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(Auction)Match Safe Collection of David and Holiday Winfield
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
A single-owner collection of pocket match safes offered by Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 11 yielded a few insights into this highly specialized segment of the antiques market. It was a day when material often trumped motif. As much as anything, however, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Director of American Folk Art Museum to Retire
Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, the executive director of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), will retire in early March after five years at the helm of the museum. The board of trustees has designated Stacy C. Hollander, currently AFAM’s deputy director for curatorial affairs, as acting director, effective the day after ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Recently Discovered L'Enfant Watercolor of George Washington's Verplanck's Point Camp
Photos courtesy Museum of the American Revolution
Philip Mead has been a collector since he was six. “Every evening as I am winding down, I go on Bidsquare, Invaluable, and some individual auction house sites to see if I can find something of interest,” said Mead on the phone recently. He ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2018
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Yet again I have failed to find something suitably festive to kick off this Christmas issue, but in keeping with established tradition, may I wish M.A.D.readers, one and all, a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year.
A record breaking Harry Potter first edition, one that is very unlikely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annapolis Was Cold but Worthwhile
Annapolis Antiques Show, Annapolis, Maryland
Hardy New Englanders may disagree, but let’s face the reality of winter below the Mason-Dixon line. Lingering snow and ice, near zero temperatures, and subzero wind chills do not bode well for the success of any activity that requires leaving the warmth of home. Antiques shows ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Good Deal of Good Deals
Bruce Gamage Antiques, Rockland, Maine
If you wanted an interesting auction with lots of good deals for careful and well-informed buyers, then the January 6 and 7 auction held by Bruce Gamage in Rockland, Maine, was the place to be.
This gouache on paper by James Brooks (1906-1992) sold for $517.50.
New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts at Auction
Doyle New York, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle New York has a loyal fan base for its semiannual American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts auctions. Its salesroom at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan fills up a few minutes before the 10 a.m. start time with interested buyers, including a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sale
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
A taste for modern design flourished in the Philadelphia area. By the late 1940s architects were commissioned to design flat-roofed low-slung modern houses, which were furnished with Knoll, Herman Miller, and Scandinavian modern, and also with furniture by local studio artists and craftsmen. Wharton Esherick was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 12th annual Main Line Antiques Show to benefit Surrey Services for Seniors was a different show this time. “I decided it should be a lifestyle show, not just an antiques show,” said Anne F. Hamilton, the enthusiastic cochair of the show, held in the gymnasium of Cabrini College ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frick Awards Biennial Book Prize
The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting has awarded its biennial book prize for a distinguished publication on the history of collecting in America to Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J. M. Olson, with contributions ... (Read More)
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