CINCINNATI, OHIO – An archive of materials related to the work of attorney George H. Hoyt as he represented abolitionist John Brown in his famed 1859 trial attained $43,750 at Cowan’s first...
HINGHAM, MASS. – Though not the only lot in the February 19-20 Copley Fine Arts sale that sold for over $100,000, “Redheads in Flight,” an oil on canvas by Frank Benson (1862-1951), signed...
WORCESTER, MASS. – Central Mass Auctions presented more than 150 paintings and other artwork from the estate of Fay Moore, a well-known equine artist, on February 17. Best known for her thoroughbred...
PHILADELPHIA – A first edition of French explorer Samuel de Champlain’s second book, Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain, Paris, 1613, sailed to a final price of $201,600, including premium,...
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. – A Tiffany Studios “curtain border” leaded glass and bronze chandelier, circa 1910, set the high bar in the February 18 Eclectic Elegance: Jewelry, Art and Antiques...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy D.L. Straight Auctioneers STURBRIDGE, MASS. – There were more than 500 lots of choice Americana and folk art crossing the block at D.L. Straight’s premier...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Santa Fe Art Auction SANTA FE, N.M. – Native American art was front and center at Santa Fe Art Auctions through two days of sale February 6-7 as 417 lots crossed...
DEERFIELD, N.H. – Brimfield show promoter Klia Ververidis Crisafulli has announced Brimfield North, an outdoor in-person antiques show, will take place at the Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield,...
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS. – The Clark Art Institute has opened a new exhibition that highlights an innovative photographic technique in “A Change in the Light: The Cliché-verre in Nineteenth-Century...
By Greg Smith, Editor NEW YORK CITY – When the American Folk Art Museum, then known as The Museum of Early American Folk Arts, adopted its charter in 1961, “it was really a gallery over a deli...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack KEENE, N.H. – Given the subjects normally covered by Antiques and The Arts Weekly, it isn’t often that cars are included in auction reviews. But this...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers YORK, MAINE – John McInnis Auctioneers conducted a two-day sale on February 5-6 featuring the estate of John Robert Gregg Jr, son of educator,...