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(Fragment)London Gallery Files Suit against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné
From 2009 to 2013 the Mayor Gallery of London sold 13 works by Agnes Martin (1912-2004), who was an Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist painter. When those artworks were submitted to the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné, they were all rejected, causing Mayor Gallery to issue some refunds. There are some big ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Softness at the Top
Seeck Auctions, Mason City, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
When I contacted Jim Seeck in June 2016 to get a pulse on what might be his top carnival glass sale for the year, I was looking at the International Carnival Glass Association’s July 16 sale, a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Art and Industry: The Furniture Trades in 18th- and 19th-Century Rhode Island
“American furniture has been studied for a hundred years, and Rhode Island furniture has been an obsessive part of the story,” said Philip D. Zimmerman on September 15 to an audience of 300 in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall at the opening of the 2016 Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Files Suit against Brewer Auctioneer
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation recently referred a number of cases to the Maine attorney general’s office for disposition. In response, the attorney general’s office has filed a civil action in Kennebec County Superior Court against Maine auctioneer Jeffrey S. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rago Expands into New York and Connecticut
Rago Arts and Auction Center, a full-service auction house in Lambertville, New Jersey, with annual sales of $33 million, is expanding its reach into Westchester County, New York, and Connecticut by adding a dedicated representative to the region.
Jennifer Pitman, formerly head of sale, silver, at Christie’s in New York City ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 35th Annual Holiday Antiques Show
Williamsburg, Virginia
The 35th annual Holiday Antiques Show in Williamsburg, Virginia, was held at the Williamsburg Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center, November 25-27, 2016. The annual show is one of those seasonal events that is well worth putting on the calendar. The Holiday Antiques Show is always held the weekend following ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Nautical Estates Auction
Polly Warren Antiques, Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Eighty-four-year-old Polly Warren of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, has collected antiques for most of her life. As a child she spent summers in Chatham, Massachusetts, where she visited often with her summer neighbor Elmer Crowell in his East Harwich studio. She was permitted to watch him work but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mostly Nautical
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Marion Antique Auctions moved its November 26, 2016, sale to the Music Hall across from the harbor in downtown Marion, Massachusetts. The setting was slightly crowded but appropriate to the antiques offered, as most had a local or coastal connection.
Once known as Veterans’ Hall, the 125-year-old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)56th Annual Thanksgiving Auction
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctions
There was a bit of a twist to the 56th annual Thanksgiving sale held by Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, on November 25, 2016. While there was plenty of Americana served to a standing-room-only crowd, there was also something not usually on the plate—an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Patricia Kane to Receive ADA Award of Merit
The Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) has announced that the 2017 Award of Merit will go to Yale University Art Gallery Friends of American Art Curator Patricia E. Kane. She will receive the flame finial prize at a dinner on Friday, April 21, at the Philadelphia Antiques Show at ... (Read More)
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