NEW YORK CITY — An extremely rare copy of The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution raced past its estimate to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ rare...
By Laura Beach NEW YORK CITY – “Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art,” on view at the American Folk Art Museum’s Lincoln Square galleries from March 19 to July 28, is satisfying...
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has recently acquired its first portrait by the well-known, Eighteenth Century British landscape and portrait painter Joseph Wright of Derby...
PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist” is the first survey of the obscure American modernist painter in more than 23 years. Although...
The story goes that bottle collectors Edmund and Jayne Blaske bought the Keene Glassworks cobalt blue GIV-3 historical flask with Masonic emblems from a Canadian seller. The collectors were traveling at the time,...
Sometimes you stumble across an old penny and you can tell it’s been around from the wear & tear exhibited on its surface. But a hand-hammered ancient coin of Judean Rebellion flipped across...
In 1906, philanthropist Samuel Bancroft built studios in Wilmington, Del., for illustrator Howard Pyle and Pyle’s students: N.C. Wyeth, Frank E. Schoonover, Harvey Dunn, Henry Peck, Clifford Ashley...
Review and Photos by Greg Smith NEW YORK CITY – The Art Show, mounted by 72 member galleries of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), presented its annual edition at the Park Avenue Armory...
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Copley Fine Art Auctions realized more than $2.4 million in sales at the Winter Sale 2019, conducted in partnership with the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) at the Charleston...
Review by Anne Kugielsky HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – At Leland Little Auctions’ March 2 estate auction, an inhouse audience competed with phone, online and absentee bidders to push most of the lots...
In July 2018, Johanna McBrien became the executive director of the Dedham Historical Society & Museum (DHSM) in Dedham, Mass. McBrien, who has worn nearly every hat in the antiques business, from specialist...
BENTONVILLE, ARK. – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the debut of its exhibition “Men of Steel, Women of Wonder,” which will be on view through April 22. Curated by Crystal...