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(Show)Great Picking at Gilmanor Farm
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The weekend of May 17 and 18 marked the 12th installment of the Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show. The biannual event is held at Joel Gilman’s Gilmanor Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia. The show is still feeling its way as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Haley Toy Collection Surpasses $2.48 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
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Back in the late 1960s and early ’70s, purchasing older items was a completely different animal than it is today. Pre-Internet collecting meant days were spent on the road tracking down antiques shops, visiting advanced collectors who had already acquired what you desired, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Barry D. Hogan’s Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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The catalog for the sale of Barry D. Hogan’s collection is the most recent addition to a long shelf of catalogs for single-owner estate sales of mostly Pennsylvania folk art and what used to be called “country furniture” that the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June2024
Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide I, 1960, painted wood, 7'2" x 40" x 8". Gift of Peter and Beverly Lipman. Photo courtesy Storm King Art Center by Jerry L. Thompson, © 2022 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
—Through June 9 —Waterville, Maine
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for McElwain Painting
Cordier Auctions in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, achieved a new world auction record for New Mexico landscape painter Louisa McElwain (1953-2013). During Cordier’s May 16 auction, McElwain’s Song of the High Desert sold for $48,360 (includes buyer’s premium). The buyer was a private collector from Texas. The previous record for a McElwain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Design at Auction
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Auctions reflect the taste of the minute. The Rago sale of modern design May 16 in Lambertville, New Jersey, and the contemporary glass sale that followed on May 17 are good examples.
The two sales covered a broad range of 20th-century design. David Rago said his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horse-Racing Trophy Leaves Other Silver in the Dust
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A superb selection of silver, including pieces from America’s Colonial period and an extensive selection of enameled silver figurines from the Tiffany & Co. circus collection, was featured in Heritage Auctions’ May 16 sale of fine silver and objects of vertu. The auction included ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sherman Collection Anchors Civil War and History Auction
Fleischer’s Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Fleischer’s Auctions
Fleischer’s Auctions held its Civil War and African American history auction May 14 and 15 in Columbus, Ohio. This spring premier sale featured more than 500 historical items that generated a total of over $2 million in prices realized, far exceeding initial expectations.
The auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Stellar Selection of Art
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Works of American art continue to be in demand among art lovers and collectors, who are willing to pay top prices to own pieces by their favorite artists. The May 15 American art “Signature” auction by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions presented a stellar selection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2024
New York City
Seventeen dealers set up booths for the 17th edition of the American Art Fair, held May 10 to 14, and offered works in all genres. The fair “is unique in choosing to focus exclusively on historically important artists,” wrote Thomas Colville of Thomas Colville Fine Art, who established ... (Read More)
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