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  • Union Fairgrounds Hosts Maine Antiques Festival
    September 4, 2012

    The fairgrounds of this small inland village filled again for the 31st consecutive year on the second weekend of August for the Maine Antiques Festival, where more than 200 exhibiting antiques dealers in tents, sheds and buildings offered their collections.

  • Philadelphia Museum To Show Winslow Homer hipwreck
    September 4, 2012

    ⁓hipwreck! Winslow Homer and ⁔he Life Line”†will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art September 22⁄ecember 16.

  • Papermania Plus Draws Collectors To Its Late Summer Edition
    September 4, 2012

    The East Coast⁳ best-known ephemera and collectibles show, Papermania Plus, marked its 62nd edition on August 25′6 at the XL Center. The twice-a-year event is ably managed by Arlene Shea and her son Gary Gipstein, and was conceived by the late Paul Gipstein in 1976.

  • Buyers Bought Well At Northeast Marine Auction
    September 4, 2012

    Bidders came prepared to buy and buy they did at Northeast Auctions†marine and China Trade sale August 18‱9 that saw several record breakers and realized more than $4 million. Prices showed strength across the board, and seats were filled beneath the tent behind the Treadwell Mansion. Auctioneer Ron Bourgeault described it perfectly as ⁴hat old-time under the tent magic. 

  • Historic Paintings Return To Original Splendor In The Elms
    September 4, 2012

    The largest collection of Eighteenth Century Venetian paintings in America has been restored to its original American home at The Elms, 50 years after many of the paintings were auctioned off as the 1901 house was being prepared for demolition.

  • Blanche Lazzell Print Brings 106,200 At Robert Eldred
    September 4, 2012

    Under sunny skies and a festive green and white striped tent covering the courtyard, Robert Eldred and company kicked off yet another highly successful version of their annual August Americana, paintings and sporting art auction conducted August 1″. The colors of summer were readily apparent, not only in Bob Eldred⁳ seasonal attire, but also in the colorful assortment of wares and paintings offered in the auction.

  • Kangxi Chargers Fetch 274,500 At Cowan 12 Million Auction
    September 4, 2012

    Cowan⁳ Asian art auction on July 27 realized $1,277,538 and saw participation from more than 400 people in 16 different countries that bid on the telephone, online and in the salesroom for the 430 lots.

  • Carnegie Museum Of Art Acquires Rookwood Shirayamadani Vase
    September 4, 2012

    One of the most outstanding triumphs of Rookwood Pottery⁳ chief decorator Kataro Shirayamadani was the perfection of an electrodepositing process in 1897. Using electricity to apply copper and silver on carved and fired clay relief, Shirayamadani achieved unprecedented formal integration of ceramic and metalwork components, vaulting Rookwood onto the international scene.

  • Impressionist Summers Frank Benson North Haven At Farnsworth Art Museum
    September 4, 2012

    Late in the Nineteenth Century, William Dean Howells wrote that novelists concern themselves with ⁴he more smiling aspects of life, which are the more American.†A painter who responded to those smiling aspects was Frank W. Benson (1862-2951), whose brilliant Impressionist canvases captured the happy⁡nd sunny⁳ide of New England life. The finest works of Benson⁳ career, indeed the most enduringly beautiful pictures of summer leisure in Maine ever created, were painted during his half century on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay near Rockland, Maine. Commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth, preeminent Benson authority Faith Andrews Bedford has organized ⁉mpressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson⁳ North Haven,†comprising 70 works, on view at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland through October 31.

  • A Big Show With Big Sales The Baltimore Summer Show
    September 4, 2012

    ⁔here is just no way you can see all there is to see in one day,†stated one elated, but exhausted, shopper as she departed the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show on opening day, Thursday, August 23. Sporting a packaged painting in hand, the shopper added that she would be returning to the show to continue her quest the following day. One of thousands in attendance as the Baltimore show opened for a four-day run, closing Sunday, August 26, the shopper⁳ views were echoed by many in the crowd.

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