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(Fragment)Celebrating the Artistry of Folly Cove Designers
A Book Review
Located on the North Shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the neighborhood of Folly Cove has inspired generations of artists, including the printmakers of Folly Cove Designers, which operated from 1941 to 1969. Unlike the emerging Abstract Expressionists of post-World War II, Folly Cove Designers were trained to draw their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Great Estates Thanksgiving Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers
A Black Friday tradition returned to The Barn at Stratford in Delaware, Ohio, November 24 and 25 when Amelia Jeffers brought a Thanksgiving-weekend sale to the original home of Garth’s Auctions.
The annual sale’s revival was one thing. Possibly of greater significance is that ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk-Art Watercolor Goes to Independence Seaport Museum
In 1984 a schoolboy’s navigation workbook was donated to what was then the Philadelphia Maritime Museum—now the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM)—by Mary Lyman Cox Muir Cammann, whose second husband, Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann (1912-1991), was directly related to Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
The notebook did not have anything to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2023
Franklin’s Lost Arctic Companions Revealed
More than doubling the high estimate in the process, the set of 14 recently rediscovered and very early daguerreotype portraits depicting Sir John Franklin and other senior members of an ill-fated 1845 expedition aimed at completing the charting of a Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)More Protection, Please
The collapse of Garth’s is a stunning development. The Ohio-based business had been a steady regional auction house for decades. Since its founding in the 1950s, it has brought significant Americana to market. It’s an immense loss for the antiques market, evoking sadness and some anger.
While we mourn Garth’s, the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Bob Markowitz
Treasures abound at “Casa Markowitz,” home to antiques collector and dealer Robert “Bob” Markowitz, whose day job is practicing pediatric medicine in Boston and its environs.
The good doctor runs the Optimal Wellness for Life program specializing in pediatric obesity at Children’s Hospital and its satellite locations in Waltham and Peabody, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2023
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, blown cameo glass vase, 1900, 6¼" x 21 1/16" x 21 1/16". Image courtesy Chrysler Museum of Art. Photo by Edward Pollard. © Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory.
—November 17, 2023-March 15, 2024 —Saint Augustine, Florida
Art Nouveau is an exuberant, radical style that takes inspiration from the vitality of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth’s Auctions and Jeff Jeffers Surrender Auction Licenses
Garth’s Auctions—a staple in the Americana market for decades—is gone.
According to a settlement agreement between Garth’s Auctions, Inc., and its CEO, Richard “Jeff” Jeffers, and the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which regulates auctions in Ohio, Jeffers and Garth’s are “permanently ineligible for auctioneering licenses in the state of Ohio.”
The settlement, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Annual “Louisiana Purchase” Auction
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
It’s been 220 years since hundreds of acres in and around New Orleans were purchased from France, but the European country’s influence remains strong, as evidenced by the top lot in Neal Auction Company’s November 15-17 sale—an Impressionist painting by Henri-Jean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bertoia’s Fall Two-Day Event Tops $1.8 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Three major collections—Heath Hurlbert’s mechanical bank collection, the Willett still bank collection, and the Bob Davis aeronautical collection—plus additions made up Bertoia Auctions’ annual fall sale, held November 17 and 18. European and American toys grabbed the attention of collectors, and the auction ... (Read More)
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