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(Fragment)Full Schedule for Bath Antique Sale
For the first time since acquiring the Bath (Maine) Antique Sale, Gurley Antique Shows has announced that the show will have a full six-show schedule. The first show this fall, October 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will have approximately 50 dealers from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont exhibiting.
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Martindale Acquires Whitehawk
Venice, California-based American Indian art dealer, gallerist, and show producer Kim Martindale’s stunning announcement that he has acquired Santa Fe’s Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show affects almost all serious members of the Indian art collecting community—dealers, collectors, and artists.
Martindale wrote in a press release, “Words can’t fully express ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Snow Doesn’t Stop Boxborough Show
The January 7 edition of the Boxborough Antique Show opened at 10 a.m. to 12" of snow and freezing temperatures. Run by Rachel and Joshua Gurley at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts, the show carried on. Although most events would have canceled, the Gurleys say “Rain, Snow, or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peggy Bacon Exhibit in Maine
The Gallery at Trifles, Wiscasset, Maine, is hosting a selling exhibition of 70 drawings by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) that have never been on public display. This coincides with the exhibition Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art.
Peggy Bacon was a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Determines Seized Scalp Is Human
On January 17 the Federal Register published a notice from the National Park Service that revealed that a scalp seized in early May 2022 at Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine, was human. The scalp was attached to a beaded American Indian pipe bag and was part of a large ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Selling the Future
A 200-vendor group shop in North Tonawanda, New York, entered into an agreement in November 2024 with Flow Capital Funding LLC to provide capital. Those funds came at a high cost—almost 50%.
It wasn’t a loan. According to paperwork filed in a Monroe County, New York, courtroom, the shop sold future ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Indicted in $2 Million Fraud Case
A criminal indictment was unsealed in federal court in New York on November 6, charging former New York City art dealer Catherine Dail with wire and mail fraud. Dail, owner of Catherine Dail Fine Art, specializes in specializes in 19th and 20th Century artworks.
The indictment alleges that from November 2018 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)January Americana Week Sales in America’s Semiquincentennial Year
Symon and Rebeckah Horne’s valuables chest with their initials and the date 1677, made in the Symonds shop in Salem, Massachusetts, sold for $1,636,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s on January 23, achieving the highest price for American furniture in 13 years. Collector Marjorie McGraw, bidding in the salesroom, was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eli Wilner Initiative Aids Institutions
Eli Wilner & Company, specialists in period framing, has iannounced a new round of $100,000 in partial grants through its ongoing frame funding initiative, a program designed to help institutions restore, replicate, or otherwise re-imagine the frames that shape how art is seen. The funds, to be distributed on a ... (Read More)
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