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(Fragment)Frederick Hurten Rhead Four-Part Tile Panel Sells for $637,500
Frederick Hurten Rhead large four-part tile panel depicting a peacock, marked "Frederick H. Rhead, U.C. 1910," 203/4" square. The U.C. stands for University City near St. Louis where Edward Gardner Lewis, a publisher of American women's magazines and an amateur potter, opened an art academy in 1907 with studios for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coast Guard Sues to Get Back Lighthouse Lens
by Clayton PenningtonIn October, the United States, acting on behalf of the United States Coast Guard, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the William Lyon Phelps Foundation, which owns the Huron City Museum in Port Austin, Michigan. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the United States "is the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Santa Fe Show Schedule Shakeup Scuttled
by Alice KaufmanThe more things change, the more they stay the same.The Whitehawk 30th annual Antique Ethnographic Art Show will open on August 8, 2013, and run through August 10. The Whitehawk 35th annual Invitational Antique Indian Art Show will open on August 11 and run through August 13. Both ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traditional Art Scoops Contemporary for a Change
The show's coproducers, Robert Four (on left) and Tony Fusco.
An Early Snow by Walter Launt Palmer (1854-1932) was painted in 1887. The 221/2" x 261/2" oil on canvas was offered for $445,000 from Avery Galleries. Richard Rossello said it had been exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair.
Boston-based Colleene Fesko, an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Queens Foundry Owner Charged with Trying to Sell Fake Jasper Johns Sculpture
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(Auction)Edison Reproduces Again
Symphonion Eroica music box, 72" x 28", style No. 37, featuring duplex combs with 100 teeth. Having its original door picture, it was in wonderful condition. Included with the lot was a walnut cabinet with shelves to store the accompanying 32 three-disc sets. Top lot of the three-day sale, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Overflow Crowd, Strong Prices Prevail at Labor Day Weekend Auction
The 20" x 24" oil on masonite by Eric Sloane (1905-1985) depicting a church in Grafton, Vermont, sold for $9350 to either an absentee or a phone bidder.The 1775 map of The Seat of the War in New England by an American Volunteer is the work of Robert Sayer and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner's Americana Sale
The 221/4" x 33" oil on canvas by William Allen Wall (1801-1885) depicts the area known as Old Four Corners, at the junction of Union and Water Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts, circa 1807. Wall's painting has to be a bit conjectural, since it depicts the Four Corners as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales at Garth's
George III terrestrial globe, George Adams Jr., London, circa 1790, printed and hand colored, on an oak stand with cabriole legs and pad feet, the base mounted with a compass, the cartouche with Adams's standard dedication to the king, 31" high x 18" diameter, imperfections, $15,275.Map of the world by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Internet Ruled at Augusta
Labeled "Doeuillet 18 Place Vendome Paris," this one-piece tea gown from 1910 was of fine Russian cream bobbin lace with a bodice insert and deep skirt panels of heavily embroidered cotton lawn with repeats of small flowers surrounded by a swirling vine. It was missing its original green silk sash ... (Read More)
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