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(Issue Story)Parallel Visions: Shaker Design and American Folk Art
Woodbury, Connecticut
Photos courtesy David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles
When the Winter Show was postponed, David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles had already announced their plan to offer two Shaker collections, one of furniture and one of boxes, and to hang folk art on the walls. They had written ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Americana Sale at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Skinner’s March 30 American furniture and decorative arts auction comprised 111 lots. Presale press releases described the selection as “tightly curated.” It was. A cache of objects that descended from Alexander Hamilton caught bidder interest. Several of the Hamilton objects related to other important ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heber C. Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York
Western New York was a destination for trailblazers in the early 19th century. Men and women left their New England farms; Marylanders and Pennsylvanians traveled from the South for this new unexplored territory. They rushed to the new frontier for the area’s fertile land, establishing farms for fruit and vegetables. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Found Object Show: Art without Intent
A new show in a pop-up gallery on Rivington Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side took place over the weekend of March 24-27. The Found Object Show: Art without Intent was put together by Adam Irish of Old as Adam, Providence, Rhode Island, and New Yorkers Steven S. Powers and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quality, Paint, Surface, and a Country Aesthetic
Garth’s, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s
“Pro-ject and e-nun-ci-ate.” Words from a high school English teacher. Mrs. Buzzard was a stickler about speech. She talked with a diction in which every syllable popped, and she expected no less from her students. In that manner, she would have approved of the online-only two-session ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
“Americana is having a good moment,” said Brunk Auctions’ American art specialist Nan Zander a week before the two-day “Premier” sale. On March 26, the sale’s second day, Asheville, North Carolina, was Americana central, and its good moment experienced a growth spurt.
Images of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carpenter and du Pont Estates
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
In 2013 when Jeremy and Rebecca Wooten started their antiques auction business in Camden, South Carolina, their business plan centered on the antiques category that put South Carolina on the map: pottery. With large sales of ceramic jars and jugs from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Design Sale in California
California Historical Design, Alameda, California
Photos courtesy California Historical Design
There were a whopping 956 lots in the March 26 California Historical Design auction in Alameda, California, so bidders had to know what they wanted. The top sellers were a veritable who’s who of the Arts and Crafts era.
Even with an illegible ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Thom and Cathy Rawson
Six years out of college, Thom Rawson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, decided to leave his job at Rockwell International to pursue full-time what he’d been doing part-time—“playing with antiques.” That was in 1978.
“I’d go to auctions and was buying and selling part-time,” he said. His interest in antiques was his ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 2022
David Ellinger, Out of the heart comes the issues of life, 1943, oil on canvas. Collection of Dr. David Bronstein. Photo: Michael E. Myers, Steadfast Imaging.
—Through April 17 —Glenside, Pennsylvania
Out of the Heart: The Life and Art of David Ellinger at the Harrison Gallery features a selection of 60 works ... (Read More)
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