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(Fragment)Collier Gwin Agrees to Community Service Deal
The video of art dealer Collier Gwin of San Francisco, California, spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose on January 9 went viral on the Internet, and charges soon followed. Gwin, an art gallery owner and 42-year resident of San Francisco, was charged with misdemeanor battery.
On July 10 a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Oregon Trail
Beneath the Surface
In 2016, not long after Andrew hung out his shingle as an independent appraiser, a college friend reached out to see if he could help her father with his coin collection. Her dad was aging (as parents tend to do) and wanted to make a plan for his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Was It Patrick Henry’s Pine Press?
In May 2023 the antiques community was introduced to an unassuming and previously unidentified piece of case furniture (see M.A.D., August, p. 164), a shallow, one-piece storage cabinet, popularly referred to as a “press.”
The 78” x 48½” x 14” press is constructed entirely of yellow pine and exhibits an overall ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Love and Desire
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love, When you hear her call you across a crowded room, Then fly to her side and make her your own, Or all through your life you may dream all alone. Once you have found her, never let her go, Once you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kornhauser Joins The Olana Partnership
Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, currently the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has retired from her position and joined The Olana Partnership as consulting senior curator and chair of The Church 200 Committee, effective August 1.
Dr. Kornhauser will lead planning efforts ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rhinebeck Antiques Show Discovery: Resurrecting James S. Conover & Co. and Finding a Mystery
It was a bright but unseasonably cold day in the Hudson Valley on Memorial Day weekend 2021. As I have for some 15 years, I eagerly headed to Antiques at Rhinebeck. One never knows what treasures will turn up at this fabulous show. This was the first in-person Rhinebeck show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Family Reunion
Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
Photos courtesy Poulin Antiques & Auctions
It was like a step back in time. On August 29 Poulin Antiques & Auctions hosted a “Premier Major Summer Antique Auction” at its facility in Fairfield, Maine, the old headquarters of James D. Julia Auctions. Nick Poulin, president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale in Rockland
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maine
When the auctioneer approached the dais to sell the first lot at Bruce Gamage’s small end-of-summer auction August 28 at the Elks Lodge in Rockland, Maine, there was applause.
The auctioneer for the first lot wasn’t Gamage. Instead, it was former Gardiner, Maine, auctioneer Tim Gould, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Oversupply, Under Demand
Ledbetter Folk Art Auction, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art Auction
Auctioneer Matt Ledbetter takes chances on relatively unknown North Carolina artists. In December 2021 he brought 19 “Creatures of the Night” totems by the reclusive Alton “Otto” Long to his Gibsonville, North Carolina, auction house. All of them sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inness Painting the Top Lot in $2.17 Million Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The three-day sale held by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, August 25-27 pulled in about $2.17 million for 1335 lots. It was another marathon sale put on by owner and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux and his staff.
George Inness (1825-1894), ... (Read More)
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