Stories for July '25
(Issue Story)Exit the Expert?
Beneath the Surface
We met in a library. Andrew was taking a few years between college and graduate school to figure out exactly what he wanted to do next. Hollie was working three jobs and thought quiet evening shifts at a rural Ohio public library reference desk seemed like a break. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Peale Women Painters
The Hammond-Harwood House Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, has opened In the Shadows of a Legacy: The Peale Women Painters, an exhibition that celebrates seven of the nine professional women in the Peale family dynasty of early American painters. It includes paintings and miniatures from the collections of the Maryland Center for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20 Sites—Plenty to See, Plenty to Gain
Fans of samplers and needlework should plan a trip to Vermont this summer or fall; the Vermont Schoolgirl Sampler Driving Tour opened on May 30 and will run until October.
In cooperation with Vermont’s commemoration of the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the tour features samplers made by the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2025
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Longfellow jug, 1880-81, transfer-printed earthenware. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of Earle Shettleworth Jr. in honor of Barry and Karen Mills.
—Through July 20 —Brunswick, Maine
Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art explores the relationship between ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Creations, Contributions, and Legacies of Black Craftspeople
A Book Review
I consider myself fortunate to have used a Cesar Chelor plane more than once. A friend who passed away some years ago had collected hand planes, and when I needed to raise some panels in the upstairs hallway of our 18th-century house in Maine, he handed me a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Futura Tank Vase Breaks Record
On May 18 Just Art Pottery, Germantown Hills, Illinois, sold a 1928 tan and blue Roseville Futura Tank vase model 412-9 for $38,350 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate was $15,000/20,000. According to Just Art Pottery, that’s an auction record for the sought-after Roseville vase. The previous record was $25,200 for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2025
New York City
When The American Art Fair debuted in November 2008, its participants, all leading specialists, viewed it as a way of countering the growing might of New York City’s international auction houses. As dealer Debra Force put it, “It was one-stop shopping, a way for buyers to take in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A 13-Star Flag and a New Jersey Surprise
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
On May 1 and 2 Pook & Pook, Inc., held its spring Americana sale. Of the 599 lots offered, 588 sold for a total of $1,232,813, a 98% sell-through rate. Pook & Pook is known for finding buyers for nearly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Goes to Washington
Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman
On the day the nation was taking stock of the first hundred days of President Donald Trump’s second term, it was business as usual at the Freeman’s | Hindman April 29 sale of Americana in Philadelphia. Despite the chaos and uncertainty in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Show 2025
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more than 60 years, the Philadelphia Show has been a popular annual April event that always follows tax season. The 2025 show, held April 24-27, was affected by the chaos of trade wars caused by President Trump’s tariffs. “People were afraid to come to the show to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)America’s Melting Pot Artists Take Top Honors at Slotin
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Auction
merica is a melting pot, and this was clearly evident at Slotin Auction’s April 26 and 27 sale of work by self-taught artists. “For a long time, the art market has been homogenized. It’s the same Caucasian guys who were recognized, even in the ... (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)Old Master through Modern Prints, Featuring the Reba and Dave Williams Collection
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
A 386-lot sale of old master through modern prints, filled with color woodcuts of flora, fauna, figs, fish, flamingos, and phlox, was held at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, the morning of April 15. The 63 lots of color woodcuts ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Portrait of Frederick Baker Sells for $508,750
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
On April 4 two bidders competed at Neal Auction Company on Magazine Street in New Orleans for a pre-Civil War portrait of Frederick Baker, a black man wearing a red vest and black coat over his white shirt and black bow tie, his eyes turned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Great Estates” Two-Day Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers
Decorated with a sulfide bust said to be of Andrew Jackson, a 7½" high garniture attributed to Benjamin Bakewell’s glass factory in Pittsburgh highlighted the “Great Estates” auction held by Amelia Jeffers at Columbus, Ohio, March 21 and 22. Dating to the 19th century, ... (Read More)
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