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Margaret Norton (1905-2000) of the Folly Cove Designers demonstrating the printing process. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum.
—Through March 19 —Gloucester, Massachusetts
Designed & Hand-Blocked by the Folly Cove Designers at the Cape Ann Museum explores the Folly Cove artistic collective, which existed from 1938 to 1969. Craftspersons, mostly women, created ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Nine American museums were among the bidders for a 19th-century portrait of two unidentified girls at Christie’s Americana sale in New York City January 20. The black girl on the left holds a rose and is wearing more coral jewelry than her white companion—a necklace, ... (Read More)
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Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
There were 10,000 objects in the collection of the Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Edith Kelly Fetherston collected furniture, quilts, ceramics, glass, metalware, and paintings and housed them in a historic building on Water Street that began in 1796 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
On January 19 and 20, at the very same time that major sales of Americana were live in New York City and Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, was selling early 20th-century and modern design live to a different audience with great success. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s sale of the collection of Philadelphia collectors Charles and Olenka Santore January 19 in New York City dispersed the finest assemblage of Windsor furniture ever to come to market.
Charlie Santore (1935-2019) was known in the world of Americana as the author of the definitive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s offered 66 lots of 19th-century American art January 19 during Americana Week, and several dealers and collectors attended the live sale to buy and also observe what was selling and not selling during the auction. After three years of enduring COVID-19, clients sitting in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Fans of paintings of fruit, flowers, fish, and faces showed their appreciation by bidding on and buying 32 out of 34 lots offered in Christie’s sale “From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection,” held the morning of January 19 in New York ... (Read More)
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At a gathering at the Bernard and S. Dean Levy gallery in New York City January 18, John Davis, president and CEO of Historic Deerfield, announced the return of the annual Antiques Dealers’ Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show. Previously an October event, the show will now be held live ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
The widely anticipated Outsider and vernacular art sale at Christie’s was held the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18, midway through Americana Week. The sale, which offered 103 lots, totaled $2,064,384, with a sell-through rate of 99%. The presale estimates totaled $1.2/2 million, according to Cara ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s offered 47 lots in its “Art of the Americas” sale held January 18, midway through Americana Week. The noon sale totaled $4,514,580 (including buyers’ premiums). Of the 47 lots offered (lots 5 and 7 were withdrawn before the auction), 33 sold, for a ... (Read More)
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