Stories for June '21
(Fragment)Phillips on the Move
Founded in 1796 and based in New York City and London, Phillips is relocating its New York headquarters across the street to a new 96-story residential building at 432 Park Avenue, built by real estate developer and major art collector Harry Macklowe. Live auctions will begin in June, with the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Red Earthenware Industry in Concord, New Hampshire
Located in the center of New Hampshire in Merrimack County, along the Merrimack River, Concord was settled between 1725 and 1727 as Penacook Plantation by a group from Haverhill, Massachusetts, that included Captain Ebenezer Eastman (1680-1748). The town was named Rumford in 1734, but its name was changed to Concord ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2021
London sales, as befits the title of this feature, are certainly included among my picks for this month’s “Letter,” but there are, again, reports inspired by provincial sales—and one of them just had to take top billing. So let me begin with...
A Very Big Day Out for Quite a Small ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture: The Chipstone Journal
A Book Review
Chipstone’s American Furniture 2019 will be known as the “Washington furniture edition” because the first two articles document George and Martha Washington’s purchases of furniture, much of it bought second hand, some at auction. The Washingtons were glad to take advice on purchases from friends and neighbors, including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CPWP Receives Digital Archive Gift
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) has been given a major gift for its digital archive from CPWP advisor Polly Forcier, who has spent over four decades documenting and researching original paint-decorated plaster walls throughout New England. Through her business, MB Historic Décor, Forcier has assembled a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Andrew Holter
Andrew Holter, director of business development at Nye & Company in Bloomfield, New Jersey, does not fit the usual mold of an auction house specialist. He didn’t study art history in college, nor did he grow up in a family of collectors.
Andrew Holter holds a preening Canada goose decoy, carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Walker Homestead Show to Happen
In a sign that life is slowly returning to normal, Walker Homestead will host its spring Walker Homestead’s Antiques & Primitive Goods Show on Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 19 Martin Road, Brookfield, Massachusetts. Face masks and social distancing are required.
The show will feature more than ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in New Hampshire Shows on Tap
On April 16 New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced that the statewide mask mandate would be lifted. For those attending the Antiques Week in New Hampshire shows in August, masks will still be required, according to the promoters of the shows.
After COVID-19 wiped out almost all the shows last August, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds
A Book Review
Robert Shaw’s long-awaited American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds is a book much needed. With color photographs of the finest weathervanes in public and private collections, this well-documented story of the invention, manufacture, and collecting of weathervanes recognizes them as art, a special category of American sculpture.
Until ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cadou to Step Down as Winterthur’s Director and CEO
Carol B. Cadou will step down as Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library on June 1. Chris Strand, Brown Harrington Director of Garden & Estate, will assume the role of interim CEO immediately to facilitate the transition. Strand has been a director at Winterthur ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Graduation Day: “The Young Collector” Becomes “Beneath the Surface”
Graduation season is upon us once again, and for the next few weeks the news will be filled with the various founts of knowledge and advice that will pour forth. We have knowledge and advice too, some of it questionable, and since we’re not likely to be asked to give ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Promise of Spring
In March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an image of daffodils that artist David Hockney had executed on his iPad was widely shared on social media. Hockney titled the artwork Do remember they can’t cancel the spring. It was a sorely needed message of hope in a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Show in Frederick, Maryland
The Early Settlers Antique Show will debut on Saturday, June 5, at the Great Frederick Fairgrounds in Frederick, Maryland. The one-day show, promoted by Jill Peterson and Christina Hummel, will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The show will occupy two temperature-controlled buildings with dealers from 19 states. Food ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2021
Karl Bodmer, Hotokáneheh, Piegan Blackfoot Man, 1833, watercolor and graphite on paper. Collection of Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.
—Through July 25 —New York City
Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts Native North Americans through watercolors created in the 1830s ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Hank Williams Poster Sells for $150,000
A restored window card poster for a 1953 Hank Williams show that never happened sold on May 1 for $150,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Heritage Auctions, setting a world record for the most expensive concert poster ever sold at auction. (In April 2020 a Beatles poster for an August 23, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Books and Manuscripts Blowout
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Printed and manuscript Americana from the estate of Ira and Barbara Lipman offered in 557 lots in three sessions at Sotheby’s, April 13 and 14, brought an impressive $12,396,132 (including buyers’ premiums), well over the presale estimates of $735,000/10,600,000 (figured without buyers’ premiums). The sale, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sevatson and Foley Collections Anchor Sale
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
New Haven Auctions’ April 10 and 11 two-day sale, in the new gallery in Branford, Connecticut, offered two premier folk-art collections on day one. They were the collection of Maine dealer Robert Foley and the estate of Nancy Sevatson (1933-2020), who had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chippendale Side Chairs Bring $33,210
A pair of 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany side chairs sold for $33,210 (includes buyer’s premium) in an online-only auction held on April 10 by Neue Auctions in Beachwood, Ohio.
$33,210.
The chairs, ex-Joe Kindig Jr., had sold at Garth’s on March 26, 1988, for $80,000 (at that time, Garth’s did not charge ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale on the Cape
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Called “The Spring Sale,” the April 1 and 2 auction at Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts, was online, culled from an array of Massachusetts-area estates and collections. Estimates seemed of little importance as items passed from one estate or collection to another collection. The auction offered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Pleads Guilty in Warhol Scam
Brian R. Walshe, 46, of Lynn, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 1 in connection with taking and attempting to sell on eBay two Andy Warhol paintings.
Walshe pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud, interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud, possession of converted goods, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ossorio’s Garden Welcomes Spring at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia, kicked off spring 2021 with a series of four online-only auctions over a three-day period, March 23-25. The four sales were loosely targeted, consisting of jewelry and Asian works of art, followed by modern art, then English ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Abundance of Antique Jewelry and Bidders
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Skinner, Inc., Boston, held a “Fine Jewelry Collections” online sale from March 16 through 24. It contained the abundance of antique jewelry that Skinner has a history of offering in its auctions, at more modest prices than the jewelry in its live “Important Jewelry” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McInnis Finds the “Way”
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts, is making the best of a bad situation and finding the silver lining in the COVID-19-produced cloud. Even though the auction house carefully limited in-person attendance to 25 or fewer at its March 20 sale, phone, absentee, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)50-Year Railroadiana Collection
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
Soulis Auctions of Lone Jack, Missouri, sold the 50-year railroadiana collection of Steve “Packrat” Cregut on March 20. Promoted as having “A Collection of the Best Lanterns Ever Offered at Auction,” the sale featured about 250 lots that grossed $313,196 (including buyers’ premiums). ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sold at Garth’s
Garth’s Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctions
A Hepplewhite sugar chest was the top lot during the Americana sale held by Garth’s Auctions of Columbus, Ohio, on March 19, selling for $11,250 (includes buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $3000/5000. Dating to the first quarter of the 19th century and likely ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Casco Bay Hits Two Five-Figure Prices
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
March 13 marked the fourth auction at the new location of the nascent Casco Bay Auctions in Freeport, Maine, with auctioneer and owner Andrew Davis at the helm. After five months at the new site, Davis’s plan is to mount an auction once a month for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
When Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, held a two-day sale of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts on March 9 and 10, the top lots served as a snapshot of the market for Americana, while the sale as a whole offered a panoramic ... (Read More)
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(Show)Celebrating Its 50th Year and a New Location
Hudson Antique Show, Canfield, Ohio
The pandemic that started in 2020 caused all Ohio antiques shows to go on hiatus for a solid year. Those who attend such events often wondered during these past months, “Will it ever be the same again?” The Hudson Antique Show, held March 6 and 7, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)March Madness Sale
Carlsen Gallery, Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery
"The phones were jammed all day,” said a happy Russ Carlsen in a post-sale chat. “The sale was well attended on the Internet.” Some of the material Carlsen auctioned off at his March 7 Internet and phone sale had been the property of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Western Art Sale a Success
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Sales totaled $925,569 at the first dedicated stand-alone Western art auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles on February 26. Newly hired specialist Katherine Halligan said she was “really pleased” with the results of this “small” sale of 58 lots. “I came in late,” she added, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)London, Dublin, and Boston Stories at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
The estate of New York City investment banker Robert Kyle Johnson (1938-2020) consigned 128 lots of 18th-century British and Irish furniture and silver to Brunk Auctions’ February 12 and 13 “Premier” sale. All the consignments were from Johnson’s home in Aiken, South Carolina. ... (Read More)
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