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February 27, 2018MORRISTOWN, N.J. – As the permanent home to an array of automata from the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, the Morris Museum has begun a four-year series,...
February 27, 2018SALISBURY, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND – Occasionally, compelling examples of Americana turn up at English auction houses. Such was the case April 2017 when a major piece of American presentation silver made...
February 27, 2018By Laura Beach NEW YORK CITY – Perhaps it is the current popularity of contemporary realist painting that makes “Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables,” at New York’s Whitney...
February 27, 2018By Jessica Skwire Routhier NEW YORK CITY – Grant Wood has always been a cipher. From the moment he burst onto the mainstream American art scene, his perplexing paintings -1930’s “American...
February 27, 2018Review and Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy Grogan & Company BOSTON – A study for John Singer Sargent’s “Frieze of the Prophets,” which hangs in the Boston Public...
February 27, 2018Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara NASHVILLE, TENN. – The Fiddler’s Antiques Show, February 14-17, was a success for the 40-plus dealers exhibiting in motel rooms for the four-day event...
February 27, 2018Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara NASHVILLE, TENN. – The Nashville Show, conducted February 15-17 at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds was, according to Jon Jenkins, co-founder and manager of the show,...
February 26, 2018PHILADELPHIA — “Everybody was kept safe by virtue of the hybrid creature guarding the tomb,” said Dr. Brian Rose, curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean section at Penn Museum. Watch as the video...
February 26, 2018DALLAS, TEXAS — The only inaugural button referring to George Washington as the “Father of His Country” (perhaps the earliest instance of the use of the phrase) opened for bidding at $20,000...
February 26, 2018LARCHMONT, N.Y. — It measured only 9 by 11 inches, but what British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s abstract painting titled “Small Vortex” lacked in size, it certainly made up for it in price...
February 26, 2018DALLAS, TEXAS — The original art for The Amazing Spider-Man #100 sold for $478,000, at Heritage Auctions on Friday, February 23, setting a world record for the most valuable Marvel Comics Silver or Bronze...
February 23, 2018DENVER, PENN. — At Morphy Auctions’ February 22 sale of automobilia and petroliana, a restored air scale Model JR Junior with air hose pumped up its final price to $21,600. An excellent restoration...
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