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(Fragment)Dara Mitchell Leaves Sotheby's after 26 Years
by Lita Solis-CohenIn June 2011, Dara Mitchell, head of Sotheby's American art department and one of eight executive vice presidents of Sotheby's North and South America, decided to retire by the end of 2011. Her children, ages 18 and 22, are out of the house. It is not that she ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: William Birch: Picturing the American Scene
by Lita Solis-CohenWilliam Birch: Picturing the American Sceneby Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 340 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from University of Pennsylvania Press, (www.upenn.edu/pennpress) or (800) 537-5487.This fresh look at the life and work of William Birch (1755-1834), one of the most ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence
by Lita Solis-CohenExpressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume IIEditors Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, catalog by David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, photography by Gavin AshworthMarquand Books, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011, 452 pages, hardbound, $95 plus ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Lowdown on Underbidders
by Steve ProffittThe modern world is fast turning the bedrock concept of individual privacy into a relic that will be remembered only in history books. The increasing intrusiveness of government with its telescopic eyes in satellites, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, supercomputers for data mining, facial-recognition software, tracking devices of every kind, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
This realistic copy of a mid-18th-century fireplace stopped us dead in our tracks. So we asked dealer Bob Jessen of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, to stand next to it. According to Jessen and his partner, Jim Hohnwald, the color is "Nanking," a period hue.We admired the original green paint on the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What a Crock!
This stoneware jug, stamped "E.H. Maxwell/ Wine & Spirit M'c'ht/ 79 & 81 Broad St./ Boston./ 3," with a pair of blue cobalt birds facing one another, led the sale at $8360.Seth Thomas oak-cased regulator clock, $1100.This painted John Rogers statue, Checkers Up at the Farm, with a provenance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction at Christie's
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), The Piazzetta with Gondolas, executed 1902-04, watercolor with pencil on paper, 10" x 14", $842,500 (est. $600,000/800,000) to private dealer Michael Altman in the salesroom sitting with a collector. The painting is a dynamic example of Sargent's favorite subject painted during one of his annual visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832-1932), Sunset in the Florida Everglades, signed, oil on canvas, 17 1/8" x 24", $74,500 (est. $25,000/35,000) to a private collector on the phone.Landscape of Mt. Washington, with the signature "V.B. Crocker" and the date "1864," oil on canvas, 30 1/8" x 50 1/8", sold for $10,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Getman Buys Boston Book Show; New Venue Found
Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group, Lexington, Massachusetts, has acquired the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show from promoter Bernice Bornstein.Bornstein started the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show 15 years ago as a satellite show to the fall Boston Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) International Book Fair. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Layoffs at Iroquois Indian Museum
by Betty Flood and Alyssa PlockThe employees of the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New York, have been notified by the board of trustees that the entire staff will be laid off as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. The financial problem reared its ugly head, despite the fact ... (Read More)
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