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(Book Review)Augmenting the Canon
What a great title for a catalog that brings new scholarship up to date in the field of American Neoclassical furniture and decorative arts. Augmenting the Canon is the latest addition to a shelf of catalogs written by Stuart Feld, this one with his daughter, Elizabeth. The first catalog in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Another Look for Ten Bucks
Editorial, July 2019
In early April an intriguing new service was added to eBay. Before bidding on or buying Asian art, eBay users in the United States can now pay $10 via PayPal to have the object looked at—via the eBay listing and not in person—by an expert in Asian art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires a Landscape by Duncanson
Museums are making up for the fact that African American artists have rarely made it into the mainstream of art history by making an effort to tell a more inclusive story. Winterthur is the latest to announce an important acquisition to this end. It has acquired a major oil painting ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Glass: The Collections at Yale
The Francis P. Garvan Collection at Yale University has been the focus of studies of American furniture, pewter, silver, and clocks, making it one of the best known in the country. After a three-year study by John Stuart Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chippendale’s Drawings for the Director
Two hundred and seventy-five years ago Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779) opened a cabinet shop on St. Martin’s Lane in London and published The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, which became the most famous furniture pattern book of all time. Most of the original drawings for the 160 engravings in this first edition ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)N.C. Wyeth Exhibit at Brandywine River Museum and Somerville Manning Gallery
N.C. Wyeth: New Perspectives, an exhibition organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, will fill galleries at the Brandywine River Museum of Art June 22 through September 15 before being exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty Historic 13-Star Flags to Be Displayed Together
A New Constellation: A Collection of Historic 13-Star Flags opened on Flag Day, Friday, June 14, and will be on view through Sunday, July 14, at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. “It is the first time a major exhibition of thirteen-star flags has been put together, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques and Artisans in the Churchyard
South Salem, New York
The tradition continued July 4 on the grounds of the Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church as D. Turi Antique Shows took over the management of the one-day holiday show.
Celebrating the 27th iteration of Antiques in the Churchyard, and with the addition of the word “artisans” in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Deerfield Antiques Show Adds Shuttle Bus
The August 5 Deerfield Antiques Show at the Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, will add a shuttle bus to transport customers to and from the parking area. Promoters Joshua and Rachel Gurley of Gurley Antique Shows also plan to move the line closer to the show and into the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Attorney General Acts in National Book Auctions Case
Portions of this article were originally published in the Ithaca Times.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially taken action against National Book Auctions, the disgraced consignment and auction business formerly stationed in Freeville, New York.
In special proceedings filed on May 15 in Tompkins County Court, the attorney general’s office ... (Read More)
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