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(Auction)California and American Paintings Sale
The top lot, Roses by Franz A. Bischoff (1864-1929), sold for $798,000 (est. $600,000/800,000) to a private collector from Los Angeles. The actual vase depicted in the painting (shown right) was sold as part of the lot. There were multiple bidders in both cities and many on the telephone as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maine Antiques Festival: Still the Biggest and Going Strong
Paul Roberts of Carmel, Maine, featured a strong selection of cobalt decorated stoneware. He was partial to a Norton & Fenton two-gallon jug with a stylized rabbit under the stamp for $850.Millie the Moose (our name for her) had a return engagement here at the festival, this time for $2800. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Just Folk Offers Bill Traylor, "Unfiltered"
In January, Just Folk, a folk art and Outsider art gallery in Summerland, California, bought a collection of 28 works by Bill Traylor. The works had been owned by European collectors and had not been seen in the United States for more than a decade. Traylor has been among the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"...And a Little Child Shall Lead Them"
Betsy Bentley silk and satin sampler, $465,750. Thomaston Place photo.Jack Lorimer Gray, Out by the Bull, oil on canvas, 23½" x 37½" (sight size), $43,125. Thomaston Place photo.Careful research produced a modest profit on this painting that didn’t sell at the June 26, 2009, Sisters of Mercy sale in Portland, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)With an Artistic Eye
A glazed redware sugar bowl, signed circa 1876 by James Mackley of Thurmont, Maryland, or Winchester, Virginia, was made after he terminated his working relationship with Anthony Bacher.An unknown maker used watercolor and pen on sized cotton to create this Know-Nothing cartoon, circa 1859, probably Baltimore. It depicts the Washington ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Paul and Cheryl Scott Visit ADA/Historic Deerfield Show
People at the ADA (Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc.)/Historic Deerfield show on October 10 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, were amazed (and at least a couple shed a tear or two) to see Hillsboro, New Hampshire, dealers Cheryl and Paul Scott make a surprise appearance. Most had not seen Paul since ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Henry Austin" and "Shaker Design" Win Book Awards
Historic New England has awarded its 15th annual Book Prize to Henry Austin: In Every Variety of Architectural Style by James F. O'Gorman. The book is an introduction to one of New England's most prolific architects, Henry Austin (1804-1891), who practiced in New Haven, Connecticut, for more than 50 years, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale in the Country Delivers
This squirrel or rodent cage with its original unusual decoration in green and yellow paint on a red ground. It brought $4000. “This was the greatest paint-decorated cradle I’ve ever seen,” remarked Shultz. Measuring 18" long and 10" high, the cradle with floral decoration on a green ground had both ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Ellsworth Antiques Show
Neville Lewis of The Barometer Shop, Cushing, Maine, brought barometers, of course. This circa 1840 American marine barometer by Frederick Pool of Boston, in a mahogany case with ivory plates and on its original brass gimbal, was $11,000.For the first time, the Ellsworth show included a dealer who specializes in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Day's a Charm
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait’s popular A Check—“Keep Your Distance,” a 14" x 20" oil on canvas, is no lithograph, it’s the original all right. It brought $381,000 from a phone bidder competing with a very determined North Carolina collector, who ran it as far as he could.The subject of presale speculation ... (Read More)
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