Search Stories
Now showing 7000-7010 of 9791 result(s)
(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.Edward Hopper's Maine by Kevin Salatino (Bowdoin College Museum of Art ... (Read More)
|
(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Of Method and Money
by Steve ProffittBillions of dollars of property are consigned to auctions annually. Too often consignors know too little about the consignment process. At the beginning of summer, we began a review of consignment points and issues to help educate consignors. Last month, we delved into the consignment contract and saw ... (Read More)
|
(Show)Labor Day Weekend York Show
Thurston Nichols of Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, asked $7900 for this elaborate enclosed wooden carved barroom scene by the Jailhouse Carvers.The 19th-century small English desk showing elements of the William and Mary style was $4400 from Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut. The circa 1740 English small brass candlestick was $750.Cassopolis, Michigan, ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts Sale
The market for naïve paintings by Jonathan Orne Johnson Frost (1852-1928) is quite strong at present. This 20" x 26" oil on paperboard depiction of the family home in Marblehead carried a $15,000/25,000 estimate and sold for $38,513.Philip Zea called this Federal bureau made in Rutland around 1805-15 "a defining ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Annual Summer Americana Sale
The top lot of the sale was this oil on board beach scene by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), signed on the lower left. The painting was probably painted in Brooklyn when Chase had returned from Holland, according to expert Dr. Frederick Baker. Baker thought the painting might have been painted ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Ubaldo Vitali Wins MacArthur Fellowship
Courtesy the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.by Lita Solis-CohenMost MacArthur Foundation Fellowships—nicknamed the "genius" grants—are given to artists, musicians, poets, novelists, architects, and scientists, but in September an artisan was chosen. Ubaldo Vitali, a silversmith, conservator, and scholar from Maplewood, New Jersey, is one of the 22 recipients ... (Read More)
|
(Feature)Editorial: Board--and Ford--Step Up
EditorialThree days after the New York Times took to task the leadership of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City but praised the museum's curatorial vision and lamented its possible closure, the nine-member board of trustees of the troubled institution stepped up and delivered. On September 22, they ... (Read More)
|
(Book Review)Book Review: American Paintings at the Barnes
by Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundationby Richard J. WattenmakerBarnes Foundation in association with Yale University Press, 2010, 381 pages, hardbound, $75.Richard Wattenmaker dedicated his book American Paintings and Works on Paper in the Barnes Foundation to Barton Church, artist, teacher, mentor, and friend. At ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Skinner's Fall Jewelry Auction
My daughter loved this antique gold and micromosaic suite—a pair of earrings with beetle motifs and garland borders with seed pearl accents and a bar brooch depicting ducks on a pond. The suite sold to an Internet bidder through Live Auctioneers for $1103 (est. $400/600).Three phone bidders fought for this ... (Read More)
|
(Show)The 38th Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
The western Pennsylvania cherry server with dovetailed top, three drawers, and two doors, circa 1850, was $865 from Whimsy Antiques, Fenelton, Pennsylvania. The 1950's wooden globe with a wooden frame was $135; the oil on canvas still life of peaches, $190; and the round deep oak window with colored glass, ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
