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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 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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(Auction)Wyeth Eclipsed by Prendergast and Others
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques, Rockland, Maine
"I didn't time it for the eclipse, believe me," Bruce Gamage promised, regarding his August 21 summer auction in Rockland, Maine. His larger annual sales are usually hallmarked by items from the Wyeth family of artists, but this time the Wyeth works were eclipsed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Free Admission to Worcester Art Museum in August
The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will continue one of its most popular summertime traditions: free admission for the entire month of August. "Free August" includes access for everyone to special exhibitions, the permanent galleries, and WAM's August programming.
"We are delighted to offer free access to WAM again this summer, thanks ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Renewed Energy for Antiques with Fine History
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Ron Bourgeault got things off to a rollicking start at his annual summer sale August 18-20 beneath a tent at Northeast Auctions' Treadwell House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where it felt a lot like the old days. Eight phones jumped for lot one, a 41/2" x ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell's "Tough Call" Study Sells for $1.68 Million at Heritage
Norman Rockwell's 1948 study for Tough Call, printed on the April 23, 1949, Saturday Evening Post cover, sold online for $1,680,000 at Heritage Auctions' Platinum Night Sports Collectibles auction on August 20.
The study depicts John "Beans" Reardon, a Major League umpire, and two of his colleagues, Larry Goetz and Lou ... (Read More)
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(Show)Degrees of Good
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
The history of Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, goes back about 190 years to when lumber baron Colonel John Black built his monumental 180-acre estate. In 1928 his grandson George Nixon Black Jr. bequeathed the property to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Opens Maine's Antiques Week and Closes for $3.8 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
Maine's late summer bundle of antiques shows and auctions that usually happens the last week of August got a kick-start this year when James D. Julia, Inc. moved its centerpiece auction a week earlier to August 16-18 in Fairfield, Maine. Fine arts and antiques department head ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique American Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The origins of the Antique American Indian Art Show date back 39 years when 16-year-old Kim Martindale worked with dealer Don Bennett to put on an antique Indian art show and an antique ethnographic/tribal art show at the Santa Fe Hilton.
Those shows became the Whitehawk shows. After ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Iowa Court Affirms Auctioneer Overcharge
Two courts in Iowa have ruled in favor of a consignor who claimed that he was overcharged. On August 16 the Court of Appeals of Iowa affirmed the 2016 lower court ruling that auctioneer Tom Harris and Tom Harris Auction Center, Marshalltown, Iowa, had overcharged a consignor, Kevin Rowley, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Straightforward and Simple
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
A dictionary definition of the word "auction" reads "a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder." That's it, straightforward and simple. It doesn't say anything about reserves, absentee bidders, or buyer's premium. That's how James and Dale Talbot ... (Read More)
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