Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America      "Reality is what you can get away with." The phrase, both wry and inspirational, sums up the guiding philosophy of Nutting, the crazy-like-a-fox Congregational minister turned marketeer.   Read More...

Splendid Expansion at the Peabody Essex Museum     A $125 million project, the expansion has allowed the institution to properly and prominently display its vast collections in both a newly renovated and new state-of-the-art facility.   Read More...

Byrdcliffe Arts Colony     The Woodstock Guild hopes to share with the world the philosophy, fine art, furniture and decorative arts that have assured the community's reputation among serious students of the Arts and Crafts Movement.   Read More...

'Ohio Is My Dwelling Place'     An exhibition of samplers currently on view at the Decorative Art Center of Ohio offers insight not only into the lives of the girls who made them, but also provides a glimpse into the history of the state during its first 50 years of settlement.   Read More...

Woodworkers of Windsor     Historic Deerfield's Flynt Center of Early New England Life carefully unfolds the evolution of style that emanated from Windsor and continued to flourish and evolve into the now better-known Hadley and Wethersfield styles.   Read More...

The Furniture of Charleston, 1680-1820     In 1949, Joseph Downs, curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and later of Winterthur Museum, opined that nothing of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore. With that, the crusade to prove Downs and all other Yankee snobs wrong was on.   Read More...

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art     The newest museum of early American decorative art opened last July on a chamisa-covered hillside overlooking the ancient city of Santa Fe and celebrates Hispanic culture across four continents and five centuries.    Read More...

Worlds Intertwined: The Etruscans, Greeks and Romans     The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology contains one of the finest collections of ancient artifacts in the country, so the stylish reinstallation of its Mediterranean section is welcome news.   Read More...

American Artists in Connecticut at the Florence Griswold Museum     Cementing its growing national reputation as an outstanding regional museum and the leading repository of Connecticut art, the museum is exhibiting spectacular additions to its collection in recently expanded facilities.   Read More...

Casting a Spell     Winslow Homer used his knowledge and observations in watercolors and a few paintings of angling situations that are unparalleled in our art history.   Read More...

Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France     At a time when French and American relations are once again making daily news, the nation will celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, an event that helped determine the future roles of both countries on the world stage.   Read More...

Colonial Williamsburg     After 75 years of experience and evolution, Colonial Williamsburg is, in a word, a place where dedicated dealers and serious collectors, along with less informed and focused visitors, can pick and choose among a remarkable variety of opportunities to see and learn.   Read More...

The Incredible, Elastic Chairs of Samuel Gragg at Winterthur     Gragg sought to create a more comfortable and durable design in a period when most people, rich and poor, ate and worked while perched on brittle, unforgiving seating.   Read More...

Masters of Modernism, Side by Side: Matisse and Picasso at MoMA     They were friends and rivals, giants in their art, by turns contemptuous of and bedazzled by one another's work. Each prompted the other to achieve new heights, and in so doing, nourished a competition and exchange that sparked a revolution in art itself.    Read More...

Elinor Gordon: The China Trade And Her Influence     VILLANOVA, PENN. -- Philadelphians have been involved in the China Trade since 1784, when local financier Robert Morris backed the first American merchant ship to dock in Canton, the Empress of China. Forty other prominent Philadelphia families soon joined Morris in commercial exchange with the East. Today it seems fair that another name be added to their ranks, that of the modern day China trader Elinor Gordon.   Read More...

Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette     YONKERS, N.Y. — "One must never forget," the incomparable Gertrude Stein observed years ago, "that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile." Recognizing that reality, for the past 30 years Yvonne Jacquette has utilized the vantage point of commercial jets and private planes, as well as high-rise buildings, to create both daytime and nighttime views of cities and towns, factories and farmlands, rivers and harbors, and woodlands, pastures and power plants from coast to coast and border to border, as well as in the Far East.   Read More...

Double Take on Degas     Degas lovers can enjoy a double treat over the course of the next couple of months with two separate shows exploring his work and times at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery.   Read More...

Spratling and Mexico's Silver Renaissance     Chronicling a particularly vibrant and fertile period in Mexican history, a time when the arts flourished with the first breath of freedom after the revolution of 1910, this exhibition is currently on view at the Mingei International Museum of Folk Art.   Read More...

Marsden Hartley: Four Decades as a Painter     Of the group of gifted early Twentieth Century American modernists who changed the course of our art, Hartley stands out increasingly as the most original, powerful and enduring. Such recognition has been slow in coming.   Read More...

Drawing on America's Past     The National Gallery of Art is currently celebrating the 60th anniversary of its 1943 acquisition of the "Index of American Design" with 80 of the finest watercolor renderings of American folk, popular and decorative art in the survey, along with a selection of nearly 40 of the original objects they represent.   Read More...

American Furniture: A Decade of Discoveries     It has been a decade since Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee published its premier issue of 'American Furniture.' Since then, readers have been treated to a wide variety of articles intended to enlighten, entertain and even provoke.   Read More...

Unified Vision     The Minneapolis Institute of Arts explores not only its extensive collection of American Arts and Crafts Movement iconic objects, but also the architectural styles of the period so aptly captured through its Prairie School gem of a home, the Purcell-Cutts House.   Read More...

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art     The opening of a newly created gallery last October devoted to displaying the works of local genius Louis Comfort Tiffany was a moment of triumph for the staff of the American Wing.   Read More...

Deceptions and Illusions     Deception breaks trust, destroys relationships, and brands the deceivers as less than honorable, at best. Unless the deceivers are masters of trompe l'oeil -- in which case, the very opposite applies.   Read More...

Panopticon: An Art Spectacular     This Carnegie exhibit ultimately recreates a Nineteenth Century "salon-style" art show before the featured collection will be reinstalled in the renovated Scaife Galleries in fall 2003.   Read More...

Bonhams & Butterfields Auctions Meet Success on Two Coasts     A large and impressive needlework chimneypiece created to hang above a fireplace in a proper Boston home sold after highly competitive bidding for $611,250 in San Francisco.   Read More...

'Triumph of Summer' Triumphant among Old Masters in New York     The Christie's auction totaled $2,696,840 and was 80 percent sold by value and 74 percent sold by lot.   Read More...

Rare Russian Poster Fetches a Record at Swann Galleries     Even the 1981 reissue of this ground-breaking photomontage image is difficult to obtain, and examples of the original almost never come on the market.   Read More...

Modernist Materials Tally $3.1 Million at Phillips     "American Modernism of the 1930s did extremely well and cutting edge high-end design by Ruhlmann and Eileen Gray proved to be extraordinarily hot."   Read More...

Late Addition Vase at Landry's Sale Fetches $27,125     The Marblehead vase was consigned by a woman from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Mass., who was cleaning house prior to a move. It ultimately sold in the room to Arts and Crafts consultant Marilee Meyer.   Read More...

Cup Plate Collection Is King in Virginia     The early American glass cup plate collection of the late Robert W. King featured provenance cards that read like the "who's who" of glass circles of years past.   Read More...

Portsmouth Secretary Desk in 'Rare Form' at Skinner Americana Sale     Bidding on the piece opened at $70,000 and bounced back and forth between the gallery and the telephones, with phone bidder Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett Antiques claiming the lot at $127,000.   Read More...

Ellinger Paintings Find Nationwide Appeal in Pennsylvania     Leading the Ron Rhoads sale was a "wonderful" country auction scene depicting an auctioneer in front of a barn with a ring of bidders looking on that had been executed by Ellinger many years ago.   Read More...

Willard Clock, Redware Reign at Garth's Americana Auction     "[Buyers] showed great appreciation not only for the items, which included some of the best Americana to come to the market recently, but, in a broader sense, for the collecting habits of all our consignors."   Read More...

Among Americana Offerings at Sotheby's, 'Fishing Lady' Needlework Is Prize Catch     The auction was buoyed by several extremely desirable pieces, with some of the lots fetching prices in excess of more than 20 times the high presale estimates.    Read More...

Babe Ruth Jersey Hits a $264,210 Home Run for Leland's     The jersey helped swell the two-day total for the auction to $4.7 million, making it the largest in the company's 15-year history.   Read More...

Historic Letter Predicting British Downfall in the American Revolution Reaches $64,100 at Swann Galleries     One of the most difficult autographs to come by is that of North Carolina Declaration of Independence signer William Hooper, so it was not surprising that passions ran high when a rare autograph letter from Hooper came on the block.   Read More...

John Sloan's 'Easter Eve' Is Top Lot at Sotheby's     American works from the collection of Meyer & Vivian Potamkin sold for a total of $15,342,700, more than $2 million above the high estimate. Overall, the sale, including works from various owners, brought $31,909,100.   Read More...

New Record for Eakins Painting in New York     The Christie's auction featured 92 lots with 71 finding buyers, resulting in a 77 percent sold rate and a gross of $17,760,500.   Read More...

War of 1812 Powder Horn Ignites Bidders in Connecticut     The engraved powder horn depicted the Siege at Fort Meigs, Ohio, and saw action from five phone bidders and several serious suitors in house.   Read More...

Continental Offerings Tally a Cool $3 Million for Northeast     The personal collection of Boston dealer George Gravert was among the offerings at Ron Bourgeault's two-day auction this past weekend, attracting major attention from buyers from throughout the country.   Read More...

Pook & Pook Sale Grosses $1.4 Million     A record number of absentee and telephone bids in conjunction with an overflow crowd contributed to a great sale at the gallery on May 17.   Read More...

'Say it with Flowers' and a $33,000 Bid at Bertoia's     It wasn't Mothers Day, an anniversary, or a birthday, that had the slogan on the lips of toy collectors nationwide - it was a rare, large, cast iron delivery motorcycle at Bertoia's.   Read More...

Nordblom's Offering of French Coastal Scene Sails to $37,950     A good crowd, a good selection of merchandise, and good action from phone bidders and those in the gallery combined to make for a good day at Carl Nordblom's.   Read More...

Newcomb College Vase Tops Rago Auction     The vase, decorated by Mary Butler with blue tulips and green leaves against a soft blue-green ground, sold at $28,750.    Read More...

Tiffany Peony Lamp Outshines Lighting Offerings at Fontaine's     Featured were more than 600 varied items gathered from estates across New England in the sale, which totaled $2.3 million.   Read More...

Rare Redware Plate is $23,400 Main Dish at Horst     Despite some slip loss and several chips, the plate, once was part of the late Titus Geesey's collection, sold well to the trade.   Read More...

A Healthy $1.5 Million for Clocks in New Hampshire     Ninety percent of the clocks at R.O. Schmitt went to collectors, rather than to dealers - this reflected a change in the usual 75-25, dealer-collector split.   Read More...

Rare Cézanne Self-Portrait Sells for $17.4 Million     The work was the only one of its kind ever to appear at auction and sold to Stephen A. Wynn, the casino owner and art collector, who bought the painting personally to be publicly displayed in the Wynn Collection in Las Vegas.   Read More...

Classical Guitar Plays to Record Price at Christie's     The Hermann Hauser 1936 creation sold for $93,210, doubling the previous world auction record for a Hauser guitar.   Read More...

Massachusetts Chest-on-Chest Tops Freeman's Americana Offerings     Furniture from private homes, portraits from institutions, and samplers from longtime collectors all exceeded estimates in a sale that rode the coattails of the Philadelphia Antique Show at the Armory.   Read More...

Focus on Early Brass Lens in Germany Leads to $50,230 Winning Bid     The lens, a Photographe à Verres Combinés by Charles Chevalier, Paris, started at $33,000.    Read More...

Philadelphia Card Table Reaches $126,500 in Maine     "It had a significant single-family history," stated auctioneer Kaja Veilleux prior to the sale. "It came straight out of a Brunswick home and has never previously been offered to the public."   Read More...

Shannon's Hits Another Home Run with Spring Sale     As the first painting headed for the podium, several of the runners were extremely busy - not getting the paintings ready for the block, but setting up additional seating to accommodate an enthusiastic crowd estimated to be in excess of 300.    Read More...

Spatter Is Hot, Hot, Hot at Pook & Pook     This was the second offering of Schaeffer's spatter ware collection at Pook's, with rock solid prices once again established across the boards.   Read More...

Redware, Mocha, Stoneware and Spatter Steal the Show at Garth's     Highlighting the auction was the collection of James D. Parker, who began amassing antiques in the 1960's during a period that he termed "late in his life." The offerings attracted attention from collectors throughout the country.   Read More...

New Orleans Event Features Rare Armoire, Gothic Chairs     The spring estates sale at Neal Auction Company attracted considerable interest from a large gallery crowd and numerous phone bidders.   Read More...

Private Collectors, Museums Make Geneva Watch Sale a $12.5 Million Success     The top lot was a Patek Philippe "World Time" watch with two crowns, complete with an extract from the archives and original certificate. Produced in 1965 and originally sold in October 1974, it achieved $952,920.   Read More...

At York Town Auction, Rare Stove Plate Is Surprise Record Lot     "This has to be a record price for a Pennsylvania stove plate," said manager John McClain. A particularly nice specimen, the plate had Dutchy tulips, the date 1763, and the name of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.    Read More...

Whale's Tooth Pulls a $35,750 Winning Bid at Waterhouse Gallery     The circa 1820 tooth that had scrimshaw decoration on both sides, weighed one pound, six ounces, and was found in a house in Connecticut.   Read More...

English Furniture, European Fine Art Lead Missouri Sale     Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers conducted its first gallery auction of the year at its Clayton location, and totals came within 10 percent of low estimates at $923,222 for 950 lots. Eighty-seven percent of the lots offered found buyers.   Read More...

Rare Tall Case Clock Reaches $20,350 in Upstate New York     The clock was discovered in a Binghamton, N.Y., home by David Mapes. It had descended in the family of a shoe-manufacturing magnate since the early Twentieth Century.   Read More...

Consistency Means Success and Big Money for Confederate Flag at New Hampshire Firearms Sale     What Julia billed as the "finest Confederate battle flag ever offered at public auction" achieved a final price of $126,500, selling to a determined collector in attendance who beat out five phone participants.   Read More...

Willson & Co. Stoneware Pitcher Brings Possible Record for Maker at Wiederseim     A collector outbid two phone bidders and two dealers in the room to take the pitcher for what is most likely a record, according to the gallery, and exceeding the presale estimate of $15/20,000.   Read More...

Tang Horses Attract $1.576 Million in New York     "It is extremely rare to find two large Tang horses of sancai-glazed pottery molded in this way as a complementary pair, with different colored coats, differently groomed manes and different saddle blankets."   Read More...

Gems Abound at Swann Sale of Polissack Library     A first edition of Arthur Bloche's "La Vente des Diamants de la Couronne," Paris, 1888, the rarest work about the sale of the French Crown Jewels following the French Revolution, soared to a record auction price.   Read More...

Cobb Black Duck Flies to $9,900 at Harmon Auction     The rare and early black duck was marked with an "N" and featured an undercut tail and deeply inletted head. The old in-use paint exhibited wear and cracking, but was still regarded as being in very good condition.   Read More...

Highboy Brings $46,000 at Nadeau's Spring Auction     The casepiece - which came with a detachable pierced crest, according to some a vernacular attempt at a stylish Chapin-style bonnet - sold in the room to Woodbury, Conn. dealer Harold Cole.   Read More...

Bidders Vie for $193,000 Yellow Diamond Pendant Won by Overseas Buyer     Skinner had its largest grossing jewelry sale ever on March 18, one that totaled $1,739,435 with an eight percent buy-in.   Read More...

Louisiana Paintings Set Record Prices in New Orleans     The recent estates auction conducted by Neal attracted exuberant bidding on furniture and decorative arts and set artist records for two paintings of historical significance.   Read More...

Drexel Self Portrait Brings $225,000 At Pook & Pook     DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — The first catalog sale of 2003 by Pook & Pook, Inc. was conducted February 22 at their newly renovated facility, a state-of-the-art setting that is both patron and consignor friendly.   Read More...

Manuscripts Concerning 1555 Printing And Burning Of Talmud In Italy, Brings $149,500      NEW YORK CITY - A collection of manuscripts concerning the printing of the Talmud in Italy, and the subsequent public burning of these tomes by order of the Pope in 1555, was the top lot of Kestenbaum & Company's sale of Fine Judaica on March 11. Estimated at $50/70,000, the collection commanded fierce bidding in the room and the phones and ultimately achieved $149,500.    Read More...

Shaker Garment Hanger Brings $17,000 at Brunk Auctions      ASHVILLE, N.C. - A Shaker cherry garment hanger from the Tim Bookout Collection once exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York soared to a record $17,000 as the hammer fell at Brunk Auctions February sale. Aside from the original surface the hanger was stamped on both sides "M.E.T. 1864" for carver Mary E. Todd who lived from 1852 to 1881.    Read More...

Private Collector Wins 'Outlaw' Poster for $83,648 in UK Sale     SOUTH KENSINGTON, ENGLAND — Christie's first vintage film poster sale of 2003 realized $422,368, selling 93 percent by lot, with more than 280 lots embracing all the collectible film genres such as westerns, horror, science fiction, Ealing, Hitchcock and Bond.    Read More...

Give Me Liberty!     LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Heritage, auctioneer of the February-March Long Beach Coin Expo, realized $6.7 million with its Signature Sale and an additional $446,648 with its Bullet Auction for total prices realized in excess of $7.1 million.   Read More...

French Bisque 'Lady at the Piano' Plays to $20,500 in Florida     BOCA RATON, FLA. — Theriault's, the Annapolis, Md.-based antique doll auction house, traveled to Florida on February 22-23 where more than 100 attended the firm's auction of The French Lieutenant and His Bride.   Read More...

Hepplewhite Secretary Reaches $81,700 at Northeast     Putting to use the wisdom provided in his book "… Good, Better, Best," author/dealer/advisor and Northeast Auction American furniture expert Albert Sack sat in the front row of the sale with a private client and assisted in bidding.   Read More...

Mebane Collection Brings $2 Million at Glassworks     The second portion of the highly anticipated Bob Mebane absentee auction closed with strong prices posted across the board. Mebane, who began collecting during the mid-1960s, was referred to as one of the "second generation" collectors that followed in the footsteps of glass collecting pioneers.   Read More...

333 Auctions Premiers to a Full House     333 Auctions was recently formed by a partnership between David Rago, Nicholas Dawes, Suzanne Perrault, John Sollo, and Miriam Tucker. The five collaborated to form an estates auction venture new to the firm that is better known under the banner of Rago.   Read More...

A Drexel Buys a Drexel for $225,000     The successful bidder, as reported by Pook & Pook, was a representative of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. The artist was the father of Anthony Drexel, who founded the institution in 1891.    Read More...

William and Mary Highboy Tops Americana at Skinner     "This was the nicest example of the form that we have ever sold," commented Stephen Fletcher, further stating that many William and Mary highboys are often perceived as blocky or squat.   Read More...

'Classics' Compete with Contemporary Offerings at New York Prints Sale     The top lots were works by Chagall and Picasso, but several strong results for contemporary prints included $13,145 for Tom Wesselman's "Nude with Still Life," a record price at auction for a felt banner by Wesselman.   Read More...

When 'Pass' and 'Unsold' Were Never Uttered: The Russell Aitken Decoy Collection     In stark contrast to the majority of the other auctions conducted throughout Americana Week, the event went 100 percent sold with a world record price established. Three hundred and sixty-five lots grossed an impressive $2,833,568.   Read More...

Solid Results for Asian Decorative Arts in Boston     "There is a significant amount of crossover between buyers interested in Continental wares and buyers interested in Asian items. We have many international clients, and a larger sale gives them more motivation to get onto a plane and come over."   Read More...

'Peering through the Window of America's Past'     Rose Anna and John Kolar furnished their home with the arts and crafts of early Pennsylvania. Their sources included some of the field's best-known dealers of Pennsylvania German folk art.   Read More...

Record George Ohr Teapot Leads Craftsman Auction     Also offered were groups of lighting, metal, art glass and framed art before full-house crowds. The event generated just over $1 million with more than 90 percent of the lots sold — an affirmation of the health of this market, according to the gallery.   Read More...

Mickey Mouse Provides a Golden Opportunity at Fontaine's and a $690,000 Price Tag     The auction generated a great deal of interest, grossing $3.2 million. The top lot was a solid gold Mickey Mouse standing two feet tall and weighing in at 1,500 ounces.   Read More...

Private Collector Wins Navajo Chief's Blanket for $317,500 in New York     The early classic Navajo chief's wearing blanket in dramatic black, blue and white stripes nearly tripled presale estimates.   Read More...

Grogan Auctions $60,375 Highboy     The highboy was remarkably well preserved, with only minor repairs. An earlier finish could be seen through a Twentieth Century varnish.   Read More...

Nakashima Designs Dominate Contemporary Lots in Pittsburgh     The phone lines were jammed with bidders from Philadelphia and New York competing for six pieces of furniture made by George Nakashima - a linen cabinet realized $11,750.   Read More...

London Dealer Wins Rare Goya Painting for $5 Million     The work is one of only 12 works of this genre known to exist and one of the last ones in private hands. It more than doubled its presale estimate.   Read More...

Japanese Inro Leads Skinner Asian Offerings     The inro came from a South Carolina collection assembled prior to World War II. Sales for the this section of the auction topped $660,000, a new high for the firm's Asian department.   Read More...

Smalls Bring Big Prices at Sideli Collection Auction     Within the antiques community, Maine has long been known as a prime location for quality accessories. So it was with little surprise that John and Cia Sideli decided to liquidate their collection of nearly 500 items at the gallery of James Cyr.   Read More...

The Auctions of Americana Week: Sotheby's Grosses $15.9 Million     During the Friday afternoon session on January 17 the top lot, a Chippendale carved and highly figured mahogany blocked serpentine-front bombe chest of drawers, fetched $1.46 million. Found in the maid's quarters of a Boston home, it had been used as a surface for ironing.   Read More...

Christie's Hits $11.8 Million in Three Days of Sales     Well-heeled collectors from around the country previewed in one room; folk art dealers, in town for various antiques shows, previewed in another; and then there was the throng of viewers who had clearly come for just one thing -- decoys.   Read More...

Guyette & Schmidt, Christie's, and the Aitken Decoy Collection Yields $2.8 Million and a New Record     The star of the event was an Elmer Crowell preening pintail drake that fetched a record price paid at auction of $801,500, selling to sporting dealer Stephen O'Brien Jr.   Read More...

A New Year's Auction Roundup     With more than 75 auctions taking place during the two-week span between this past year's holiday season and the week surrounding New Year's, the action in the halls was hot and heavy.   Read More...

Exceeding $1 Million with Gems, Tiffany and Fine Art in St. Louis     Property ranging from Twentieth Century design furniture and decorative art to paintings, lithographs and photography, and jewelry, watches and coins were all offered recently at Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers.   Read More...

Rare Lamb Doorstop Goes out Like a Lion in Virginia     The two-day event saw 1,469 lots auctioned without reserve to 564 registered bidders, including 103 telephone bidders. Absentee bids totaled nearly 1,300. Sales exceeded $517,000.   Read More...

Dealer Snags Rare Embroidery in Rhode Island     This was an old-fashioned sale, with tons of interesting and quality material, no catalog to refer to, and no buyer's preview the day of the sale.   Read More...

Wadsworth Atheneum Deaccessions Civil War Items at Winter Associaties     A bidding war broke out at the gallery, and to the victors went a select group of military clothing, particularly a bugler's jacket from the Wadsworth.   Read More...

Asian and Decorative Arts on the Cape     There were many fine things offered at the sale and it was unfortunate that a snowstorm hit on day one. But the buyers who made the effort to attend were extremely glad that they did.    Read More...

The Woodbury Antiques Fair     "Conditions here sure have been tough, but Frank Gaglio has remained calm through it all and has done everything humanly possible to help the dealers and make sure the show goes on."    Read More...

The New York Tribal Antiques Show     Dealers hailed from as far away as Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle and as close by as New York. All faced the challenges of an uncertain economy and a hesitant buying public.   Read More...

Solid Start for New Show in Williamsburg     The event, at the Clarion George Washington Hotel, hosted a full house of 32 dealers from throughout the East and Midwest.   Read More...

The Millbrook Antiques Show     Close to 1,000 people came through the show during the two days and management is looking to increase that number substantially this fall.   Read More...

Garlenski Case Expands in Court     "We are very concerned about the pattern of behavior and victimization of honest and hardworking merchants in the antiques business. That is why we are devoting the resources that are necessary in this case."   Read More...

New Wing for Norton Creates Florida's Largest Art Museum     An exceptionally large number of art museums seem to be dedicating newly expanded facilities these days, but few will outdo the dramatic effect of the new Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing of the Norton Museum of Art.   Read More...

Two Days of Enthusiastic Buying at Rhinebeck     The event drew a gate of 7,800, according to promoter Jimi Barton, who pointed out that the figure was just shy of May's all-time record of 8,100.   Read More...

The Rhinebeck Tailgate Show     It's an area for New York City people to travel north for weekend homes, vacations or just outings. And that makes it a natural for antiques shows.   Read More...

New Partner and Location for Randy Inman Auctions     After six years in the business of auctioning antique toys, advertising, coin ops and mechanical music machines, Maine-based Randy Inman Auctions Inc is making a permanent move to Allentown, Penn.   Read More...

Litchfield County Antiques Show Maintains Its Balance     Weekend antiquers could count on finding a diverse representation of merchandise among the 40 dealers set up at the fairgrounds.   Read More...

Sturbridge, MA Antiques Show     Just down the road from Brimfield's bustling markets, a bold experiment was in the making with 100 dealers from a dozen states.   Read More...

Frick Receives Important Gift of Sculpture     The gifts are the first late Renaissance bronzes from the Giambologna school to enter the collection and they will be on public view in the Living Hall of the mansion.   Read More...

Brimfield: Spring Loaded     There may be no more compelling life force than the hajj to this small town in the heart of southern Massachusetts, where housands once again poured in to hunt for, bargain for and - if lucky - carry away their hard-won spoils.   Read More...

The Historic East Berlin Antiques Show     The event, 27 dealers strong, is one of those where you never know just what is going to show up.   Read More...

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Gets Gift of American Painting     The late work by Frederick Childe Hassam "truly complements our holdings of American Impressionism," said Derek A. Gilman.   Read More...

The Greater York Antiques Show and Sale     "We're still going strong both in the spring and in the fall," Jim Burk, manager, said. At the same time he showed some concern as plans unfolded for two additional shows on the fairgrounds during his dates.   Read More...

York County Classic Antiques Show     Barry Cohen's life as an antiques show manager grew yet another notch on May 9 when he opened his new spring show at the York Fairgrounds.   Read More...

The Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair     "Customers were there to shop, not just browse, a complete turnaround from the industry-wide show reports over the last few months."   Read More...

Fairbanks Lectureship Endowed     Through the anonymous fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, $75,000 was given to endow a perpetual lectureship to honor Jonathan Fairbanks, the president of the trust and one of the leading experts of American decorative arts.   Read More...

ADA Announces New Show with Return to Deerfield     "We are delighted with the arrangement to have another show at Deerfield Academy," Skip Chalfant, president of the Antiques Dealers' Association of America said this week.   Read More...

Not One, not Two, but Three Shows This Fall in York     The tailgate business is booming in York. This past weekend, Barry Cohen opened a new show, the York County Classic Antiques Show in the Old Main Building on the York Fairgrounds.   Read More...

Goddesses, Gargoyles, Gnomes and Spoils     One exhibitor at the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale noted, "At one time there were so many people in my booth that the two of us could not field all of the questions they were trying to ask. As a result, we could have lost a number of sales."   Read More...

An Antiques Gathering in Atlanta     More than 20 years ago Don Scott, from Ohio, began his Atlanta career working with another show promoter to develop a large antiques event, and after several years he went out on his own.   Read More...

Bill Bertoia, Beloved Dealer and Auctioneer     Bill built his business around ideals and friendship, and they flowed forth in every transaction, every "deal," and throughout his personal expression. He magically infused his enthusiasm, his infectious laugh, his warmth, knowledge and generosity into all who crossed his path.    Read More...

Southport-Westport Sails Away with Antique Treasures     While the show remains a first-class event, the question raised by some is whether serious selling goes on. Of course, there is a range of opinions among the 67 dealers who participated.   Read More...

Restored Butler-McCook House & Garden To Reopen     Last August the Capitol City's oldest house was almost destroyed by an SUV that jumped the curb at the intersection of Capital and Main going about 50 miles per hour.   Read More...

Albert Sack Elected Honorary Member of Appraisers Association     The board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America has elected Sack in recognition of a lifetime's contribution of scholarship, generosity and passion in the field of decorative arts.   Read More...

From Roman to Contemporary, The Westchester Glass Show Has It All     Many important collectors, dealers and museum representatives were seen shopping on the floor during the opening moments, including Gary Stradling, Kirk Nelson and Stuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York City.   Read More...

A Most Contemporary Theme for Bedford's Spring Show     "As goes Wall Street, so goes Bedford," is a phrase one dealer overheard several times. The shared pulse at the nexus of this leafy Westchester County enclave and the nation's financial heartbeat is not hard to discern, because the business of "getting" is the main occupation of a lot of people in town.   Read More...

Patricia J. Fulton, Maine Antiques Dealer     Pat's natural curiosity always led her to find the unusual and often the unique. Her expertise ranged from tools of early needlework to medical curiosities, and from to fine faience to furniture of architectural significance.   Read More...

Bob Burns, CCADA Officer     The Cape Cod Antiques Dealers Association sadly reports the passing of Bob Burns, vice president and manager of the organization's Summer Antiques Exposition in Orleans.   Read More...

Leslie Claydon-White, 81     The antiques business in Woodbury lost a cornerstone last Wednesday, April 23, with the passing of Leslie Claydon-White of Mill House Antiques.   Read More...

A Downtown Flavor for New York's First and Largest Asian Show     Despite its relative informality, Arts of Pacific Asia has some things in common with the International show, namely exhibitors. Some dealers in each fair started at the other, and this year two exhibitors participated in both shows.   Read More...

There's No Place Like Atlantique City     With almost 1,000 dealers selling everything from monumental French bronzes to marbles, shoppers instinctively paraphrased the immortal cinematic words of Oz's Dorothy.   Read More...

Dolls…and more Dolls     People dolls, baby dolls, animal dolls, cartoon dolls, stuffed dolls - china, porcelain and bisque dolls - you name it, it was probably at the 36th semiannual Eastern State Doll, Toy and Teddy Bear Show.   Read More...

The Philadelphia Antiques Show     Once humble, the painted furniture and whimsical folk crafts of Pennsylvania Dutch country led sales at the show, a top venue for Americana. Now in its 42nd year, the 57-dealer fair boasted brisk attendance during its first three days.   Read More...

Philadelphia's Navy Pier Antiques Show     Probably the only setback the show experienced was one that was totally out of the control of management: This weekend happened to be the opening of the baseball season in Philadelphia and people turned out in droves to see the game.   Read More...

The Center City Philadelphia Antiques Show     This event has really not caught hold for the public, but is primarily attended by a good number of the dealers taking part in the other two shows in the city at the same time period.   Read More...

The 30th Connecticut Spring Antiques Show Bucks War Jitters, to Everyone's Relief     Year in and year out, through good times and bad, the fair delivers a quality selection of early New England furniture and choice accessories. Dedicated collectors are always there to buy.   Read More...

The Guilford Antiques Show     The show has become the primary fundraising event for the Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society, and his year's event was again successful in its support.   Read More...

Art Dealer Richard York, 52     York was a specialist in American art, and dealt in a veritable who's who of artists from the mid-Seventeenth Century to the mid-Twentieth Century.   Read More...

Wayne Pratt Claims Rightful Ownership of Long-Lost Copy of The Bill of Rights     Pratt is "prepared to participate in an open, public civil proceeding to determine the provenance and ownership of [the document] that North Carolina claims belongs to it."   Read More...

The Triple Pier in March     The one-weekend wonder of the March Triple Pier Antiques show delighted New Yorkers and others with a feast of antiques and collectibles.    Read More...

Spring Fever at Wilton     "This is not a social event, but a sales event. Anyone serious within the area — and many from far away — do and should make it a point to get there."   Read More...

Works on Paper Celebrates 15th Year     Advertised as "Quality fine art at realistic prices," the show serves our economic times and the beginning collector very well. Here one can find hundreds, if not thousands, of original works of art that are within most people's reach. Some works at the show were priced under $100.   Read More...

Susan Bagdade, Well-Known Author, Collector, Journalist     The Bagdades' enormous enthusiasm for antiques regularly took them to shows and auctions all over the United States. They worked as a team: Dr Bagdade photographed objects of interest, while Mrs. Bagdade interviewed subjects and took notes.   Read More...

Armory Show Receives Rave Reviews     According to fair promoters, approximately 23,700 visitors descended on the piers, Manhattan's Hudson River waterfront, for the fair. Artists who attended included James Rosenquist, Haim Steinbach, Marina Abramovic, Alex Katz, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Robert Wilson and Andres Serrano.    Read More...

LTB Art Limited Acquires Art & Auction Magazine     "Plans include the redesign of 'Art & Auction' and an expansion of its editorial focus," said LTB Art Limited's chairman Louise T. Blouin MacBain, whose short tenure as CEO of Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg was the subject of much speculation in the trade.   Read More...

Lawrenceville/Princeton Antiques Show     PRINCETON, N.J.- Revolutionary Princeton was more like a snowy Valley Forge during the Lawrenceville/Princeton Antiques Show. The show, scheduled for Saturday, February 15 and Sunday, February 16, was snowed out on Sunday.   Read More...

Antiques In Long Valley: Long in Tradition, Long In Customer Loyalty     LONG VALLEY, N.J. — Despite the aftermath of an East Coast blizzard, the threat of severe flooding, and fog that would rival the streets of London, when the doors opened at 10 am on Saturday, February 22, for the 17th annual Antiques in Long Valley Show, dealers were ready with the wrapping paper and receipt books.   Read More...

Robert Wilson Issues $50 Million Challenge Grant To World Monumnets Fund      NEW YORK CITY — Noted philanthropist Robert W. Wilson has issued a $50 million challenge to the New York City-based World Monuments Fund (WMF), a private nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic monuments worldwide.    Read More...

Antiques at Gramercy Park     NEW YORK CITY — Stella Show Mgmt. Co., amid an "Orange Alert" level in the national terrorism threat rating system, put on a brave Valentine's Day of a show at Gramercy Park February 14-16 at the 69th Regiment Armory.    Read More...

The Heart of Country Antiques Show     NASHVILLE, TENN. -- The Heart of Country Antiques Show, February 13--16, brought together more than 200 exhibitors from Florida to Montana and from Maine to Arizona.   Read More...

Bard Graduate Center Announces Iris Award Recipients     NEW YORK CITY — Susan Weber Soros, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, has announced the recipients of the seventh annual Iris Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts.   Read More...

Solid and Not Slowing Down: The Tolland Antiques Show     The dealer base for this long-running event is undoubtedly part of the reason for its success and longevity. Exhibitors come from Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and they are the among the best in American country.   Read More...

Americana in the Heart of the US: Tailgating at Fiddler's and Antiques in Music Valley     "Heart Week" in Nashville is the unofficial convention, twice each year, February and October, for dealers of Americana. The name comes from the premier show of the week, Libby and Richard Kramer's Heart of County Antique Show and Sale, but the fun spills over into two other shows nearby.   Read More...

Cleveland Museum of Art Unveils New Design     The museum's major expansion and renovation design, by architect Rafael Vinoly, features a soaring glass canopy that unifies the museum's campus with light-filled spaces.   Read More...

Treasures Galore in West Palm Beach     In keeping with tradition, the seventh Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair featured dealers from all over the world offering an enticing and costly trove of wares that organizers estimated were worth over one billion dollars.   Read More...

Antiques in the Heart of Bucks     Despite a six-inch snowfall the day before, 48 dealers from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and New York took part in this one-day event at the Quaker-founded George School.   Read More...

Rare Letter from Martha Washington Returns to Mount Vernon     Recently purchased at an auction held by Christie's, the correspondence is one of only two known surviving written communications from Mrs Washington to her husband, and the only one that bears her signature.   Read More...

Can Laws Protect Consumers from Auction Fraud by Online Services without Stifling E-Commerce?     New legislation in Illinois is being hailed as a way to regulate the oftentimes shadowy world of businesses that provide Internet auction services. Will it work?   Read More...

Marcia King, Well-Known Dealer     Marcia and her husband, Bill, operated Geranium Antiques, carrying an extensive stock of British and American ceramics of interest to Americana collectors.   Read More...

Antiques @ The Piers     "There isn't a better time to be in this business. Most antiques customers are 55 to 70 years old - that part of the population is about to explode. It is going to be great for another 20 years."   Read More...

A Busy Two Weeks for Sotheby's     The firm took the unprecedented action of publicly bringing a lawsuit against pop singer Michael Jackson on January 31, and has since decided to discontinue its online auction site.   Read More...

Historic Deerfield Names New Executive Director     Philip Zea, vice president for museums and collections at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) in Boston, will succeed Donald R. Friary.   Read More...

The American Antiques Show     This infant successor to what used to be the Fall Antiques Show is well on its way to maturity: Opening night attendance was up, collectors traveled to the show from all over the country and exhibitors were pleased with sales.   Read More...

The Outsider Art Fair     No longer a novelty, the event is a vibrant forum for blue chip artists and new discoveries.   Read More...

Antiques Manhattan     "I look it as a bell curve, with some of the dealers having a best ever show, while others registering only a few sales," said Barry Cohen following his show in The Big Apple.   Read More...

Gate up at Ceramics Fair, where Sales of English Pottery Lead     Now in its fourth year, the fair enjoys an avid following among specialty collectors, plus considerable attention from generalists in town for New York's other major January shows.   Read More...

'Recession Proof' Winter Show Attracts Buyers in Numbers     "We had over 3,000 visitors on our first Saturday, a record in recent years," said show director Catherine Sweeney Singer. Preview night attendance was up more than ten percent.   Read More...

Christie's Increases Buyers' Premium     "We have a wide variety of premium rates at the lower pricing levels that we feel are appropriately suited to their respective markets and these are remaining unchanged."   Read More...

Americana Week in Review: The Winter Antiques Show     It was home, sweet home, but there was nothing humble about it. Celebrating its 49th year, a resplendent Winter Antiques Show returned to its traditional venue at Park Avenue and 67th Street, and both exhibitors and management were clearly delighted.    Read More...

Antiques @ The Piers     Our Americana Week show coverage continues with Stella Show Mgmt. Co.'s January showcase of formal, American and modern furniture, art, folk art, jewelry and decorative objects.   Read More...

Frank Pollack, Popular Dealer, Dies     Frank and Barbara Pollack, American Antiques & Art, became very well known in the business. For many years they took part in shows about the country and were also major players at many of the auctions.   Read More...

Don't Leave Home without It: The Americana Week in New York Schedule     We've got the scoop on all the shows, sales, seminars and receptions you could possibly attend.   Read More...

Winter Olympia: A Welcome Balance in a Difficult Market     Many dealers arrived with modest expectations after a slow autumn in the showrooms, and left pleasantly surprised by the amount of business that took place.   Read More...

Carles' Papers Given to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts     A cache of manuscripts and photographs by and about the mid-Twentieth Century American artist Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952) was recently given to the academy by longtime academy supporters Dr and Mrs Perry Ottenberg.    Read More...

One Picasso, Two Owners: Questions over Nazi-Looted Art Roil the Fine Art Market     A University of California law student, claiming to be the sole heir of his grandmother, a Jewish woman who fled Germany during World War II, is seeking to regain a Pablo Picasso painting allegedly looted by the Nazis or be paid $10 million by the art collector who owns it.   Read More...

VMFA Wins Rare Buddha at Sotheby's     In 1880, a farmer plowing a field in the Peshawar District of northwest India accidentally uncovered remains of a temple, and the 34-inch-tall sculpture again saw the light of day. Now it has a permanent place at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.   Read More...

A Celebration of American Craftsmanship     In the antiques trade, the word "reproduction" usually carries a negative connotation. For contemporary craftsman, however, reproduction is both an art and a privilege.   Read More...

Modigliani and Montparnasse     In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Paris was alive with the spirit of the avant-garde. Into this world stepped 22-year-old Amedeo Modigliani.   Read More...

Risking the Abstract in Santa Barbara     The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will present the first major exhibition in 30 years of the art of Mexico's premier abstract painter, Gunther Gerzso.   Read More...

Exhibition Celebrates the Diner in Rhode Island     Providence happens to be the birthplace of this fixture on the American landscape, and this new show is currently on view at the Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University.   Read More...

Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art     Biographical in its focus, this Portland Museum of Art exhibition features Porter's paintings and works on paper and also draws extensively on his personal correspondence, poetry, critical writings, notebooks and published works.   Read More...

Challenging Tradition     "Women of the Academy, 1826-2003" will examine the role of women in the history of the National Academy of Design and by extension, women's role over the past two centuries in the American art world at large.   Read More...

Artist First, Wildlife Artist Second     "Robert Bateman: A Retrospective," at The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, includes 35 paintings, as well as one sculpture, several sketches and a few prints, all dated from 1948 to 2000.   Read More...

'The Perfect Game'     A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum will be a real treat, combining our popular American pastime with the ever-growing interest in American folk art.   Read More...

Photographs of the Street Find Common Ground at Boston College     One of three exhibits on view at the McMullen Museum of Art, 'Common Ground' brings together 22 photographs that inventively examine and record commonplace events, people and objects.   Read More...

Lyons Ltd Exhibits 400 Years of Botanical Art     Featured will be the works of such notable botanical illustrators as Besler, De Bry, Curtis, Meriam, Catesby, Weinmann, Redoute, Volckamer, Thornton and Loudon.   Read More...

Treasures from the Himalayas     This Norton Simon exhibition features sculpture, paintings and book covers. On view are beautiful examples of Himalayan gilded sculptures that exhibit graceful posture and sensuous modeling.   Read More...

Middleton Manigault: American Modernist     After a tour with three museum venues, a selection of works by the artist returns to Hollis Taggart Galleries through July 25.   Read More...

Bachelier-Cardonsky Exhibits Three Artists' Work     The Connecticut gallery will feature the work of Joe Goodwin, Silvius Krecu and Leigh Palmer.   Read More...

American Sculptor of the Gilded Age     The first US tour of works by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens will be on view at The Parrish Art Museum with 75 of the artist's most famous works -- including reductions of major outdoor commissions.   Read More...

Kandinsky in 1914     Five works by Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky are on exhibition at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum through July 13.   Read More...

Painting Light     The first exhibition in the United Kingdom devoted to Italian Divisionism comprises some 44 works by the main protagonists of the movement, loaned by public and private collections in Italy.   Read More...

North African Weavings Showcased in Washington, D.C.     "The Fabric of Moroccan Life," featuring some of the finest and most important such textiles in existence, opens at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art on June 6.   Read More...

The Rich Tapestry Of Southern Art     At Alabama's Huntsville Museum of Art, the Farmer/James Collection will highlight the people and places of the region during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.   Read More...

Beautiful Mathematics     Before using computers, architects employed only two visual formats in drawing the design of a building, the plan and the elevation - conceptual artworks hidden forever in architectural files.   Read More...

Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life     The case for Nadelman's importance and the range of his achievements should be notably advanced by this attractive Whitney display.   Read More...

An Artistic Exchange in Pasadena     The Norton Simon Museum will present approximately 20 paintings, works on paper and photographs by prominent Twentieth Century artists associated with Mexico and California.   Read More...

Decorative Details     Colonial Williamsburg will display some of the best decorative works of beloved American folk artist Edward Hicks (1780-1849), well known for his ornamental painting and lettering.   Read More...

The Art of the Antique Pipe     Through July 27, the Brandywine River Museum presents approximately 80 outstanding European and American pipes of clay, porcelain, wood and meerschaum.   Read More...

In Response to Place     Beginning May 11 and continuing through August 3, images exploring the natural world by internationally renowned photographers will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to celebrate The Nature Conservancy's 50th anniversary.   Read More...

Ancient Glass from Boudoir, Bath and Board in Harvard Square     A collection of more than 75 pieces of ancient glass spanning three millennia - from circa fifth century BC to the Twelfth Century AD - in on view at Hurst Gallery.   Read More...

Noguchi: The Bollingen Journey     More than 200 photographs and drawings created by abstract sculptor Isamu Noguchi during travels funded by the Bollingen Foundation is on view at the temporary quarters of The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.   Read More...

In Pursuit of the Past at Princeton     The exhibition is organized to provide viewers with a behind-the-scenes look at the research methods used to trace the history of works of art, and is on view through August 10.   Read More...

Out of the Shadows     James Graham & Sons has opened the first retrospective of works by the American modernist Helen Torr (1886-1967), which will continue through June 8.   Read More...

Berry-Hill Presents Still Lifes by Marsden Hartley     It is the first show solely devoted to this major American artist's still life paintings, bringing together key works that have not been included in recent exhibitions.   Read More...

Hyde Family's Stellar American Art Collection on Display in Glens Falls, N.Y.     The Hydes preferred certain artists and among their earliest purchases were works by Frank Duveneck, Childe Hassam, Willard L. Metcalf, James McNeill Whistler and Abbot Henderson Thayer.   Read More...

Harlem Lost and Found     The Museum of the City of New York's main floor south exhibition galleries are filled with rich evocations of Harlem's past as well as documents of the area's bright future.   Read More...

The Cahoon Presents Simple Art in a Complex Age     The exhibition puts the Cahoons' work in context with that of other important American primitive artists of the Twentieth Century.   Read More...

Vance Jordan Fine Art Celebrates 'Power and Whimsy'     Exhibited are 38 works by prominent American Modern artists thoughtfully assembled by one couple over two decades, primarily with the assistance of the gallery.   Read More...

Works by Peter T. Quidley at AddisonArtGallery     Quidley has earned the coveted Copley Master award three times, and is praised for his control of light.   Read More...

New England Landscapes     Ann Lofquist, in her quiet, pastoral views of rural New England, continues the tradition of such Nineteenth Century American tonalist artists as George Inness, John Francis Murphy, Charles Warren Eaton and Henry Ward Ranger.    Read More...

The Legacy of Genghis Khan     The LACMA exhibit argues that the Mongol Confederacy's promotion of pan-Asian trade, its avid taste for luxury goods and its practice of relocating artists combined to produce an unprecedented cross-fertilization of artistic ideas throughout Eurasia.   Read More...

The Portland Museum of Art Biennial, 2003     This spring 70 artists were selected for the exhibit, which is presented in alternate years and highlights works by both emerging and established artists associated with the state of Maine.   Read More...

New Exhibit, Catalogue Highlights Himalayan Culture     The Art Institute of Chicago celebrates the first comprehensive exhibition to include works from the entire region of the Himalaya Mountains.   Read More...

Works by Smithsonian's African American Masters Featured at the New-York Historical Society     Sixty-one paintings, sculptures and photographs from such Twentieth Century masters as Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Roy De Carava and Renee Stout are included.   Read More...

Rare Rugs are the Jewels of The Textile Museum's Collection     Mamluk rugs are considered to be the finest carpets ever produced. The museum's collection, dating from the last quarter of the Fifteenth Century, is the largest and most important such assemblage in the world.   Read More...

Northern Light     On view at Wesleyan University's Davison Art Center through May 25 is a group of rarely seen calotypes by the Scottish photographers Hill and Adamson.   Read More...

The Sensuous and the Sacred     This exhibition, slated for Dallas and Cleveland, features South Indian bronzes, most notably those produced under the reign of the Chola Dynasty between the Ninth and Thirteenth Centuries, which are famed for their subtlety of modeling and fluent outline of form.   Read More...

From Bruegel to Rembrandt at the Fogg     Developed over more than 40 years, the Abrams Collection includes Dutch and Flemish drawings and is the foremost group of Seventeenth Century Dutch drawings in private hands. The exhibit will allow visitors to examine many important works that have seldom been on public display.   Read More...

Walpole Tureen Returns to England from America     Christopher Hartop negotiated the sale of the important silver tureen, supplied to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), England's first prime minister. It had been in a private American collection since the early 1960s.   Read More...

'Observation & Creation: 200 Years Of The Still Life' Now At Hirschl & Adler     NEW YORK CITY — Hirschl & Adler Galleries will exhibit "Observation & Creation: 200 Years of the Still Life," an exhibition of approximately 65 paintings, drawings, prints and decorative arts objects illustrating still life subjects from 1810 to the present. Depictions of fruits, flowers and trompe l'oeil subjects by both European and American fine and decorative artists will comprise this exhibition. The exhibition continues through April 26.   Read More...

The Tragedies of War     CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Harvard University presents "George Bellows: The Tragedies of War," on view through May 11 at the Fogg Art Museum. The exhibition features 32 objects, including drawings, etchings, lithographs and one painting.   Read More...

Last Paintings By Paul Georges     NEW YORK CITY — Salander-O'Reilly Galleries is presenting its sixth annual exhibition of paintings by Paul Georges (1923-2002) titled, "Last Paintings," the final body of work that Georges completed before his death in May of 2002 in Normandy, France. The gallery is also presenting works by the American figurative painter Gregory Gillespie (1936-2000). Both exhibits run through March 29.   Read More...

Contemporary Approaches to Blacksmithing     Contemporary Approaches to Blacksmithing   Read More...

Victoria & Albert Art Deco Exhibit Will Make Its Way to the US     The show will be the first to explorethe movement as a global phenomenon affecting cities as far apart as Paris, New York, Bombay and Shanghai.   Read More...

An American Discovering America     This first exhibition to explore the paintings and pastels created by Marsden Hartley in New Mexico - currently on view at Alexandre Gallery through April 19 - represents the artist's only trip to the American West.   Read More...

Seduced by the Berkshires     Intrigued by the play of patterns and light in the area, John MacDonald transforms local scenes into colorful woodblock designs of dappled light and hue at the Harrison Gallery.   Read More...

The Coming of Goings at Bernaducci.Meisel.Gallery     The exhibition, a combined showing of classic paintings from the 1970s as well as Ralph Goings' more recent work, will focus on the artist's watercolor still lifes.   Read More...

Realism in the Eyes of a Physicist     At the Richard York Gallery, Peter Lyons treats the subjects of his paintings -- deserted railroad yards, industrial tanks and empty city streets -- with an awed and respectful eye.   Read More...

Symbols of a Disappearing Landscape     In this George Stern Fine Art exhibition, Terry Delapp explores, with his neo-tonalist style, the landscape of California and the serenity of still lifes.   Read More...

'Furniture of the American South' on View in Online Collaboration     The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the Chipstone Foundation of Milwaukee have partnered to publish the finest examples of furniture from three regions - the Chesapeake, the Low Country and the Back Country - online.   Read More...

Sound and Sea     A dual exhibit at the Lyme Art Association presents contemporary and early artists with Cape Ann colony connections.   Read More...

Travel by Train     American rail posters, paralleling developments in the graphic arts at large, combined the national taste for realistic illustration with dramatic color effects and unexpected imagery.   Read More...

Ursus To Feature the Illustrated Books of Matisse and Picasso     To coincide with the forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art entitled"Matisse Picasso," the gallery will exhibit a large number of the most important illustrated books created by these two artists.   Read More...

Works by Minerva J. Chapman on View in San Francisco     Chapman's soft palette reflected the times before electric lights and the introduction of less academic representations. Although she was considered one of the finest exhibitors living in Paris during the change of centuries, she remained an ardent student from an early age in Chicago through her later years in California.    Read More...

The Studio Museum in Harlem Examines the Challenge of the Modern     The museum will explore the Modernist concepts engaged by black artists in the United States and the Caribbean through March 30.   Read More...

Martha Simkins Rediscovered in Augusta     A traveling retrospective champions Simkins impressive accomplishments and influence at Georgia's Morris Museum of Art through April 20.   Read More...

A Dog's Life     Images from Dürer to Wegman on exhibit at the Davison Art Center through March 7 present a history of dogs in art spanning five centuries.   Read More...

A Grand Legacy     The Baltimore Museum of Art's distinguished collection of Fifteenth through Nineteenth Century European art returns to the galleries of the Jacobs Wing in a dramatic reinstallation.   Read More...

Seeing the Unseen: Princeton Exhibits Abstract Photography     The exhibition explores the rich history of visual experimentation that characterized the medium's development under the influence of the emerging modernist aesthetic of the Twentieth Century.   Read More...

Images of Devotion     Rare and important Tibetan paintings will be featured in an exhibition of paintings and sculpture mounted by Rossi & Rossi at Dickinson Roundell Inc.   Read More...

The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolution     The Yale Center for British Art features works from the center's permanent collection that include some of the most compelling artistic statements of this extraordinary period.    Read More...

Whistler and the Venice of the Venetians     Commemorating the centennial of the artist's death, "Whistler and His Circle in Venice" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art traces Whistler's considerable influence on his contemporaries and followers.   Read More...

Embracing the Modern Spirit without Sacrifice     Spanierman Gallery's "Hayley Lever (1876-1958)" highlights key aspects of this talented Australian American artist's career, ranging from his portrayals of the Cornish seacoast to his views of New England.   Read More...

Embracing the Modern Spirit without Sacrifice     Spanierman Gallery's "Hayley Lever (1876-1958)" highlights key aspects of this Australian-American artist's career, ranging from his portrayals of the Cornish seacoast to his views of New York City, New England and New Jersey.   Read More...

Flavia Ormond Shares Master Drawings at Adelson Galleries     The exhibition of more than 25 drawings, ranging in date from circa 1525 to 1905, will include major Italian works such as "An Allegory of the Fall" and "Redemption of Man."   Read More...

Two Geniuses of Photography Showcased in Milwaukee     "Bill Brandt: A Retrospective" and "Edward Weston: Life Work" are at the Milwaukee Art Museum through February 9 and are made up largely of vintage prints.   Read More...

Tea Pots, Tygs, and Toasts     Historic Deerfield's renowned collection of ceramics will be the featured loan exhibition at the 2003 New York Ceramics Fair January 16-19 at the National Academy of Design on Fifth Avenue.   Read More...

Sargent and Italy     The West Coast's first comprehensive exhibition of works by John Singer Sargent opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on February 2.   Read More...

Contemporary Works from the Brown Collection on View in Maine     An exhibit of works by internationally recognized artists will be on view at the Colby College Museum of Art from the personal collection of Bruce Brown, a retired Maine schoolteacher.   Read More...

Sisters, Friends and Heroines     Richard Segalman, an accomplished Brooklyn-born painter who studied with Raphael Soyer and at The Art Students League, is known for his romantic visions of women on beaches, streets, gardens and especially in their dressing rooms.   Read More...