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(Issue Story)Lenny and Diane Chapman, Wilmington, Vermont
In the Trade
They say that success in business comes from matching your product to your market. It’s Business School 101. Yet many of us who’ve been antiques dealers often overlook this self-evident rule. We sell what we like—indeed, what we love—and hope that others will feel the same, which probably ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)What's in a Name? The Indy Antique Advertising Show
The new owners of the Indy Antique Advertising Show are trying to keep a former dealer at the show from doing business as the Indy Ad Show.
In January, Mark and Nona Wilson of Northstar Collective, Park Falls, Wisconsin, purchased the show from Bruce and Donna Weir of B & D ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Marcy Carsey Collection Is Sold Online
Lark Mason Associates, New Braunfels, Texas
Photos courtesy iGavel
Marcy Carsey is a television producer who with business partner Tom Werner produced The Cosby Show, A Different World, and Roseanne, among other big successes. She has been reaping huge profits on reruns ever since. Carsey discovered country furniture and folk art in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Design Sales
Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s, New York City, and Rago Arts, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips, Rago Arts, and Sotheby’s
May and June is the time for the spring editions of the 20th- and 21st-century design sales, a market that covers more than a hundred years of furniture ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Matisse in the Studio"--The Object as Muse
Photos courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henri Matisse once told an art critic that during the early hardship years of his career he “detested collections and collectors.” The son of seed-shop owners, Matisse (1869-1954) grew up in modest circumstances in a small town in northern France. He carried a disdain ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Free Admission Wednesday Evenings at the Westmoreland
Admission to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is now free on all Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. The new “Free Admission Wednesday Evenings” initiative is sponsored by First Commonwealth Bank and will run until October.
Admission to the museum is normally a suggested donation amount of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art, Pennsylvania Impressionists
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
More than 100 collectors came to Freeman’s sale of American paintings on June 4 in Philadelphia to bid on a good selection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and works by American artists active from 1850 to about 1950. With the exception of the failure of a large ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chamberlain Collage Brings $72,000
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
Not quite two years old, Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts, knows how to put together a winning sale with few if any passes and a large percentage of lots selling above estimates, some well above estimates. The June 4 sale in the gallery drew a good crowd willing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Audubon Birds Capture Top Billing at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
At Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ auction June 2-4 in Thomaston, Maine, there were no hundred-grand rock stars, but there were plenty of lesser luminaries in the $10,000 to $40,000 range sprinkled throughout the three-day event.
Listed as the “Moses-Torrey-Spear” bust portrait of George Washington, so named ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXVII
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
An Iowa State College vase and a Rookwood plaque each sold for $23,600 (including buyer’s premium) during the Rookwood XXVII auction held by Humler & Nolan in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 3 and 4. However, those two pieces of art pottery offered ... (Read More)
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