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(Show)Boston Welcomes Its New Antiques Shows
by Jeanne Schinto
Promoter Marvin Getman's latest effort attracted one of the largest crowds in recent memory to an antiques show in Boston. Actually, it was a triple bill. It combined an antiques show, an antiquarian book and ephemera fair, and what is believed to be Boston's first-ever antique textile and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Honor Founder Rob Lambert
by John Norris
All prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses)
Thirty-three years have slipped by as if it were just yesterday when Nancy and Rob Lambert promoted the first Bowmanville show in Bowmanville, Ontario, then called the April Antiques and Folk Art Show. Nancy died a year later, but ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Computer Column #222: Writing, Cataloging, and Listening
by John P. Reid, [email protected] A change in Microsoft Word, simple software for collectors, new features of on-line antiques newsletters, and a really simple word processor are the topics this month. -New Microsoft Word Microsoft Word dominates the personal computer word processor market. Its file format has been the de ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great American Cover Up
The exhibition The Great Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors, organized by Lee Kogan, curator of special exhibitions and public programs, will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City from June 5 to September 9. This is the museum's first presentation ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Maine Coup: Lunder Collection to Colby
At press time, we learned that Maine art collectors Peter and Paula Lunder have pledged their art collection?over 500 works, including examples by John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, and Paul Howard Manship?to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine.
We'll have more details when they ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Reaching Out
Finding new collectors is expected to be a major push in the industry in the coming months. In early May, a group of around 30 movers and shakers in the market got together in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to brainstorm on ways to attract new blood to what is perceived to be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques in a Cow Pasture: New Sponsor, Fuel Discount
Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need, is the new sponsor of Barn Star Productions' Antiques in a Cow Pasture antiques show in Salisbury, Connecticut, on September 9.
Show promoter Frank Gaglio said, "Habitat for Humanity... has a solid foothold ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Cyclorama Sold
The Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama, a monumental (22' x 376') early 1880's oil painting by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux and nearly identical to the one displayed at the Gettysburg National Military Park, has been acquired by a group of North Carolina investors.
According to a press release, Larry D. Laster, a Winston-Salem, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Jussel Goes to Freeman's
Chris Jussel has been named head of the decorative arts departments at Freeman's in Philadelphia, according to Beau Freeman, chairman, and Paul Roberts, president.
"I will be overseeing and assisting department heads in Americana, English and Continental furniture, twentieth century, and Asian arts," said Jussel in a phone interview. "It is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Print: Kane Reports a Discovery
Patricia Kane, curator of American decorative arts at Yale University Art Gallery, reports in the May issue of The Magazine Antiques on the progress of Yale University's ongoing project to record Rhode Island furniture makers and their products created between 1636 and 1800. She has added the name Ichabod Cole ... (Read More)
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