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(Auction)Eclectic Sale in Cambridge
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
When CRN Auctions’ Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom put together an auction, collectors and the trade take notice—it’s bound to be eclectic. The September 10 sale in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery was just that. Furniture and smalls flourished.
A Boston Classical mahogany bookcase in three parts, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Estates Auction Flexes Its Strong Points
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
While the early fall sale at Neal Auction Company has in the past been a smaller lead-in to the Louisiana Purchase Auction in November, bidders did not hold back in the September 9 and 10 event. Whether going for 19th-century furniture ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s
Sometimes it just works. That was the case during the September 9 sale of Americana held by Garth’s Auctions in Delaware, Ohio. The multi-consignor event featured an assortment as diverse as it was interesting. “The property worked really, really well together,” said Jeff Jeffers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Caren Collection
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a 19th-century French journalist, is best known for tossing around a concept that today is most often expressed this way: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
That thinking fit in well when Cowan’s Auctions sold more than 400 lots ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
If the musical Hamilton is responsible for the current boost of interest in our Founding Fathers, the new Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opened on April 19 (the 242nd anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord), should propel American history to a much wider audience. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Will Be a 2018 Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show preview party on April 19, 2018, will take place in its purpose-built tent at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the show will continue on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 20, 21, and 22. The tent will be pitched closer to the river than it ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)"American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent"
A Book Review
American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargentby Kathleen A. FosterPhiladelphia Museum of Art, 2017, 496 pages, hardbound, $65.
For those lucky enough to have seen the exhibition of 140 American watercolors at the Philadelphia Museum of Art March 1-May 14, the accompanying huge catalog is a bonus. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabinetmaking in Rural New England
The exhibition Planed, Grained, & Dovetailed: Cabinetmaking in Rural New England at Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, highlights rarely seen objects and primary source materials from OSV’s collections. Centered on three main themes—form, process, and people—the exhibition examines the tools, products, and livelihoods of rural cabinetmakers in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Queens Gallery Owner and Employee Charged with Illegal Trafficking of Elephant Ivory
A Long Island City, New York, gallery owner and a salesperson for the appointment-only business have been charged with illegally selling a sculpture made with elephant ivory. They were charged with selling the sculpture in June to state undercover investigators for more than $2500. In New York, the sale of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Completes the Maine Summer Auction Rush
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
Four names dominated the September 2 and 3 end-of-summer coastal Maine auction in Newcastle. One was Robert Foster, the owner and auctioneer who presided over his usual standing-room-only crowd. The others were Vern Broe and Louis Michel Eilshemius with a dash of Louis Vuitton thrown in.
The ... (Read More)
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