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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Awards Research Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the 2023 Research Grants Trust will be awarded to 15 recipients, the largest number since the program began 20 years ago.
The recipient of the Marie Zimmermann Grant, sponsored by the Marie and John Zimmermann Fund, is Lea C. Stephenson from the University of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Union, Maine, Show Rescheduled
Goosefare Antiques and Promotions is trying to resurrect a longtime staple on the Maine antiques scene, but it’s going to have to wait another year. John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare have announced they are postponing the new Union Fairgrounds show until 2024. It was originally scheduled for August 4 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Katie Wood Kirchhoff confesses to being a “tightly wound individual,” but that trait enables her to bring vim and vigor to a recently endowed curatorship named in honor of Alice Cooney “Nonnie” Frelinghuysen at the Shelburne Museum in northwest Vermont.
Kirchhoff has been at the museum, a 45-acre campus with 39 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Waving the White Flag
In this issue of M.A.D., we have two stories of seizures of ivory and other wildlife antiques: one in Hawaii and one in New York. Both stories should serve as stern warnings to all in the trade and prompt them to learn the law in their home state and in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winslow Homer Watercolor Donated
Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has accepted into its collection a Winslow Homer watercolor painting, Waiting for the Boats (1882).
Photo courtesy National Park Service, Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.
Donated by Frances Appleton Wetherell, great-granddaughter of Henry and Frances Longfellow, the 14" x 21½" painting joins ... (Read More)
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(Show)Locust Grove Antiques Market
Louisville, Kentucky
With more than 60 dealers, the summer edition of Locust Grove Antiques Market was held June 25 in Louisville, Kentucky. Buyers come for the antiques, but the allure of the event also includes the property, which is a National Historic Landmark.
The semiannual show is in its 43rd year, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Greek Slave Tops Auction
Neue Auctions, Beachwood, Ohio
Photos courtesy Neue Auctions
Neue Auctions’ June 24 fine art and antiques sale featured American, European, and Asian fine art, furniture, and decorative arts. The firm, located in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, drew from multiple estates in the area. The eclectic mix of material ensured that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2023
Tiffany Studios Peony table lamp. Photo courtesy Macklowe Gallery, New York City.
—Through June 30 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk-Art Portraits Highlight Collection
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Fine Americana, most of it in excellent original condition, characterized the two-day sale held June 21 and 22 by Fred Giampietro’s New England Auctions in the gallery in Branford, Connecticut. Day one was a single-owner sale, that of Connecticut collectors Bernard and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Returns
Deerfield, Massachusetts
It all began in 1984 when the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) organized an antiques show at Historic Deerfield. It was a bright star in the firmament of antiques shows. A six-year absence caused by construction at Deerfield Academy and COVID-19 left dealers and collectors somewhat bereft, but ... (Read More)
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