August 12, 2003 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball
    August 12, 2003

    Baseball is recognized as the national pastime, but for some artists and collectors the game has become a driving passion as well. This year, the American Folk Art Museum steps up to the plate with a comprehensive exhibition of more than 100 pieces of folk art.

  • Northeast Exceeds $9.6 Million in Record Auction
    August 12, 2003

    In three nonstop days at the gavel, auctioneer Ron Bourgeault demonstrated once more that he could reach beyond his core audience of Americana collectors and dealers to generate top bids for objects as diverse as gold coins and glass paperweights.

  • Montague Dawson’s ‘Mayflower II’ Sails to Europe for $83,650
    August 12, 2003

    Christie’s New York’s sale of maritime art offered 196 lots, of which 134 sold for a total of $1,091,095, including buyer’s premium.

  • Maentel Watercolor Returns to Pennsylvania Roots at Conestoga
    August 12, 2003

    With six phone lines vying for ownership, bidding opened at $5,000. The competition quickly escalated to the selling price of $24,750. The successful buyer, in the gallery, was a collector/dealer from Lancaster County, Penn.

  • Sotheby’s Second Quarter Auction Revenues Down Four Percent
    August 12, 2003

    The company said, however, that revenues over the same period decreased only a fraction of that amount by $4.9 million, or four percent, primarily as a result of the buyer’s premium rate increase that became effective in January 2003, as well as improved consignor commission rates.

  • Flamingo Plans to Add Third Show to NH Antiques Week
    August 12, 2003

    Is there room for another show during Antiques Week in New Hampshire? If you ask that question of John and Tina Bruno, they will give you a very definite “yes.”

  • The Metropolitan’s ‘Da Vinci’ Reaps $220 Million for New York City
    August 12, 2003

    Attendance reached 401,000 for the exhibition, which was on view for a limited run of less than ten weeks. Nearly two-thirds of the visitors traveled from outside the five boroughs.

  • Heavy Metal
    August 12, 2003

    Colonial Williamsburg will display a selection of 16 bold objects of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American cast-iron – from stovetop figures to fire backs – at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.

  • NYS Museum Examines the Course of Empire
    August 12, 2003

    “The Course of Empire: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition,” featuring selections from the New-York Historical Society, opens at the New York State Museum on August 23.

  • Mountain Dreams
    August 12, 2003

    The first American museum exhibit dedicated to the innovative work of Korean contemporary ceramic artist Yoon Kwang-cho will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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