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(Issue Story)Virginia Granbery Still Life Purchased by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
It was a pleasure to place a delightful still life by Virginia Granbery (1831-1921) in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia, a museum nationally recognized for the quality of the collections, temporary exhibitions, and beautiful architecture and gardens. It has recently been honored as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Long Collection Featured at Evans
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginian
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semi-annual fall Premier Americana auction at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia, November 20-22, 2025. The sale was divided into three sessions. Session one offered early glassware, lighting, and related ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hicks Sells for $215,900
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Edward Hicks (1780-1849) sold for $215,900 (includes buyer’s premium), well above the $40,000/50,000 estimate, at Rago’s in Lambertville, New Jersey, on November 20, 2025, just a few miles from where Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware on that snowy Christmas Eve in 1776.
Buried in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rex Stark’s Collection at Hake’s
Hake’s Auctions, York, Pennsylvania
Rex Stark’s Collection at Hake’s
The most successful dealers are passionate collectors. When Rex Stark, the dean of dealers in historical Americana, died on December 14, 2023, after a valiant battle with cancer, he left an enormous private collection and vast inventory. His good taste, fearlessness at auction, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith’s Varied Pre-Thanksgiving Sale Brought In $872,000
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
When the three highest prices in a sale are all from different departments, you know it was a strong sale. Such was the case at William A. Smith’s November 19, 2025, auction in Plainfield, New Hampshire. The highest price was earned by an Alfred ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$3.05 Million Sale of American Art
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams held an American art sale on November 18, 2025, at its Madison Avenue location that totaled $3.05 million (including buyers’ premiums). The auction house has since moved its U.S. flagship across town to Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street in February 2026.
The sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Ward Brothers Duck Tops $5.6 Million Sale
Guyette & Deeter, Easton, Maryland
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
Guyette & Deeter’s annual November auction of decoys and folk art in Easton, Maryland, was its best ever, with sales topping $5.56 million (includes buyers’ premiums). The high lot of the November 15 and 16, 2025, event was a beaver-tail style pintail ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Found Object Show
New York City
For a sawbuck on November 14-16, one could enter the gallery at 516 West 26th Street, New York City, and revel in the finds that 20 dealers displayed in the white-walled space of the Found Object Show, now in its fourth year.
Objects that require more than a passing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Geddesburg Cat Transcends into Folk Art and Purrs to $204,000
Crocker Farms, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farms
A folky cat crock from Geddes, New York, was the top lot in Crocker Farm’s fall sale, which ran online from November 5 to 14, and culminated in a phone session on November 15, 2025. “It is remarkable decoration,” Luke Zipp stated about the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)So You Want to See the President! Brings $7.25 Million
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A tightly curated but extraordinary group of paintings by America’s most beloved artists, highlighted by a group of four paintings by Norman Rockwell that comprise his ambitious and famous work, So You Want to See the President!, led to sales of $14.76 million (includes ... (Read More)
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