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(Auction)A Little Girl and Lots of Cats at Foster's Auction
Robert L. Foster Auction Co., Newcastle, Maine
When Robert Foster runs his traditional end-of-summer auction in Newcastle, Maine, held this year on September 3 and 4, it's a "clean the place out down to the walls" event. Unlike what happens at some other large Maine auctions, virtually everything sells. Of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Classical Splendor
"Post Palladian Modernism" could be the alternate title for Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) September 3 through January 1, 2017. It will showcase the elegant and graceful streamlined furniture designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe and made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hindman Expands to Scottsdale
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is expanding its regional reach to Scottsdale, Arizona. Headquartered in Chicago, the auction house has five other locations: Denver, Colorado; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Naples and Palm Beach, Florida; and St. Louis, Missouri.
Logan Browning has been hired as the director of business development for the Scottsdale location. Browning, a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Luman Reed's Service Goes to N-YHS
The Old Paris porcelain dining service owned by Luman Reed (1787-1836), a wealthy dry goods merchant and a pioneering patron and close friend of preeminent American artists Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), and William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), has been purchased from family descendants and donated to the New-York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidding the Old-Fashioned Way on a Major Art Collection
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Over $1 million wouldn't be a bad total for the entire Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' August 27-29 event in Thomaston, Maine. But $1.6 million was, by my estimate, the total for what Thomaston Place brought in from just a single midwestern consignor. It was a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Be There
Editorial
While walking around a recent show, I found something I wanted to purchase for my wife. It was exactly what she had been looking for to grace the walls of her office. Looking it over, I found there was no price tag and no information. Nothing.
I thought I'd ask the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)London Company Pays $2 Million for Artwork but Still Waits for Delivery
London firm Blue Art Limited agreed to buy a piece of contemporary art from New York City dealer David Zwirner in June 2014, according to a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The price tag was $2,000,000. Blue Art Limited claims to have paid ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Show 2016
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
This show reflects the market," said Scott Diament, the energy behind the Palm Beach Show Group, which has transformed what was once a giant flea market and antiquarian book fair into the fancy upscale Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show.
This 36th annual show ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, September 2016
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Imagining Ichabod: My Journey into 18th-Century America through History, Food, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Anchors Maine Auction Week at over $5 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
For the last several decades the keystone of Maine's unofficial antiques auction week in August has been James D. Julia's multimillion-dollar blowout. This year it happened August 24-26 in Fairfield, Maine, and included about 2000 lots that made over $5 million in sales, with about three-quarters ... (Read More)
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