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(Book Review)A Gift of Friendship
A Book Review
This children's book is based on the true story of a little girl's friendship with an injured Confederate soldier recuperating in her family's house during the Civil War. Set in Culpeper, Virginia, in 1862, Sophia's Gift tells the story of how the Strauss family struggles to survive as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Met Unveils a New Tiffany Window
With new stories, new narratives, and new objects, American art, history, and culture at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, is "at its best!" declared Max Hollein, the Met's Marina Kellen French Director and chief executive officer, to a lively crowd of donors, collectors, dealers, and curators who gathered in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Beware the Undead
Did you know that not a small number of people consider antiques to be "creepy?" They do! "Dead people's stuff." Old houses with creaky floors, beds people probably died in, blanket chests that held trousseaus for ghostly brides, samplers and quilts made by the "dead" hands of women who died ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Guilty Plea Expected in Art Theft
An Ohio man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for trafficking a stolen Andy Warhol print worth at least $175,000.
Brian Alec Light, 58, of Hudson, Ohio, formerly a resident of downtown Los Angeles, is expected to plead guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen ... (Read More)
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(Show)November Edition of Midwest Holiday Antique Show Shines Brightly
Canfield, Ohio
For many "the holidays" refers to the time between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. For collectors of any and all things holiday, that time period is way too limiting. Christmas and Hanukkah, yes, but also New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving-any day when ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.9 Million in Two Days
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
The gallery at Grogan & Company in Boston for the November 2 and 3 sales was ablaze with color and sparkle from the objects on view: fine art and jewels. The auctions, with live, online, and telephone bidding, brought energetic competition. Each ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory
New York City
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) opened The Art Show, its annual event, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City one week before Election Day. The mood inside the cavernous space was buoyant, and primary colors of reds and blues were seen in many of ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Digs but Old and Wonderful Things Highlight Elverson Show
Elverson Antique Show & Sale, Honey Brook, Pennsylvania
Greg K. Kramer & Co., Robesonia, Pennsylvania, offered this portrait by a Reading folk artist of Samuel Reber sitting in a yellow Windsor chair for $1975. The man sits under a tree and a bright blue sky and has a pocket watch ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Political "Signature" Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Important historical artifacts that help tell the story of America's past sold for substantial prices at Heritage Auctions' November 1 and 2 Americana and political "Signature" auction. The auction included items dating from the Revolutionary War to the presidency of Donald Trump. Many of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Sentenced to Over Five Years for Defrauding Clients
Wendy Halstead Beard, 59, of Birmingham, Michigan, was sentenced on September 11 to five years and three months in prison for wire fraud.
Beard was sentenced before United States District Judge Judith E. Levy in Ann Arbor. Beard's sentencing follows her guilty plea to one count of wire fraud arising from ... (Read More)
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