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(Auction)Bidders and Birds Deliver at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The annual fowl and feathers week in New England began on July 23 with the Guyette & Deeter two-day auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The swarm of buyers were focused on prized decoys from such well-known collections as those of Ginny and Gordy Hayes, Richard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)“Can You Do Better?”
Haggling. Dickering. Lowballing.
Sally Schwartz, founder of Randolph Street Market in Chicago, recently forwarded us an Internet thread that discussed dealer responses to customers asking for discounts. The answers ranged from hilarious to frustrating and came from both from buyers and sellers.
Now that summer is here—the time of big shows packed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traveling up the Mountain to Scenic Cashiers
Cashiers Benefit Antique Show, Cashiers, North Carolina
Tourists, retirees, and vacation homeowners long ago discovered the forested Highlands-Cashiers Plateau in western North Carolina. With 16 golf courses and 29 exclusive communities, it is both popular and upscale. That level of prosperity has made the annual Cashiers Benefit Antique Show a destination ... (Read More)
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(Show)Buying Heats Up in Rockport
Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, Rockport, Maine
When it comes to the Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, held at the Camden-Rockport High School in Rockport, Maine, each year, you can almost set your calendar by the weather. If it’s the hottest day of the year to date, it will be the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dutch Watercolor Leads at Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers, Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers held a midsummer auction at its Madison, Virginia, gallery on July 20. If anyone had forgotten that it was summer, the 100 degrees recorded on the time and temperature sign down the street should have been a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for a Face Vessel
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipps of Crocker Farm celebrated 15 years in the auction business on July 20 with a 543-lot sale at their facility in Sparks, Maryland (37 additional uncataloged lots were sold at the end of the auction).
“People really responded, in terms of consignments and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 2019
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Weeping Willow and Water Lily Pond, 1916-19, oil on canvas, 78¾" x 70¾". On loan from private collection.
—Through September 15 —Fort Worth, Texas
The Kimbell Art Museum is hosting Monet: The Late Years, a selection of 50 paintings on loan from major public and private collections in Europe, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hurry to See WALL POWER!
The exhibition WALL POWER! Quilts from the Werner and Karen Gundersheimer Gift will open on August 6 at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City. It will be on display for only four weeks—through September 1. Included in the exhibition will be quilts recently gifted to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standout Furniture and Decorative Arts
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
An attractive consignment of Americana in a July 17 and 18 fine furniture, decorative arts, and silver sale at Chicago’s recently revamped Hindman Auctions told a silent tale of two sisters.
The pair shared well-known collectors as parents—Willard and Faith Henoch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who contributed to varied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Curator of American Art at the Michener
Dr. Laura Turner Igoe is the new curator of American art at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Igoe has broad curatorial experience including the Harvard Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Barnes Foundation. Exhibition projects she has contributed to include Nature’s Nation: ... (Read More)
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