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Winter Associates, Plainville, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferOn November 12, 2007, in Plainville, Connecticut, Winter Associates brought 328 lots to the auction block in 23 diverse categories. The largest category offered 60 works of fine art, and they dominated the sale and upper-end prices. Leading them were two signed oil on canvas ... (Read More)
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Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoOnce again the Cyclorama, a 19th-century architectural delight that houses the Boston Center for the Arts, was the place to be for much of the city's visual arts world, November 15-18, 2007. As usual, the annual Boston International Fine Art Show mingled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bonhams, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenAfter the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Area Chamber of Commerce announced plans to auction paintings by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Norman Rockwell at Bonhams in New York City on November 28, 2007, it produced an uproar in the town where Grant Wood and Marvin Cone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenOn November 29, 2007, Christie's offered 218 lots of American paintings and sculpture packaged in seven catalogs that, together, weighed over seven pounds. Two private collections and three paintings were presented in separate catalogs with long essays, but every lot was included (minus some essays) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
by Don JohnsonThis one was a little different. Rookwood is generally the star of the show when Cincinnati Art Galleries holds its annual holiday sale. For this year's event, held November 3 and 4, 2007, two Rookwood items dominated the ceramics offering, but it was a Russian chalice from a ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
Computer Column #230by John P. Reid, [email protected] cameras, scanners, photo printers, and computer-recordable compact disks have appeared in a little more than a decade. These new technologies change the rules for archival storage of pictures.Perhaps you have a collection that should be pictorially recorded for posterity. It might be a ... (Read More)
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It's a bit ironic, but the antiques industry, what some would call the ultimate consumer industry, could get a much-needed boost by an environmentalmovement that advocates less shopping. Dealers looking for new customers in existing markets would do well to find out about the Compact and compact shoppers.The Compact, born ... (Read More)
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Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusettsby Jackie SideliSeveral times a year the Robert C. Eldred Co. holds an Americana sale at its East Dennis, Massachusetts, auction gallery. The November 16 and 17, 2007, sale, billed as "Americana, Paintings, Sporting Items, and Marine Art," was a classic Eldred's auction ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
After four years of planning and 20 months of construction, the grand reopening of the expanded Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, will be held Sunday, March 30, with a public celebration. The entire first week will be open free to the public (excluding Tuesday, when the museum ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
On Saturday, January 26, the Albany Institute of History & Art will open the exhibition The Folk Spirit of Albany: Folk Art from the Collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art. Drawn from the museum's collection of folk art dating from the 18th century to the present, this ... (Read More)
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