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(Fragment)D.C. Antique Photo Show Under New Management
The D.C. Antique Photo Show will make its 26th annual spring appearance under new management on Sunday, March 15, at its regular venue, the Holiday Inn Rosslyn/Key Bridge in Arlington, Virginia.The change was announced by Tom Rall, a director of Diverse Markets Management (DMM), a Washington, D.C., firm that is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Music Valley: A Successful Shakedown Run at the Nashville Fairgrounds
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonThe display set up by Woody and Nancy Straub of Umatilla, Florida, always has a strong Western feel. The unusual Arts and Crafts desk was $1200, the fancy fringed gloves on top were $1450, and the corner cupboard filled with Indian baskets and Pueblo pottery was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Art + Design Fair
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThis Art Nouveau period (circa 1900) paneled library, an example of French Arts and Crafts, was designed by Paul Jouve (1878-1973) and created by Eugène Grasset (1845-1917) and Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927). It was carved from solid French oak and installed in the home of publisher Charles ... (Read More)
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(Show)USArtists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenGerald Peters Gallery, New York City, asked $195,000 for Waiting to Enter by Martha Walter, a 1920 oil on canvas of a Black family, 40" x 48", signed lower right.Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois, asked $750,000 for Hot Rhythm, a 40" x 50" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenModern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High GlamEdited by Todd Merrill and Julie V. Iovine, with text by Jeffrey Head, Julie V. Iovine, Erin Johnson, Roberta Maneker, Todd Merrill, and Peter WolfRizzoli International Publications, 2008,272 pages, hardbound, $75.Modern Americana is the book that dealer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Book Reviews
Book ReviewsThe Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs by Joseph Cunningham (Yale University Press, 2008, 304 pp., hardbound, $65 from Yale University Press, [www.yalebooks.com] or [800] 405-1619).A traveling exhibition of furniture by Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) will begin in June 2009 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, travel to the Dallas Museum of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Making the Best of a Tough Situation
The Cobbs Auctioneers, LLC, Peterborough, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoEmile Gruppe, oil on canvas of a Florida train station, $19,550.Quillwork decorated teepee bag with He Dog provenance, $1725.What does an auction house do when the week prior to an auction the stock market tanks and sends millions of investors into a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Adirondack Antiques Show is Back with Gusto
Blue Mountain Lake, New Yorkby Betty FloodRalph Kylloe of Lake George, New York, offered this throne chair made of mountain laurel roots, 1890-1910, from Skowhegan, Maine, for $4800.It was an absolute delight to enter the grounds of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, and see the quality ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)America's Founding Document
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenDeclaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding DocumentEdited by Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. OnufUniversity of Virginia Library, 2008, 104 pages, hardbound, $29.95 plus S/H from University of Virginia Press (www.upress.virginia.edu) or 1-800-831-3406. With the upcoming presidential inauguration, it is a good time to ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Life After Lovejoy #21
by Marilis HornidgeWhen this occasional column began back in July 1988, I never figured there would be enough mysteries with an antiques background after the retirement of that phenomenal divvie and world-class bounder, Lovejoy himself. I underestimated both the magnetism of the backgrounder in the mystery field and the tenacity ... (Read More)
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