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Seventy sketchbooks by renowned artist Otto Piene (1928-2014) have been gifted to the Harvard Art Museums. The gift was made by poet and author Elizabeth Goldring, the artist’s wife. Dating from 1935 to 2014, the largely unpublished sketchbooks reflect interdisciplinary, cross-media experiments from Piene’s long career in the Boston area ... (Read More)
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As this issue of Maine Antique Digest is published, thanks to a dedicated crew making sure it reaches the press, uncertainty hangs over the world of art and antiques. Will things ever be the same?
The antiques industry, as we’ve all always known, is by no means essential. It’s a place ... (Read More)
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The Maine Antiques Dealers Association’s Education and Community Grants program, established in 1998, exists to “promote education in, and knowledge of, historical Maine arts and decorative arts.” In order to qualify for the grant, a request must be submitted to the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA).
Harry Hepburn of Harrison, Maine, ... (Read More)
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Tiffany Studios table lamp with a 20" conical leaded-glass shade in the Poppy motif and a rare base with 16 iridescent Favrile glass balls as supports for the telescoping stem. There are Tiffany stamps to both the shade and base. It sold for $541,200 (est. $350,000/450,000). According to Morphy Auctions, ... (Read More)
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For the first time since acquiring the Bath (Maine) Antique Sale, Gurley Antique Shows has announced that the show will have a full six-show schedule. The first show this fall, October 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will have approximately 50 dealers from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont exhibiting.
The ... (Read More)
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Venice, California-based American Indian art dealer, gallerist, and show producer Kim Martindale’s stunning announcement that he has acquired Santa Fe’s Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show affects almost all serious members of the Indian art collecting community—dealers, collectors, and artists.
Martindale wrote in a press release, “Words can’t fully express ... (Read More)
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The January 7 edition of the Boxborough Antique Show opened at 10 a.m. to 12" of snow and freezing temperatures. Run by Rachel and Joshua Gurley at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts, the show carried on. Although most events would have canceled, the Gurleys say “Rain, Snow, or ... (Read More)
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The Gallery at Trifles, Wiscasset, Maine, is hosting a selling exhibition of 70 drawings by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) that have never been on public display. This coincides with the exhibition Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art.
Peggy Bacon was a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ... (Read More)
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On January 17 the Federal Register published a notice from the National Park Service that revealed that a scalp seized in early May 2022 at Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine, was human. The scalp was attached to a beaded American Indian pipe bag and was part of a large ... (Read More)
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A 200-vendor group shop in North Tonawanda, New York, entered into an agreement in November 2024 with Flow Capital Funding LLC to provide capital. Those funds came at a high cost—almost 50%.
It wasn’t a loan. According to paperwork filed in a Monroe County, New York, courtroom, the shop sold future ... (Read More)
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