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(Fragment)B Is for Buttersworth, F Is for Forgery: Solve a Maritime Art Mystery
From the Mariners' Museum Web site: "The Mariners' Museum is taking a stand against crime with its latest exhibition.... Hidden in plain sight among 35 paintings by 19th-century maritime artist James Edward Buttersworth is a modern forgery. Museum visitors will become detectives as they examine the paintings for style and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Kenny Leaves the Met
Peter Kenny, a longtime curator and administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, will join Classical American Homes Preservation Trust (CAHPT) as co-president with Margize Howell, the foundation's current executive director. Richard H. Jenrette, founder and chairman of CAHPT, announced that the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eight Valkyrie Sisters
What did he know and when did he know it?
Was he aware that the New York Yacht Club had received a challenge for the America's Cup dated March 19, 1889, from the Royal Yacht Squadron on behalf of Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl of Dunraven ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2014
Louis Salerno of Questroyal Fine Art, New York City, asked $975,000 for A Side Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona by Thomas Moran (1837-1926). The 14" x 20" oil on board was dated 1905; on the back is inscribed "A Side Canyon/ Grand Canyon, Arizona /T. Moran for G. Moulton."
Proserpine by Hiram ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Wall Plaque Sells for $57,600
The Chinese painted porcelain wall plaque, from the collection of Alma Cleveland Porter, brought $57,600.
This Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) oil on canvas portrait (32" x 27") of Elizabeth Hardenbergh DeWitt went to a collector for $33,600. Northeast Auctions photo.
The pair of Dutch Delft chargers, 1690-1700, depicted Queen Mary II and William, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nautical Antiques Sold in Boston
This lighthouse beacon was described in the catalog as "monumental." It had a huge 500 mm Fresnel lens of cut crystal set into a bronze frame. It had been converted to AC current with a light fixture but also was supplied with an AGA gas burner. Measuring 52" tall and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Babbitt and Hyde Family Artifacts at Auction
An 18k gold or better three-piece Victorian mourning suite in a relief ram's head motif produced the biggest price of the sale at $4600.
A full-plate daguerreotype of the family of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde sold for $2875.
Gamage had high hopes for this Victorian American walnut and marble bedroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
Six flow blue bowls in the Conway pattern by New Wharf Pottery, $45 each from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana.
English watercolor of a gentleman and a dog, $795 from Inez Allen and Nan Donovan of City Mouse Country Mouse Antiques, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Eight-gallon crock, Albany slip, stenciled in yellow with "S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Max Berry Banks and Toys Top $3 Million
Clown on Bar, C. G. Bush Co., circa 1880 ex.-L.C. Hegarty, tin and cast iron. Ingeniously, when placed in the clown's hand, the coin's weight causes the figure to lean forward; the coin drops into the bank's base while the clown continues a full rotation of the bar. It brought ... (Read More)
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