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(Feature)Wallace Nutting Blacksmith Photograph Sells for $4180
Shoeing the Gray Mare, a rare Wallace Nutting hand-colored photo, sold for $4180 (includes buyer’s premium) at Michael Ivankovich’s auction on May 13 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. The 10½" x 12½" framed 1905-10 photograph features a blacksmith shoeing a white horse outside a barn and is signed “Compliments of Wallace ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arizona Man Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
On March 18 in Phoenix, Arizona, 54-year-old Gerardo Alonzo Avila was sentenced to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud, a felony. Avila had filed a claim with his insurance company, Liberty Mutual, stating that his home in Maricopa, Arizona, had been burglarized ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Smartphone Security
Computer Column #329
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Security for smartphones and other mobile devices is more challenging than desktop computer security.
Smartphones are computers with more computing power and memory than the desktop computers of 25 years ago. They are subject to the same kinds of invasion as desktop computers, but their interface ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Shutters Three East Coast Offices
Christie’s is rebalancing its support hubs. The auction house is closing three regional offices—Boston, Philadelphia, and Palm Beach, Florida—and increasing its presence and investment in the West, Southwest, and Midwest.
According to a spokesman for the auction house, “As part of our regular business practice, Christie’s continually evaluates its existing business ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Authenticators Protected in New York Bill
Authenticity, attribution, and authorship of works of fine art are the subject of New York state legislation intended to enhance protections for art authenticators in the visual arts community. According to the bill, authenticators “shall include, but not be limited to, authors of catalogues raisonné or other scholarly texts in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lucy Trask Barnard and Her Rugs
For more than a half-century, hooked rug enthusiasts have puzzled over the whereabouts of the fourth hooked rug offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1961 by Albert Root Jr., great-grandson of Lucy Trask Barnard of Dixfield, Maine.
Correspondence between Root and the New York-based museum, dated January 2, 1961, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Liz Sterling Heads American Paintings at Sotheby's
Some of Sotheby’s offices, left empty after 80 staffers took the generous buyout offers designed to cut costs, are being filled by enthusiastic specialists who switched allegiance from Christie’s to Sotheby’s. Liz Sterling, who began working at Sotheby’s a month ago, is one of them.
A year and a half ago, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Last Spring Masters
New York City
New York City bid adieu in early May to Spring Masters while putting out a welcome mat for TEFAF New York. The fair will reappear at the Park Avenue Armory October 22-26 and again May 4-9, 2017, as part of a new venture between Michael Plummer and Jeff ... (Read More)
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(Auction)May Auction in New Orleans: Estates Span Time and Space
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
Estates provide the lifeblood of regional sales, and the Neal Auction Company has flourished in a region with a perpetual flow of high quality offerings. While some sources produce material of local interest, southern consignors have formed diverse collections that keep ... (Read More)
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(Show)Gold Rush and Beyond
Old West Show, Grass Valley, California
Old West Show producer Brian Witherell called the 2016 Old West Show, held May 6 and 7 in Grass Valley, California, “a transition year. We promised not to fix it because it wasn’t broke, but we did decide to start transitioning now because we had ... (Read More)
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