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(Issue Story)Making Art Out of War: "Photography and the American Civil War"
Unknown artist, after an 1860 carte de visite by Mathew B. Brady (circa 1822-1896). Presidential campaign medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (Hamlin on reverse, not shown), 1860. Tintypes in stamped brass medallion. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, The Overbrook Foundation Gift, 2012 (2012.12). Image: (c) ... (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 mail-order house is the place to look.
The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty by Michael Findlay (Prestel, 2012, 208 ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Encryption
A mobile file encryption app.
Computer Column #297
by John P. Reid, E-mail: [email protected]
Most of us are careful to protect sensitive material on our desktop computers. A list of Internet passwords, business records, or banking information can be encrypted and password protected by most word processors including Microsoft Word and the free ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Whose Blood?
Auction Law & Ethics
Auctioneers get excited when they have a chance to put "blood in the water" for an auction. This auctioneering expression refers to alerting prospective bidders that a seller is in trouble and must sell. The message has considerable drawing power, so it is important for bidders and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
As the summer season of London sales draws to a close, I find my "waiting for report" files bursting at the seams-as ever. Over the coming months, I will work through them, and forthcoming "Letters" will include lots of paintings and drawings, plenty of clocks, some good silver, ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Successful Advertising
The Art of Marketing
Last month I began to cover the topic ofadvertising. Because it is such a large and complex topic, I've decided to continue on that same theme this month. Advertising plays a crucial role in persuading your target customers to buy from you. Companies spend millions of dollars ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In Conversation: Modern African American Art
Gordon Parks (1912-2006), Harlem, circa 1948, gelatin silver print. (c)1948 Gordon Parks Foundation.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), Moon Masque, 1971, oil and collage on canvas.
John T. Biggers (1924-2001), Shotgun, Third Ward #1, 1966, tempera and oil on canvas.
Robert McNeill (1917-2005), New Car (South Richmond, Virginia), from the project "The Negro in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Just Be Yourself
The Young Collector
Let's talk for a minute about Brimfield. No, not that one, another one (named for that one), a little farther west: Brimfield, Ohio.
Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. Most people haven't. Brimfield, Ohio, gets lost easily, pinched as it is between the suburban sprawl that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Boardman Johnson, Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona
Barbara Boardman Johnson in New Hampshire.
Johnson's shop Pewter & Wood in Enfield, New Hampshire. It's on a dirt road, just like her place in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Eight bottle dolls (actually, one is mounted on a tin can rather than a bottle). "They're under $350 each," Johnson said.
Interior views of Johnson's ... (Read More)
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