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(Book Review)A Book Review: Inventing the Modern World
by Lita Solis-CohenInventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939by Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. FutterCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, in association with Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., New York City, 2012, 304 pages, softbound, $45.World's fairs—there were 92 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Labor Day Weekend Show in York
This unusual pair of Amish repurposed lift-top cigar boxes with paint decoration attributed to Leah Zook Lapp, dated 1942, was $780 from Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, New Jersey.Stephen-Douglas Antiques, Rockingham, Vermont, offered this early appliqué rug for $9500.York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe 159th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lee B. Anderson Sale
Meeting between General Clive and the Nawab Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey illustrates the dominance of the British East India Company in South Asia for a century. It relates to a series of four decorative canvases painted in 1762 by Francis Hayman for the Rotunda of Vauxhall Gardens. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amorsolo and “Exceptional” Paintings Top Cobb Sale
This 16" x 19" oil on canvas by Filipino artist Fernando Amorsolo, signed and dated “F. Amorsolo/ Manila 1941,” sold for $29,900.
Oil on canvas horse portrait by Richard Stone Reeves of the racehorse Exceptional, sold for $10,350. Charlie Cobb noted, “This was one of his earlier paintings.”
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(Auction)Cleveland Connection Attracts Collectors
Clyde Singer (1908-1999), The Old Swimming Hole, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 46" x 40¼", very good condition, $27,140. Exhibited: Clyde Singer’s America, Canton (Ohio) Museum of Art and Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2008-09; Illusions of Eden: Visions of the Heartland, Columbus ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 38th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
As we stopped to admire the country cupboard with original paint from Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, waves of lookers came to run their fingers over the surface and admire the bubble glass. Described as “High Country circa 1830,” the piece was $28,800. The scalloped bentwood folk ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heckler Sells More Flasks from Lane Collection at 100th Absentee Auction
This “extremely rare” (McKearin description of 1941) decorative pint flask (GX-25) by the Pitkin Glass Works, Manchester, Connecticut, 1815-30, was the highest-priced piece in the sale. The vessel is medium yellow-olive color with medallions and diamond-shaped diapering, sheared mouth, and pontil scar. A highly collectible flask and probably the rarest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lamps Light Up, but Big Bird Doesn’t Fly
A 25" x 30" oil on canvas of the rocky Maine shoreline by Newell Convers Wyeth was the top seller at $48,750.
Tiffany Studios Venetian table lamp with a black-eyed susan shade, with a Tiffany Studios impression on the base, and a shade tag reading “Tiffany Studios New York” that the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting Sale Aids Disabled Jockeys
From left: Terri Moyers, Nedra Matteucci, and Jim Parks of the accounting and consulting firm CBIZ MHM LLC, who conducted the drawing. Chrystina Geagan photo.Nedra Matteucci Galleries, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Sense of Place
One of the rarest and most coveted objects in the antiques market today might be a venue to hold a show.It seems there has been more news than ever before about antiques shows being uprooted, relocated, and canceled. In this issue, we report that two shows—Arts of Pacific Asia in ... (Read More)
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