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(Fragment)Minardi Named New Editor of Americana Insights
Scholar, author, and curator Lisa Minardi will serve as the new editor of Americana Insights, a publication focused on 18th- and 19th-century Americana and American folk art. Minardi succeeds founding editor Robert Shaw, who retired at the start of 2023.
Minardi serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and its Center ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sunday in the Country with Rusty
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
At 10:30 on Sunday morning, May 21, auctioneer Rusty Farrin of Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, banged his gavel to begin the firm’s Americana, firearms, and sporting goods auction.
The story wasn’t the stuff—there was plenty of salable midrange Americana. The story wasn’t that Farrin, who rarely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nashville Visits Springfield
Springfield Extravaganza, Springfield, Ohio
There was a new twist to the Springfield Extravaganza, held May 19-21 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio. Promoter Jon Jenkins set aside space in one of the main buildings to house dealers from the Nashville Show, which he manages in Tennessee. The concept offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Celebrates Its 70th Installment
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
There is very little new to say about the Fishersville Antiques Expo. That’s a good thing. Heritage Promotions, owned by Raymond and Martha Stokes, along with their daughter, Lesley Bartram, seems to have hit on an excellent format and mix of dealers that appear to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Landmark Sale: The Barrow Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Jim Barrow made a living giving advice. He was cofounder and executive vice president of Dallas-based Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney and Strauss (BHMS), the investment firm that managed a third of Vanguard’s Windsor II funds. From 1985 to 2019, BHMS rewarded investors with an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Madison Does It Again!
Madison, Georgia
One of the best Americana-focused small antiques shows held its 22nd annual session May 18-20 in Madison, Georgia. Following its standard format of a Thursday evening preview followed by two full days, the Madison Antiques Show & Sale offered 21 dealers’ inventories to potential buyers. Dealers came from all ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth’s Americana Sale
Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers
Two highly important objects related to Marietta, Ohio, sold as the top lots during the Americana sale held by Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers May 20 in Columbus, Ohio.
Landing of the Pioneers by Sala Bosworth (1805-1890), oil on canvas, unsigned, 23" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2023
Angelo Testa, IBM Disks, 1952-56, linen plain weave, screenprinted, 51¾" x 104¾". Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund. Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
—Through July 2 —Los Angeles, California
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores how the rise of computer technology, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Heirloom Jewels Featuring the Shemonsky Collection at Heritage
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has two “Antique Heirloom Jewels” sales each year—one in the spring and one in the fall. This year’s spring auction, held May 18, was special because it contained a large group of jewelry from the collection of Peter Shemonsky. Jill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rescued Tiffany Windows Sold at Freeman’s
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
When Paul Brown, a salvage dealer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bought two large rose windows encased in the stone walls of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in West Philadelphia, he had no idea they were made by Louis Comfort Tiffany or had been paid for by John Wanamaker, ... (Read More)
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