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(Issue Story)100 Years of Weathervanes
Olde Hope, New York City
There must be something in the New York fall air. Weathervanes seem to be everywhere, including at Olde Hope’s New York City gallery exhibition and sale and at the American Folk Art Museum’s months-long, well-publicized exhibition American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (open through January ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Holly and Jeff Noordsy
Objects tell stories, and those stories keep evolving, certainly for Holly and Jeff Noordsy, antique bottle, glass, and earthenware dealers who live in Cornwall, Vermont.
Jeff and Holly Noordsy in their abode.
Their story begins at a film studies class during the January term at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Jeff, then ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Glen Sells for $3.2 Million
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The star performer at Sotheby’s annual fall American art sale in New York City on November 22 was The Glen by Maxfield Parrish. The artist transformed a New Hampshire forest of ancient trees and a brook beneath a turquoise sky into an iridescent wonderland. Between ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles, held a Native American art auction on November 22. Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs thought that with the exception of the baskets offered at the end of the auction, the rest of the sale was “fantastic, with good prices and lots ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ararity Auctions Sells Laughlin Estate in Two Parts
Ararity Auctions, Lorton, Virginia
Photos courtesy Ararity Auctions
This was our first visit to Ararity Auctions in Lorton, Virginia. The firm began as an estate clearance and removal company, but over time it began to receive consignments of increasingly high quality. Ararity’s owner, Lori James, realized that the material that was coming ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shaker Sewing Desk Stitches Its Way into the Record Books
It is just 18 miles from Enfield to Plainfield, New Hampshire, but it took over 100 years for the journey of a special sewing desk.
Enfield was the site of the Enfield Shaker community from 1793 to 1918. Today its grounds and many buildings are a museum. Plainfield is the home ... (Read More)
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(Auction)White and Hunter Collections Lead at Evans Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual premier Americana auction in three sessions November 18-20 at the firm’s galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The first two sessions consisted of separately published cataloged collections: the American folk-art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On Acquiring Pottery, the Southern Way
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
Many of us have tried or at least investigated online auctions. These modern conveniences are fast and efficient. The catalog is online and easily accessible. Sales start and end on time and provide immediate and continuous feedback ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Zipps Cap Off Third Sale of Monumental Year
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Riding high from the record $1.56 million sale of Dave Drake’s 25-gallon poem jar during the summer of 2021, the Zipps of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, sold an inscribed three-gallon stoneware jug made by Drake for $420,000. It was the firm’s top lot in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2021
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard, 1902, oil on canvas, 28¾" x 36¼". Collection of Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Gift of Ethel and Milton Harris, 1990. Photograph © AGO.
—Through January 23, 2022 —San Antonio, Texas
Claude Monet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler were both fascinated by London’s Thames River. ... (Read More)
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