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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2017
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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(Fragment)Indiana Landmarks Seeks Antiques Vendors for Summer Events
Indiana Landmarks, a private nonprofit, is looking for vendors of antiques, collectibles, and architectural salvage to participate in events this summer.
On Saturday, July 15, the sixth annual Treasure Hunt will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., outdoors and inside the Indiana Landmarks Center and on the lawn of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Choice Connecticut Chest at Carlsen Gallery
Carlsen Gallery, Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery
There was a big crowd for Carlsen Gallery’s spring auction on May 21 in Freehold, New York. “I thought it was pretty good,” said a pleased Russ Carlsen just after the auction. “There was very good interest throughout all areas—rugs, paintings, cut glass, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Celebrates Its 60th Show
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The weekend of May 19-21 marked the 60th edition of the Shenandoah Antiques Expo, held in Fishersville, Virginia. The biannual event has become an antiques mainstay in the mid-Atlantic region. Antiques dealers, collectors, decorators, and browsers all flock to the event. Patrons are assured of a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show
Chicago, Illinois
Within the past several years, Chicago collectors have suffered a double whammy of losing two major antiques shows. In 2014 the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Show, a solid annual antiques and art fair (we had covered it since 2007), closed, and in early September 2016 the Chicago Botanic Garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An Artistic Spring in the Sales
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
Only a month after its fine art sale (see p. 32-C), New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) presented its two-day May estates auction in a weighty catalog featuring over 1000 lots. All the firm’s estates auctions—March, May, July, October, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
“This is the gathering of the clan,” said Newbold “Newbie” Richardson, an Alexandria, Virginia, costume and textile appraiser, conservator, and exhibition consultant, while greeting her colleagues, many of them museum curators and authors of books on needlework and textiles, at the fifth annual Penn Dry Goods Market at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Zao Wou-Ki Painting Brings $487,500
Photo courtesy Litchfield County Auctions.
A 1951 painting by Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013), Oiseaux dans les nids (Birds in the nests), 16" x 13", sold for $487,500 (including buyer’s premium) at Litchfield County Auctions in Litchfield, Connecticut, on May 20.
According to the auction house, the painting came from a local ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting by Theus Breaks Record at Brunk Auctions
A portrait of William Branford (1753-1776) by Jeremiah Theus (1716-1774) of Charleston, South Carolina, sold for $180,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Brunk Auctions’ May 19 and 20 sale in Asheville, North Carolina. According to Brunk, this is a new record for Jeremiah Theus at auction, surpassing the previous record of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Sale of Auction New England
Auction New England, Manchester, New Hampshire
All eyes were on Manchester, New Hampshire, for the May 20 inaugural sale of Auction New England, Jack O’Brien’s new auction gallery, where some 152 lots crossed the block. With one exception, a lion stoneware presentation jug, everything was fresh to market from long-term collections ... (Read More)
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