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(Fragment)"Becoming America" Launched at American Folk Art Museum
On January 21 the American Folk Art Museum in New York City hosted a reception to celebrate the publication of Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art. The 264-page tome with 271 color illustrations chronicling the Fieldings’ American folk art collection will be available ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Outsider Art Fair 2020
New York City
Collectors at different levels were given an opportunity to view and buy art—paintings, sculptures, mixed media, ceramics—at the 28th edition of the Outsider Art Fair, and they did so with gusto.
The four-day show, held January 16-19 at the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street, has been managed for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Folk Art, and Textiles Auction
Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s
It’s not unusual for Garth’s Auctioneers and Appraisers to begin each year with an Americana sale, and the 2020 version on January 18 and 19 in Columbus, Ohio, offered a solid selection of paint, brown furniture, folk art, and smalls. But there was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vase Sells for $329,400
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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In these days of the Internet, not much is overlooked. At Pook & Pook’s sale of American and European decorative arts on January 17 and 18, a Qing porcelain vase, 16¼" tall, picturing two Dutch merchants wearing tricorn hats and frock coats ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie’s Outsider Art Auction
Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s January 17 Outsider art auction, held the morning after the opening of the Outsider Art Fair, was a celebration for collectors and dealers and for curator Cara Zimmerman, head of sale.
The sale, which offered 129 lots, totaled $3,312,125 (including buyers’ premiums), with a 98% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Witherell’s Luxury Auction
Witherell’s, Sacramento, California
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Who says brown furniture doesn’t sell?
Not Brian Witherell, chief operating officer of Witherell’s, a Sacramento auction house. Witherell said the January 16 “Luxury Asset” auction featuring property from the Newport, New Hampshire, home of William B. Ruger Jr. (1939-2018) was “our best as a company to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Susquehanna Collection
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
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After a monthlong preview, the mysterious Susquehanna collection of early Kentucky rifles, Revolutionary War pistols, 18th-century powder horns, and several rooms of 18th- and early 19th-century American furniture, paintings, and accessories sold unreserved at Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pennsylvania, on January 16 for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Carpenter Estate Consignments
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
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The sale at Nye & Company in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on January 15 included antiques from the collection of Ralph (d. 2009) and Roberta “Bobbie” (d. 2019) Carpenter that did not meet Christie’s minimum $3000/5000 per lot. The sale at Nye ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wunsch Award for Excellence
Lita Solis-Cohen, senior editor of Maine Antique Digest; Laura Beach, editor-at-large of Antiques and The Arts Weekly; and Mira Nakashima, architect, designer, and furniture maker at George Nakashima Woodworkers, will be honored as the 2020 recipients of the Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Winter Show Celebrates American Icons
Washington Winter Show, Washington, D.C.
The annual Washington Winter Show of antiques and fine art was held January 10-12 at the Katzen Arts Center on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. This year marked the 65th edition of the show and the tenth year that it was held at ... (Read More)
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