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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art
New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's sold $3.5 million in its mid-season American art sale on October 6, selling 114 lots out of 158 offered, for a sell-through rate of 72.2%. The estimate was $2.9/4.4 million.
Highlights of the sale, which attracted a few dozen buyers in the salesroom, included works by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cynthia Herbert Named President of the AAA Board of Directors
Cynthia Herbert was appointed president of the board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) effective July 1. Herbert served as vice president of AAA from July 2015 through June 30, 2017, and is president of Appretium, LLC. She is a certified member of the AAA in household ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Quincy Adams Daguerreotype Sells to National Portrait Gallery for $360,500
Photo courtesy Sotheby's
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., paid $360,500 (including buyer's premium) for a newly discovered half-plate daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) at Sotheby's sale of photographs in New York City on October 5. The photograph was made in 1843, only four years after the invention ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, October 2017
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
At the Threshold of Brilliance: The Brief but Splendid Career of Harold ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)After 56 Years, A La Vieille Russie to Move One Block
A La Vieille Russie (ALVR), an art and antiques gallery founded in Kiev in 1851, is moving this fall to a new location a block from its headquarters at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan. The new gallery, designed specifically to showcase its collection of antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Scoundrel, the Bore, the Madman, and Other Collector Stereotypes in Books and Movies
Early on in Henry James's novella The Aspern Papers, published in 1888, the main character, who is a young, unnamed American writer and publisher, is given a diagnosis by a friend. She calls his obsession with acquiring a certain cache of letters penned by a once renowned, romantic poet, Jeffrey ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Getting Online in the Boondocks
Computer Column #346
John P. Reid,
The Internet is hard to get in the boondocks. Many of us depend on the Internet for news, e-mail, social media, banking, purchases, travel help, research, amusement, and more. Most cell phones can connect to the Internet. However, many applications are difficult or impossible on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Alderfer's Catalog Sale
Alderfer Auction Co., Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Alderfer Auction Co.
Sherry Russell, who bought Alderfer Auction Co. last January, sees her job as helping people through life's transitions. "Our job at Alderfer's is finding solutions. We are in the business of selling for people downsizing, settling estates, redecorating, or just wanting to ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2016
A Book Review
American Furniture 2016
Edited by Luke Beckerdite
The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2016, 190 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, 1-800-421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
For more than two decades, Chipstone's American Furniture journal has been the annual publication of record for the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Masterpieces in Queens: American Folk Art Museum to Open New Space
The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City will soon have space devoted solely to the exhibition of works from its permanent collection. It's located in Long Island City, Queens, at the museum's Collection and Education Center (47-29 32nd Place). The gallery space is 1800 square feet, which ... (Read More)
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