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(Feature)Stories of Three Collections: Key West, Jack London, and Bookends
One of several panoramic photographs of Key West in the 1870's, taken from Tift's Tower, a lookout for wreckers searching for distressed ships. The panoramas preserve what Key West looked like before the 1886 fire that destroyed the entire downtown. Courtesy Scott DeWolfe collection.A Key West cigar-box label from circa ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Benefit Auction Breaks Records, and Mystery of "Daguerreian Holy Grail" Revealed
A daguerreian brooch encasing a 1¼" x 1" image of a child with a curl and a toy trumpet brought $1100. It was the top price of the vintage material in the sale.A 3½" x 2½" tintype of a Native American family with a White man, perhaps a scout, sold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the trade: Benjamin Wilson and Kathy Pakay, Hudson, New York
Kathy Pakay and Ben Wilson.Wilson's and Pakay's shop at 529 Warren Street, Hudson, New York.An Adirondack desk chair in a nice dark old surface is $675.An early 19th-century Connecticut cupboard with raised panel doors in cream and yellow over red (this is the type of surface Ben Wilson loves) is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fine Art Show Gives Boston's Art World "Critical Mass"
This 14" x 21" watercolor on paper by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was $100,000 from Sunne Savage Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts. It was out on approval a few days after the show. Titled Breaking Wave, it was accompanied by a letter of authentication by Homer scholar Abigail Gerdts. "People who want a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Tailgate Antique Show in Nashville Merges with Music Valley
Rick Norton of Noblesville, Indiana, called his diverse display "Merch 1." A standout item at the center was this swan fountain for $6500—perfect for a New Orleans courtyard.Antiques & Beyond, Atlanta, Georgia, had set up a display designed to appeal to private and commercial decorators. They had already sold an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Op Art Options at Rachel Davis
Julian Stanczak (b. 1928), Black Daisy, 1969, acrylic on canvas, 34½" x 28", $44,250. See the story for more information about Stanczak.Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), Jitterbug, aluminum sculpture, 8½" high, signed, edition of 150, very good condition, $3422.Aaron H. Gorson (1872-1933), Steel Mills on a River, signed "A.H. Gorson" lower right, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Questions Than Answers
Relief carving of the goddess Minerva by Bozanico, inscribed on the reverse, Continental, under glass, 19¾" x 15½", $58,750.The Birds of America: From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories by John James Audubon (1785-1851), seven-volume set, New York and Philadelphia, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860, royal octavo, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Sign of the Times
During Memorial Day weekend 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, landlord Jamie Hein banned a young African-American girl who was visiting her father from swimming in the pool at the duplex Hein owns. According to a complaint filed with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC), Hein claimed that the girl used chemicals in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Approaching the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, visitors immediately perceive the unity of art, architecture, and nature. At the center of the circle stands Yield, a 2011 sculpture of polished stainless steel by Roxy Paine (b. 1966). At its base grow native Arkansas blue stem grasses.The curving concrete walls ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] emperor Qianlong is said to have been very taken with this form of Buddhist alms bowl when visiting a temple at Jiannan in 1758 (on one of his "Southern Grand Tours") and to have subsequently requested, or perhaps ordered, that examples of such bowls be carved ... (Read More)
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