October 23, 2012 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly - Page 2

  • Good Shopping Good Dinner At 48th Annual Ludlow Antiques Show
    October 23, 2012

    Opening on Friday evening for a unique dinner preview party, October 5, the 48th annual Ludlow Antiques Show and Sale was the third show in the Antiques Week In Vermont series to open. The show saw one of the largest crowds in memory waiting for the doors to swing open at the new venue.

  • It Was All About Paintings At Grogan & Company Auction
    October 23, 2012

    It was all about paintings at the September 30 auction at Grogan & Company. The highlight was a serene Italian oil on canvas portrait of a woman reading, painted in the Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century, that brought $35,400 from an absentee bidder. An inscription suggests that the picture was acquired in Florence by Henry Austin Whitney of Boston. The painting came from a Somerville area estate and is traveling back to Italy.

  • aterial And MeaningAt Frost Art Museum
    October 23, 2012

    The Wolfsonian⁆lorida International University (FIU) is presenting ⁍aterial and Meaning: Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain from the Wolfsonian⁆IU Collection†at the Frost Art Museum at FIU through January 13.

  • Rare Rohlfs Cabinet Surfaces At Douglas
    October 23, 2012

    Barn finds and flea market treasures made for interesting fare during the most recent evening sale at Douglas Auctioneers, conducted on October 5. Among the items attracting serious attention was a Charles Rohlfs Arts and Crafts hanging cupboard that had been discovered after it spent much of the past century tucked away in a barn and a Handel lamp that the auctioneer had purchased decades ago at the Amherst flea market for a bargain price of $4.

  • Capo Auction Celebrates Highest Grossing Auction
    October 23, 2012

    Capo Auction Fine Art and Antiques recently enjoyed its highest grossing auction to date September 22, bringing in close to $650,000, making this its most successful auction since Capo opened its doors almost two years ago.

  • Buckminster Fuller And American Prints Exhibits At Richmond Harnett Museum
    October 23, 2012

    The University of Richmond Museums has mounted two new exhibitions on view through December 9 at the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, in the George M. Modlin Center for the Arts.

  • Chinese Scroll Brings 166,750 To Top BriggsEstate Auction
    October 23, 2012

    Briggs Auction, Inc kicked off the autumn auction season with an estate antique and decorative arts auction on September 14. Attendees knew right from the beginning that the evening would offer excitement and maybe some surprises, but one of the last lots of the night caused the biggest thrill.

  • Wyeth, Waugh Seascapes & Tiffany Lamps Lead Bonhams Single-Owner Auction
    October 23, 2012

    Paintings with a local flavor led the way on October 15 at Bonhams†92 percent-sold, single-owner sale of furniture and decorative arts, paintings and maritime works of art from a New England collection at the Frank Jones Center.

  • Song For The Horse NationAt National Museum of The American Indian
    October 23, 2012

    Gone are the days when the Indian and his horse regally roamed the American plains, where for centuries they reigned supreme on that wondrous landscape. The special bond they shared has been brought to life in ⁁ Song for the Horse Nation,†an exhibition on view at the Smithsonian⁳ National Museum of the American Indian through January 7.

  • Two Paintings Stolen From Newport Gallery
    October 23, 2012

    Newport, R.I.: Two paintings related to William Trost Richards were taken from a Newport art gallery during business hours on September 27. Stolen was Anna Richards Brewster’s (1870–1952) painting titled […]



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