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(Fragment)Minor Ordered to Pay Sotheby's
Multimillionaire art collector Halsey Minor, former head of CNET, has lost the latest skirmish in his ongoing war with the New York City auction houses.
In a March 31 judgment, Minor was ordered by U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones to pay Sotheby's $6,639,850.99. As of June 14, no payments had ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Lockwood de Forest's Artistic Journey
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenLockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for Indiaby Roberta A. MayerUniversity of Delaware Press, 2008, 238 pages, hardbound, $49.50 plus S/H from University of Delaware Press, (www2.lib.udel.edu/ udpress) or (302) 831-1149.Based on her doctoral dissertation, Roberta A. Mayer's book firmly places Lockwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Horan Joins R.O. Schmitt's Clock Auction House
Daniel Horan (left) and R.O. "Bob" Schmitt at the April 24 sale in Manchester, New Hampshire.by Jeanne SchintoR.O. "Bob" Schmitt has announced that, while he is relocating his residence to Phoenix, Arizona, this summer, the clock auction house he founded in 1979 will continue to have its semiannual sales in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Tiffany Studios Turtleback chandelier, early 20th century, green geometric leaded glass panels and a wide band of turtleback tiles, marked, 22" in diameter, one broken panel, a couple of cracked panels, missing the ceiling cap, $31,725.KPM plaque of Theodora, 6th-century Greek wife of Emperor Justinian, German, late 19th century, signed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kaminski Goes Bicoastal
This is a detail of Story of the Flag by Charles T. Webber (1825-1911) that sold for $24,150 (est. $5000/8000). The 153/4" x 191/2" oil on canvas, signed and dated 1877, is inscribed on the reverse at the top of the stretcher "Property of Mrs. W.P. Cronan/Jesse Grant/ father of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Antiques Show
Peter Eaton offered a set of Philadelphia ladderback chairs made of maple and walnut. He thought they were made in downtown Philadelphia because of the quality of the turnings and the overall proportions of the chairs. The price was $56,000, and they sold the last day of the show to ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Artby Carrie Rebora Barratt and Lori ZabarMetropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010, 316 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org) or (800) 468-7386.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the largest ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2009
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Furniture 2009edited by Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by the University Press of New England, 2009, 192 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from UPNE, (www.upne.com) or (800) 421-1561.The hardbound 2009 edition of the American Furniture journal, the Chipstone Foundation's yearly contribution to furniture scholarship, is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transferware Collectors Club Database
In 2005 the Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) made a commitment to establish a database of transfer printed patterns on British pottery. The new database was completed and launched in July 2006. The objectives for developing this one-of-a-kind database of patterns were to provide a comprehensive on-line source of information about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Ott Receives Frost Essay Award
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2009 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award to John Ott, associate professor of art history at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was selected by the editorial board of American Art, the museum's scholarly journal, for "Reform in Redface: The Taos Society ... (Read More)
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