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(Fragment)Stolen Paintings Turn Up Consigned for Auction
When Cambridge, Massachusetts, auctioneer Carl R. Nordblom opened his copy of the February issue of Maine Antique Digest, he recalls, “I was shocked to see my pictures there.” Photographs of the pictures—two small China trade paintings—ran under the headline “Stolen China Trade Paintings.” They had been stolen in Portland, Maine.
Nordblom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Western Art Sale a Success
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Sales totaled $925,569 at the first dedicated stand-alone Western art auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles on February 26. Newly hired specialist Katherine Halligan said she was “really pleased” with the results of this “small” sale of 58 lots. “I came in late,” she added, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum’s American Furniture Collection
A Book Review
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) has published some landmark exhibition catalogs that introduced the world to its unparalleled collection of Philadelphia furniture: Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art; Federal Philadelphia, 1785-1825: The Athens of the Western World; Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758; and Classical ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leland Little’s New Sporting Arts Department
A root-head goose by Lawrence Howard (1891-1975) of Ocracoke, North Carolina, sold for $12,600 (includes buyer’s premium), topping the first sale conducted by the new sporting arts department of Leland Little Auctions in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on February 25.
$12,600.
The catalog noted that “surviving root head decoys are rare and geese ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Resilience
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a body blow to America. As of this writing, the United States has recorded over 27 million cases and 463,000 deaths. Businesses have shuttered, and the vaccine rollout is going slower than many had hoped.
Americans are a remarkably resilient people. Take a look around any ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
An explosive rat and a pair of candlesticks fashioned from a stag’s feet are among the more bizarre entries in this month’s selection, while a giant cicada, a wine jug in canine guise, and a ceramic menagerie add to that zoomorphic theme.
A record-breaking “Midshipman” jug, a Pre-Raphaelite Queen of Hearts, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Insights Launches
The new year in the antiques world got off to an auspicious start with the launch on January 12 of Americana Insights, a new e-publication focusing on traditional American folk art and Americana that provides open access to original articles, research, and resources. A compendium of short-form scholarly essays on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman’s Record Sale Topped by $4.7 Million White Interior
None of the 12 bidders competing for lot 56 at Freeman’s February 23 sale had traveled to Philadelphia to inspect Carl Moll’s painting White Interior. Eleven high-resolution images in the online-only catalog were enough to entice three of them to continue bidding past $3 million.
Auctioneer David Weiss opened the bidding ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week in New York City during COVID-19
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Keno Auctions
The auctions and shows in New York City in January were probably seen by more people than ever before but not in person. They filled computer screens, tablets, and phones with an enormous number of pictures of some very good things accompanied by yards ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hennage Collection Goes to Colonial Williamsburg
Photos courtesy Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
A Philadelphia high chest made of mahogany, yellow pine, tulip poplar, and sabicu—sometimes known as horseflesh mahogany—that descended in the family of Sarah (Franklin) and Richard Bache, Benjamin Franklin’s daughter and son-in-law, is just one of more than 400 objects that Joseph “Joe” and ... (Read More)
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