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(Feature)Collecting by Design
A Show and Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy The Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonCollecting by Design: Silver & Metalwork of the Twentieth Century from the Margo Grant Walsh Collectionby Timothy A. O'Brien with Margo Grant Walsh, introduction by Cindi StraussThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, distributed by Yale University Press, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Market for California and American Paintings Remains Strong
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanAs usual, records were set (a dozen) and paintings were sold above their estimates at Bonhams & Butterfields' April 8 Los Angeles/San Francisco auction of California and American paintings and sculpture. Total sales added up to $4,875,280 (includes buyers' premiums), ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenThe Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show, promoter Frank Gaglio's show, began Philadelphia's Antiques Week with real energy on Friday morning, April 11. Folk art dealer Allan Katz, in town for the Philadelphia Antiques Show, was first in line at 9 a.m. By the time the doors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Steiff Figures Top Prices at Wintergarden Toy Auction
Wintergarden Auction Services, Monson, Massachusettsby Ed PfeifferIt was antiques in Toyland, or maybe vice versa, at Wintergarden Auction's March 15 sale of children's diverse playthings. There were some 288 lots of toys, dolls, trains, games, bicycles, and other categories. Auctioneer Frank Kapsia said most of them were from four large ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Sutton's Law
Some in the art and antiques show business, caught up in a tough economic climate, have taken a cue from medical students and are employing a version of Sutton's law. (Sutton's law is the principle of going straight to the most likely diagnosis of a problem. It's named for bank ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Richard Withington: "He Made Country Auctioneering a Business"
by David HewettAt 4 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, April 29, Hillsborough Center, New Hampshire, auctioneer Richard Withington died. He passed away at the Birches in Concord, New Hampshire, a community for those with Alzheimer's disease. Withington had been hospitalized after a stroke.It was only circumstance that had landed ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Prior-Hamblen Portrait Charms at Americana Auction
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenFreeman's traditionally had held its spring sale the Saturday after Antiques Week in Philadelphia with its presale viewing during the week when the dealers and collectors come to town for shows and museum exhibitions. This year the preview began before the shows opened and continued during ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shenandoah Valley Redware Highlights Crocker Farm Ceramics Show and Auction
Crocker Farm, York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe Zipps of Crocker Farm, Inc., Ryderwood, Maryland, added something new for their ceramics auction, held March 8 in the Old Main Building at the fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania-a show and sale. Renting tables for $100 apiece, dealers in antique and contemporary pottery could ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pilgrim-Century Tulip and Sunflower Press Cupboard Generates Excitement
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohioby Don JohnsonA Pilgrim-Century press cupboard that got high billing in a 1931 auction was turning heads again during Garth's January 4 and 5 sale in Delaware, Ohio, where it was the top lot of the weekend at $38,775 (includes buyer's premium). "It's one of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Ogunquit Museum of American Art Mounts Major Holdings from Permanent Collection
by Rose Safran Well over 20 years ago, walking in Ogunquit, Maine, I wandered into a small, private oceanfront museum located near Perkins Cove where a popular cliff walk offers visitors magnificent vistas of the state's rockbound coast. Greeting me at the museum's entrance was an elderly gentleman clad in ... (Read More)
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