When US President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, one of the first people to reach him was Captain James M. McCamly, a member of the City Guard of Washington, who was guarding the Ford...
DALLAS — Heritage Auctions announced that the Belgium-based Boon Foundation for Narrative Graphic Arts cast the $600,000 winning bid to add the original art for the eight-page story Master Race (EC 1955)...
PHILADELPHIA, PENN. — Freeman’s November 14 sale of American furniture, folk and decorative arts brought to auction nearly 500 lots of furniture, decorative arts, textiles and historical paintings...
By Kristin Nord SALEM, MASS. – What do garments, accoutrements and the objects we surround ourselves with reflect about our status, our values and the societies we inhabit? In “Empresses of the Forbidden...
NORTHWOOD, N.H. — On Sunday, November 18, Laura Beach received an email from Steve Powers, representing the Antiques Dealers of America (ADA) informing her that she has been named the recipient for the 2019...
Like many of the folkloric pioneer heroes that ventured out into the Wild West, many of the stories that one reads about Seth Kinman can be taken with a grain of salt. A hunter? Absolutely. A hunter who killed...
Photos and Review by Rick Russack THOMASTON, MAINE – More than 2,000 lots were offered at the Thomaston Place fall auction weekend, November 8-11, far more than we can mention in this space. Topping...
While the intentions presented by Nineteenth Century French poet Charles Baudelaire’s suicide note may have made his mistress Jeanne Duval think twice about their relationship, bidders at Osenat...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack BOSTON – Skinner had a busy few days with the Marvill Outsider folk art collection and a major Americana sale on November 3, along with the Americana online...
Review and Photos by Greg Smith NEW YORK CITY – We saw glimmers of it throughout the Twentieth Century when furniture artists rejected the paired down proportions of modernism and went big –...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack BOSTON – On November 11, Grogan and Co. sold about 475 lots of jewelry, artwork by N.C. and Andrew Wyeth, Lyonel Feininger, Frank Benson, a bronze by Max Beckmann,...
Review and Photos by Laura Beach SANTA FE – The envy-provoking exhibition “Good Company: Five Artist Communities in New Mexico,” on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art through March...