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(Show)The Star of Boston's First Annual Design Week
Lots of effort went into transporting Center Street Studio’s printing press to the Cyclorama building to demonstrate the print process. It attracted much interest.
Stephanie Bond, principal of Childs Gallery, Boston, is pictured with Sean Flood, whose Winter Morning on Newbury Street, 2014 (40" x 30") and Summer Rain on Boylston ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Slave Collar, a Stargazer's Almanac, and Other Rarities at African-Americana Sale
This first-edition presentation copy of A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper sold to an absentee bidder for $15,000 (est. $6000/8000)—a new record for the title. Published in 1892 with a portrait frontispiece, the book has a pencil note in Cooper’s ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sunburst Snuff Jar Sells for $57,330
Sunburst snuff jar, made 1815-30 by Keene (New Hampshire) Marlboro Street Glassworks, sold for $57,330. It was the top lot of the auction. The rare bottle with a deep yellowish color and in excellent condition had come from the collection of Clarissa Vanderbilt Dundon, the daughter of pioneer collector Merritt ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Morphy's Moves All Sales to Weekends
Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pennsylvania, is moving all of its auctions to weekend time slots. The first of the company’s sales to make the changeover will be Morphy’s weekly auctions. Previously held on Tuesdays, the weekly auctions will now be conducted on Sundays, starting with the March 23 advertising and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Grant Wood's Original "Radical" Brings $284,800
The Radical by Grant Wood sold for $284,800 to a phone bidder. The original drawing still had the Vincent Price collection labels from Sears, Roebuck and Co. on the reverse. Pennington photo.
A phone bidder paid $6000 (est. $500/700) for this lot. On the left is a red transfer-printed 1790-1810 creamware ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show: Another Beauty
Greg K. Kramer & Co., Robesonia, Pennsylvania, always brings a ton of good stuff to shows. The McIntire school Massachusetts Classical carved mahogany sideboard, 68" long, was $32,500. Behind it is a Federal Classical giltwood mirror with size and presence enough to complement the strong sideboard; it was $3850.
Newsom & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lichtenstein and the Cleveland Connection
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989), St. George and the Dragon, etching, 1947, signed in pencil, edition of 250 plus 10, the Print Club of Cleveland publication no. 24, print club stamp reverse, 17¾" x 11¼", $11,800.
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Western Figures on Horseback, mixed media on paper, 1952, signed “Lichtenstein” lower right, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wooten & Wooten Celebrates First Anniversary with Major American Map Find
The John Melish 1816 “Map of the United States with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions” is a rare, early depiction of the United States within the context of the entire continent. It was sold for $48,000. Wooten & Wooten photo.
This very rare 1855-60 Edgefield stoneware face vessel, attributed to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Internet Strikes Back
One swallow does not a summer make, so it is risky to generalize from one sale where the Internet dominated. Nevertheless, it is tempting to say that deep-pocketed Internet bidders were not interested in traditional 18th- and 19th-century antiques. They preferred 20th-century artifacts, typified by Paul Nash’s Stone Sea, a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Preview of the Philadelphia Antiques Show and More
The City of Philadelphia, Currier & Ives, drawn on stone by Charles Parsons and Lyman Atwater, published 1875, color printed lithograph, 22½" x 32 3/8". Arader Galleries photo.
The Philadelphia Antiques Show is in late April this year. The 53rd edition of this spring show will set up at the Philadelphia ... (Read More)
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