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(Feature)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McCloskey Pastel Heads Foster Auction
This pastel still life, solidly attributed to William Joseph McCloskey, was the sale's leading seller at $11,000. Foster photo.One of the sale's biggest prices was $7700 for this early unsigned Italian oil on canvas in a lemon gold frame, 38" x 52" (sight size), of a circular domed Roman temple ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Auction House Bankrupt
Ritchie's, the Toronto-based auction house, has declared bankruptcy. A note posted on Ritchie's Web site (www.ritchies.com) read: "To all consignors, secured and unsecured creditors of Ritchies Inc.: Please be informed that the landlord Hildegard Hammer has petitioned Ritchies Inc. into bankruptcy. As of October 26th, 2009, Ritchies Inc. is now ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bibles, Library Dupes, and Cookbook Lead Americana Sale
A number of items relating to the Arctic did well, including Joseph-Nicolas Delisle's Nouvelles Cartes des Decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, published in Paris in1753. With 60 pages and four folding maps, minus the final plate as well as (as usual) the final appendix, this early imagining of Alaska's coast ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)First Lehman Bankruptcy Sale Big Success at Freeman's
Georges Schreiber, Brooklyn Bridge, signed and dated "Schreiber 45," 311/2" x 431/2", $20,000 (est. $4000/6000). Freeman's photo.by Lita Solis-CohenPhiladelphia auctioneer Freeman's estimated that the consignment of 283 lots of framed prints, photographs, paintings, and one sculpture from the corporate art collection that once decorated Lehman Brothers offices in New York, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Behind the Facade: Moguls and Money at the Met
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenRogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museumby Michael GrossBroadway Books, 2009, hardbound, 545 pages, $29.95This unauthorized book about the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "the most encyclopedic, universal art museum in the world," takes the reader behind the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Presentation Pieces from Old Ironsides
Block of wood, 9" x 51/4" x 4", with an imbedded medallion depicting the Constitution under sail and her significant naval victories listed in the margins. Its inscription indicates that the artifact is from the original hull of the Constitution. The stout 71/4" Paul Revere foundry copper spike is lodged ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director at the Farnsworth
Christopher J. Brownawell has been appointed
director of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. He will join the museum
on February 1, 2010.Currently, Brownawell is the director of the Academy Art
Museum in Easton, Maryland, a position he has held since 1993. "Chris Brownawell
is a nationally recognized art ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Confidence Shown at Americana Auction
Four phone bidders competed for this exceptional and rare Philadelphia Federal satinwoodveneered mahogany games table, circa 1795. The 30" x 361/4" table has a serpentine top with line inlay, figured veneers, square tapering legs with bellflowers, and inlaid banded cuffs. It sold to a collector on the phone for $76,050 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marklin Steam Pumper Blazes to $149,500 at Kaufman II Toy Sale
Bill Hill of Temperance, Michigan, knows his pressed steel pedal cars. We checked with Hill by phone after the sale, and he indicated he was impressed by the variety and quantity of the pedal cars (nearly 50 in total) with entries dating back as early as 1906. Hill said, "My ... (Read More)
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