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(Show)Dealers' Eyes Were Shining at the Monroe Antique Show and Sale
A steam and sailing ship diorama featuring the City of Rome was offered by Kathy and Paul Johnson of Seattle Folk Antiques, Seattle, Washington. The actual City of Rome was built in England, launched at Barrow on June 14, 1881, and sailed her first voyage from Liverpool on October 13 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Who's Who Sale Is a Masterful Success
A signed late 19th-century carved and painted life-size Cuban tobacconist figure sold for $36,800. She was mounted on an original stenciled and iron-wheeled base.William Hawkins (1895-1990) created this very large (54½" x 48") enamel on plywood Northeast View from the State House Grounds, signed and dated 1983. Bidding started in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)At the Louisiana Purchase Auction Exotic Lots Fly Like Tropical Birds
This view of a lonely cabin at Manchac, across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans, was attributed to Marshall Joseph Smith Jr. (1854-1923) and had descended in the family of artist William Henry Buck. Both men had been students of landscape painter Richard Clague Jr. The work brought $79,950.Southern collectors seek ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Pastors & Patriots
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvaniaby Lisa Minardi, a special issue of Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow), Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 45, Number 1, 2011, 95 pages, softbound, $24.95 plus $6 S/H from the Pennsylvania German Society, (717) 597-7940.
The exhibition catalog Pastors & Patriots: ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beyond the Verdict: How LaSalle and Zaplin Won the $51 Million Bouguereau Suit
Notre Dame des Anges.by David HewettOn Monday afternoon, January 9, a six-person jury returned to a courtroom in the Supreme Court of the State of New York building in Albany and delivered a verdict that surprised those who had been following the tale of two art dealers who were accused ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Boston Museum Buys John Axelrod's African-American Art Collection
John Axelrod and Nonie Gadsden, the MFA's Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, at an art and design show in Boston in 2011.John Biggers (1924-2001), Shotguns, 1983-86, charcoal and conté crayon drawing. Provenance: Michael Rosenfeld to John Axelrod collection. One of the latest works in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brady Camera and Kennedy Rocker Take Top Bids in Americana Auction
Documented as the last rocker President Kennedy sat in (at the Rice Hotel in Houston the day before his assassination), this straight-back wooden rocking chair sold for $65,725.This early 1860's Mathew Brady wet plate studio camera, mounted on an 11" x 15" base rail, sold for $65,725. This historic camera ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit Filed over Sale of Lichtenstein's "Girl in Mirror"
by Daniel GrantJan Cowles, the art collecting mother of one-time Artforum publisher and former Manhattan gallery owner Charles Cowles, has sued New York City's Gagosian Gallery for selling a 1964 enamel on metal painting by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from her collection without her consent and for considerably less than ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J.P. Richardson Estate Makes for an Unusual Sale in Unusual Ways
The 2¼" high x 2¼" diameter firkin in green paint, signed "RH" for Reuben Hersey and "1859," opened at $3000 and sold for $10,530. It has other pencil inscriptions, but the maker, color, date, and condition make it outstanding.The miniature (1¾" high x 2¼" diameter) tub in red finish, stamped ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review---Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England
by Lita Solis-CohenThomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian Englandby Patricia Phagan, with essays by Vic Gatrell and Amelia RauserThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2011, 184 pages, hardbound, $59.95 plus S/H from ACC Distribution, (www.accdistribution.com/us) or (212) 645-1111."The talent to ... (Read More)
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