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(Feature)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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(Show)Heart of Country: Nashville Classic Has a New Spring in Its Step
At the 2012 show, Susan Kramer Hunkins put together an exhibition of quilts from the collection of her mother, Libby Kramer, the show's founder. Hunkins showed off a favorite flag quilt, priced for sale at $3200, and said, "She loved all textiles."The Gaylord Opryland Hotel contains extensive botanical gardens, expertly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Full House for Merrill's Winter Americana and Fine Arts Sale
The 25" x 30" oil on canvas portraits by Horace Bundy of the Simmonds family of Weston, Vermont, painted in 1853, were fresh and very desirable. A Vermont collector took the lot for $8680.The chair table or hutch table in old red paint has a 48" diameter top and was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse to Open
The Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, will open for the 2012 season, weather permitting, on Saturday, June 23 and Saturday, June 30 and continue to be open every Saturday and Sunday in July and August. The lighthouse will also be open on Saturday, September 1 (Labor Day ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] left, the "King Carlos IV" secrétaire cabinet as originally constructed and as seen in the 1910 New York City exhibition catalogue.Right, the MGM secrétaire cabinet as sold for $39,320 at Bonhams on March 7. The cabinet in its original form is believed to have been commissioned ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art of the Americas Show
New York City gallery owner John Molloy was asking $2400 for this mid-20th-century dance apron with an Avanyu/water serpent motif.Terry DeWald of Tucson, Arizona, was asking $48,000 for this circa 1885 indigo-dyed Pueblo blanket ("no lazy lines"). DeWald had a picture from the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Strong at Farmer Sale
This ship's portrait by Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921) earned honors as high lot of the Farmer sale. The 21½" x 35½" (sight size) oil on canvas laid down on masonite and mounted onto a period stretcher is a portrait of the ill-fated Danish passenger ship S.S. Geiser. The Geiser, powered by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Sues Over Eggleston Sale
by Daniel GrantEverything sold, and sold well, at Christie's March 12 sale of "Photographic Masterworks by William Eggleston," raising $5,903,250, more than twice the $2.7 million presale estimate, for 36 newly published large-scale color limited-edition prints by Eggleston (born 1939). "There is clearly a great interest in the work of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese 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 Cauldron, the Spit & the Fire: Over Five Hundred Years ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Jewelry Auctions
An antique 10k gold and carved coral bead necklace, 16 3/8" long, with a gold and coral cameo pendant-brooch and a pair of 2¾" pendant-earclips, realized $1088 (est. $400/600). Doyle New York.This circa 1870 Archaeological Revival gold and carnelian scarab brooch, 4 1/8" x 2½", with rotating scarab and intaglio ... (Read More)
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