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Helen M. Turner (1858-1958) of Louisiana was an important American Impressionist noted for sensitive interior scenes featuring women and children. Sold for $92,250, The Moth (27½" x 19½"), signed and dated 1918 by the artist, will be included in the catalogue raisonné being prepared by Kaycee Benton.
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Two phone bidders and a bidder on line competed for Homesickness by Jared French (1905-1987). It is signed lower right and signed and titled on the reverse. The 9½" x 7¼" egg tempera on panel was painted in 1942 and sold on line for $92,500 (est. $15,000/20,000). Another magic realism ... (Read More)
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Little Caldwell's Island, 1940, signed lower right. The 32" x 40" tempera on panel was estimated at $1,000,000/1,500,000 and sold for $722,500 to John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York City. The view is of Little Caldwell’s Island from Caldwell’s Island (Knox County, Maine) at low ... (Read More)
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Arthur Dove (1880-1946), Car. The signed 13¼" x 22" oil on canvas was painted in 1931. It sold on the phone for $686,500 (est. $200,000/300,000). It was consigned by Laughlin and Jennifer Phillips and was a gift to them from Duncan Phillips, founder of The Phillips Collection in Washington, ... (Read More)
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by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.A View Book of the Many Images Found in Clifford Ashley's ... (Read More)
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by Lita Solis-CohenDream House: The White House as an American Homeby Ulysses Grant Dietz and Sam WattersAcanthus Press, 2009, 304 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from Acanthus Press, (www.acanthuspress.com) or (800) 827-7614.Published three years ago, Dream House: The White House as an American Home seems relevant during this election year. ... (Read More)
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Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), Cape Horn, Columbia River, 1867, albumen print. Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund.Ansel Adams (1902-1984), Half Dome, Blowing Snow, Yosemite National Park, California, circa 1955, gelatin silver print from the 1970's. Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. ©2012 The Ansel Adams Publishing ... (Read More)
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Before I arrived in the late morning, a dry sink, a painting, and a few country stands had vanished from the booth of Bill and Ruth Garland of Jefferson, Maine. They still had this large (13") blue and white spongeware bowl with raised arches on the sides for $295.Damariscotta, Maineby ... (Read More)
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5781This bronze-body scraper plane, patented by Leonard Bailey on August 7, 1855, was one of Donnelly's superstars for the day. It finished with the top price of the sale at $32,200.5782A probably unique adjustable mechanical rounding plane, patented by Samuel M. Adams of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on June 4, 1872, sold ... (Read More)
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Mikado mechanical bank, Kyser & Rex, 1886, blue table variation, took top honors at $198,000.Freedman's Bank mechanical bank, Jerome Secor, 1880, one of five or six known, $138,000.Kiltie mechanical bank, Harper Ltd., England, 1931, ex-Bill Norman, ex-F.H. Griffith, $25,200.Calamity or Football mechanical bank, J. & E. Stevens, 1905, $38,400.Top pick ... (Read More)
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