well-known Hartford conservator Paul Koda (1905-2001), plus weathervanes deaccessioned by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, drew a standing-room-only crowd to the gallery's latest auction. Read More... Operating in the Auction World with Dr. Bob Baker The OPM owner's Westhampton Beach storefront is called "Circa Something Fine Art and Antiques." Baker is also an appraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read More... Second Cohen/Fontaine Event Reaps $500,000 Total The sale's top lot was a brooding and lush oil by Emil-Soren Carlsen, depicting flowers in a sunlit Chinese bowl, which fell within estimates at $24,725. Read More... Stein Auctions Stroh Brewing Company Collection for $358,869 The Stroh collection featured antique German stoneware, Creussen and Faience drinking vessels. Read More... Pennsylvania Sale Topped by Bebe Bru in Top Hat Dressed in a black waistcoat and tails, gray pants and an unmarked top hat over his original fur wig, the doll brought $23,100, well over book value. Read More... New York Scene Highlights Winter Associates Auction The Guy Wiggins oil of a New York snow scene, complete with an American flag, generated interest from all over the country and sold for $23,100 to an audience member who battled live, phone and absentee bidders. Read More... On the European Scene: Sotheby's Auctions in Scotland Set World Records A staggering eleven world records tumbled for works by Scottish artists during the sale of Scottish and Sporting Paintings and Sculptures. Read More... Dog Painting is Champion of Julia's Latest Samoset Sale Dating to 1922 and descended from the original purchaser through the estate of Doris McGlaughlin, the signed and dated 30 by 40 inch oil on canvas came on the block in a period gold gilt frame and reached a final price of $57,500. Read More... Family Curiosity Brings $36,000 at Fairfield The Native American ball club was consigned by a Connecticut family who had held onto it for decades without any knowledge of its significance. Read More... Gagnon Landscape Brings $44,850 at Skinner The painting was won by a Toronto collector. "Gagnon is considered one of Canada's foremost Impressionist painters, and I own one other painting by him. It was a sketch done for a much larger canvas that is now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa." Read More... Small-Town New York Auction Draws a Crowd of 500 People traveled from 11 different states to bid on items from the Nelson and Phyllis Spencer estate in the small Norman Rockwell-type community just two hours south of both Buffalo and Rochester. Read More... Gleanings from Cape Estates Rouse Bids at Snow The auction hall was filled to capacity at the beginning of the sale and prices remained steady throughout, with the serious customers remaining until the very end. Read More... Wilkinson Clock Highlights New Jersey Estate Auction Several pieces of furniture from a Metuchen estate accumulated during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire drew spirited bidding. Read More... New England Buyer Pays $100,000 for Massachusetts Table in South Carolina SUMMERTON, S.C. — Wingfield's Auction Company, 103 Main Street, experienced a strong sale on July 15 with the top lot, a Salem, Mass. dressing table, fetching $100,000. Read More... English and French Furniture Lead Winter Associates Sale PLAINVILLE, CONN. — On July 23, a standing-room-only crowd packed the Winter Associates, Inc. gallery. Highlights included a period French Regence beechwood fauteuil a la reine (armchair) with caned seat and back that sold for $1,540. (est $900/1,200) and a circa 1805 Massachusetts inlaid card table which sold for $3,025 against a $900/1,200 estimate. Read More... Surprising Results for Philbrick Cup Plate Collection POMFRET CENTER, CONN. — Collector's Sales & Services held a July 17 sale of Eugenie Philbrick's Cup Plate Collection that brought successful results. Read More... Marine and China Trade Items Sail Away to $4.8 Million in Portsmouth Aggressive bidding by collectors on China Trade views were the norm. Read More... Dolls Headline Toy Auction at Skinner The doll portion of the sale proved particularly strong, grossing nearly $200,000, and selling almost 90 percent of the lots. Read More... Art Nouveau Images in Great Demand among Swann Galleries' Vintage Posters "There will always be a market for high-end, turn-of-the-century work by recognized masters such as Alphonse Mucha," said Nicholas Lowry, president and poster specialist. "In general, higher end pieces sold more consistently than lower end. It is easier to sell a $5,000 poster than a $500 poster." Read More... Erratic Prices in New Hampshire Suggest a Still-Booming but Nervous Market "There's no lack of retail interest. The only difference I saw was that dealers weren't inventorying. There wasn't a frenzy of buying for the Antiques Week shows," said Ron Bourgeault. "That's fine with me. Bargains keep buyers coming back." Read More... Kaminski Reports Marblehead Vase, Watercolor on Ivory Records Selling for $37,000 was a miniature watercolor on ivory by Laura Coombs Hills of her instructor Mrs Alice J. Morse, who taught Hills at the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Read More... Back-to-Back New England Sales Make for a Decoy Extravaganza The week-long decoy events included a separate two-day mid-week auction conducted in Maine and an end-of-the-week sale taking place back on the Cape. Read More... Monahan Collection Puts Hearts under the Hammer at Northeast Dealer Arthur Liverant was wearing his heart on his sleeve when he bought back a Connecticut six-board blanket chest that he and his late father, Zeke, found in a local home and sold to the Monahans in 1987. Read More... Record Sales for Western Art Achieved at Coeur d'Alene Of particular interest was a 1921 oil painting by American sporting artist Philip R. Goodwin, which, after failing to bring $5 at a garage sale, fetched $55,000 at the gallery. Read More... 500 Lots at Fontaine's Topped by Table Lamp The Pittsfield gallery's two-day summer auction, featuring a catalogued session and discovery night, grossed $2,625,000. Read More... Healthy Bid for Queen Anne Highboy at Garth's The audience was in a fun mood, giving a round of thunderous applause after auctioneer Tom Porter sold a large tin cookie cutter in the shape of the Statue of Liberty for $2,475 and exclaimed, "God Bless America!" Read More... Chandelier Dazzles Bidding Audience in Washington, D.C. The Tiffany wisteria laburnum leaded glass piece, circa 1899-1920, once belonged to Senator Edward W. Brooke and featured a shade representing a rare combination of the wisteria pattern and coloration in the laburnum form. It is one of the most technically intricate shades produced by Tiffany. Read More... Works by Pittsburgh Artist Headline Eclectic Pennsylvania Auction While Pennsylvania buyers snapped up treasures from the first three days of the sale, Internet buyers from eBay Live Auctions and iCollector.com provided some bidding rivalry during the last two days of the event. Read More... Embroidery Fetches Top Bid at Eric Nathan "Charles Embree Rockwell lived and died in the same place, was born in the same bed he died in, and the estate contained many generations of property," said Nathan. "It was very unusual to have a sale with such a historic point of reference, and the local people really turned out and supported it." Read More... John Elliot Clock Ticks to $16,000 in Pook & Pook Sale The circa 1770 silvered brass face bracket clock, with a repeating three-train movement in a Japanned case, was bid to one increment above its low estimate. Read More... On the New York Scene: Twentieth Century Decorative Arts Total $2.7 Million at Christie's Fittingly, the winner of Tiffany's 'Thomas Lynch window,' coming in at $391,000, was the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greenburg, Pa. Read More... Ohio Vintage Poster Art Auction Sets Records The VPAA's 9th annual movie memorabilia event offered 618 lots and realized over $311,000, with a pass rate of 12 percent. Read More... On the London Scene: Da Vinci ‘Horse and Rider' Drawing Fetches $11 Million The drawing is a preparatory study for Leonardo's first great composition, the large unfinished panel, "The Adoration of the Magi," now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Read More... Slot Machine Tops Julia Summer Auction at $57,500 The offering of country store memorabilia, toys, and dolls was fueled by a zero percent seller's commission offered on "high-value items.". Read More... Creel Catches Record Price at Massachusetts Fishing Tackle Sale The single-owner creel, purchased in 1950 and never used, came with its original 1950 "Established 1857" catalogue. Read More... Virginia Sale Yields Rare $75,000 Dutch Chest This Shenandoah Valley example, with an untouched surface, had never passed out of its consigning family before the auction and was the star lot of the event. Read More... Rare Highboy with Eighth-Generation Provenance Reaches $55,000 at Willis Henry It was the first time the lot had been offered since the Eighteenth Century. "It came from a place three doors down from us," said Willis Henry. Read More... We are Amused: Alice in Auctionland and Other Victorian Tales A recent Sotheby's London "Alice" sale was as touching as it was expansive and, not unexpectedly, broke some new records of its own. Comprising photographs, books, papers and personal items, it was keenly sought after by private collectors and museums. Read More... Rare Tiffany Lantern, Grant Wood Drawing Bump Jackson's Latest Total to $1.12 Million The auction featured works and collections from a variety of consignors, and attracted more than 600 bidders - including Internet participants - representing 41 states and 15 countries. Read More... Historic Bowie Family Items in San Francisco Event Fetch $475,000 Butterfields Auctioneers offered the property, which was handed down directly from the famous Bowies - two brothers whose names are respected within Texas history and whose exploits popularized a weapon commonly known as a Bowie knife. Read More... Record for Whale Oil Lamp Set in Maine When James D. Julia recently brought the whale oil lamp collection of the late William A. Sevrens to auction, it seemed that whale oil lamps were suddenly seen in, well, a new light. Read More... Online Auction of Kennedy Memorabilia Totals $177,353 Sloan's noted thousands of hits on its Web site, and reported that the most of the bidding action took place in the last three hours of the event, resulting in nearly 100 percent of the lots finding buyers. Read More... Sotheby's Offering Proves Cels Really Sell The line-up of more than 300 lots was part of Jeff Lotman's personal 22-year collection and was composed of animation created from 1928 through the late 60s. Read More... Zaharis Clock Collection Led by Rare Munger Creation at Cottone The clock stood 45 inches tall on impressively carved paw feet and was purchased by a Pennsylvania collector for $57,750. Read More... Autographed Sports Memorabilia Highlights Some 1,000 Lots in Illinois The most recent event hosted by the sports memorabilia and collectibles firm MastroNet, Inc., through its Mike Gutierrez Auctions division, generated over $1.3 million. Read More... On the New York Scene: Single-Owner Collection of Perfume Bottles Included in Belle Epoque Sale Collectors vied heavily for the top lot, an Art Deco cameo glass bottle in orange with gilt-stylized flowers and a cloisonne-mounted stopper, which achieved $8,050. Read More... World Record Windsor Auctioned in Bronxville, N.Y. The American sack back Windsor armchair dating from the last quarter of the Eighteenth Century brought $120,000 plus 15 percent buyer's premium on June 17 at Greenwich Fine Arts Auction Associates. The high bidder was Woodbury, Conn. antiques dealer David Schorsch. Read More... On the New York Scene: Tiffany's ‘Thomas Lynch Window' Returns to Pennsylvania via Museum Buyer Two determined bidders pushed the final price to almost double its estimate at Christie's. Read More... Quilt Set Garners $15,400 at Copake Textile Sale The star lot of the day, the Nineteenth Century album quilt with its scarce matching crib quilt descended from The Hurst Family. Read More... Presentation Is Everything: Rare Table Reaps $1.2 Million for Small Massachusetts Auction House At Ken Miller & Son, Inc. a circa 1760-70 mahogany Chippendale porringer flip-top game table brought a hammer price of $1.2 million. All the major players were represented as previews of the table reached a feverish pitch. Read More... On the New York Scene: Records for Latin American Art Abound A bidding battle ensued between two phone bidders over the highestselling lot for Sotheby's, an early portrait by Frida Kahlo, "Portrait of Cristina, My Sister," from 1928. The work finally sold for $1,655,750 to an anonymous bidder, well above its high estimate of $1.2 million. Read More... William and Mary Chest Brings $189,500 at Skinner The chest was one of nine known examples of furniture from the Symonds shops (1670-1700) of Salem, Mass. It has become the fourth joined chest to be identified. Read More... Rare American Rifle Stars in New Hampshire Sale The top hammer rifle at J.C. Devine was made in 1853 and production was very limited, with only two or three other specimens known today. Read More... Northeast's Spring Sale Joins Holdings of Well-Known Dealers The gallery several highly specialized collections together to create an auction that started with Sandwich glass, ended with Georgian silver, and grossed $2.9 million. Read More... Beneficial Bedfellows at Bertoia: Folk Art and Toys Bring $1.5 Million in New Auction Facility The sale featured tin toys, mechanical banks, comic character toys, pressed steel, Christmas ornaments, early games, doorstops, and fine folk art. Countless items prompted high levels of interest from the crowd of seated collectors and phone bidders. Read More... Ambassador's Estate Yields Cellaret Record at Washington, D.C. Event Weschler's recent auction of European and American Furniture and Decorations ended on a high note, with the final lot of the sale, a Chippendale walnut cellaret, bringing a record price for an American southern cellaret at auction, $98,050. Read More... Roseville Pottery Grosses $700,000 in New Jersey The two-day sale, which generated interest from collectors and dealers alike, was also the largest and highest-grossing Roseville sale held anywhere to date, according to the gallery. Read More... Medieval Sculpture Reaches New Heights at Sotheby's The first work by Tilman Riemenschneider to be offered at auction set a record when it sold for $2.97 million, purchased by the Peter Moores Foundation for exhibition at Compton Verney, England. Read More... Record Literary Manuscript Purchased by Indianapolis Colts Owner A sum of $2.4 million elevated the "On the Road" scroll to its top position. Read More... Spencer-Churchill Property, Worth Gown Highlight Doyle New York Offerings The important 1888 court dress offered at the firm's couture, textiles and accessories auction set a new world auction record of $101,500 for an antique dress. Read More... Northeast's Latest Remembers Old Friends After a Friday night featuring 400 lots of American ceramics and Currier & Ives prints, auctioneer Ron Bourgeault continued on Saturday with the inventory of the late Fred Johnston, a well-known dealer from Kingston, N.Y. Read More... Giltwood Eagle Soars to $77,000 at Pook & Pook Emblazoned on the sale catalogue's front cover, the eagle sold well above pre-auction estimates due to its rich Philadelphia history. Read More... Remington Gun Cane Heads Record Tradewinds Sale Nancy and Henry Taron founded Tradewinds Antiques as a firm specializing in canes. In 1993 they presented their inaugural cane sale, and became the first American firm to offer a series of specialized cane auctions. Read More... World Records Abound in New York Contemporary Art Auctions Preliminary reports saw Christie's sale realizing $22,589,350, far exceeding the overall pre-sale high estimate of $17.1 million, and Sotheby's reaping $45,312,400. Read More... The Curvaceous and Compelling Brings $66,125 at CRN A Boston Hepplewhite wing chair opened at $10,000, and a half a dozen bidders were in the chase at $40,000. After $50,000, two phone bidders jousted for the masterpiece. Read More... No Fireworks, but Plenty of Progress at Phillips If anyone ever doubted the inevitability of Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg entering the upper echelon of the auction world, those doubts would have been put to rest by the Impressionist and Modern Art Sale held May 7 at their brand new auction facility. Read More... Prendergast Creation Heads Doyle Modern and Contemporary Prints Sale American historical manuscripts also commanded high prices, including two autograph letters by General George Washington, relating to the War of Independence. The sale was marked by strong prices throughout, with 99 percent of the 360 lots sold by value. Read More... Gifford Canvas Leads $1.7 Million Shannon Event The firm has done exceedingly well, and it is no surprise that Shannon was mighty pleased with his latest fine art auction: The three-and-a-half-year-old Milford, Conn. firm set a new record for sales at $1,738,000. The sale was solid across the board, and there were some very pleasant surprises. Read More... Doyle Writes Another Chapter in the Hadley Chest Story It's not often a Hadley chest turns up for sale anywhere, let alone at auction. Coveted by collectors for more than a century, these icons of Connecticut River design are among the most recognizable and romantic of all American furniture forms. Read More... Randy Inman Sets Buddy ‘L' Records Farmers in plaid shirts and baseball caps sat elbow-to-elbow with Manhattan businessmen and chic Europeans as astronomical prices on prototypes, samples and production models from the Buddy ‘L' Toy Company Archive tallied $2,475,253. Read More... Massachusetts Heron Brings $57,750 in Illinois When Guyette & Schmidt, Inc., conducted their annual spring decoy auction, they were in for a surprise. Read More... Millet Canvas, Louis XV Commode Draw Top Bids in Rhode Island A vertical canvas by Jean Francois Millet, having dimensions of 26 by 18 inches, "The Rape of the Sabines," brought $28,750. The buyer of the oil on canvas under glass was dealer James McGrath of Scituate, Mass. Read More... Tiffany Silver and Gold Headline Massachusetts Estate Auction A small private collection of 14-karat gold serving pieces, Tiffany sterling and other gold and silver were offered together with furnishings and accessories drawn from local homes. Read More... Sotheby's Sale of MoMA Photographs A Record $4 Million NEW YORK CITY — In a packed salesroom at Sotheby's April 25, photographs from The Museum of Modern Art brought $4 million, establishing a new record for a single-owner sale of photographs in New York. Read More... Tiffany Silver and Gold Headline Massachusetts Estate Auction Tiffany Silver and Gold Headline Massachusetts Estate Auction Read More... SOTHEBY'S SALE OF MoMA PHOTOGRAPHS A RECORD $4 MILLION NEW YORK CITY — In a packed salesroom at Sotheby's April 25, photographs from The Museum of Modern Art brought $4 million, establishing a new record for a single-owner sale of photographs in New York. Read More... Rare Highboy Tops Most Successful Nadeau Auction Ever The single-session auction grossed $950,000, an impressive yet bittersweet amount, according to auctioneer Ed Nadeau, falling just shy of "that elusive seven-figure mark." Read More... World Record Jewelry Points to Confident Market in New York City At Rockefeller Center, a rectangular-cut Burmese gem of 62.02 carats set a new auction record for a sapphire when it sold for an astounding $3,031,000. Read More... Hockey, Beatles Memorabilia Spurs $2.1 Million Total for Lelands.com The event featured the separate catalog of Guy Lafleur's hockey memorabilia from his Hall of Fame career, an auction segment which fetched $431,000. Read More... Surprise Leading Lot in Sale of Photographic Literature at Swann An oversized platinum copy print of Alvin Langdon Coburn's "Near Hollywood, California," 1911, sold to a dealer for $23,000, reflecting the growing interest in this photographer's work. Read More... Unusual Owl Weathervane Flies to $25,000 in Connecticut The bullet-ridden copper vane, circa 1880, had been refused by well-known New York and Massachusetts galleries as it had not met their minimum requirements for consignment. Read More... Enthusiastic Bidding for Fine Art at Braswell Estate Sale Offerings represented a mix of artists and styles. Oliver Rhys' oil on canvas "Fisherman's Daughters" exceeded its high estimate, selling for $20,000. Read More... Antoni Clave Painting Heads Doyle Twentieth Century Auction The sale featured Modern and Contemporary paintings, as well as a range of decorative arts, including furniture, art glass, pottery, rugs and lighting fixtures by master designers of the Post-War and Modern eras. Read More... Online Sale of Rare Paperweight Leads to a $22,750 Record The sale featured a group of weights formerly in the collections of Robert Boyett, a third-generation collector and a film, television and theatrical producer, and the New-York Historical Society. Read More... Versace Collection Exceeds $10 Million at Sotheby's Over the telephone, in the salesroom, and through commission bids, collectors and Versace devotees from around the world - Spain, Argentina, Australia, France, England, the U.S., the Middle East and, of course, Italy -competed for his prized possessions. Read More... Maine Auction Produces World Record for Ames Sword A sum of $109,000 was paid for a carefully documented Civil War presentation sword once owned by Major General Jesse Lee Reno. It is believed to be the third most expensive sword ever sold at auction. Read More... Sandberg Watch Collection Grosses $13 Million in Geneva In many cases lots made three, four and even eight times their estimated prices. Among the most enthusiastic participants were several museums: the Jaquet-Droz Museum, Breguet Museum, Patek Philippe Museum, Geneva's Musée de l'Horlogerie, and the Friedberg Museum of Germany. Read More... Teco Is Still Tops In Decorative Arts Sale OAK PARK, ILL. — When a Teco vase estimated to bring $10/20,000 sold for $69,000 at the February 11 Treadway/Toomey auction, the price was like a mirror reflecting a marketplace on the rebound. Read More... Modern Masters Highlight Rachel Davis Works On Paper Sale SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO — Rachel Davis Fine Arts' Works of Art on Paper auction was held at the Shaker Heights gallery on Saturday, March 10. Salvador Dali used the legendary battle of St George as the subject for his 1947 etching, published by the Print Club of Cleveland. Two phone bidders vied in as heated a conflict as St George had endured, on ultimately succumbing to a triumphant bid of $12,650. Read More... Nutting Chest Sells for $5,600 at Ivankovich Auction FT. WASHINGTON, PENN. — A #916 Wallace Nutting curly maple chest of drawers was the top-selling item in Michael Ivankovich's March 9 and 10 Wallace Nutting and early Twentieth Century print catalog auction, selling for a strong $5,610. Read More... Record for Asian Work of Art Set at Christie's In the March 20 sale of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, a ritual bronze wine jar, fenglei, from the late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty, sold to a private collector for $9,246,000. Read More... More than 1,000 Lots Offered Live and Online at Alderfer In modern silver, a Georg Jensen six-piece tea set - overall 206 troy ounces - made a strong $25,300. A second, 81-piece lot of Jensen flatware in the "Cactus" pattern brought $6,050. Read More... Animated Competition for Wooden Club at Miami Sporting Art Sale The extremely rare, mid-Eighteenth Century club was the top lot of the auction, realizing $132,000, and is one of the only three such clubs extant. Read More... Webster of London Bracket Clock Timely Top Lot in Massachusetts Highlighting the clock section of the Downer sale, the piece bore elaborate mermaid and putti brass décor in high relief throughout. Standing 22-inches tall, it was purchased by a collector for $9,800. Read More... Pennsylvania Dower Chest Reaches $62,700 at Pook & Pook With more than 500 registered bidders, the auction house grossed just over $1.5 million dollars during the two-day event. Read More... Internet ‘School of Paris' Auction Benefits Learning Institutions In this sothebys.com event, 55 paintings sold for a total of $164,220, exceeding the low estimate of $125,800. In all, 80 percent of the works sold. Read More... Library of English Poetry Attracts the Trade to PBA Pacific Book Auction Galleries conducted its two sales on the Thursday before the San Francisco International Rare Book Fair, a decision that brought in many dealers from around the world. Read More... Dargate Estate Offerings Garner Record Bids for icollector.com The event attracted more than 1,000 unique users who competed for approximately 85 percent of the items available. Read More... Rare American Print Becomes Colorful Top Lot at James D. Julia The top lot at the James D. Julia Winter Estate Auction was a print, titled "A Display of the United States," by Amos Doolittle of New Haven, Conn., and dated 1791 fetched $20,125. The work maintained colorful watercolor highlights and was in very good condition with only a few minor defects. Read More... Rare Camera Sets World Record in London LONDON, ENGLAND - A new world record of $220,000 (£146,750) was recently set at Christie's South Kensington's first Camera and Photographic Equipment auction of the year with the sale of the Phantom photographic unit, designed by the eccentric British MP, Noel Pemberton Billing. This price smashed the previous record of $83,000 (£55,750) set by Christie's in 1995. Read More... C.M. Russell Canvas, Seymour Writing Desk Lead Americana Offerings at Northeast Furniture and fine art were favorites among some 1,300 lots offered during four sales in Manchester March 3-4. Read More... Sotheby's Contemporary, Young Art Auctions Reflect Firm's Internet Trend In the past, the gallery has held annual February Contemporary Art auctions in its New York salesrooms. The firm presented its recent Contemporary sale, however, on the Internet, accompanied by an exhibition in New York. Read More... Sporting Breeds Lead Annual Dogs in Art Auction At Doyle New York and Bonhams & Brooks' third such event - coinciding with the Westminster Kennel Club's Dog Show at Madison Square Garden - a painting by Thomas Blinks of two English setters on a moor won "Best in Show," fetching $96,000. Read More... Marathon Americana Offerings at Skinner Find Vibrant Market Estimates were conspicuously absent from all lots catalogued for the Peter Brams Collection. Only 34 lots failed to find buyers, for a total of $1.34 million. Read More... Jose Maria Velasco Painting Sets Online Record at eWolfs "Valle de Mexico" (1892) is a later and smaller version of Velasco's most famous painting of 1877 depicting a panoramic landscape, which is now Mexico City. Read More... A $19,800 Strike by New Jersey Collectors Wins Rare Indian Bowling Game The papier-mâché and wooden nine-pin bowling game was made in Nineteenth Century Germany and sold to collectors Kendra and Allan Daniel. Read More... Britains Command Auction of Lead Soldiers and Military Miniatures in Miami Selling 98 percent of its lots and drawing bands of conventioneers from the concurrent Florida Toy Soldiers and Action Figures Show, Sloan's offering of Lead Soldiers and Military Miniatures enjoyed strong results. Read More... Christie's Auction of Items from the Private Collections of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Family totals $2,675,943 and Sets Several Records The first session consisted of manuscripts, books and photographs and was arguably the most fascinating in terms of political and Presidential material. The highest price achieved was for a sepia-toned photograph after the oil painting of Franklin Roosevelt by Frank O. Salisbury. Read More... ‘Grungy' Clock Elicits $51,750 from Massachusetts Dealer at Gustave White The rare late Eighteenth Century tall-case clock, with silvered dial inscribed "Barzillai Davidson, Norwich," and an untouched cherry case, was the sale's top lot. Read More... Bidders Lured by Angling Library at Pacific Book Auction Galleries From an important private collection, many of the books in the sale were extremely scarce and fueled bidding wars in the room and on the telephone. Read More... Hollywood Memorabilia Popular Overseas and Online Christie's second James Bond sale, conducted in London February 14, totaled close to $900,000 and was 99 percent sold. More than 800 bidders and onlookers filled two salerooms at the gallery, while14 telephone lines were installed to take international bids. Read More... Natural History Offerings Bring $475,000 in San Francisco and Online Butterfield's auction, which featured 189 lots, comprised items relating to dinosaurs, fossils, gems and minerals, as well as space memorabilia from a NASA employee and meteorites from the Asteroid Belt. Read More... A Full House and a Few Surprises in Washington, D.C. Weschler's auction of European and American Furniture and Decorations accommodated a record number of first-time bidders and collectors vying against a coterie of dealers from around the country and abroad. Read More... From Chagall to Clowns in eWolf's ‘150 Years of Style' How does one describe an art and antiques auction that includes prints by Marc Chagall, pottery by Picasso and…35 paintings of clowns? Read More... Duncan Phyfe Dressing Table Tops Postponed Rhode Island Event It was the first time in 25 years that Martone's Auction Gallery had to delay an auction due to bad weather, but the rescheduled sale still produced a standing-room-only crowd. Read More... Painting Discovered on Antiques Roadshow Fetches $63,000 in New York Doyle's Paintings and Drawings Specialist, Alan Fausel, discovered the Old Master creation while on tour with the program in Sacramento, Calif. Read More... Furniture, Folk Art and Toys Gross $670,000 at York Town The Pennsylvania firm's most recent event brought more than 540 registered bidders despite rain, snow and ice. Read More... Miniature Gatlin Gun Surprises Bidders in New Hampshire Three hundred and fifty people in the gallery and 175 absentee bidders led to fast and furious competition in Bedford. Read More... Civil War Hat Highlights New York State Auction The Otego sale offered over 300 lots of Civil War and military-related items, with a Kepi hat as a surprise highlight. Read More... For Americana, History Sells Old surfaces and American history reigned at Christie's offering of Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art and Decorative Arts. Read More... Old Master Paintings at Sotheby's Total $32.2 Million Highlighting the auctions was a Hans Hoffmann painting, “A Hare in the Forest," which sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for $2.6 million. Read More... Illinois Cyberspace Sale Offers Baseball Cards in a League of Their Own MastroNet, Inc.'s recent Ron Oser Enterprises auction topped $2 million, representing the largest sale ever conducted by this MastroNet division. Read More... eHammer Enjoys Its Internet Niche With so many online auction sites to choose from, sometimes just knowing where to click can bring a new perspective to your search. Read More... Americana Week Kicks Off with the Daniel Folk Art Collection When all was said and done, 541 lots came to the auction block at Christie's, grossing a total of $2,408,299. Read More... New Record for American Silver Achieved at Sotheby's Eleven historically significant lots sold for nearly three times the presale estimate of $1.3 million, bringing $3,027,875. Read More... Miniature Portrait of George Washington Stands Tall among Pre-Inaugural Auction Offerings The half-length, approximately two-inch-tall portrait sold to an anonymous phone bidder for $1.2 million. Read More... Clocks Highlight New Jersey, New Hampshire, Internet Events At a Craftsman-Lambertville Arts and Crafts auction, a rare L. & J.G. Stickley tall case clock soared to over five times its high estimate of $60,000. Read More... Carriages and Coaches Attract Six-Figure Bids in Pennsylvania Attending the auction were more than 1,100 registered buyers from Europe, Canada and the United States. Various consignors provided 209 catalogued carriages, coaches and sleighs - as well as a private coach house collection -which comprised the first day's sale. Read More... Laffal Collection of ‘Outsider' Art Auctioned by Slotin In the two-day sale a lively crowd numbering more than 200 came to acquire a piece of the nearly 800-lot collection. Seven operators settled in to handle phone bidders, and more than 250 people from all over the country left absentee bids. Read More... Stickley Sideboard Highlights Pioneer New Year's Event Bruce Smebakken, the gallery's owner, stated that the crowd was standing room only and the phone banks full for several items, with most interest on the sideboard, possibly due to its early, circa 1904 design. Read More... Estate Sale Yields Fine Art, Furniture Gems in Wellesley, Mass. Two works by famed Filipino artist Fernando Amorsolo headlined the Downer Auction Gallery event, which grossed just short of $500,000. Read More... Estate Sale Yields Fine Art, Furniture Gems in Wellesley, Mass. Two works by famed Filipino artist Fernando Amorsolo headlined the Downer Auction Gallery event, which grossed just short of $500,000. Read More... Bills of Sale Confirm Early Date of Beekman Family Furniture In a welcome story of a risky deal gone right, the discovery of bills of sale and other important evidence has confirmed the arguments of a leading scholar and rewarded the American furniture dealer who bid with conviction at Sotheby's. Read More... Internet Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations Auction Goes to the Dogs The most entertaining category was the “bronze and ceramic dogs and other animals," where, according to the site's results, every last canine figurine found a home - all 63 lots. Read More... Maryland Sale Notes Cortes Oils on the Rise The starring lot was “Paris Street Scene" by Cortes, signed lower left, which brought $46,000 from a member of the trade. Read More... Ben Austrian Barnyard Scene Brings $20,075 in Western New York The oil on canvas depicting chickens and a scarecrow sold to a Lancaster-area buyer on the phone and was the day's top lot. Read More... American and European Paintings Auction in Philadelphia Funds Scholarship The first and third floor galleries at America's oldest auction house saw some of the largest crowds ever for Alasdair Nichol's third fine art event. Read More... ‘Radio Days' Michigan Event Features Two Collections The Historic Opera House was the setting for Stanton's auction of antique radios, radio tubes and parts, radio advertising and vogue picture records. Read More... Great Finds for Buyers at East Coast Jewelry Sales Collectors from around the world bid for selections that captured the spirit of the Victorian, Edwardian, Art Deco and Modern eras. Read More... Trade Talk Piers to Reopen for Shows in Late January Stella has acquired the dates January 26 and 27 for a 300-dealer antiques show to be on Piers 88 and 90. Read More... Pauline Eblé Campanelli, 58, Artist and Antiques Writer Artist, writer, craftsperson, gardener, and antiques collector, Campanelli pursued her interests with dedication and enthusiasm. Read More... New Orleans Museum Unveils Meissen Porcelain Gallery With 346 pieces, the collection is one of the most comprehensive groups of Meissen figures in an American museum. Visitors will find delightful figures of mythology, Italian comedy, country life, court life, birds and animals. Read More... International News Briefs Art Institute of Chicago sues Dallas trading firm for allegedly defrauding it of millions of dollars....The last of seven stolen Rockwells are returned....Reputed mob associate accused of peddling phony art pleads guilty. Read More... Antiquarius 2001 With a new layout, a new show manager and a dozen changes in the dealer roster, the show kicked off its 44th edition with a gala preview party to benefit The Historical Society of The Town of Greenwich. Read More... Wilton Holiday Antiques Marketplace Spotlights 130 Dealers Exhibitors showcased country and period formal Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century furniture, folk art, prints and maps, ceramics, textiles, silver, jewelry, Oriental rugs, American Arts and Crafts period, American Indian arts and vintage holiday items. Read More... Shaker Museum & Library Plans a Move to Mount Lebanon Shaker Village The museum has chosen New York architectural firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to study plans to move the museum from its present location to New Lebanon, N.Y. Read More... The New York International Antiquarian Fine Art Fair If they didn't already know it, the managers of the fair learned first hand the complexities of show business in their first outing at Madison Square Garden. Read More... Sandy Smith's Modernism Celebrates a Century of Design "I believe people needed to reconnect with each other," Smith stated. "Many major museums came and - considering all factors - this was a phenomenal show." Read More... Professional Show Managers Speak with One Voice The Professional Show Managers Association (PSMA) wishes to let the public know that the trade show business is alive and well in America. Read More... International News Briefs A. Alfred Taubman: 'Dumb' and 'hungry' or scheming genius? The jury will decide....A horror show of smashed artifacts in Kabul Afghanistan....Sotheby's makes history with its Paris debut. Read More... A Small, Eclectic Show Produced with Aplomb At the Boston International Fine Art Show this year, exhibitors traveled from Calgary, Canada, as well as London and Wimbledon, England. It was not unusual to see Japanese or European art coming from dealers in the United States, or for that matter, to see a British gallery with American artists on their roster. Read More... Chipstone Foundation Unveils New Ceramics Journal It is for the large, diverse, and worldwide fraternity of ceramics lovers - dealers, collectors, curators, archaeologists and potters themselves - that Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisc., has created "Ceramics in America." Read More... The Delaware Antiques Show: Expanding a Force in the Mid-Atlantic Area Long before television's "Antiques Roadshow," there was the antiques roadshow in Delaware. Actually, it was really the Delaware Antiques Show making the rounds of venues. But now all that is in the past. Read More... An Exposition of Twentieth Century Design in Illinois Now in its 12th year, Winnetka's Modernism Show proved to a highly successful outing for its 52 exhibiting dealers. Read More... London's Colnaghi to Close, Private Dealership to Open under the Direction of Jean-Luc Baroni Baroni announced that, on January 1, after a period of 20 years with Colnaghi, he will be leaving to establish a private dealership under his own name. Baroni had entered into a joint venture with the gallery in 1982 to establish a new drawing department. Read More... Connecticut Museum Puts on a Shining Show in Its Silver Anniversary The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion is home to a well-supported annual antiques show in which 27 jury-selected antiques and fine arts dealers set up in the open spaces of the mansion, creating an unmatched opportunity to display fine works of art. Read More... International News Briefs Christopher Davidge and Diana D. Brooks take the stand against A. Alfred Taubman....The American Association of Museums issues guidelines regarding conflicts of interest....Israel Sack will sell inventory at Sotheby's....Declaration of Independence returns to Rhode Island. Read More... The Greater York Antiques Show Jim Burk, manager, noted "We had the best gate ever on opening day despite the warm weather that could have made people head off in different directions." Read More... Sotheby's Announces Nine Month and Third Quarter Results For the first nine months of 2001 the company reported total revenues of $225.2 million, compared to $254.7 million for the corresponding period of 2000. Net loss was $41.3 million. Read More... Sacred Heart Show Enjoys a New Location in Chicago Everyone was thrilled with this new location, especially the dealers, since the exhibit space was so much more spacious, trucks could be driven right into the building, and show attendees could view their antiques in a more relaxed setting. Read More... International News Briefs Sotheby's A. Alfred Taubman is charged....Yahoo! is absolved of French ruling in an American court....Guggenheim plans layoffs....Sir Ernst Gombrich dies. Read More... New York Show Updates In good spirits and with great resolve, show managers shuffle schedules and venues to make sure the shows will go on. Read More... The Luce Foundation Awards $150,000 to The Connecticut Historical Society The foundation made the award to the society for its groundbreaking exhibition and reference work on furniture of the Connecticut Valley made in the Eighteenth Century. Read More... Art Basel Miami Beach Is Postponed One Year The current situation in the United States forces the show management to refrain from carrying out the show, originally scheduled for December 13-16. Read More... International News Briefs The Winter Antiques Show is postponed a day and moved to the Hilton New York....Ireland's National Gallery discovers a Rembrandt in its midst....Buyers of an Andrea del Sarto "copy" get the real thing....George M. Kaufman dies. Read More... Larry Aldrich, Founder of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Aldrich remained actively involved with the museum and was looking forward to its expansion and renovation. The institution's board and staff are committed to carrying forward his vision of championing the work of emerging artists. Read More... USArtists: Going Strong Despite tight security on October 18, opening night of the 10th anniversary of USArtists, the gala remained a social highlight of Philadelphia's fall season, and red dots on big-ticket items were bountiful. Read More... The Most Threatened Historic Places in Connecticut This year's list, according to Christopher Wigren, editor of "Connecticut Preservation News," focuses on Hartford and surrounding towns, although these places can stand for similar ones across the state. Read More... Meeting Yesterday and Today in an Aisle near the Sea Recent events seemed to point towards a "gamble" and made Atlantic City a fitting venue. Many dealers approached the show as if they had wandered onto the casino floor and found themselves at the $100 blackjack table, asking if the risks were worth the payoff. Read More... New York Shows Continue to Suffer September 11 Fallout The tragedy continues to take its toll on the country, altering many things that were once taken as routine. The antiques business in New York has changed dramatically due to the emergency uses in many of the prime exhibition spots. Read More... North Carolina's Mint Museum Antiques Show Is a Buyer's Market, with Style The antiques offerings were sometimes breathtaking, and always top quality. But, as anticipated - despite an air of optimism on the dealers' part - everybody seemed to be holding their breath, waiting to see if the black-tie crowd would be buying. Read More... Extraordinary Private Collection of Scottish Art to Open to the Public The Fleming Collection consists of works by many of Scotland's most prominent artists, from 1800 to the present day, and will be housed in a newly converted space in Berkeley Street, London. Read More... Rhinebeck Antiques Fair Ends Silver Anniversary on a Gold Note During the weekend of October 13 and 14, about 8,000 shoppers packed the fairgrounds to peruse the offerings of more than 190 dealers. Read More... Cancelled: The Triple Pier Antiques Show Due to enhanced security measures at Javits and the extremely narrow window the venue was permitting for set up, Stella Show Mgmt. was forced to cancel the event, normally held at the Passenger Ship Piers in Manhattan. Read More... SOFA Chicago at Historic Navy Pier The International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art: SOFA Chicago 2001 returned for the eighth year to Chicago's historic Navy Pier from October 5 to 7. Since there are always large crowds at SOFA, this year's exposition featured an expanded floor plan with larger aisles and additional open areas for seating. Read More... The Comforts of Caramoor With a light crowd of serious buyers, the 43 exhibitors could give their full attention to people in a relaxed and inviting atmosphere. Many sales made Caramoor one of the top shows ever for them. Read More... The Fall Hartford Antiques Show "Our expectations were low, given the events that took place in this country on September 11 and the subsequent national mood. But the American flag, as well as America's colors - red, white and blue - were prevalent at the show, along with the sentiment 'Buy American.'" Read More... The Modern Show at Madison Square Garden Originally residing at the 69th Street Armory at 26th Street and Lexington, Gramercy Park Modern has become a tour de force, sculpted by an experienced management team. Read More... The Small Event with a Popular Following: The Washington Connecticut Antiques Show For those living in Litchfield County and blessed with any kind of a social bone in their body, the place to be was Bryan Memorial Town Hall, the site of this 15th annual event. Read More... Moving Beyond Expectations in Vermont "Dealers really put on the best show they could and it was our contribution to try to make things better in light of the events of the recent past." Read More... 43rd Annual Hinsdale Show Emphasizes the Dealer The 29 exhibitors had additional room to spread out and were housed on one floor. Instead of a theme to promote the show, the antiques and the dealers were the primary focus, which proved highly beneficial for sales. Read More... The Trade Meets to Discuss the Future in New York City The tone of the morning was one of solidarity and strength as representatives of many organizations searched for solutions that will bring event and show business back to the city. Read More... And the Show Does Go On: The Wilton DAR Antiques Marketplace In the wake of the tragedies of September 11, management had the difficult decision of whether or not to cancel the show. Bringing together a loyal family of dealers and clients, the majority of those who attended and exhibited at Wilton were happy that "the show went on." Read More... Still Reveling in Rustic at the Adirondack Museum Antiques Show Close to 6,000 people attend this one-day show and visitors come from all parts of the country. This year there was a slight drop in those who travel by air, but attendance climbed in spite of it. Read More... 19th Annual McHenry County Show Enjoys Strong Following Fifty-seven dealers were delighted to see eager antiquers lined up to enter the show on opening morning. Attendance continued to be strong during this two-day event, and numerous exhibitors reported exceptionally good sales. Read More... The York Antiques Show Enjoys Its 37th Year It was interesting to note that only about a third of the exhibitors were Pennsylvania based - the dealer list showed the majority being from the Eastern seaboard. Read More... Redwood Library Acquires Day Book of Newport Cabinetmaker What Newport authority Ralph Carpenter has dubbed the "Bergner Codex" is a recent gift to the historic Redwood Library on Newport's regal Bellevue Avenue: Jonas Bergner's day book. Read More... Stella Dispels Sale and Cancellation Rumors "It is definitely not true," states Leanne Stella in response to multiple rumors circulating about her 30-year-old company. "Stella Shows has definitely not been sold and the shows at the Piers have not been canceled." Read More... International Shipping Problems Force Exhibition Postponement at the Newark Museum "Art & Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt" will be delayed until October 17 due to problems caused by the recent attacks on the United States. Read More... The Trade Reacts to the Infamy of September 11 We stand in unanimous support of our nation's leaders, and pray that they are granted wisdom and strength in doing what is necessary to strike at the heart of hatred. Read More... Dealers and Collectors Alike Reap the Rewards of Farmington Farmington Antiques Weekend on September 1 and 2 brought together about 11,500 shoppers and 495 dealers from all over the Northeast - as well as a few dealers from the South and the Midwest - for a few magnificent days of enterprising commerce. Read More... Brimfield 01010: The Address where Antiques Come to Be Seen "Brimfield," a suspense novel by Michael Fortuna, tries to delve into the magic of the event, but this celebration of free trade needs to be experienced. No book or collection of words can convey the mass influx at May's Thursday 9 am opening or the 6 am adrenaline rush at J & J's field on Friday. Read More... International News Briefs Lawsuit against Wildenstein & Co. over Books of Hours will proceed...Pending sale of Norman Rockwell paintings is disputed in court...Switzerland judged a trade center for looted assets from Nazi Germany, a new study finds. Read More... Parker Harris in Partnership with Penman Fairs Parker Harris, whose clients include the Jerwood Foundation, Hunting PLC, the Singer & Friedlander Group PLC, and the Laing Group PLC, have successfully won the contract to market and publicize four of Penman Fairs' events. Read More... Betty Krulik to Head American Art at Phillips Previous to her tenure at Spanierman Gallery, Krulik was the head of the paintings department at Christie's East in New York. Read More... Phillips Names Head of New Photography Department The company has chosen Joshua Holdeman as director and plans to introduce sales of photography twice yearly beginning in spring 2002. Read More... Important Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts Primary Materials Given to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts A valuable collection of more than 350 pieces of printed materials relating to American and British Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau has been donated to the library by retired Twentieth Century art curator Frederick R. Brandt. Read More... Christie's International Auction Sales Total $974 Million for the First Half of 2001 LONDON — Christie's International has announced worldwide auction sales totaling $974 million for the first six months of 2001, January 1 through June 30. Read More... Author, Lecturer, Historian John Blivins, Jr, Dies at 60 WINSTON-SALEM, NC —Old Salem Inc. reports the death of John Bivins, Jr., who died August 16th in Manchester, VT, after a long illness. He was 60. John served as director of restoration and curator for Old Salem from 1968 to 1975 and then as director of publications from 1980 to 1990. Read More... Thomas Cole's 'Cedar Grove' Lovingly Restored CATSKILL, N.Y. - The charming Nineteenth Century house where landscape artist Thomas Cole lived has been lovingly rescued from disrepair and the ravages of time by a group of dedicated community volunteers. Read More... Major Photography Acquisitions for Amon Carter FORT WORTH, TEX. — The Amon Carter Museum has acquired several important photographs that add depth and continuity to what is already a major collection of American photography. Read More... International News Briefs The FBI conducts a criminal investigation into posthumous prints created from Lewis W. Hine negatives....Sotheby's A. Alfred Taubman gears up for his defense....The Maine State Museum receives $1 million from an anonymous donor. Read More... Capturing the Hustle and Bustle of Antiques Week in New Hampshire The event, which produced healthy sales across the board, has gained national attention - for very good reason. Read More... 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