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(Feature)Spring York Show
From left are Tammy Gebhart, Jeff Burk, and Donna Burk. Jeff and Tammy are Donna’s children and help her run the Greater York Antiques Show. Behind them is a painted corner cupboard in the booth of Kelly Kinzle. It sold on Saturday.James Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, put together an impressive ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Pair of Crowell Exhibits
A. Elmer Crowell and his son Cleon, standing in the doorway of their East Harwich, Massachusetts, workshop, 1927-30, holding recently completed carvings. Photo courtesy Heritage Museums & Gardens.Canton and Sandwich, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoIt has been a banner year for Massachusetts museum exhibits featuring native son A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three Quarters of a Million in Four Auction Lots
Andrew Wyeth graphite and charcoal drawing, $155,250.A pair of 18th-century Claudius du Paquier Viennese vases, $258,750 for the pair.Höchst faience baluster covered vases, $138,000. Thomaston Place photo.Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoSubtract the four top lots that totaled over three quarters of a million dollars at Thomaston Place ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sales
Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Paris, Winter Day, signed and dated 1887 lower right, oil on canvas, 17¾" x 32", $2,322,500 (est. $1.5/2.5 million). In May 2008 at Sotheby’s, it sold for $3,961,000 (est. $2.5/3.5 million). Sotheby’s photo.Christie’s catalog cover lot, Sketching by the Sea by Milton Avery (1885-1965), signed and dated ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Old Jake" Weathervane Stays in Winchester
Photo by Alan Lehman. Courtesy Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia."Old Jake" is home. The 72" high x 62" wide molded copper weathervane of a fireman, covered in silver-gray paint, went on display at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, in early July.The weathervane was estimated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Room for Two: Charles Whitaker and Karen Augusta Hold Separate Textile and Costume Sales
The highest-priced lot from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation consignment was this Yves Saint Laurent couture leather and fox coat. It had a wide black leather belt and front and back fox panels. The hood had a full fox mask and ears lined in black silk. It had an Yves ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leslie Hindman: "A Good and Solid Sale"
One really does see everything at a Hindman auction. The European mounted Cape buffalo skull with horns intact, 35" wide, sold for $244.A pair of George III painted and gilt torchères, 35" high, brought $13,420. Hindman photo.The catalog cover lot, an Italian micromosaic table top with a C. Roccheggiani paper ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Bitter Pill
It's a sour story. In U.S. District Court in San Francisco, a museum/store is under legal attack by the manufacturer of the very item the museum celebrates, an iconic collectible.Food giant PEZ Candy claims the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia is in violation of California trademark law, partly because the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show
The preview party at the Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show is one of the most festive of the season. Good food, gorgeous weather, and a charming setting in the courtyard is where it begins, but it continues inside the museum with more food, music, and three floors with dealers’ stands.Lee ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The American Wing Opens to Enthusiastic Audience
First Lady Michelle Obama cut the ribbon inaugurating the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 19. Dignitaries from left: Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City; Emily K. Rafferty, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kirsten Gillibrand, senator, state of New York; Michelle ... (Read More)
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