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(Auction)The Kindig Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The Kindig family story, told in the introduction to the illustrated catalog for the sale of the Kindig collection of American furniture, paintings, silver, and decorative arts, documents an earlier time.
Joseph “Joe” Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), who amassed a collection of more than 400 long rifles ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Knowingly Buys Fake for More Than Double High Estimate
On January 21 Crescent City Auction Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, sold three paintings all properly cataloged as “After Clementine Hunter.” They were fakes, and sold as such. In fact, after determining they were fake with the help of Hunter expert Tom Whitehead, Crescent City asked the consignor to write “FAKE” ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Convention and Show
Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club Show, Muncie, Indiana
The annual show hosted by the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club typically excels in top-end canning jars. That’s why it has been referred to in some circles as the Super Bowl of fruit jar shows. The 2023 edition, held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 2023
Margaret Norton (1905-2000) of the Folly Cove Designers demonstrating the printing process. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum.
—Through March 19 —Gloucester, Massachusetts
Designed & Hand-Blocked by the Folly Cove Designers at the Cape Ann Museum explores the Folly Cove artistic collective, which existed from 1938 to 1969. Craftspersons, mostly women, created ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portrait Soars to $945,000
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Nine American museums were among the bidders for a 19th-century portrait of two unidentified girls at Christie’s Americana sale in New York City January 20. The black girl on the left holds a rose and is wearing more coral jewelry than her white companion—a necklace, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collection off the Market for 50 Years Sells
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
There were 10,000 objects in the collection of the Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Edith Kelly Fetherston collected furniture, quilts, ceramics, glass, metalware, and paintings and housed them in a historic building on Water Street that began in 1796 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century and Mid-Century Modern Sales
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
On January 19 and 20, at the very same time that major sales of Americana were live in New York City and Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, was selling early 20th-century and modern design live to a different audience with great success. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Santore Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s sale of the collection of Philadelphia collectors Charles and Olenka Santore January 19 in New York City dispersed the finest assemblage of Windsor furniture ever to come to market.
Charlie Santore (1935-2019) was known in the world of Americana as the author of the definitive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)19th-Century American Art
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s offered 66 lots of 19th-century American art January 19 during Americana Week, and several dealers and collectors attended the live sale to buy and also observe what was selling and not selling during the auction. After three years of enduring COVID-19, clients sitting in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)From Peale to Peto: The Pollack Collection
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Fans of paintings of fruit, flowers, fish, and faces showed their appreciation by bidding on and buying 32 out of 34 lots offered in Christie’s sale “From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection,” held the morning of January 19 in New York ... (Read More)
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