CHADDS FORD, PENN. – This summer, the Brandywine River Museum of Art presents, “N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives,” the first exhibition in almost 50 years to examine in depth the entirety...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack PLAINFIELD, N.H. – May 27 was a beautiful, warm and sunny day for the 52nd annual Memorial Day sale at William A. Smith. Probably because of the weather,...
Review and Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring CHICAGO – The 3rd Annual Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show returned to the Merchandise Mart May 17-19 and featured approximately 50 national and international...
By James D. Balestrieri WASHINGTON, DC – In one of the many action scenes in the hot new novel by Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the protagonist, known only as Tracker, finds himself in a library...
Fine and contemporary art were big sellers in this week’s Across The Block. The top lot at Shapiro Auctions’ May 18 sale was a painting titled “The Volga,” estimated at $75/95,000,...
African American artist and activist David Bustill Bowser was born in Philadelphia January 16, 1820, to fugitive slave Jeremiah Bowser. He would study art under his cousin Robert Douglass Jr, who was an African...
BEVERLY, MASS. — A Chinese fish bowl with copper red dragons and cobalt blue decoration went out at $56,250 on a $2,000 high estimate in Kaminski Auctions’ June 1–2 Asian and Estates Auction. Circa...
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — With Rick Opfer swinging his hammer, 575 lots of banks and toys were sold on Saturday, June 1, at the RSL Auction Gallery, for $742,000. The sale, which lasted a little more...
VINELAND, N.J. — A collection of 290 banks, both still and mechanical, got Bertoia’s May 23–24 Annual Spring Sale off to a fine start on Thursday and a selection of seven slot machines closed the sale...
DALLAS — Numerous bidders pursued a 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson No. 103 PSA NM-MT 8 until it sold for $120,000 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ 1915 Cracker Jack PSA Set Registry Auction...
By Rob Hoffman The maple armchair shown in Figure 1 had dwelled for some 50 years in the collection of the late Marion and Theodore Gore, Williamsburg, Va., prior to its consignment into Brunk Auctions’...
BRIMFIELD, MASS. – For one week three times each year, this town of approximately 4,000 residents swells with the influx of thousands of shoppers attending the largest outdoor antiques show in New England....