McKenna is best known for her depictions of some of the greatest literary and artistic figures of the Twentieth Century.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries will present the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life and work of Frank von der Lancken ( 1872-1950), one of the early progenitors of the Arts and Crafts movement in America.

Web surfers beware: Is your search engine for hire?…Missing historic documents, portraits turn up on eBay…Rare Sixteenth Century painting goes home to Germany.

The leaf is part of an incomplete copy that was acquired by a New York bookseller in a 1920 Sotheby’s auction.

Forty-five nationally prominent exhibitors created beautiful presentations that highlighted rare objects.

Perhaps because of their small scale and intimate nature, portrait miniatures remain undervalued. Folk art collectors have bid up the works of Mrs Moses B. Russell, whose charmingly naive likenesses can sell for $30,000 or more.

Leland’s chairman and founder called the event a “major success." Bidding was entirely by Internet, phone and fax, and more than 80 percent of the lots sold.

Fashioned in the age of the Baroque, Amati’s creations are still unsurpassed in beauty and workmanship, with a sound of pure gold.

An example similar to the rare tole piece can be seen in "The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art."

An example similar to the rare tole piece can be seen in "The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art."