(Auction)
Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts
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Previews of Doyle's first Americana auction in its new quarters at The Vendome on Dartmouth Street in Boston's Back Bay was like old times. The October 10, 2025, auction drew an array of familiar figures who were once seen regularly in Bolton, Massachusetts. They were there ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
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New beginnings are often filled with promise. But in the collecting world these days, they are rare as the proverbial hen's teeth. Yet on October 9, 2025, a new kind of auction made a smashing debut. For several reasons, a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's semi-annual Americana sale in New York City, October 9, 2025, offered a selection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings, a small array of silver, and some Oriental rugs. American furniture and decorative arts were sent to Boston for Doyle's inaugural sale at their new and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bonhams Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
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Bonhams Skinner's American Art auction was online only and featured, for the most part, art relating to New England, either by artist, subject, or collection. The 172-lot auction ran from September 26 until noon, October 7, 2025; previews of selected lots were by appointment ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Swann Galleries, New York City
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Swann Galleries' well-followed African American Art sale held on October 7, 2025, with some 650 online viewers and a dozen participants in the salesroom, offered 270 lots of prints, lithographs, oils, watercolors, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media works, ranging from circa 1890 through ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Review
Author Mark Indursky confesses that he has been collecting things most of his life, starting with bottle caps as a child, football cards as a teenager, and then American folk art as an adult, with other collections in between, before arriving at figural representations of the human hand. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
CRN Auctions Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
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CRN Auctions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been long recognized for its eclectic offerings. The October 5 auction was no exception with more than 300 lots of art, silver, furniture, accessories, clocks, and textiles. Bidding was largely online and, on the phones, but the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Piece Work by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
Beneath the Surface
We are working on another exhibition. When we did the last one, we said, "We are not doing any exhibitions! At least not in the near future! We are not considering any additional exhibitions until at least 2025!" Which, in December of 2021, sounded as though it was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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The three-day sale at Pook & Pook Inc. in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 2, and 3 offered more than 1060 lots. Large consignments came from five estates and dozens of smaller consignments from collectors upgrading or downsizing, and dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
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The Potomack Company kicked off its fall auctions with a suite of five sales spread over three days, October 1-3, 2025. The online-only sales were conducted from the firm's galleries in Alexandria, Virginia.
Collectively, the sales offered a wide range of quality consignments ... (Read More)
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