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(Fragment)Winterthur Scientist Helps Team Discovering Why Matisse's Brilliant Yellow Is Fading
An international team of scientists that includes Winterthur Museum’s senior scientist Jennifer Mass, Ph.D., has announced new findings on why a bright yellow pigment favored a century ago by master artists such as Henri Matisse fades to a drab beige. The study, published in the June 2015 issue of Applied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Westmoreland Museum of American Art Honors Richard M. Scaife
The board of trustees of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, recently voted unanimously to rename the director/CEO position held by Judith O’Toole as the Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO.
A 2005 recipient of the museum’s Westmoreland Society Gold Medal as “Distinguished Patron,” Scaife supported the museum during his ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Maine Antiques Festival: 34 Years and Counting
Union, Maine
The gravitational tug of the Maine Antiques Festival in Union, Maine, held this year from August 7 through 9, pulls in dealers from across the country and Canada. And like planets orbiting the sun, sales and mini-flea markets spring up alongside the roads to the fairgrounds, hoping to distract ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ellie Hoover Walker Collection Buoys Auction
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Massachusetts native Ellie Hoover Walker (1924-2015) began collecting and dealing in antiques in Ohio in the 1950s. She specialized in New England and Pennsylvania Dutch antiques, and over the years refined her collection to the point that when it came to market at Skinner’s August 9 sale ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Prioritizing Change
The Young Collector
We all know about opinions. As the old saying goes, opinions are like dirty socks. Everyone has them, and they all stink. Turns out, we seem to feel the same about priorities, which makes sense because priorities are a more visible reflection of opinions, opinions in action, if ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New Hampshire Dealers Association Show, 2105
This Pennsylvania schoolhouse quilt in fine unwashed condition, circa 1890, was $5950 from Richard Axtell of Deposit, New York. It sold and was replaced at the show with a similar one.
This mahogany chest of drawers, made in coastal New Hampshire, 1800-10, is by an unidentified maker whose works are in ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Homes Down East: Classic Maine Coastal Cottages and Town Houses by Earle ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frame Consignments--Risk Free
Eli Wilner & Company, New York City, has a new program to provide frames at no upfront cost to consignors of artwork. According to Wilner, “In order to participate in this program, the owner of the artwork must agree to purchase the Wilner frame, but the payment is only due ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Show manager Karen DiSaia worked hard and kept smiling. She clearly loves to manage antiques shows.
This is what antiques shows are about. Collectors and dealers are shown looking over Peter Eaton’s make-do chair.
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, asked $19,500 for this walnut Dutch cupboard from Pennsylvania, 1800-20, ... (Read More)
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(Show)MidWeek Antiques Show
Peter Baker Antiques is based in Elgin, Quebec, and he presented fine Canada-made furniture such as the 12' refectory table on trestle legs and with partitions for place settings. It was from a convent and priced at $12,000. The Quebec-made bird weathervane, circa 1890, was tagged $1850, and a Quebec-made ... (Read More)
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