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(Book Review)Book Review: Paint, Pattern, and People
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenPaint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850by Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa MinardiWinterthur, distributed by The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 277 pages, hardbound, $55 plus S/H from Winterthur, (800) 597-2760 or (www.winterthurstore.com).Collectors and those who like to know where things were made and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hidden Treasure: Art at Risk on American Campuses
Among the Jessie Volk documents and artifacts sold off by the University of Maine were sales records for Volk's Sabatos rug enterprise; a rug loom carved by Karl von Rydingsvärd, who taught woodcarving at Volk's home Hewnoaks; and several very rare signed Sabatos rugs, one of which is now in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Round Top Antiques Fair
Pen wipes, usually in the likeness of animals, were widely used to wipe ink pens on in the late 1800's. This one is crafted of bronze and boar bristles and was priced by Lorna Rolfe of Merrywood Shoppe, Bastrop, Louisiana, at $265.This lion is way too beautiful to look so ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction in Kennebunk
Late 19th-century terrestrial globe by A.H. Andrews & Co. of Chicago, $4370.Oval framed oil by Georges Frederic Roetig (1873-1961) of wild boars in winter, $4025.A Mid-Atlantic serpentine bureau with French feet and string inlays along the corners and upper edge fetched $1725.This tall clock by early 19th-century maker Ebenezer Sherburne ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXI, Keramics 2011, Art Glass 2011
Cowan Jazz bowl designed by Viktor Schreckengost, made circa 1930, marked, 12" high x 16¼" diameter, professional repair to a horseshoe-shaped crack on the base and a tight line on the rim, $60,375.Rookwood Decorated Porcelain vase, Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1927, molded red tulips, green leaves, and stems, 10¾" high, uncrazed, $10,925.Rookwood ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
The California Lumber Schooner "Mary E. Russ" by Joseph Lee (1827-1880), 32" x 48", sold to a private collector, a southern California doctor who is a regular at Levitt's auctions, for $48,800 (est. $40,000/60,000). Levitt said the price for this painting illustrates the weakening of demand for historical paintings. "The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transformative Artist Appeals Court Ruling in Copyright Case
by Daniel GrantThe U.S. Court of Appeals will consider an appeal to a district court ruling that appropriation artist Richard Prince violated the copyright of French photographer Patrick Cariou when the artist produced his own collage paintings incorporating Cariou's images of Jamaican Rastafarians. On September 14 the court denied Cariou's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Michael Karberg Joins Morphy's
Antique advertising and character toy expert Michael Karberg has joined Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, as acquisitions associate. Karberg, based in the Chicago area, will represent Morphy's at various shows around the Midwest, including the Indy Ad Show, the Chicago Toy Show, and other events.Married and with two daughters, Karberg ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Solon and Ford Join Heritage
Deborah Solon and Alissa Ford have joined Heritage Auctions. Solon will be Heritage's West Coast director of American art and will be working out of Heritage's Beverly Hills offices. Ford will act as the company's director of California art and will be stationed in the company's recently opened San Francisco ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts at Christie's
This joined and painted oak and pine chest with drawer, 32½" high x 46½" wide x 21½" deep, attributed to Thomas Dennis (1638-1796) of Ipswich, Massachusetts, sold for $506,500 (est. $200,000/400,000) to Todd Prickett in the salesroom, underbid by a phone bidder. According to the catalog, it is the only ... (Read More)
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