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(Fragment)New Show for Newtown
Barn Star Productions and the Newtown Historical Society will collaborate to produce the Newtown Antiques Market. The new one-day outdoor antiques show will be held on June 21 in Newtown, Connecticut, at the Fairfield Hills Campus facility and will present 100 exhibitors in an informal environment of tents and pop-up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Lang Joins Doyle New York
Peter Lang has joined Doyle New York as a senior vice president and the director of English and Continental furniture and decorations. He will be the specialist in charge of auctions in that sale category and a senior appraiser for estates and collections.
Kathleen M. Doyle, chairperson/CEO of Doyle New York ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Philadelphia Institutions Name New Leaders
The Board of Councilors of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) announced that Dr. Page Talbott was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Royalties Legislation Introduced
Artwork may cost 5% more if legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is passed.
The "American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014" would establish copyright protections for the intellectual property of visual artists.
Under current copyright law, visual artists-painters, sculptors, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bravo, Senator Linares
Editorial
One politician understands investing in antiques, or rather, investing in the antiques business.
Connecticut state Senator Art Linares, a 25-year-old Republican, has sponsored a bill to boost the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show, the 65-dealer affair that will be held March 22 and 23 in Hartford. Linares's bill would appropriate $50,000 from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Joshua Lane Named Curator of Furniture at Winterthur
Joshua W. Lane has been appointed the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, succeeding Wendy Cooper, who retired in June 2013.
Lane received his B.A. in American studies from Amherst College and his M.Phil. from Yale. He worked at the Connecticut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)H.A. Cooper to Retire From Yale
Dr. Helen Achbar Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, will retire in May.
"Helen Cooper has served the field of American art as one of its finest curators for almost forty years, leading the Yale University Art Gallery's department of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Room-size Heriz rug, red field with a blue border, 20th century, 12' x 15', good condition, fringe loss on one end, $9300.
Tella Kitchen (1902-1988), painting signed on the stretcher, "The barn I've admired for years. At Delmont Crossing. Fairfield County Ohio. Tella Kitchen 1975," oil on canvas, 20" x 24" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Bud" Hill Sale
Fifteen Mexican silver figural bowls by Jose Marmolejo, Mexico City, sold for $2750. The mid-20th-century handled bowls, each about 41/4" wide including handles, are shaped like swans. Note the gilt coating inside each.
This partial set of sterling silver by International in the Wedgwood pattern, 167 pieces, including 14 serving pieces ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Great Jewelry Jump Up
At $21,240, the sale's highest-dollar painting was The Flower Seller (overall, 651/2" x 433/4") by Gaetano Bellei. Its estimate was $20,000/40,000.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this Crawford expansion band watch on his wrist when he died in 1945 at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. The watch along with ... (Read More)
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