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(Show)Pure and Simple Antique Show and Sale
Kokomo, Indiana
A reverse-painted window, offered during the Pure and Simple Antique Show and Sale on May 14 in Kokomo, Indiana, summed up in four words what promoters Mike and Marti Korba have essentially been saying for seven years. Lettered on the glass pane was this message: “Come In / Convince Yourself.”
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(Fragment)Nancy Druckman Leaves Sotheby's
Nancy Druckman, who had worked at Sotheby’s for 43 years as an expert in American folk art, has left to form her own art advisory service. In 2015 she retired as senior vice president for American folk art but stayed on as a consultant for the January 2016 sales of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Sculpture at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
A mere fragment took top honors at Skinner’s May 13 auction when it sold for $92,250 (includes buyer’s premium). It was an early 20th-century 22¼" x 15½" oil on canvas study of water, a fragment that had been relined and had some retouching and some ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wallace Nutting Blacksmith Photograph Sells for $4180
Shoeing the Gray Mare, a rare Wallace Nutting hand-colored photo, sold for $4180 (includes buyer’s premium) at Michael Ivankovich’s auction on May 13 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. The 10½" x 12½" framed 1905-10 photograph features a blacksmith shoeing a white horse outside a barn and is signed “Compliments of Wallace ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arizona Man Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
On March 18 in Phoenix, Arizona, 54-year-old Gerardo Alonzo Avila was sentenced to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud, a felony. Avila had filed a claim with his insurance company, Liberty Mutual, stating that his home in Maricopa, Arizona, had been burglarized ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Smartphone Security
Computer Column #329
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Security for smartphones and other mobile devices is more challenging than desktop computer security.
Smartphones are computers with more computing power and memory than the desktop computers of 25 years ago. They are subject to the same kinds of invasion as desktop computers, but their interface ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Shutters Three East Coast Offices
Christie’s is rebalancing its support hubs. The auction house is closing three regional offices—Boston, Philadelphia, and Palm Beach, Florida—and increasing its presence and investment in the West, Southwest, and Midwest.
According to a spokesman for the auction house, “As part of our regular business practice, Christie’s continually evaluates its existing business ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Authenticators Protected in New York Bill
Authenticity, attribution, and authorship of works of fine art are the subject of New York state legislation intended to enhance protections for art authenticators in the visual arts community. According to the bill, authenticators “shall include, but not be limited to, authors of catalogues raisonné or other scholarly texts in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lucy Trask Barnard and Her Rugs
For more than a half-century, hooked rug enthusiasts have puzzled over the whereabouts of the fourth hooked rug offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1961 by Albert Root Jr., great-grandson of Lucy Trask Barnard of Dixfield, Maine.
Correspondence between Root and the New York-based museum, dated January 2, 1961, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Liz Sterling Heads American Paintings at Sotheby's
Some of Sotheby’s offices, left empty after 80 staffers took the generous buyout offers designed to cut costs, are being filled by enthusiastic specialists who switched allegiance from Christie’s to Sotheby’s. Liz Sterling, who began working at Sotheby’s a month ago, is one of them.
A year and a half ago, ... (Read More)
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