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(Fragment)MFA Appoints Inaugural Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has appointed Michael J. Bramwell as the inaugural Joyce Linde Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art. The creation of the new position is part of an initiative designed to reanimate and reimagine the MFA’s folk-art collection for 21st-century audiences. The initiative is supported ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Diversity of Antiques from Six States
Lebanon Antique Show, Lebanon, Ohio
Shortly before the opening of the Lebanon Antique Show, held September 10 and 11 in Lebanon, Ohio, promoter John Wanat offered an overview of the market for shows in general. “From other dealers, what I’m hearing is the gate is down, but the customers coming are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
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It’s been a summer-long extravaganza at John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, that culminated in a live auction September 10 at which John McInnis and his staff sold over 600 lots of Americana. On our approach to the gallery, the degree of available ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Reassessment of John Kane
A Book Review
This reassessment of the life and art of John Kane (1860-1934) sets a new standard for art scholarship. Kane was a steelworker, coal miner, bridge builder, street paver, carpenter, railcar and house painter, boxer, brawler, wanderer, heavy drinker, and “husband from hell” who late in life (age 67) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Child’s Play Brings $1.2 Million at Bertoia
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
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The results of Bertoia Auctions’ September 8 and 9 sale of the William and Stevie Weart antique toy collection was anything but child’s play. The sale total for the Wearts’ large and meticulously assembled collection surpassed the $1.2 million mark, showing that buyers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Sandy Jacobs
A seasoned dealer of folk art and early Americana, Sandy Jacobs fills her house in Swampscott, Massachusetts, with objects of good form and good style from any time period.
In the business since high school, when she would look after a neighbor’s antiques store and did some buying of jewelry and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2022
Things very old, very odd, and in many instances very, very costly indeed find their place in this month’s “Letter” and range in size from an extraordinary and exquisitely carved little “prayer nut” of 16th-century origin to a very early harpsichord with a striking landscape painted to the interior of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ceramics and Paintings Lead Americana Sale
Caza Sikes, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Veering away from the company’s more typical concentration on artwork, Caza Sikes held an auction of Americana September 7 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Much of the material came from the collection of Edythe and Donald Aukerman, longtime Ohio dealers who were downsizing. Other notable items ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fifty Years a Bookseller: Clarence Wolf’s Memoir
A Book Review
The antiquarian book business has changed drastically in the last half-century. Clarence Wolf’s entertaining memoir Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf at Your Door chronicles the old days and tells good stories about dealers and collectors in pursuit of great books.
Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Old York Historical Society Buys Weare Chest
The Old York Historical Society (OYHS) in York, Maine, has announced the purchase of a rare Boston chest of drawers made between 1680 and 1700 that descended in the Weare family of Cape Neddick, Maine. It is attributed to the shop of Ralph Mason (1599-1679) and Henry Messinger (d. 1681), ... (Read More)
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