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(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)
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(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)
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(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)
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(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)
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(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)
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(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)
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(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)
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(Auction)Americana Sale
This excellent red and white appliquéd Princess Feathers and Stars quilt on white ground in original unlaundered condition with very fine quilting sold for $3300 to a local collector.The trade bought this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Dutch cupboard with ocher paint-graining and blue interior for $7000.This 16½" high x 10" wide ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Second Lawsuit Filed against Gallery
by Daniel GrantConsider this the other shoe dropping.In March, artist Dana Melamed brought a lawsuit alleging fraud against her Manhattan art gallery, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, for selling a group of her mixed-media works at Art Basel in 2009 to a single buyer for $143,650 but informing her that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)No Bigger but Still Better
A rare 18th-century English Staffordshire comb and slip decorated dish was $3900 with John Philbrick of Ogunquit, Maine. "It's pipe clay," he explained. It's common to find shards in Colonial America, he said, but it was definitely made in England.This late 19th-century patriotically painted parade drum with an Ohio maker's ... (Read More)
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