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(Feature)The National Academy Museum and School Gets an Artful Renovation
The National Academy Museum, which is at the peak of Manhattan's Museum Mile, is housed in a circa 1901 six-story Beaux Arts townhouse designed by architects Turner & Killian. The museum and its adjoining school have recently undergone a $3.5 million renovation.An American Collection is the first rotation of a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Madison-Bouckville Antique Week
A pair of matching bow-back Windsor chairs in very good condition was $1650 from Emele's Antiques, Dublin, Pennsylvania.Antique sporting gear was among the offerings of Thor Konwin of Brandon, Vermont.Barry Ezrin of Moffat, Ontario, was showing an early and rare candle mold that had ceramic tubes. It was all in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cache of Anna Pottery Auctioned
Anna Pottery pig flask, Albany slip glaze, with a caricature of Horace Greeley looking at a hat set up as a rabbit trap with a paddle trigger labeled "Presidency," the hat lettered "Who ever says this is a trap is a liar," 8¼" long, excellent condition, $25,875.Anna Pottery snake jug ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiny Calder Stabile Is Giant at Art Sale
Shoe with Split Heel by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), 1946, 4½" x 3 3/8" x 2¼", an unsigned painted sheet metal stabile that had been in a private Massachusetts collection since 1967, sold to the trade for $148,125 (est. $30,000/ 50,000). It was the top lot of the sale.Jeune fille assise ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont Cabin Fever Show Changes Hands and Date
Jim Dunn, longtime promoter of the Cabin Fever show in Quechee, Vermont, has sold the show. The new owner, dealer Greg Hamilton of Vergennes, Vermont, said he plans no changes, except the show's new date will be Saturday, February 18, to coincide with Presidents' Day weekend."The usual mix of country, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casting Call
Boston Casting is holding nationwide auditions for treasure-seeking antiques and collectibles professionals for a new television program from the producers of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow."We're looking beyond the amateur-weekend-flea-market hobbyists for those who really know their stuff," said Boston Casting owner Angela Peri. "We want to cast real pros ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Paint, Pattern, and People
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenPaint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850by Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa MinardiWinterthur, distributed by The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 277 pages, hardbound, $55 plus S/H from Winterthur, (800) 597-2760 or (www.winterthurstore.com).Collectors and those who like to know where things were made and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hidden Treasure: Art at Risk on American Campuses
Among the Jessie Volk documents and artifacts sold off by the University of Maine were sales records for Volk's Sabatos rug enterprise; a rug loom carved by Karl von Rydingsvärd, who taught woodcarving at Volk's home Hewnoaks; and several very rare signed Sabatos rugs, one of which is now in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Round Top Antiques Fair
Pen wipes, usually in the likeness of animals, were widely used to wipe ink pens on in the late 1800's. This one is crafted of bronze and boar bristles and was priced by Lorna Rolfe of Merrywood Shoppe, Bastrop, Louisiana, at $265.This lion is way too beautiful to look so ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction in Kennebunk
Late 19th-century terrestrial globe by A.H. Andrews & Co. of Chicago, $4370.Oval framed oil by Georges Frederic Roetig (1873-1961) of wild boars in winter, $4025.A Mid-Atlantic serpentine bureau with French feet and string inlays along the corners and upper edge fetched $1725.This tall clock by early 19th-century maker Ebenezer Sherburne ... (Read More)
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