CHICAGO — There are plenty of uses for old newspapers. Fishermen wrap their catches in them, bottle dealers have long wrapped their bottles in them and dealers-turned-artists, apparently, paint on them....
MOUNT CRAWFORD, VA. – The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates June 22-23 Americana and fine antiques auction was a successful event and produced robust prices, along with a few surprises, in multiple...
George Tinworth was raised in poverty. The son of a British wheelwright, his family struggled for much of his childhood and he was expected to follow in those steps. But Tinworth, who would carve in his spare...
There’s a good mix in this week’s Across The Block, including flying high prices for a William Staite-Murray vase, a Galle Clematis cameo glass lamp and a Rutherford B. Hayes archive of 153 items...
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – In the first half of the Eighteenth Century, William Dering was a well-connected dancing master and artist who lived and worked in Williamsburg. Today, only six of Dering’s...
NEW YORK CITY – “Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock” (1796-1863) explores the confluence of art, love, science and religion in the work of one of America’s...
When the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Mass., set out to present an exhibition spotlighting archival materials from its own collection and from those of eight sister organizations, it had the good fortune...
This week’s Gallery Beat highlights exhibitions on Wharton Esherick, Richard Hambleton, We’wha and Arroh-ah-och, Keith Sonnier, Thornton Dial and Mark Leonard. “Wharton Esherick”Moderne...
BOSTON – Pastels are only rarely exhibited due to the fragility of the powdery pigment and the light sensitivity of the paper on which it rests. On view through January 6 and drawn primarily from...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier PHILADELPHIA – There are many orthodoxies in the study of American Modernism: that it was centered in New York, that it was primarily a product of photographer/gallerist...
Review and Photos by Rick Russack BROOKFIELD, MASS. – If country is your thing, you should have been in Brookfield on June 16 for Walker Homestead’s Antiques and Primitive Goods Show, and you should...
CHICAGO — The Art Institute of Chicago has a long history of exhibiting John Singer Sargent, America’s beloved portrait painter. Though he began exhibiting in the Windy City in 1888 with “Street...