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(Fragment)"Washington Crossing the Delaware" Goes from White House to Winona, Minnesota
Photo courtesy Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
On March 22, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, Minnesota, unveiled the 40½" x 68" version of Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware, perhaps the most famous and iconic American painting.
It was acquired by Mary Burrichter and Robert A. “Bob” Kierlin, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harry Hartman Sale
This rare Soap Hollow miniature blanket chest attributed to John Sala, with the initials and date “JKM 1851,” is grain-painted and has gilt stenciling with a central horse and rider with a bird atop the rider’s head, flanked by urns of flowers, and with a checkerboard band border and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Announces Acquisitions
Winterthur recently announced two important acquisitions.
John Shearer Chest Made for Salome Kramer
At the Furniture Forum (March 4-7) Winterthur announced the purchase of a chest of drawers made by John Shearer (worked 1790-1820) for Salome Kramer of Frederick County, Maryland, in 1809. Shearer signed the walnut, oak, and poplar chest eight ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ohio Valley Auction
River landscape after Cornelius Ver Bryck (1813-1844), oil on canvas, signed “T. C— / from an outline by C. Ver Bryck,” 12" x 18" plus frame, inpainting to about 10% of the surface, $46,800.
Banjo clock, circa 1825, cherry and pine, scenic and foliate-decorated tablets, gilt surface, restoration to gold paint, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sandy Doig, Somers, Connecticut
Sandy Doig in his basement workshop. In good weather he works in his barn. He thinks the two-drawer stand is from the south shore of Massachusetts. “It has the thinner stock that they use there.” He’s asking $450 for it. “Eight years ago it would have been nine hundred,” he ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Masters 2015
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City, took a large booth located at the front of the show. Displayed on the wall are a set of five terra-cotta reliefs by Carl Milles (1875-1955), The Muses, circa 1935, each 15½" x 10", priced at $125,000. In the center is a 1934 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Sales Tax Affecting Galleries in Arizona
A group of Scottsdale, Arizona, art gallery owners say they are being crippled by a sales tax that kicked in at the beginning of this year. The new regulation adds the transaction privilege tax (TPT), Arizona’s sales tax, to fine art sales to out-of-state buyers who purchase the art in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Just Gets Better and Better
Don Toth of Richfield, Ohio, trades as Parkside House Antiques. Toth set up on the infield and offered this group of Americana items. The honey-color dry sink is constructed of pine and features a high back with a shelf and two drawers. The sink was tagged $825. The wooden toolbox ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sells von Eldik Collection on Site in Virginia
The high lot of the von Eldik sale came from the fine arts category. This pair of large oil on canvas naturalistic scenes is by Peter Caulitz (German, circa 1650-1719). First is an avian group with strutting cocks, hens, turkeys, and pigeons in a yard before a stone dwelling. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Grass Valley Old West Show
Jeff Holabird of Western Americana, Reno, Nevada, was asking $8000 for this circa 1872 pocket watch made by a Virginia City, Nevada, jeweler.
Helena, Montana, dealer Don Grimmer was exhibiting but not selling this vintage advertising bulldog, something he had long coveted at Desert John’s Saloon Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana. It ... (Read More)
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