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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation Awarded to Cooper Hewitt
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the 2022 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will be awarded to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for its upcoming exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.
Dorothy Liebes’s studio, New York City, circa 1957. Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gary Hendershott Sentenced
After a Georgia militaria collector implored a superior court judge to appropriately punish Gary L. Hendershott for stealing items that had been consigned to him to sell, the well-known dealer was sentenced August 18 to five years in prison and ten years of probation and was ordered to pay about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande”: The Collection of Roy H. Robinson
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams’ Native American specialist Ingmars Lindbergs said his department’s single-owner two-day auction October 26 and 27 in Los Angeles was “pretty damn good.” And by pretty damn good, he means $4.46 million in sales (including buyers’ premiums).
Acquiring, researching, cataloging, and selling the collection of Roy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Shannon’s
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers
Celebrating a quarter of a century, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers marked the occasion with an October 27 auction in its Milford, Connecticut, gallery. American art from the 19th through the 21st centuries was culled from collections and estates far and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heidelberg-Brothers Valley Fraktur Artist Identified
Although his colorful fraktur has been collected since the early 20th century, the name of the artist who did these embellished documents was unknown. Scholars referred to him as the Heidelberg-Brothers Valley Artist for the two areas of Pennsylvania where he worked, namely Northampton County, in the part that became ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House Owner Charged
On August 26 the Ottawa (Ontario) Police Service West Criminal Investigations Section charged an Ottawa man following an investigation into multiple allegations of fraud and possession of stolen property by an Ottawa-based auction house.
In July an investigation was commenced into incidents that occurred between early 2019 and February 2022 involving ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Tiffany Necklace Tops Rago Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago
Dianne Batista, director of jewelry and watches at Rago, wrote in an email after the fall jewelry sale, held October 26 in Lambertville, New Jersey, “Just like the start of a new school year, the fall auction season is an exciting one! This auction had ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil—and the Deduction—Is in the Details
A ruling handed down October 6 in the United States Tax Court provides a valuable—albeit expensive—lesson for potential donors to museums.
In 2011, Heinrich Schweizer, the former director of African and Oceanic art at Sotheby’s, donated a Dogon sculpture to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). He expected a $600,000 deduction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Storied Weathervane Lands at the Met
It’s an iconic piece of American folk art, and it’s now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
In September, the Met accepted the famed copper Blériot Model XI monoplane weathervane, a gift of collectors Michael and Patricia Del Castello of Carmel, California.
The Del Castellos ... (Read More)
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