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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 2019
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sculpture Stampedes Past Paintings at Skinner
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
Photo courtesy Skinner
Good Western sculpture was the most interesting art in the January 25 auction of fine American and European works of art at Skinner’s Boston gallery. Sculpture by Western artist Harry Andrew Jackson was front and center, along with a wide range of paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Manuscript and Printed Americana
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The only known privately held copy of a William J. Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence with a provenance that can be traced back to the direct ancestor who received it in 1824 sold with buyer’s premium for $975,000 (est. $600,000/800,000) at Sotheby’s fine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors’ Passion Sale
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
Nye & Company held its first sale of 2019 on January 23, a few days after Sotheby’s and Christie’s Americana Week sales had concluded and during the second week of the Winter Show. Called a “Collectors’ Passion Sale,” the auction drew ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall
New York City
In 2015 the Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall was added to Americana Week events in New York City. At that time, the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair was in full bloom, Metro Curates was doing business at the Metropolitan Pavilion, and the Winter Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joshua Johnson Portraits Top Americana Auction
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s various-owner sales followed the sale of the Teiger collection without a lunch break on Sunday, January 20, and it took until 7 p.m. to sell the 383 lots of furniture and decorations. The auction included 17 high chests, of which all but four found ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Teiger Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The sale at Sotheby’s of the collection of David Teiger (1929-2014) on January 20 was a test of the market for folk art. The collection was put together over a period of 20 years in the 1990s and into the first decade of this century, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Antique Ceramics Fair
New York City
There were nine dealers at the New York Antique Ceramics Fair, which filled half of the third floor of the National Bohemian Hall, January 17-20, in New York City. The dealers rescued the fair when, after nearly two decades of participating in Americana Week in New York, show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Backus Painting Brings $20,900
One day before the January 20 auction conducted by Ron Rennick of Rennick Auctions Inc., Vero Beach, Florida, featuring paintings by A.E. Backus and Highwaymen, Zollie Reed of Melbourne brought in two paintings by Harold Newton (1934-1994) that she personally had bought from Newton and a painting by Alfred Hair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Brings in $4.8 Million
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey
Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center
Rago’s design sales in Lambertville, New Jersey, on Saturday and Sunday, January 19 and 20, were at the same time as the Americana sales at Sotheby’s, and, like the sales in New York City, they had ... (Read More)
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