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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Polish Sleighing Party by Jan Van Chelminski (Polish, 1851-1925), oil on canvas, signed and dated 1886, a snow scene with soldiers on horseback, 19½" x 29½", craquelure and slightly darkened varnish, $27,025.Kentucky State Agricultural Society coin silver award pitcher, marked “W. Adams” of New York, having chased and repoussé landscapes, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial feast bowl carved of cedar to depict Dzunuk'wa, 19th century, 36½" long, $111,625. Comanche child's doll cradle, sinew-sewn hide tinted red, blue, and yellow, cast brass bells and German silver disks, wooden slats painted red and blue with brass tacks, with porcelain-faced doll with cloth body, fourth quarter of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Antiques Fair: July Show Canceled and Fall Date Changed
by Fran KramerAt press time, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair manager Bruce Garrett said that the dates for the October 2012 show have "a 99.9% chance" to be changed from the Columbus Day weekend dates of October 6 and 7 to October 13 and 14. The show's Web site indicates the "new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Journal Moves On Line
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is releasing its Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in a new on-line format. The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts was established in 1975 as a print publication and over the years has published seminal articles in the field, providing an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Resale Royalty Act Ruled Unconstitutional
by Daniel GrantThe California Resale Royalty Act (CRRA), which requires the payment to artists of 5% of the profit when their work is sold on the secondary market and either the seller resides in California or the sale takes place in California, was passed in 1976. CRRA was struck down ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Whitaker Couture Auction Filmed by Bravo
Estimated at $800/1200, the Chinese embroidered throne cover, 18th or 19th century, sold for $33,600. The 41½" x 51½" yellow-gold silk tapestry was elaborately embroidered with a gold dragon in couched metallic threads surrounded by cloud bands and Buddhist symbols enclosed by a border of chrysanthemums within couched gold thread, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NEA Grant to Help Winterthur Digitize
The Winterthur Museum is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Works grant. Winterthur will use the grant to scan, photograph, and digitize its collection of prints, maps, watercolors, and other paper arts.With the grant, Winterthur will employ ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Shop News
New Shop in the Adirondacks Expands. Over 20 dealers opened a new shop in February in the lower Adirondacks, The Antiques Market Place. It is located at 1066 Route 9, Queensbury, New York, just south of Lake George, and hours are daily, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Because of brisk ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Location
Sanford L. Smith's Outsider Art Fair in New York City will take place January 31-February 3, 2013, at a new location in Chelsea: Center548 (548 West 22nd Street), the former DIA Center for the Arts.In a press release, Smith wrote, "Twenty-one years ago, when the Outsider Art Fair debuted at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Summer Writing Contest with an Antiques Twist
A 19th-century doll carved from a bedpost is one of seven items suggested for the "Biography of an Object Writing Contest." Visit the contest page on Garth's Web site for a complete list. Contestants may also select their own object by utilizing a 30-day trial membership offer from Prices4Antiques.com, an ... (Read More)
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