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(Fragment)The Peale Women Painters
The Hammond-Harwood House Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, has opened In the Shadows of a Legacy: The Peale Women Painters, an exhibition that celebrates seven of the nine professional women in the Peale family dynasty of early American painters. It includes paintings and miniatures from the collections of the Maryland Center for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage and Contemporary Blend Well with Tradition
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The three-day sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries June 27-29 in Thomaston, Maine, featured a sophisticated blend of some notable contemporary celebrity collections along with a generous assortment of more traditional offerings. About 191 items came from the collection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Color, Variety, and Quality Come Together for Wells Show
The Wells Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine
At almost 25 years old, Goosefare Antiques & Promotions’ Wells Antiques Show & Sale in Wells, Maine, is one of the must-see shows on the early summer calendar in the state. The setting on Laudholm Farm on the grounds of the Wells National ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)“Masterwork” Sells for $256,200
A fresh-to-the-market Massachusetts-made William and Mary ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Enjoys Strong Americana Sales
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual “Premier Americana” sale June 26-28 at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The sale was conducted in three sessions over three days with a total of 1575 lots crossing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Jo Louise Brown Collection Sold On Site
Meander Auctions, Zoar, Ohio
Photos courtesy Meander Auctions
Community. Merriam-Webster defines the term as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” When Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis of Meander Auctions sold the collection of Jo Louise Brown (1927-2025) on site at her Zoar, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Griffin Spends $18 Million for Two Documents
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Souvenir copies of two of the most pivotal documents in American history that President Abraham Lincoln ever signed—the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment—set new auction records at Sotheby’s in New York City June 26 when they sold to Kenneth Griffin, a billionaire collector whose wide-ranging taste runs ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20 Sites—Plenty to See, Plenty to Gain
Fans of samplers and needlework should plan a trip to Vermont this summer or fall; the Vermont Schoolgirl Sampler Driving Tour opened on May 30 and will run until October.
In cooperation with Vermont’s commemoration of the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the tour features samplers made by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern and Contemporary Art Sold
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Robin S. R. Starr, now the general manager of Bonhams Skinner, discusses the Laurie Lipton drawing Love Bite during the reception in the new Back Bay gallery. She is the former head of fine art at the auction house. Mascolo photo.
Bonhams Skinner introduced ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2025
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Longfellow jug, 1880-81, transfer-printed earthenware. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of Earle Shettleworth Jr. in honor of Barry and Karen Mills.
—Through July 20 —Brunswick, Maine
Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art explores the relationship between ... (Read More)
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