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(Issue Story)Anna Pottery Monument at Crocker Farm
More than a century before the latest reckoning on racism in this country, potters Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick were tweaking the consciences—and funny bones—of stoneware buyers and admirers. Frogs were positioned at the bottom of mugs. Pig-shaped flasks diverted liquids to the animals’ rear ends. Miniature chamber pots, complete with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Patricia Stauble
Longtime antiques dealer Patricia “Pat” Stauble has many stories to tell, and after over 50 years in business she continues to write new chapters.
Pat Stauble sits at a tall desk/drawer combination in original blue. On the wall are items from the kitchen of her late mother, Doris Stauble—a painted pumpkin ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pacific Trade and Americana
Doyle, New York City
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The first week of November was Americana week at Doyle in New York City. American paintings, prints, silver, furniture, and accessories from more than two dozen consignors were offered in five sales in two days. American prints and paintings, marine paintings, and Outsider art filled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Doyle, New York City
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Offering 181 lots of 19th- and 20th-century marine paintings, folk art, portraits, topographical prints, Hudson River school works, Western and regional landscapes, still lifes, and a collection of Outsider art, Doyle’s November 2 sale totaled $1,384,891 (including buyers’ premiums) with a sell-through rate of 90%. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2021
Ranging from modestly priced items seen in provincial sales to a curious 16th-century painting that made a million dollars in London, this month’s selection is most definitely a varied one—both in content and in the sums raised.
That painting, which was among lots from the collections of Jasper Conran, keeps company ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mimi Adler’s Americana at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
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In the old days, collectors of Americana would haunt city shops and country markets and bid at fancy on-site estate auctions and at farm sales. Some even made the rounds of tag sales. Now collectors browse the Internet in their pajamas ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Set Records
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon’s
Woman Playing a Guitar,signed and dated 1901 by Susan Watkins (1875-1913), sold for $106,250 (est. $15,000/25,000). The price was an auction record for the artist. The oil on canvas, 25" x 30" (sight size), was painted in Paris, where the California-born and New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shelburne Museum Reattributes Shorebirds to Bunn
Shelburne Museum Reattributes Shorebirds to Bunn
In the “Bunn or Bowman” decoy debate, one major museum has made a choice. The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, has reattributed five shorebird decoys in its collection to Native American carver Charles Sumner Bunn (1865-1952).
“For nearly a century, there has been confusion and controversy ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Supply Chain
In August I bought a clearance refrigerator from a big box chain at a significant discount. The sale of the floor model fridge was final—no returns. Tickled with the bargain I had gotten, I had it loaded in my Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, drove it home, and unloaded it by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brewster Portrait Stands Tall Among Americana
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Emile Gruppé (1896-1978), Sugaring Vermont, 1972, 30" x 36" (sight size), oil on canvas, signed and titled on the stretcher, sold for $12,200 (est. $5000/7000).
The October 24 sale at CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, brought a wide range of material from many different collections and ... (Read More)
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