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(Feature)American Art Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Show)Celebrating 30 Years - Western Reserve Academy Antiques Festival
Cloudy weather was actually the perfect atmosphere to shop the booths of more than 75 dealers on September 5, Labor Day, in Hudson, Ohio. ... (Read More)
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(Show)USArtists
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City, offered Portrait of General Otho Holland Williams (1749-1794) by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), painted in 1782 and modified in 1788, 22¾" x 19¾", for $650,000.Jonathan Boos, New York City and Bloomfield Village, Michigan, offered Birmingham Meetinghouse by Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a 16" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Fresh Discoveries at Solid African-American Art Sale
Work by Charles White (1918-1979) sold to a collector for $306,000 (est. $200,000/250,000). The drawing in Wolff crayon and charcoal on board is 44" x 28" and dates from 1953.A pair of untitled gouaches of card players by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)—panels from a folding screen—sold in one lot to a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Labor Day Weekend Auction
Polar bear full-body taxidermy mount on an ice-form base, $7050.Monumental ship's clock, Chelsea Clock Company, Boston, early 20th century, 16" silver dial, 18¾" red brass case, $18,800.Adolph Robert Shulz (1869-1963) springtime landscape with a barn and wagon, signed, oil on canvas, 30" x 36" plus carved and painted frame, $12,925.Cased ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles Willson Peale Painting of Freed Slave Acquired by PMA
by Lita Solis-CohenPortrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), 1819, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Philadelphia Museum of Art.The portrait of Yarrow Mamout, an African-American, painted in 1819 by Charles Willson Peale, was bought by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) from the cash-strapped Philadelphia History ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Fraud and Floor Plans
Software drawing of an antiques show floor plan. A perspective view is inset.Computer Column #276by John P. Reid, [email protected] is available for drawing floor plans of antiques shows or shops. First, some reminders on Internet privacy.-Internet FraudWe are all familiar with on-line fraud, especially in e-mail. Not a day goes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)September Jewelry Auctions
The top lot of Sotheby's September 20 auction was this circa 1928 Cartier tutti-frutti 7" long platinum, carved colored stone, diamond, and enamel bracelet. Thirteen bidders edged it to far past its $200,000/300,000 estimate, and it sold for $842,500 to the "international trade," according to a press release. With carved ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Living Fair
The entrance to Country Living Fair saw constant traffic all three days.Cari Cucksey of HGTV's Cash & Cari (in the jacket) had her hands full at Country Living Fair in Ohio Village in Columbus in September. When she wasn't busy signing autographs (often on items people had purchased), Cucksey was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lambert-Pain Auction
Hanover, Ontario, dealer Dieter Sebastian paid $11,550 for a rare large, round chair table with a 5' width from a Quaker settlement near Uxbridge, Ontario. It was circa 1825 and had a three-board scrub top, a stretcher-base chair on turned legs, and original red finish. Pain collection.Mike Scott was seeking ... (Read More)
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