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(Issue Story)Heirloom without an Heir
The Young Collector
We hate to be the bearers of bad news. No one wants to hear this, but we have all been dancing around the problem for way too long. It is time to simply put it out there, so here goes. We hate to break it to you, but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Lockwood Kipling Bas-Relief Found at Estate Auction
I first began visiting Lambertville, New Jersey’s antiques shops, the Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market, and Rago Auctions in the 1990s while a graduate student in the art history department at the University of Delaware. Moving on in 2001 to a post as director of collections and exhibitions at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2018
The big money lots in this month’s selection are to be found among the Impressionist and modern pictures sold in London at the end of February, but an old master “find” that made some 100 times its estimated price and a sunny example of the work of Dame Laura Knight ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jim Morneau, Classic Home Hardware, Canton, Connecticut
In the Trade
People get into the antiques business in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. Take Jim Morneau for example. When he was 23 years old, a house fire incinerated his furniture, and he discovered it was a lot cheaper to buy replacements at the local ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York from Brooklyn Sells for $162,500
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers
Gene Shannon and Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers had a successful auction at the gallery in Milford, Connecticut, on April 26. The top lot of the auction, New York from Brooklyn by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), a dramatic oil on board ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lost Portrait of Forgotten Hero of American Revolution Rediscovered
Research on both sides of the Atlantic has unlocked the identity of a portrait of a French general wearing a Spanish uniform with medals including a Society of the Cincinnati eagle insignia. He’s a forgotten hero of the Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farrin’s Launches Parking Lot Show
Farrin’s Country Auctions of Randolph, Maine, is launching an outside antiques show in the parking area of the auction house. Farrin’s Country Antique Show and Vintage Market will be held on Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain date, June 24) at 36 Water Street. The new ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sells Well
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s Americana sale on April 25 demonstrated that there is still a strong market for American history among passionate group of collectors and dealers. Bidding erupted with gusto when American books and ephemera consigned by a prominent Quaker family crossed the block. Toward the end of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Folk Art Museum Establishes the Anne Radice Education Fund
To honor Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, who stepped down after five and a half years as executive director of the American Folk Art Museum, a fund for educational programming has been created.
“During Dr. Radice’s tenure, more than 15,000 New York City public school students visited the museum, where folk and self-taught ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, May 2018
Artist, Soldier, Lover, Muse by Arthur D. Hittner (Apple Ridge Press, 2017, 348 pp., softbound, $19.95).
Arthur Hittner worked for eight years on a catalogue raisonné and biography of Harold J. Rabinowitz, a talented young Social Realist who died in 1944 at age 29 after being held by the Japanese for ... (Read More)
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