Before a standing-room-only crowd at Winter Associates, Inc on January 15, an oil on canvas by David Johnson brought a record $448,000. Bidding throughout the sale was healthy, with dealers and private...
The Hammer Museum has received a gift of more than 40 contemporary artworks, the great majority of them sculptures and mixed-media works, donated by Dean Valentine, Los Angeles television executive and media...
E&J Frankel, Ltd will conduct its 100th exhibition and sale celebrating 40 years of presenting Asian art to the world community beginning March 21. The first 50 exhibition articles were collected in the firm’s...
Hundreds of designers, Eva Zeisel fans, and students came to view the retrospective of Zeisel’s work at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery that Pratt mounted in November to celebrate the 100th birthday of the legendary...
A rare A.L. Jewell copper weathervane in the form of a horse soaring through a hoop created quite a stir among the capacity crowd at Skinner’s February 18 Americana auction.
Robert L. Newell, Jr, died October 12, 2006, at age 54 of complications of melanoma. He began in the antiques and appraisal business in the greater Hartford area under the late Paul Cooley in 1974
Americana Week shows and sales increasingly rely on blockbusters to capture attention in a crowded market and boost the bottom line. At Christie’s January 18 and 19 sales of American furniture, folk...
A carved oak Art Nouveau bakery interior fetched $97,750 at Kamelot’s Architectural Antiques and Victoriana sale on December 2 from a restaurant owner who plans to use the interior in one of his bakeries...
It all began on Friday, January 19, at 10 am when the first lot of the Americana sale at Sotheby's was put up for bid. It all ended late Sunday afternoon, January 21, when the last of 1,080 lots was hammered...
Swann Galleries’ annual auction of rare and important Art Nouveau posters on December 20, which featured works by masters of the medium, became the auction house’s most successful poster sale to date,...
With the return of its Old Master paintings from a three-year national tour, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present the glories of its collections in “Faith and Fortune: Five Centuries of European...