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(Auction)New Auction Record for a Face Vessel
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipps of Crocker Farm celebrated 15 years in the auction business on July 20 with a 543-lot sale at their facility in Sparks, Maryland (37 additional uncataloged lots were sold at the end of the auction).
"People really responded, in terms of consignments and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 2019
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Weeping Willow and Water Lily Pond, 1916-19, oil on canvas, 783/4" x 703/4". On loan from private collection.
-Through September 15 -Fort Worth, Texas
The Kimbell Art Museum is hosting Monet: The Late Years, a selection of 50 paintings on loan from major public and private collections in Europe, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hurry to See WALL POWER!
The exhibition WALL POWER! Quilts from the Werner and Karen Gundersheimer Gift will open on August 6 at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City. It will be on display for only four weeks-through September 1. Included in the exhibition will be quilts recently gifted to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standout Furniture and Decorative Arts
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
An attractive consignment of Americana in a July 17 and 18 fine furniture, decorative arts, and silver sale at Chicago's recently revamped Hindman Auctions told a silent tale of two sisters.
The pair shared well-known collectors as parents-Willard and Faith Henoch of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who contributed to varied ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Highlights and a Packed House at The Cobbs Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire, held an antiques and fine art auction on July 13. Highlighting the sale was a group of jewelry from an estate that had been collected in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Shanghai.
An Art Deco Burmese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Case's Best Summer Auction Ever
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
John Case is a "big picture" kind of guy. He wants to know not only what happened, but why it happened. The firm's annual summer sale on July 13 produced the highest total results in Case Antiques' history. And although a precise figure was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Auction
Willis Henry Auctions, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Since 1982, Willis Henry Auctions' annual Shaker auctions have become a well-attended affair. The July 13 event at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was no exception.
Willis and Karel Henry, who by 1982 were dealing in antiques, were introduced to the Shakers in 1971 or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Curator of American Art at the Michener
Dr. Laura Turner Igoe is the new curator of American art at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Igoe has broad curatorial experience including the Harvard Art Museums, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Barnes Foundation. Exhibition projects she has contributed to include Nature's Nation: ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Launches Monthly Online Fine Art Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, will launch monthly fine art auctions this summer. The monthly auctions, which will be held the second Thursday of each month, will complement Heritage's live auctions and other current online auctions of prints and multiples and photographs. The sales will feature a combination of material primarily ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Get On Board
The Young Collector
Part of our impetus for uprooting our lives so completely a couple years ago was the desire to be part of a community. We both grew up in small towns, the kind of place where you saw your teacher at church and the cashier in the grocery store ... (Read More)
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