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(Fragment)Olde Hope to Open New York City Gallery
"It was too good an opportunity not to act," said Patrick Bell the day after he signed a five-year lease for a 700-square-foot gallery space at 115 East 72nd Street in New York City for a new Olde Hope gallery, the business he and his business partner, Edwin Hild, operate."I ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Show 2019: Antiques, Art & Exquisite Objects
Middletown, Rhode Island
With an emphasis on "feel good" and "carry-out" purchases, The Newport Show opened its doors on Friday, July 26, to a lively crowd of supporters.
Now in its 13th year, the July 26-28 show, which eliminated the word "antiques" from its title in 2018 (as have other shows, including ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thanksgiving Comes Early at Farrin's
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Rusty Farrin of Farrin's Country Auctions holds an annual "Thanksgiving in July" auction at his Randolph, Maine, hall. This year, Thanksgiving came on July 28, featuring lots of painted furniture, some good primitive artworks, and one outstanding clock, with about 90% of the sale coming from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indian Hill Antiques Fair
Indian Hill (Cincinnati), Ohio
The Indian Hill Antiques Fair, a summer tradition in northeast Cincinnati for 37 years, held its latest edition on July 28. Although the event was notably smaller than in the past, promoter Doug Supinger saw the show's size as one of its strengths.
"The smaller shows are the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Making Hay While the Sun Shines
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
During the first seven months of 2019, the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) presented three major estates sales, with smaller specialized events in between. The most recent of the large auctions, held on July 27 and 28, consisted of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic Setting Is Boost for Annual Show
Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show, Zoar, Ohio
The tents were a dead giveaway. Rounding the corner into Zoar, Ohio, during the last weekend in July, the huge white tents bordering cornfields could mean only one thing. The 46th annual Zoar Harvest Festival was underway, and with it antiques. Clarification: great ... (Read More)
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(Auction)John McInnis Has a Field Day
John McInnis Auctioneers, East Boothbay, Maine
On July 27 and 28 John McInnis auctioned the contents of the 18th-century Colonial homestead known as the Murray House in East Boothbay, Maine. With help from a personal connection to the owners, McInnis was able to snatch it away from other more local auctioneers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Migration on the Cape
Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
Part three of the annual summer decoy migration took place July 25 and 26 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Judy and Ted Harmon's Decoys Unlimited, West Barnstable, Massachusetts, continued the auction of prized decoys migrating from one collection to another. Collectors know the birds, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Man of Sorrow: A New Bronze Face of Lincoln
Few members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ever win an Oscar. The success rate for sculptors is even slimmer. Robert Merrell Gage (1892-1981) did not win an Oscar himself, but his stunning display of narrated sculpture-making in the 1956 film The Face of Lincoln was responsible for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Substantial sections of this "Letter" are devoted to matters Russian, among them pictures, revolutionary ceramics, and a Faberge menagerie, and to a spectacular Tompion clock with royal connections that made close on $2 million.
Chairs, ceramics, and other Chinese treasures are also represented, along with a fine Modigliani portrait and a ... (Read More)
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