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(Issue Story)Fighting for the Dunghill...
Letter from London
Fighting for the Dunghill...
A contemporary hand-coloured etching with aquatint of 1798 that caught my eye in a November 15 sale held by Dominic Winter, Fighting for the Dunghill: ____ or ____ Jack Tar settling Buonaparte is the work of James Gillray (1756-1815).
In their catalogue notes, the South Cerney, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Paul Neuman
Paul Neuman in his New York City apartment.
After 40-plus years as a caterer in New York City, Paul Neuman has embarked on a new project involving sustainable packaging related to the food industry. Growing up in Flushing, Queens, he worked in his father’s store in Manhattan, the Rosedale Fish Market, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)An Unusual and Interesting Collection
A Book Review
Ron Gard is an author and collector who has written three books on American folk art and decoys. As a young boy he collected Native American artifacts on his grandparents’ farm in Texas and kept them in an unused house on the property that served as his own ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Speed Art Museum Expands Free Sundays
Now in the seventh year of a landmark gift from the Owsley Brown II family and the Brown-Forman Foundation making attendance free for all Sunday visitors, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has been awarded a significant grant from Art Bridges Foundation to expand upon its free general admission ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Americana Week in New York City in January
The Winter Show
For 70 years collectors have made a pilgrimage to the Park Avenue Armory in January to shop at a show founded in 1954 to benefit East Side House Settlement in the Bronx. It was an ingenious idea: an elegant bazaar could provide funds for the needy and at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Collections of Historic Odessa
A Book Review
Few historic sites have received the level of examination and interpretation as Historic Odessa. Building on the research of several generations of historians and collectors and adding his own encyclopedic knowledge of 18th- and early 19th-century American furniture and history, Philip D. Zimmerman has written a fascinating illustrated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)IRS Sounds a Warning
Just in time for the end-of-year tax strategies, the Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to watch for dubious schemes involving exaggerated art donation deductions.
The IRS noted in an October 5 bulletin that unscrupulous promoters may use direct solicitation to promise values of art that are too good to be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sign Recovered, Man Arrested
On December 22 Vermont State Police were advised of the theft of an antique sign from a building in Enosburg. The victim stated that his antique “Flying A Service” sign was stolen off the side of his building. The victim told authorities the sign had been in his family for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2024
Peter Miller, female American Modernist.
—Through May 31 —Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Peter Miller Story: A Forgotten Woman of American Modernism at the Morton Contemporary Gallery, in partnership with the Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, presents the work of Modernist and Surrealist painter Peter Miller, born Henrietta Myers (1913-1996). Influenced by Miró, Picasso, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century Design
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
When advance notice dropped that works from the collection of Thomas S. Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s pizza and a known longtime collector of important early 20th-century works, were to sell in a December 12 Toomey & Co. auction, bidders took notice ... (Read More)
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