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(Auction)Evans Enjoys Strong Americana Sales
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual “Premier Americana” sale June 26-28 at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The sale was conducted in three sessions over three days with a total of 1575 lots crossing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Jo Louise Brown Collection Sold On Site
Meander Auctions, Zoar, Ohio
Photos courtesy Meander Auctions
Community. Merriam-Webster defines the term as “a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” When Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis of Meander Auctions sold the collection of Jo Louise Brown (1927-2025) on site at her Zoar, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Griffin Spends $18 Million for Two Documents
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Souvenir copies of two of the most pivotal documents in American history that President Abraham Lincoln ever signed—the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment—set new auction records at Sotheby’s in New York City June 26 when they sold to Kenneth Griffin, a billionaire collector whose wide-ranging taste runs ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20 Sites—Plenty to See, Plenty to Gain
Fans of samplers and needlework should plan a trip to Vermont this summer or fall; the Vermont Schoolgirl Sampler Driving Tour opened on May 30 and will run until October.
In cooperation with Vermont’s commemoration of the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the tour features samplers made by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern and Contemporary Art Sold
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Robin S. R. Starr, now the general manager of Bonhams Skinner, discusses the Laurie Lipton drawing Love Bite during the reception in the new Back Bay gallery. She is the former head of fine art at the auction house. Mascolo photo.
Bonhams Skinner introduced ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2025
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Longfellow jug, 1880-81, transfer-printed earthenware. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of Earle Shettleworth Jr. in honor of Barry and Karen Mills.
—Through July 20 —Brunswick, Maine
Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art explores the relationship between ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Creations, Contributions, and Legacies of Black Craftspeople
A Book Review
I consider myself fortunate to have used a Cesar Chelor plane more than once. A friend who passed away some years ago had collected hand planes, and when I needed to raise some panels in the upstairs hallway of our 18th-century house in Maine, he handed me a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Classical Card Table Leads Carlsen Sale
Carlsen Gallery, Inc., Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery, Inc.
Carlsen Gallery, Inc., has been holding auctions in the Hudson Valley since 1984. It’s a family business founded by Russell Carlsen and his wife, Abby, and now includes their son Josh. With a small staff, they hold four live sales a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early American Furniture Paces Auction
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
At Casco Bay Auctions’ Americana auction in Freeport, Maine, June 21, some very reasonably estimated furniture provided hope that the depressed market for such pieces might be showing signs of coming back to life. Now in its sixth year of operation under ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Different Kind of Antiques Show
Dover Antique Show & Vintage Market, Dover, New Hampshire
The brother-and-sister team of Rachel and Joshua Gurley deliberately set out to create a show that would encourage new dealers to “give it a try” and also encourage those who had not attended an antiques show before to try it. The June ... (Read More)
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