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Metro Curates
by Julie Schlenger Adell

Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, sold this equestrian cast-iron trade sign, made for the Cincinnati Stove Works company, circa 1901; the asking price was $28,500. The 36-drawer chest, possibly from a hardware store, with original ivory paint and dovetailed construction, also sold. It was tagged $18,500. The tramp art wood ... (Read More)

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Teapot by Paul Revere Jr. Brings $233,000
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Each of these Martelé silver figural ewers, marked for Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1912, in baluster form, is decorated with fluid leaves and waves. One is chased with Poseidon holding his trident and has a cast merman-form handle; the other is chased with a mermaid holding a clamshell with pearls ... (Read More)

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The Wunsch Award, Now a January Tradition, Honors Arnold Lehman and Chipstone
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Arnold Lehman is shown accepting the Wunsch award. Jonathan Prown, director of Chipstone. Peter Wunsch (left) and Christie’s John Hays. Christie’s hosted the third annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 21, honoring Arnold L. Lehman, the retiring director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York ... (Read More)

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Fraktur: Four Exhibitions, a Catalog, and a Conference
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Drawing of a woman on horseback, circa 1775, attributed to the Sussel-Washington Artist (active 1760-85). Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 8" x 6 3/8". Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson. Drawing of Adam and Eve, 1834-35, attributed to Samuel Gottschall (1808-1898). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8" × ... (Read More)

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Letter from London, February 2015
by Ian McKay

Ian McKay, <[email protected]> Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 36½" x 49½" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby’s on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (Read More)
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