The National Gallery of Art is currently celebrating the 60th anniversary of its 1943 acquisition of the "Index of American Design" with 80 of the finest watercolor renderings of American folk,...
Rose Anna and John Kolar furnished their home with the arts and crafts of early Pennsylvania. Their sources included some of the field's best-known dealers of Pennsylvania German folk art....
Also offered were groups of lighting, metal, art glass and framed art before full-house crowds. The event generated just over $1 million with more than 90 percent of the lots sold an affirmation of the health...
The auction generated a great deal of interest, grossing $3.2 million. The top lot was a solid gold Mickey Mouse standing two feet tall and weighing in at 1,500 ounces....
"There isn't a better time to be in this business. Most antiques customers are 55 to 70 years old - that part of the population is about to explode. It is going to be great for another 20 years."...
The firm took the unprecedented action of publicly bringing a lawsuit against pop singer Michael Jackson on January 31, and has since decided to discontinue its online auction site....
Philip Zea, vice president for museums and collections at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) in Boston, will succeed Donald R. Friary....
American rail posters, paralleling developments in the graphic arts at large, combined the national taste for realistic illustration with dramatic color effects and unexpected imagery....
To coincide with the forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art entitled"Matisse Picasso," the gallery will exhibit a large number of the most important illustrated books created by these...
Chapman's soft palette reflected the times before electric lights and the introduction of less academic representations. Although she was considered one of the finest exhibitors living in Paris during...
It has been a decade since Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee published its premier issue of 'American Furniture.' Since then, readers have been treated to a wide variety of articles intended to enlighten,...