There were high times, high spirits and high prices at auction this past week. Sloans & Kenyon sold a Nineteenth Century absinthe advertising poster and Auction Team Breker wound up a Pianophon music box,...
ALAMEDA, CALIF. — Michaan’s September 15 gallery auction was led by a US stamp collection in a Scott album, which sold for $8,610. Stamp enthusiasts are notoriously fussy collectors so this album containing...
BRIDPORT, VT. — A sale of about 450 lots from the collection of the late New Haven, Vt., carpenter Ralph Farnsworth brought Tom Broughton out of retirement on Sunday, September 17.
MELBOURNE, FLA. — Mathesons’ Gallery’s Fresh Estates Auction took place on September 17 with more than 275 lots. In addition to selections from a major collection of works by Maxfield Parrish (American,...
BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Nye & Co welcomed September with nearly 1,000 lots offered in its Estate Treasures Auction, September 13-15; by the time the final gavel fell, the house had sold a combined total of approximately...
Luke Ives Pontifell is the founder of Thornwillow Press, a small publishing house in Upstate New York that has produced more than 100 unique editions since 1985. Thornwillow is devoted to preserving the craft...
WASHINGTON DC — The West of the Imagination, a six-part documentary series aired by PBS in 1986, was, for its time, remarkable for its insight and candor. From Catlin’s depictions of “a vanishing...
FREEHOLD, N.Y. — On September 23, Carlsen Gallery presented its anniversary auction to include the lifelong collection of William Lohrman of New Paltz, N.Y. It was a doorbuster of a sale, according to Abby...
SANTA FE, N.M. — The special bond between mothers and their daughters was captured by an Angel Botello (1913-1986) bronze sculpture, “Madre e Hija,” the top lot in Santa Fe Art Auction’s contemporary...
PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Of the more than 200 lamps crossing the block at Fontaine’s fall auction September 23-24, more than 40 were fine examples by Tiffany Studios. Leading the pack was a Tiffany Studios...
NORTH BRANFORD, CONN. — On September 21, Fred Giampietro and New England Auctions presented more than 200 lots from the collection of Lincoln and Jean Sander, and pewter from the Noble collection, along...
MOUNT CRAWFORD, VA. — The highly anticipated collection of H. Marshall Goodman Jr was presented by Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates September 22-23, with more than 1000 lots crossing the block. Achieving...