Review and Onsite Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. – Paul and Rita Flack have been such esteemed collectors that news that they would be selling more of the collection brought buyers...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier PRINCETON, N.J. – Activist art has been a familiar concept to critics, historians and consumers of art since at least the 1970s, when national and global movements related...
NEW YORK CITY — The 76th Rare Posters International auction of October 28 was a very successful event with totals of more than $1,600,000 according to President Jack Rennert. A signed and limited edition...
MILFORD, CONN. — Edward Moran’s (American,1829-1901), “The Winning Yacht: Madeleine and Countess of Dufferin,” circa 1877 oil on canvas, crossed the finish line first in Shannon’s American...
DALLAS — An exasperated Abraham Lincoln wrote a series of letter to General George McClellan before firing him as the General of the Army of the Potomac in 1862. On October 25 at Heritage Auctions’...
Antiques dealer John Chaski is not shying away from the camera. In fact, he’s looking directly into the lens and telling you how it is. In an era where television production on the antiques business...
By Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – It is hurricane season, but the winds of change have been blowing through art and antiques fairs for months. Changes have been made at the upper-management...
Review by Laura Beach LITCHFIELD, CONN. – Peter Tillou is often described as a polymath. An antiques dealer since he was 14 and a force of nature, he has never lost the capacity for wonder that propels...
An early photo of Marilyn Monroe tops the selections in this week’s Across the Block, bringing in $250,000. Stately clocks by Harland and Tiffany were bid high, as was a selection of pottery, paintings...
The words “8 to 7” are the only ones to appear inscribed under the constriction of 14 elaborately detailed pit vipers on Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick’s snake jug. They do not represent the score...
CHADDS FORD, PENN. – This fall, the Brandywine River Museum of Art presents, “Winslow Homer: Photography and the Art of Painting,” which explores the surprising role photography played...
By Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – This is the time of year when the Americana decorative arts departments at the New York City auction houses are in the final throes of sourcing property for the January...