Search Stories
Now showing 4870-4880 of 9788 result(s)
(Fragment)Jennifer Carlquist Appointed Curator at Boscobel
Curator Jennifer Carlquist in the drawing room of the mansion.
Jennifer Carlquist is the new curator at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York, where she will research, oversee, and celebrate the museum’s collection of New York furniture and decorative arts from the Federal period. She will also organize annual ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Bidsquare Gets New President and CEO
Allis Ghim is the new president and CEO of Bidsquare (www.bidsquare.com), the on-line bidding platform formed by six regional auction houses: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Rago, Skinner, Inc., Brunk Auctions, Pook & Pook, Inc., and Cowan’s Auctions.
Ghim will have oversight of the overall strategic direction and the expansion and operation of ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Part II of Berry Toy and Bank Collection Sparks Sensory Overload
Bank with a black man kicking a watermelon (a.k.a. “Football Bank”), J. & E. Stevens, patented 1888, Charles Bailey’s penultimate pedestal design, cast iron, ex-Walter Tudor, F.H. Griffith, Leon Perelman, and Stanley Sax collections, Berry II’s top achiever at $270,000.
“Zig Zag Bank,” maker unknown, patented 1889 to Moses Newman and ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Ambrotype of Runaway Slave and Other Photos Highlight African Americana Sale
The collector-agent in the U.K. who bought one of the major photography lots also bought this Louisiana slave sale broadside for $37,500 (est. $6000/9000). The 23½" x 18" announcement was printed on pink paper in 1848. It includes a detailed list of “family slaves,” i.e., house servants. There is, for ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Logania
Courtesy the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at Stenton.
At a time when historic houses are struggling to attract an audience, Stenton, the house James Logan (1674-1751) completed in 1730 five miles northwest of the center of Philadelphia, where generations of Logans lived ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Mid-Season American Art Auction
The top lot of the sale was Cheyenne Medicine Tepee by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), painted circa 1905. It sold to a private buyer on the phone for $173,000 (est. $120,000/180,000). The 20" x 24" oil painting was the “property of a gentleman” who had acquired it at a 1983 ... (Read More)
|
(Book Review)Books Received, April 2015
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.
Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972-1990 by Nathan Benn (powerHouse Books, 2013, 168 ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Lake Country Antiques & Garden Show Moves to New Location
The Lake Country Antiques & Garden Show will be held in a new location. The 70-dealer show will take place May 1-3 at the Waukesha County Expo Center, 1000 Northview Road, Waukesha, Wisconsin. For more information, call (262) 968-4913 or check the Web site (http://antiquescenteratwales.com).
Originally published in the April 2015 ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Contemporary American Illuminations, Art of Barbara Wolff at the Morgan
In Leviathan Whom Thou Hast Formed, a platinum fin whale and some fish of the sea, great and small, are depicted in the depths of deep blue water as an illustration by Barbara Wolff for the unbound manuscript You Renew the Face of the Earth: Psalm 104.
New York artist Barbara ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Antiques Week in New Hampshire: Pickers Market Changes Dates
Barn Star Productions’ 21st Pickers Market Antiques Show is changing dates. It will be held on Friday, August 7, in Concord, New Hampshire, during Antiques Week in New Hampshire.
Frank Gaglio of Barn Star said, “Last year we moved the Pickers Market one day earlier to Thursday after the NHADA show ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
