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(Feature)Vintage Redux: Repurposed Antiques
by Danielle ArnetThe old way of antiquing is, to borrow from the Monty Python parrot routine, dead, dead, dead. There's a new way to play antiques today. Younger buyers can't afford the old rubric and find it fusty anyway. Too traditional, irrelevant, and bluntly old. This is a cohort that ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Pastors & Patriots
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvaniaby Lisa Minardi, a special issue of Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow), Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 45, Number 1, 2011, 95 pages, softbound, $24.95 plus $6 S/H from the Pennsylvania German Society, (717) 597-7940.
The exhibition catalog Pastors & Patriots: ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beyond the Verdict: How LaSalle and Zaplin Won the $51 Million Bouguereau Suit
Notre Dame des Anges.by David HewettOn Monday afternoon, January 9, a six-person jury returned to a courtroom in the Supreme Court of the State of New York building in Albany and delivered a verdict that surprised those who had been following the tale of two art dealers who were accused ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Boston Museum Buys John Axelrod's African-American Art Collection
John Axelrod and Nonie Gadsden, the MFA's Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, at an art and design show in Boston in 2011.John Biggers (1924-2001), Shotguns, 1983-86, charcoal and conte crayon drawing. Provenance: Michael Rosenfeld to John Axelrod collection. One of the latest works in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brady Camera and Kennedy Rocker Take Top Bids in Americana Auction
Documented as the last rocker President Kennedy sat in (at the Rice Hotel in Houston the day before his assassination), this straight-back wooden rocking chair sold for $65,725.This early 1860's Mathew Brady wet plate studio camera, mounted on an 11" x 15" base rail, sold for $65,725. This historic camera ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J.P. Richardson Estate Makes for an Unusual Sale in Unusual Ways
The 21/4" high x 21/4" diameter firkin in green paint, signed "RH" for Reuben Hersey and "1859," opened at $3000 and sold for $10,530. It has other pencil inscriptions, but the maker, color, date, and condition make it outstanding.The miniature (13/4" high x 21/4" diameter) tub in red finish, stamped ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit Filed over Sale of Lichtenstein's "Girl in Mirror"
by Daniel GrantJan Cowles, the art collecting mother of one-time Artforum publisher and former Manhattan gallery owner Charles Cowles, has sued New York City's Gagosian Gallery for selling a 1964 enamel on metal painting by Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein from her collection without her consent and for considerably less than ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review---Thomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England
by Lita Solis-CohenThomas Rowlandson: Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian Englandby Patricia Phagan, with essays by Vic Gatrell and Amelia RauserThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2011, 184 pages, hardbound, $59.95 plus S/H from ACC Distribution, (www.accdistribution.com/us) or (212) 645-1111."The talent to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Four Artists in Search of Found Objects
John Sideli in his studio in Wiscasset, Maine. Photo by Michael Fredericks.
John Sideli, Planter of Seeds, 23" x 20" x 13", $6500.
John Sideli, Trio, 39" x 20" x 133/4", $6500.
Rick Zonghi at NK Gallery, Boston, with Easy Rider, wood and metal, 181/4" x 133/4", $2400.
Rick Zonghi, Measuring Time, wood, metal, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Americana Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this Virginia Chippendale walnut corner chair that dates from the second half of the 18th century and is attributed to an unidentified maker in Isle of Wight County in southeastern Virginia. The chair features a broad D-shaped arm rail with rounded out-turned ... (Read More)
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