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(Fragment)Boston Athenæum Acquires Rare Painting by Robert Duncanson
The Boston Athenæum announced it has acquired a painting by the 19th-century artist Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872). Boatman Delivering Goods on the South Fork, Shenandoah River, Virginia is the first work by Duncanson to enter the Athenæum’s special collections in the institution’s 215-year history.
Boatman Delivering Goods on the South Fork, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 69th Winter Show
New York City
The 69th edition of The Winter Show was back at its birthplace at the Park Avenue Armory, raising funds for the East Side House Settlement, January 20-29. Sixty-eight dealers were greeted enthusiastically by collectors, curators, decorators, and those who make a career of shopping. The preview party ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arader Auction Brings $478,055
Arader Galleries held an auction January 28 in New York City. The 179-lot sale of Audubon prints, natural history watercolors, books, maps, and Americana totaled $478,055 (includes buyers’ premiums).
Sales included a John James Audubon aquatint engraving, Pin-Tailed Duck,with provenance from the Saxe-Meiningen collection that brought $31,200.
John James Audubon, Reddish Egret ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)20th Century Cincinnati Show under New Ownership
On February 25 and 26, 20th Century Cincinnati will return to the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now in its 28th year, the 20th Century Cincinnati show is under new ownership by sisters and entrepreneurs Jess and Jenni Button.
Show founder Bruce Metzger was already producing and managing a schedule ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cohen and Cohen’s $1.7 Million Sale
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
U.K. dealers Michael and Ewa Cohen are known for selling the finest and rarest Chinese export porcelain to collectors and museums in all parts of the world, often from well-designed stands at top antiques fairs. They kept a selection of works in a New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Helen Allen, Executive Director, The Winter Show
As a third-generation native New Yorker, Helen Allen had the Metropolitan Museum of Art as her Upper East Side neighborhood playground.
In fact, when she went for interviews for admittance to kindergarten and was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she would matter-of-factly answer, “Director of my ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Americana
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Mrs. J. Insley Blair’s Philadelphia walnut scroll-top high chest of drawers, circa 1760, attributed to Henry Clifton and Thomas Carteret, with carving attributed to someone dealers call “Spike” because of the shape of his leaves, has a crusty old finish and its original cartouche, urn-and-flame ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope’s Americana Exhibition in New York City
Olde Hope is hosting an exhibition, Recent Arrivals featuring Highlights from an Important 30-year Pennsylvania Collection, in its New York City gallery until April 1.
The Pennsylvania collection was started over 30 years ago by Susan Fetterolf and her husband, Jeff Gorrin, while living in New York City. Their early collecting ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Don’t Trust, Always Verify
The crooks are sophisticated, and in 2020 they managed to snare two high-powered businesses, leading to losses and now court battles.
A London insurer is suing online auction platform Invaluable, which has, in turn, filed suit against Sotheby’s.
According to the lawsuit by underwriters at Lloyd’s of London filed in August 2022, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Kindig Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The Kindig family story, told in the introduction to the illustrated catalog for the sale of the Kindig collection of American furniture, paintings, silver, and decorative arts, documents an earlier time.
Joseph “Joe” Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), who amassed a collection of more than 400 long rifles ... (Read More)
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