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(Show)Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival
Poolesville, Maryland
This spring was the sixth installment of the Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival. Over the course of its relatively short run the show’s overall character has been taking shape. The footprint of the venue now appears to be near completion. The booth spaces and their arrangement have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brazilian Folk Painting Tops Maine Auction
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
“My grandmother bought it on a cruise in 1957,” said the consignor of a Brazilian folk painting that was the top lot at Farrin’s Country Auctions in Randolph, Maine, on April 26. “It’s been in my house, sometimes just leaning against a wall,” she said, sitting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana and Political “Signature” Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Important artifacts and memorabilia from American and political history dating back to the Colonial era prompted competitive bidding for the coveted treasures up for sale at Heritage Auctions’ Americana and political “Signature” sale April 25 and 26.
The George Washington “Pater Patriae” inaugural button, the ... (Read More)
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(Show)April at the Liberty Antiques Festival
Liberty Antiques Festival, Staley, North Carolina
Remembering a developing hurricane that passed over the September 2024 Liberty Antiques Festival in rural Randolph County, North Carolina, regulars were a bit leery because of rain in the forecast for Friday, April 25. Instead, it was a gorgeous sunny day, and sales started promptly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Antiques and Americana Auction
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Conestoga Auction Company
On Friday, April 25, while city folk headed to the Philadelphia Show, country folk headed to Conestoga Auction Company’s spring sale and bought redware, cobalt-decorated stoneware, lanterns, tools, fraktur, quilts, Christmas decorations, all sorts of 19th-century household gear, and 20th-century crafts in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frishman Receives John Frederick Lewis Award
At the American Philosophical Society (APS) April 24 meeting in Philadelphia, Bob Frishman received the society’s John Frederick Lewis Award for his recently published book Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803. Since 1981, this prize has recognized the best book published by the society in a given year. Previous ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Getting More by Asking for Less
When asked by someone outside of the art and decorative arts world what museums to see in New York City, I always tell them about the American Folk Art Museum. “It’s fantastic, and it’s free,” is my stock recommendation.
“Access, Scale & Market Share,” a recent report by Remuseum, a think ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2025
Stanley Whitney (b. 1946), untitled, 2020, gouache on paper. The Medford and Loraine Johnston collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. © Stanley Whitney. Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
—Through May 25 —Atlanta, Georgia
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection at the High Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bloody Massacre Sells for $200,000
Paul Revere’s engraving The Bloody Massacre is one of the most familiar images related to the American Revolution. The event depicted, commonly referred to as the Boston Massacre, took place in the evening of March 5, 1770, and is considered one of the seminal moments that solidified Colonial resistance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spirit of Spring: Modern American Art at Christie’s
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Female Modernists occupied some of the real estate in Christie’s 99-lot modern American art sale April 17 in New York City. The live auction, which attracted over two dozen attendees, totaled $14,228,382 and had an 84% sell-through rate. Christie’s reported that 18% of the buyers ... (Read More)
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