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(Fragment)MADA Provides Grant to Friendship Museum
From left: Harry Hepburn, Margaret Gagnon, Gordon Winchenbach, Pat Jameson, and Elizabeth DeSimone.
The Friendship Museum of Friendship, Maine, has been awarded a grant of $1500 from the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA). Museum president Margaret Gagnon and treasurer Gordon Winchenbach accepted the check, presented by MADA president Elizabeth DeSimone, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hearing for Proposed Sale of Esmerian Folk Art Postponed
There was no January 29 hearing regarding a possible sale of the folk art assets in the matter concerning Ralph Esmerian and the American Folk Art Museum. That date originally had been proposed by liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum, in papers filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Did Rockwell's Willie Gillis, Package from Home Sell or Not?
Willie Gillis, Package from Home. Susanin's photo.
The highly publicized sale of a Norman Rockwell painting for $2.8 million in Chicago may or may not be a done deal. The painting portrays Willie Gillis, a fictional character created by Rockwell, as an enlisted man carrying a food package from home. Close ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)In Connecticut, Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be
Getting a loan against your Lichtenstein or borrowing against your Bricher in Connecticut might require plenty of paperwork and a potential loss of privacy, but the percentage you pay on the loan would be regulated.
A little-noticed law, "An Act Establishing a Fine Art Secured Lending License," passed last year and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Cabin Fever Show a One-Day-Only Hit
There were lots of old friends among those who were first to enter the show.
Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, is the shop of Vermont ADA president Greg Hamilton. His 191/2" x 231/2" (sight size) oil on canvas landscape is signed by Walter Farndon (1876-1964) and tagged $9500.
Colt Barn Antiques, Townshend, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Country in Nashville: Stars Align on Valentine's
After the preview party crowd poured in through the doors, Susan Kramer Hunkins took a moment to smile with relief by the big azalea heart at the entrance. The 32nd edition of Heart of Country Antiques Show was open for business.
Glen C. Rollins of Cat's Cradle traveled to Nashville from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show: Traditional and Vintage Broaden the Appeal
Two Rivers Mansion is on the McGavock Pike, located between Nashville and Hendersonville. David McGavock began building the mansion for his bride in 1859. It was completed after the Civil War. It remained in the family until the last heir died in 1965, and it became a public property. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art: Landscapes, Cityscapes, Dreamscapes
Up Balls by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an institution for $120,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 1971 acrylic on canvas, at 84" x 60" one of the biggest pieces in the sale, had been deaccessioned by the AT&T corporate art collection in New York City. It came to this ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fiddler's Antique Show: Filling Up Nicely, Thank You
Susan's Antiques, New Cumberland, West Virginia, had paintings of bucolic landscapes and pleasantly pastoral pearlware. The peddling couple at left was $1800; the bocage group at center, $725; and a figure of Hope with her anchor, $500.
Rebecca and Greg Brown of Lagrange, Indiana, brought a lot of smalls and carefully ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The Mark Fritz collection included several articulated wooden artist's mannequins. The tallest, a French figure, 311/2" high, sold for $15,000. Department manager Corbin Horn credits the result to height and great patina. Hindman photo.
As a sale surprise, it's hard to beat the result for an Italian marble figural group from ... (Read More)
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