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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: Auction Highlights
by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana Week in New York City is a long tradition that grew up around the Winter Antiques Show. Although it is ever changing, which keeps it vital, it is still the time when newly discovered masterpieces appear at auctions and shows and are published for the first time ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: The Shows
by Lita Solis-CohenThe New York Winter Antiques Show spawned Americana Week more than 30 years ago when auctions began scheduling Americana sales while collectors were in town. Then satellite shows began to cluster around the grandest of all shows in America, reaching a peak in numbers in the 1990's and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: The Met's New Wing Opens, Phyfe in Focus, and James L. Kochan's Exhi
Ogden family satinwood worktable, 1810-15, attributed to Duncan Phyfe, satinwood and burl satinwood, partially ebonized, and mahogany, with gilt-brass paw toe caps, casters, and drawer pulls, baize writing surface, and mirror plate, 31" high x 213/4" wide x 141/4" deep. Photo courtesy Hirschl & Adler.by Lita Solis-CohenThe opening of the ... (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.American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 by Lance ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: 2011, The Year in Review
Best Baby Ever: Nora.by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondLife sneaks up on you. One day, you're sitting in the same spot six hours a day, bleary-eyed and with a bladder that is about to pop, while a small, fierce creature, exhausted from rage, sleeps in your lap. You don't know ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston's New, Old Show Is Launched
This small detail of a 1769 map of Boston by John Bonner (1643-1726) and William Price (c. 1685-1771) shows what has become the neighborhood of the Cyclorama on Tremont Street (spelled "Treamont Street" here). A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England in America, the 19 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Folk Painting Brings More Than $1 Million over Estimate
As one dealer said, "I don't think anyone can possibly say anything bad about that painting-it's that good. It has to be up there among the very top folk art portraits." The 373/4" x 361/4" oil on canvas sold to a dealer in the room for $1,271,000. The closeup shows ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Knoedler Closes but Major Lawsuit Filed
The closing of Knoedler & Company, a 165-year-old art firm, caught the art world by surprise. A short message on the firm's Web site read: "It is with profound regret that the owners of Knoedler Gallery announce its closing, effective November 30, 2011. This was a business decision made after ... (Read More)
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(Show)Getman's Boston Show Attracts Newbies Along with Regulars
Chris and Karen Doscher of Witt's End, Wallkill, New York, asked $3875 for the 1860-70 two-part oak dresser that they judged to be "probably Welsh." The 19th-century cant-back two-door open-top cupboard in later blue paint was $3500. The 18th-century Queen Anne walnut mirror with original beveled glass and gilt decoration ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA Show at Deerfield: Superb Offerings, Uneven Sales
Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York, showed the 40" long weathered wood whale weathervane that came from Rockland, Maine, priced at $2950.A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, showed the circa 1935 Grenfell "Map of Newfoundland" mat, 42" x 311/2". It was exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum ... (Read More)
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