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(Fragment)CPWP Receives Digital Archive Gift
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) has been given a major gift for its digital archive from CPWP advisor Polly Forcier, who has spent over four decades documenting and researching original paint-decorated plaster walls throughout New England. Through her business, MB Historic Décor, Forcier has assembled a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Focus on Antique and Vintage Textiles
Penn Dry Goods Market, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The eighth annual Penn Dry Goods Market, the antiques show focused on antique and vintage textiles that supports the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was canceled in June 2020 because of COVID-19 and revived this June as a virtual experience June 4-6.
Bill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bird Girl Brings $390,600
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s holds just two various-owners American art sales each year—in June and December—offering 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century paintings and illustrations, sculpture, and always a special section of works by Pennsylvania Impressionists.
The two-week-long presale exhibition at Freeman’s Philadelphia headquarters at 2400 Market Street was by appointment, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)MADA Unmasked!
Maine Antiques Dealers Association Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
OK, folks, the masks are off...finally! As of this writing, it appears that COVID-19 is heading for the rear view mirror, at least as far as the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) is concerned. On June 5 about 28 association dealers gathered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Heartland Antiques Show
Richmond, Indiana
Things didn’t go exactly as planned for the 2021 edition of the Heartland Antiques Show, held on June 5 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. In the end, it didn’t matter.
Promoter Jennifer Sabin had mastered the art of revision following a year in which most of her ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairhaven Antique Festival
Fairhaven, Ohio
After a nine-year absence, the Fairhaven Antique Festival returned on June 3 and 4. The Ohio show is legendary for bringing fantastic dealers to the middle of nowhere, and it arrived with a splash, literally, as wet weather during setup and unrelenting heavy rain the afternoon of the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Small Selection of Americana
Keno Auctions, New York City
Photos courtesy Keno Auctions
Keno Auctions held a sale on June 2, the Wednesday after the long Memorial Day weekend. It began at 7 o’clock in the evening and ended at five minutes before midnight. There was bidding on three Internet platforms—LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, and Bidsquare—and on phones ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Andrew Holter
Andrew Holter, director of business development at Nye & Company in Bloomfield, New Jersey, does not fit the usual mold of an auction house specialist. He didn’t study art history in college, nor did he grow up in a family of collectors.
Andrew Holter holds a preening Canada goose decoy, carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Walker Homestead Show to Happen
In a sign that life is slowly returning to normal, Walker Homestead will host its spring Walker Homestead’s Antiques & Primitive Goods Show on Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 19 Martin Road, Brookfield, Massachusetts. Face masks and social distancing are required.
The show will feature more than ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in New Hampshire Shows on Tap
On April 16 New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced that the statewide mask mandate would be lifted. For those attending the Antiques Week in New Hampshire shows in August, masks will still be required, according to the promoters of the shows.
After COVID-19 wiped out almost all the shows last August, ... (Read More)
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