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()Pickers Market to Remain a Friday Event
Michael Hall came from Nashville, Tennessee, and it was his first time exhibiting at the Pickers Market. “It was a long way for me to go from Nashville to do the show. I think a lot of customers didn’t go to the show or left town before Friday…This is the ... (Read More)
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(Show)2013 Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Strangers from Hopiland, 10¾" x 9¾", was Gustave Baumann’s “favorite” woodcut, according to Steve Stoops of Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, Arizona. It was priced at $25,000.
At the booth of Gallery Tribal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Robert Fiedler was asking $2200 for this early 20th-century Urhobo (Niger Delta) canoe carrying shark ... (Read More)
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(Show)NHADA Annual Show: “There’s Nothing Like This Show Anywhere in America!”
Meryl Weiss of American Classics, Canaan, Connecticut, showed the 8' long demilune Windsor-type bench with rush seat, circa 1900; price was $950. The view of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, was painted by Elisa R.F. Lancaster and given by her in 1896 to her native town of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
Qiang Wang, a.k.a. Jeffrey Wang, 34, a New York antiques dealer, pled guilty on August 7 in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts made from rhinoceros horns and ivory and to violate wildlife trafficking laws. Wang was arrested in February 2013 as part of Operation Crash, a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Big Crowds at Antiques in Manchester
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, featured this over 7' long hooked rug that was inspired by Edward Hicks but oddly reminiscent of the jungle paintings of Henri Rousseau. Lowery called this “a folk art masterpiece.” It dated to the 1860’s, Lowery said, and was found in Scriba, New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midweek’s Anniversary Party, Celebrating 20 Years
Nancy Fishelson, who shared a booth with Robert Perry Antiques, asked $3600 for her two-sided optometrist’s sign. Fishelson of Orchard Park, New York, who has an interior design business, said the sign’s other side is less faded, but she prefers the one displayed. Fishelson’s early 20th-century rooster weathervane, found in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifteen of Top 20 Posters Go to Collectors
This 39¼" x 29¼" condition B+ framed poster from 1917 with the iconic image of Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flagg (1870-1960) opened for bidding at $8000 and closed above estimate at $14,400. It sold to a collector, produced the day’s top auction price, and set an auction record. Not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings Auction
Wind-swept Pines (15" x 18") by Guy Rose brought the auction’s highest price, $374,500 (est. $150,000/250,000). Prior to this auction, it had been bought “long ago, and has been in a private collection on the East Coast,” said Bastian. “It has been essentially untouched, and Rose continues to be the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Low-Pressure, High-Value Show
And they’re off, moving at a good pace around the bend and up the hill to the first buildings of the show.
This child’s settle with lift seat, 33" high x 42" long, from Mary de Buhr of Downers Grove, Illinois, was $3700. Always stop by her booth to get a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Arts, and Marine Auction
This vivid oil on masonite by Anne Ramsdell Congdon (1873-1958) of Nantucket was offered early in the Osona sale. It was signed and dated on the lower right, “Anne Congdon, 1940.” A very similar picture is in the Nantucket Historical Association collection and is illustrated in Picturing Nantucket on page ... (Read More)
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