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(Auction)Topnotch Evans Furniture Comes to Market
Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions, Lambertville, New JerseyTopnotch Evans Furniture Comes to Marketby Lita Solis-CohenAlong with a selection of Nakashima furniture, some monumental gong sculptures by Harry Bertoia, a few choice pieces of Wharton Esherick's artistry in wood, and its phonebook-size catalog, Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions' spring sale on April 21 and 22 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)John Scudder and Family: From Skilled Craftsmen to Leaders of Men
John Scudder and Family: From Skilled Craftsmen to Leaders of Menby David A. Sperling, M.D.Imagine drawing a triangle on a map of 19th-century New Jersey connecting Newark, New Brunswick, and Flemington. Inside this triangle lived the cabinetmakers who produced the finest Federal tall-clock cases ever made in the state.Within this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Sells Local Collection for $501,650
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, VirginiaThe Potomack Company Sells
Local Collection for $501,650by Robert KyleThe Potomack Company, which
opened just last fall, made a positive and enduring impression on the Washington,
D.C., auction scene on April 28 with a solid half-million-dollar one-day single-owner
sale. The property included a collection of nearly ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)The Contrarian Path to Happiness
The Art of MarketingThe Contrarian Path to Happinessby David VazdauskasIt's too bad that contrarians get a bad rap. We're seen as being unjustly negative and dour. We're serial pessimists. We see the glass as half empty. We argue that the glass would be even more empty if it were bigger.I'm ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Big One!
Auction Law and EthicsThe Big One!by Steve ProffittIn June,
I began answering several questions a reader posed. When I filled my space for
that column, I hadn't even gotten to my big point. Here's the letter—my big
point follows.I consigned a nice collection to an auctioneer to sell in what ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Charles and Rebekah Clark, Woodbury, Connecticut
In the TradeCharles and Rebekah Clark, Woodbury, Connecticutby Frank DoneganI first met Charles and Rebekah Clark in New York in the mid-1990's. We were all setting up for the American Classicism show at Alexander Gallery on Madison Avenue. Charles and Rebekah were wearing white cotton curator's gloves. I said to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Terry Walker Collection: Part Two
Chris Huntington, Truro, Nova ScotiaThe Terry Walker Collection: Part Twoby Chris BeckettAll prices in Canadian funds; rounded U.S. figures in parenthesesThe trouble with announcing your retirement, especially if you're an auctioneer, is that the sale opportunity of an entire career could be just around the corner. Well-known Maine and Maritime ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Firearms Column
The Firearms Columnby Robert KyleSometimes it may seem that most of the gun auction action takes place on the right and left coasts. Certainly, many important and historic arms have changed hands for impressive prices in New England and California, but tucked away near Topeka is an outfit where you ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Collector Within: Joseph Cornell
The Collector Within: Joseph Cornellby Jeanne SchintoJoseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in more than 26 years, presents 180 of his finest pieces of "assemblage," the most celebrated of which are his box constructions. The intimate scale of the boxes, none of them ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan's, Cincinnati, OhioAmerican Indian and Western Artby Don JohnsonThere was the Henry Farny painting that sold for $1.16 million (includes buyer's premium), and there was the sale total of $2.7 million. The most intriguing story, however, to come from Cowan's latest sale of American Indian and Western art, held March ... (Read More)
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