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(Feature)Program in New England Studies, June 2012
The 1784 Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. George Washington was entertained at the house in 1789 but slept elsewhere. In keeping with HNE's policies of expanding the appeal and uses of historic properties, the house is available for weddings and functions, and it offers temporary exhibits in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anne-Imelda Radice Appointed Director of the American Folk Art Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenAnne-Imelda Radice has been named the new director of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. After a long career in Washington, D.C., she took the helm the second week of September.Dr. Radice served as director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under Presidents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Chase Tigers and Other Animal Art
Roused, a Tiger and Tigress, Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1925), 1912, oil on canvas, 24" x 39", $333,500 (est. $150,000/ 250,000).Home of the Big Horn, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 16" x 20", $97,750 (est. $60,000/90,000).Mount Assiniboine, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 9½" x 11", $14,375 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Homefront & Battlefield
Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett (American Textile History Museum, 2012, 231 pp., softbound, $39.95 plus S/H). To order, call the museum at (978) 441-0400, ext. 247 (Monday and Tuesday) or ext. 243 (Tuesday through Sunday). Photo of quilt ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 38th Annual Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show
The 30" x 52" hooked rug depicting a barnyard scene with a rooster was $895. The small trunk painted to resemble rosewood was $595. Both were offered by Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire.This Boston Classical mahogany drop-leaf table, 72" long x 44" wide when open, is an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer Sale Survives Storm and Videotape
This 19th-century Wythe County, Virginia, pie safe is constructed primarily of cherry and measures 45½" x 53½" x 19". The two-board top is pine over the cherry case. Each end panel features two joined punched tins, and each door has four joined tins. All of the tins exhibit a central ... (Read More)
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(Show)Adirondack Museum Antiques Show
Tom Baker and Barbara Boardman Johnson had a "Fresh Seafood" sign that sold; an early tin gold-mining pan for $45; and green-painted fish decoys for $395.Jane Langol had an assortment of Weller, Roseville, and Robinson Clay Products pottery. The umbrella stand was $390; a green vase with a flower, $435; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Accord" Revived with the Help of Dealers
Pictured are the Bob Withington pier table, Arthur DiMambro's painting Pheasants and Plums, and the glass wine fountain lent by Bill Schwind.Thomas B. Johnson, former curator of the Museums of Old York in York, Maine, and Mary P. Harding, curator of the George Marshall Store Gallery, a property of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of Thomas Nisbet
A selection of chairs by Thomas Nisbet reflect the various forms popular in the early 19th century.This sofa shows the high-quality carving often seen on Nisbet furniture.The banquet table in mahogany shows great proportions and has typical rope-turned legs with ebonized ring turnings.The label of Thomas Nisbet & Son was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Up at New Hampshire Antiques Show
Scott Bassett of the Peter Sawyer firm unveils the rare Aaron Willard shelf clock they kept covered until the doors opened at 10 a.m. It was available for $55,000.After the show had closed, Peter Sawyer said, "We had a very good show, [selling] two bureaus, two tall clocks, a candlestand, ... (Read More)
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