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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, March 2025
Gertrude Horsford Fiske (1879-1961), Graveyard, Cape Neddick, circa 1940, oil on canvas. Gift of Artemis P. Willis. Oqunquit Museum of American Art, 2002.4.
—Through March 16 —Durham, New Hampshire
Networks of Modernism, 1898-1968: Works from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art at the University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art contextualizes the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Heart of Tennessee Antique Show
Lebanon, Tennessee
The Heart of Tennessee Antique Show was held in Lebanon, Tennessee, February 13-15. The event featured 33 dealers and began with a Thursday evening preview party. The ninth annual show was once again part of Nashville’s antiques week, which offered five solid but distinct shows divvied up between Nashville ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Nashville Show 2025
Nashville, Tennessee
The Fairgrounds Nashville had an interesting way of promoting one of its marquee events. Taped to the doors of restroom stalls, where occupants became a captive audience, were fliers for the monthly Nashville Flea Market, described as “The Best Flea Market in Tennessee.”
A flea market was an odd thing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Society Presents Awards and Prize
The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. (DAS) recognized scholarly works produced in 2023 by presenting its Charles F. Montgomery Prize and Award and Robert C. Smith Award on November 12 at the Explorers Club in New York City. Recipients were chosen after careful review of numerous worthy and laudable publications submitted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jitterbugs V Dances to the Top at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its first suite of 2025 sales the week of February 10 to 14. The online-only sales consisted of ten targeted groupings offering a total of 1395 lots. A separate catalog was published for each sale. Over the week ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, February 20205
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tankard with Unusual Characteristic Given to MFA
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, resident Thomas E. Linzee Jr. has donated an 18th-century silver tankard with an unusual characteristic to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The tankard, which descended in Linzee’s family over the last 260-plus years, was made in the 1750s by Boston silversmith Samuel Minott (1732-1803). The form conforms to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painted with Silk at the DIA
Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) opened on December 13 and continues through June 15. It is mostly a loan exhibition of 69 samplers and pictorial embroideries and memorials from three private collections. One painting and two early ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Silver and Modern Pottery Draw Bidders
Andrews & Andrews, Northport, Maine
On a frosty February 8 the Blue Goose Center in Northport, Maine, was full of browsers, bidders, and buyers. The occasion was an approximately 300-lot auction conducted by Daniel and Elsie Andrews, longtime Maine auctioneers who call their business Andrews & Andrews. Elsie serves as vice-chair ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2025 Failey Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced seven 2025 Dean F. Failey Grant recipients: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, for the exhibition Silver & Ceremony from Southern Asia, 1850-1910; Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts, for the exhibition Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, for quilt conservation; ... (Read More)
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