| Index Listing for 2003 July-December |
Steuben's Modern Moment The Museum of the City of New York presents the first exhibition ever to explore a remarkable chapter in the history of American's premier glassmaker and the Modernist movement itself....Read More
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Sotheby's Second Quarter Auction Revenues Down Four Percent The company said, however, that revenues over the same period decreased only a fraction of that amount by $4.9 million, or four percent, primarily as a result of the buyer's premium rate increase that became effective in January 2003, as well as improved consignor commission rates....Read More
Flamingo Plans to Add Third Show to NH Antiques Week Is there room for another show during Antiques Week in New Hampshire? If you ask that question of John and Tina Bruno, they will give you a very definite "yes."...Read More
The Metropolitan's 'Da Vinci' Reaps $220 Million for New York City Attendance reached 401,000 for the exhibition, which was on view for a limited run of less than ten weeks. Nearly two-thirds of the visitors traveled from outside the five boroughs....Read More
Rhinebeck's Summer Magic Continues Path of Success In its fifth year, Summer Magic remains a significant entry in the calendar leading up to New Hampshire's early August frenzy, and is, by all accounts, a popular, well-attended event....Read More
The Allure of the Hamptons The Hamptons, home to entertainment personalities such as Steven Spielberg and Renee Zellweger, is also home to the very wealthy Wall Street types. And that is good news for antiques....Read More
Milon A. Barnes, 63, Partner in Hastings House Among the clients Hastings House has sold to over the years are Vladamir Horowitz, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Mrs Henry C. Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Morley Safer, Mario Buatta, Andy Warhol, and Sister Parish and Albert Hadley....Read More
Something New under the Sun: The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair Olympia has established itself over the last three decades as an important event on England's antiques calendar. It has also become a business bellwether for the art and antiques trade....Read More
Topsfield's Great Indoor/Outdoor Antiques Event The Topsfield shows are among the last where a great many antiques can be found at prices which allow a great deal for the buyer....Read More
Maine Antiques Dealers Association Hosts Annual Show There are lots of good reasons to go to Maine, especially in the summer, but really the top reason in the middle of July is to attend the MADA show in Portland....Read More
Buyers 'Take It Home' During July's Brimfield Each Brimfield has a different attitude. In July, competition from other shows in the Northeast causes many dealers to be unable to attend but gives much-needed space to others....Read More
Nan Gurley's Sturbridge Show Remains a Part of Brimfield Week The show gathered together about 50 dealers at an indoor, air-conditioned facility for a second time. The first such event was in May of this year....Read More
Antiques Week in New Hampshire Are you ready? Our listing of "official" goings-on will help you through the adrenalin-packed events. ...Read More
Finding Out about Farmington It is a village in Connecticut. A patch of open land by a picturesque river of the same name. It is an event and it is a tradition....Read More
Silver Stolen in Brimfield as Police Force Pickets An estimated $75,000 to $100,000 worth of silver was reportedly stolen from a dealer's booth on the Central Park field on the evening of July 9, the same night as virtually the town's entire "former" police force picketed outside of the Brimfield Town Hall protesting the loss of its jobs. ...Read More
Jim Gibson Leaves Pook & Pook to Launch out on His Own "It was time for me to go completely on my own," said Gibson. "It is a very amiable parting."...Read More
The Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show "These are dealers who like one another," Bob Armacost told us. "I am very fond of the show and I love coming here. The committee is marvelous."...Read More
A Soggy Start to the Wilton Outdoor Antiques Show The summer show, which hosted more than 175 dealers in room settings under tents, operated a truncated session on Sunday when the field came under water and no vehicles could get on to allow the dealers to unpack their booths....Read More
History Detectives What do you get when you cross 'Law & Order' with 'Antiques Roadshow?' Something not unlike a new PBS television series that aims to bring history to life by placing experts on the scene to solve the abundant riddles posed by antiques and other historic artifacts....Read More
H. Richard Strand, Jr, 77 Over the years, Richard and and his partner Clifford made many friends and delighted both customers and dealers with their highest quality of antiques and extensive knowledge in many different areas of the trade. ...Read More
New Show Proves It's Easy to Get Hooked on Sporting Collectibles After several years in the planning stages, Jerry Oliver and his partner Michael Gannon brought together The American Museum of Fly Fishing and close to 70 dealers for a show that should have a bright future....Read More
The Rye Historical Society Antiques Show More than 40 dealers from as far away as Kansas and Missouri - even England - offered antiques of many styles and purposes....Read More
Keno Brothers Join "This Old House" for New PBS Series "Find!" will begin each episode with the Kenos visiting viewers' homes around the country searching for hidden treasures. They will call upon experts in conservation, restoration, reproductions and other fields to help viewers learn more about the objects around them....Read More
James Parker, 64, Partner in Jackson-Mitchell Mr Parker formed the company 35 years ago with Stuart Jackson Horn. From the beginning, the dealers specialized in English furniture and related decorative arts. The company was particularly well-known for tall-case clocks and barometers....Read More
The Woodbury Antiques Fair "Conditions here sure have been tough, but Frank Gaglio has remained calm through it all and has done everything humanly possible to help the dealers and make sure the show goes on." ...Read More
The New York Tribal Antiques Show "The US market for antiques and fine arts has remained stronger than Europe's and there are indications that that will continue to be the case. This is particularly important in the field of tribal and ethnographic works."...Read More
Solid Start for New Show in Williamsburg The event, at the Clarion George Washington Hotel, hosted a full house of 32 dealers from throughout the East and Midwest....Read More
The Millbrook Antiques Show Close to 1,000 people came through the show during the two days and management is looking to increase that number substantially this fall....Read More
Garlenski Case Expands in Court "We are very concerned about the pattern of behavior and victimization of honest and hardworking merchants in the antiques business. That is why we are devoting the resources that are necessary in this case."...Read More
New Wing for Norton Creates Florida's Largest Art Museum An exceptionally large number of art museums seem to be dedicating newly expanded facilities these days, but few will outdo the dramatic effect of the new Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing of the Norton Museum of Art....Read More
The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour "I've come to the firm conclusion that Thomas was the greater genius of the two. This goes against what has been imagined." - Robert D. Mussey, Jr....Read More
Grandma Moses in the Twenty-First Century at the Wadsworth Concluding a triumphal national tour at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, a major retrospective of the work of the inimitable Grandma Moses has confirmed her enduring popularity and drawn attention to the quality of her art as well as the fascinating saga of her life....Read More
'JFK and Art' at the Bruce Museum An exhibition documenting the ways in which artists depicted the Kennedy years seems like such a good idea it is surprising that no one has organized one before....Read More
'Dressed to Thrill' Phyllis Galembo's costume collection now numbers around 500 spooky and suspiciously friendly characters as well as assorted heads, hands and feet....Read More
Manet and the Sea at The Art Institute of Chicago The first exhibition devoted to an important but little-studied aspect of Manet's career examines the artist's seascapes - created between 1864 and 1881 - and their role in the evolution of marine painting....Read More
Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock The artist created some of his most interesting and compelling paintings in that Catskill Mountains area before his sudden death at age 42....Read More
Murano Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection The traveling exhibition, which makes Norfolk its first stop on a national tour, showcases a remarkable collection of glass made in the region during the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries. ...Read More
Design in Hand: The Evolution of Writing Instruments since 1784 Everyone knows the pen is mightier than the sword. But a quick look at how many museums and galleries proudly display weaponry of various kinds while ignoring the pen reveals that the object of that sentiment is a bit meek. Until now....Read More
The Art of Tennessee The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville presents a complete overview of the state's aesthetic history through works made by everyone from prehistoric potters and pioneer chair-makers to living painters still working at their easels....Read More
The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers visitors a rare opportunity to view one of the most impressive American Indian collections in the country....Read More
'Our Flag' at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The exhibition focuses on the actual depiction of the flag as it changed over the years and how artists used it to punctuate the themes in their works....Read More
The Odyssey of George E. Ohr Antiques market history is filled with stories of people where the market made the man, so to speak, and then scholarship in the field has followed. This is certainly the case with George Ohr....Read More
Max Beckmann A grand exhibition, showcasing all facets of Beckmann's art, is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art....Read More
Frederic Remington: The Color of Night In pursuit of his goal to be accepted as a "fine artist," around 1900 Remington began a series of deeply personal canvases that most interestingly explored the technical and aesthetic challenges of creating night scenes....Read More
The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball Baseball is recognized as the national pastime, but for some artists and collectors the game has become a driving passion as well. This year, the American Folk Art Museum steps up to the plate with a comprehensive exhibition of more than 100 pieces of folk art....Read More
One Hundred Years of Whistler This year marks the centennial of the death of the American-born expatriate painter, printmaker, designer, wit, dandy, champion of aestheticism and forerunner of Modernism....Read More
The Pottery of the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys Splashy colors and unique forms indigenous to these regions have made such utilitarian earthenwares highly sought-after specimens for much of the past century. ...Read More
Road to Anywhere An average weekend for Barry and Nansi Nelson includes visits to antiques shops with a few shows or antiques-related events thrown in during the middle of the week. And it is the reason their faithful car, sometimes loaded with a great variety of purchases, logs more than 60,000 miles per year, at the very least....Read More
Lustrous: A Celebration of Art Glass by Frederick Carder Lustrous: A Celebration of Art Glass by Frederick Carder...Read More
Thomas Gainsborough: Graceful Society Portraits, Lush Pastoral Landscapes With more than 60 paintings and 30 works on paper, this is the first comprehensive show of the artist's work in more than 20 years and the first Gainsborough retrospective in this country, and is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston....Read More
Stars and Stripes What is more American than apple pie? Eagles, flags and Lady Liberty, judging by the dozens of patriotic motifs that crop up on quilts and fire buckets, trade signs and weathervanes in a new book and a related exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum....Read More
Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America "Reality is what you can get away with." The phrase, both wry and inspirational, sums up the guiding philosophy of Nutting, the crazy-like-a-fox Congregational minister turned marketeer....Read More
Splendid Expansion at the Peabody Essex Museum Splendid Expansion at the Peabody Essex Museum...Read More
Splendid Expansion at the Peabody Essex Museum Founded in 1799 as the East India Marine Society and later changing its name to the Peabody Museum, it is the oldest continuously operated museum in America. Located just several blocks away was the Essex Institute that was founded in 1815....Read More
The Life Work of Weston A display containing outstanding vintage prints from all phases of Edward Weston's five-decade career will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum through January 11....Read More
African American Artists Celebrate Community in Pennsylvania Drawn from the Pennsylvania Academy's permanent collection is an exhibition that celebrates African American art and artists....Read More
David Collection Debuts at UCLA Hammer A promised gift to the museum's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, The Eunice and Hal David Collection features approximately 60 drawings by 48 celebrated artists who have shaped the course of art history....Read More
From Ishtar to Aphrodite An exhibition presenting art and artifacts from the island of Cyprus spanning the late Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic period has opened at the Onassis Cultural Center....Read More
In a Brilliant Light The Gulf Coast Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of luminous paintings by Punta Gorda artist Fran Hardy January 17 to February 29....Read More
Sargent's Women Adelson Galleries, Inc will present a unique loan exhibition of approximately 50 John Singer Sargent oil paintings and watercolors from museums and private collectors. Several of the paintings have rarely or never been publicly displayed....Read More
'An American Portrait' in Washington, D.C. Barbara Ernst Prey, a gifted artist with an international reputation, brings new life to the medium of watercolor both through challenging and often complex compositions and the brilliant Maine light that glances across the images....Read More
Microscopic Masterpieces by Dalton Ghetti At the Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Ghetti, a carpenter by trade, creates intricate carvings on the point of ordinary pencils....Read More
The Maker's Hand The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston documents, for the first time, the beginnings and evolution of the American studio furniture movement - one of the most important aspects of Twentieth Century furniture....Read More
A Collection Sampler Highlighting the diversity of the American Folk Art Museum's growing collection, this exhibition explores both the traditional and unconventional facets of folk art and the work of self-taught artists. ...Read More
A Visual Testimony to the Great Depression An exhibition at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library showcases the work of printmakers and photographers in New York and its environs during the 1930s and 40s....Read More
Beautiful Treasures from a Mysterious City of Stone at the American Museum of Natural History The most comprehensive exhibition ever presented on the ancient city of Petra and its creators, the Nabataeans, is open....Read More
North Carolina Museum Showcases European Masterpieces from Baltimore "Raphael to Monet: European Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore," on display at Charlotte's Mint Museum of Art, is a rare opportunity to enjoy artworks spanning five centuries....Read More
Suzanne Valadon's Paintings Earn Recognition at Frost & Reed She was a contemporary and friend to the best-known Impressionist painters, including Renoir, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas, who purchased from her no less than 26 of her drawings....Read More
The Michener Celebrates Alan Magee Hailed as one of America's foremost representative painters, Magee has also created a number of highly acclaimed works spanning a broad range of media and styles....Read More
American Accents One of the most significant collections of American paintings in the world - a sampling of 86 distinguished and enduring paintings from San Francisco's de Young Museum - will travel to the East Coast for an exhibition at Winterthur....Read More
In the Numbers with Jasper Johns The Cleveland Museum of Art is presenting the first in-depth exploration of the artist's use of numbers as a subject....Read More
Artistic Equilibrium At Pucker Gallery, Zevi Blum's compositions are filled with allusions to religion, mythology and fairytales and present a delightful panoply of characters....Read More
Central Park Goes to the Birds The New-York Historical Society is exhibiting a selection of original watercolors by John James Audubon of birds that frequent the park, one of the most important natural bird sanctuaries in North America....Read More
The Drawings of François Boucher The Frick's showing is truly the first major survey of the artist's graphic work to bring together a substantial number of loans from both international and national public and private collections....Read More
Russia Engages the World A major exhibition at The New York Public Library places Russia in a global context, stressing its interaction with other cultures and the exchange of ideas within its borders....Read More
Of Artist and Patron: Raphael, Cellini, and a Renaissance Banker This intimate and focused exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum examines the artistic patronage of Bindo Altoviti, providing a comprehensive look at his social, financial and political life....Read More
The American River Along the unspoiled banks of the Lieutenant River, the Florence Griswold Museum's new Krieble Gallery is the site for an exhibition that celebrates rivers and the significant role they have in history and in imagination....Read More
Florence Robinson in Italy Robinson, born in the Boston area in 1874, made her way as an independent woman and painter, even in the face of family disapprobation....Read More
The Art and Design of Architect Richard Meier The High Museum highlights a lesser-known side of Meier's design talents, including furniture, lamps, tableware and jewelry, as well as fine art objects of collage and sculpture....Read More
Recent Acquisitions Celebrated in Drawings at MoMA Two drawings by Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly join other recent acquisitions and key historical works from MoMA's collection....Read More
Imaging the River An exhibition at the Hudson River Museum presents the Hudson as a natural wonder and as an inspiration for artists from the Nineteenth Century to the present. ...Read More
Dickinson Delivers a Danish Modern Master From the collection of interior designer Vance Trimble, the show will focus on the career of furniture designer Ole Wanscher....Read More
All Creatures Great and Small Drawn from the Heckscher Museum of Art's permanent collection, this exhibition explores the myriad of ways in which animals have been depicted in art....Read More
Generations An exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts explores the museum's collection of African American art from the early Twentieth Century to the present....Read More
Passion for the Mountains from the Nanjing Museum Sixty paintings, including album leaves, handscrolls and hanging scrolls, most never before seen in the United States, will be on view at China Institute Gallery beginning September 18....Read More
A Pivotal Player of the New American Realism at John Pence Steven J. Levin's reputation as a colorist is strengthened by his sense of space, dimension and atmosphere as seen in still lifes, figures, portraits, landscapes, florals and interiors. ...Read More
Camera Work: A Centennial Celebration One hundred years ago, Alfred Stieglitz introduced a publication that would forever change the way photographs were looked at....Read More
Navajo Blankets of the Nineteenth Century The Textile Museum features 16 blankets made between 1800 and 1890 that highlight the powerful aesthetics and significant trends characteristic of Nineteenth Century Navajo weaving....Read More
Plein Air Coast to Coast The Lyme Art Association will present the East Coast exhibition of 30 signature members of the Plein Air Painters of America....Read More
Magnifique! An ArchiTech Gallery exhibit proves that French design became the gold standard for the expression of power, long before Versailles stunned the world with its magnificence....Read More
Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas The New Bedford Whaling Museum, a fascinating interpreter of the history of global whaling, is celebrating its centennial this year with a grand exhibition of the works of native son William Bradford....Read More
Cast of Gods An exhibition of Chinese bronzes, which demonstrates why the Chinese are called the "masters of the mold," will run September 19 to November 1 at E&J Frankel, Ltd....Read More
Haunting Visions of Poe Ravens and black cats emerge from the shadows at The Baltimore Museum of Art through Illustrations by Manet, Matisse, Gauguin and others....Read More
Harvard Collects American Art The university's collection is among the most distinguished and yet least known in the United States. In an effort to share many of these gems with the public, an exhibition of 64 paintings and sculptures will be presented at the Fogg Art Museum through February 22....Read More
Animated "Joseph Seigenthaler: Animated, Recent 3-D Computer Works" will be shown to October 4 at Carl Hammer Gallery....Read More
Taste and Table Homewood House Museum will examine ceramics used by the historic house's founding family, the Carrolls, in an exhibition opening September 5....Read More
Heavy Metal Colonial Williamsburg will display a selection of 16 bold objects of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American cast-iron - from stovetop figures to fire backs - at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum....Read More
NYS Museum Examines the Course of Empire "The Course of Empire: Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School Landscape Tradition," featuring selections from the New-York Historical Society, opens at the New York State Museum on August 23....Read More
Mountain Dreams The first American museum exhibit dedicated to the innovative work of Korean contemporary ceramic artist Yoon Kwang-cho will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art....Read More
Milwaukee to Install O'Keeffe Paintings With a total of 22 works in the collection, the Milwaukee Art Museum is a leading repository for O'Keeffe's work, the fourth largest of its kind of any museum in the United States and the only dedicated O'Keeffe Gallery east of Santa Fe....Read More
Celebrating St Petersburg in New York City Ursus Prints exhibits a collection of Nineteenth Century lithographs and engravings of St Petersburg, Russia, in honor of the city's 300th anniversary of its official founding this year....Read More
At the Docks The Childs Gallery exhibits works ranging from the late Nineteenth Century to the 1930-40s Cape Ann School, as well as Modernists of the 50s and 60s....Read More
Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection at The Concord Museum Seventy-two extraordinary historic maps and an atlas of early America were selected for their rarity, historical importance and aesthetic beauty....Read More
Sturbridge Celebrates Native American Life in Central New England The exhibit documents both the continuity and profound change that has marked the lives of Sturbridge-area Native Americans over the past four centuries....Read More
American Quilt Classics Beginning August 30, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design will exhibit quilts from The Charles and Fleur Bresler Collection....Read More
SEM Test Document Tom at SEM says Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing...Read More
Dahesh to Reopen in September with 'Prix de Rome' Laureate Works The exhibition contains some 120 major paintings, sculptures and drawings by artists such as Ingres, David d'Angers, Corot, Granet, Vernet, Carpeaux, Cabanel, Navez, Géricault, Moreau, and Degas....Read More
For Posters in Boston, Good Things Come in Small Packages The International Poster Gallery features several newly acquired collections of original poster miniatures, in-store displays, magazine covers and luggage labels from the 1890s to 1945....Read More
Leaps of Faith An avid fisherman, artist Mike Noland remembers well the sound of fish jumping and splashing into the night....Read More
America the Beautiful Wendell Minor celebrates his 15-year career in children's book illustration with this Bruce Museum exhibition of 38 original paintings from 26 books....Read More
SFMoMA Is Sole American Venue for Chagall Retrospective Organized jointly by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, in conjunction with the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, and SFMOMA, the exhibition is the first comprehensive look at this artist since 1985 and offers a unique opportunity to reevaluate a body of work that is universally renowned but often underestimated....Read More
French Masterworks from Moscow Travel to Los Angeles The exhibition, "Old Masters, Impressionists and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow," encompasses 76 works surveying 250 years of French painting, and includes many works never seen in Los Angeles....Read More
SPNEA's 'Cherished Possessions' Debuts at Colby College The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities' renowned collection of fine and decorative arts will begin its national tour in Maine on July 16....Read More
Colonial Williamsburg Loans Objects to 'Lewis & Clark' Traveling Exhibit The monumental, three-year exhibition will focus on the Nineteenth Century transcontinental journey of these American explorers....Read More
Sporting Art in Saratoga For more than a quarter century Frost & Reed has exhibited Nineteenth and Twentieth Century classical and contemporary equestrian and sporting art at the Annual Saratoga Springs event, slated for July 30 to August 23....Read More
The Shelburne Is Red, White and Blue All Over The museum features a new exhibition showcasing patriotic themes in American fine, folk and decorative arts from the late Eighteenth through early Twentieth centuries....Read More
Slater Museum Receives a Package from Paris The gift, a portrait, was sent by Baron Thomas Shannon Foran, Duc de Saint-Bar, grandson of the sitter....Read More
The Art of Chess Throughout the Twentieth Century the game of chess has been an inspiration, if not an obsession, for artists. An exhibition at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, features 19 sets dating from the beginning of the Twentieth Century to the present day....Read More
Modigliani and Montparnasse In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Paris was alive with the spirit of the avant-garde. Into this world stepped 22-year-old Amedeo Modigliani....Read More
Risking the Abstract in Santa Barbara The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the first major exhibition in 30 years of the art of Mexico's premier abstract painter, Gunther Gerzso....Read More
Exhibition Celebrates the Diner in Rhode Island The diner is at the center of a new exhibit in Providence, which also happens to be the birthplace of this fixture on the American landscape....Read More
Artist First, Wildlife Artist Second "Robert Bateman: A Retrospective," at The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, includes 35 paintings, as well as one sculpture, several sketches and a few prints, all dated from 1948 to 2000....Read More
Challenging Tradition "Women of the Academy, 1826-2003" will examine the role of women in the history of the National Academy of Design and by extension, women's role over the past two centuries in the American art world at large....Read More
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art Biographical in its focus, this Portland Museum of Art exhibition features Porter's paintings and works on paper and also draws extensively on his personal correspondence, poetry, critical writings, notebooks and published works....Read More
Jesse Wilcox Smith Watercolor Brings $73,700 for Clearing House Another interesting offering from the selection of artwork was a lot of 60 sketch pads and working notebooks by John LaFarge. It sold in the room for $62,700....Read More
Compote Receives Fierce Bids at Virginia American Glass Sale As anticipated, attendance was strong, with both dealers and collectors vying for more than 15,000 pieces of early American pattern glass and more than 500 lamps and lamp parts....Read More
Record for Seventeenth Century English Cane in Massachusetts The cane had been consigned by an American collector and after the intense bidding had subsided, it went to another American collector....Read More
Collectors, Designers and Dealers Bid Bill Blass Collection to $13.6 Million The total was more than double the $6/4 million high estimate, with 99 percent of the lots offered sold....Read More
New York Buyer Wins $186,700 Necklace at Doyle With competitive bidding from the crowded salesroom and the telephones, as well as from absentee and Internet participation, the auction totaled $1,618,343 with 88 percent sold by lot and value...Read More
Goubie Canvas Surprises Auction Crowd in Boston Titled "Before the Hunt," the vivid painting's price advanced quickly, soaring $105,000....Read More
Two French Furniture Masterpieces Sell for Nearly $8 Million in New York The top lot, a Louis XIV ormolu-mounted marquetry armoire by André-Charles Boulle, brought $4,599,500 in the room....Read More
Top Bombe Chest-on-Chest Won by Pennsylvania Dealer at $5.1 Million Skinner Inc. Auction The Robert "King" Hooper Chippendale creation, of Boston origin, one of six known, sold in the room after intensive bidding for $1,766,600....Read More
In New Hampshire, an Indian Vane Shoots To $365,500 Northeast Auctions is not releasing the name of the successful bidder, but our best guess is that it went into the collection of a well-known New York City couple. ...Read More
Matt Daly Rookwood Vase Highlights Cincinnati Sale The rare, flowing glaze vase with highly carved teasels sold for $24,150....Read More
At Shannon's, Bricher Seascape Doubles Estimates "Morning at Narragansett," dated 1872, was cataloged as a "major rediscovery in Bricher's oeuvre."...Read More
Scorching Price for Rare Chairs at Leo Legare Barn Burner Strong prices were paid throughout the day. The set of seven Windsor chairs in original black paint reached $38,500....Read More
Nakashima Leads 'Rock Solid' New Jersey Modern Auction The Rago-Sollo sale grossed an impressive $1.8 million with numerous record prices established throughout the weekend....Read More
Dealer Claims $25,300 Political Banner in New Hampshire The large silk banner featured likenesses of David Godell as well as President Harrison and Vice President Morton and was emblazoned with "Concord, N.H." across the bottom....Read More
Local Call Yields Treasures for Nadeau's The gallery, which prides itself on being an estate auction house, included the best objects culled from nearly 40 different sources in this most recent sale....Read More
Carolina and Catlin Top Christie's Natural History Offerings A sold rate of 72 percent was announced for the sale, although strong prices saw the totals come within 90 percent of the auction's estimated gross....Read More
At Lang's, a Rare Haskell Minnow Lures a $16,500 Bid The minnow has repeatedly been described by the fishing collectibles fraternity as one of the three most sought-after lures in existence....Read More
Staggering Prices for Burgeoning Tile Market at Rago With 140 absentee bids, 106 phone bidders and a large in-house audience, the auction was primed to succeed, and succeed it did - to the tune of $1.6 million....Read More
Unfired Pistols Hit $276,000 Bull's-eye at Julia's A spectacular pair of Nimschke engraved gold and nickel single-action Army revolvers by Colt led the way at the gallery's auction of Important Firearms....Read More
Rare Micromosaic Table Reaches $400,000 in North Carolina When the board of the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, N.C., decided to deaccession items held in storage at Brunk, they had no idea one of these objects would create so much excitement. ...Read More
Cobbs Sale Sees Strong Bids for Aspens, Bears and Porcupines A painting by E. Martin Hennings elicited active bidding, followed by a significant price paid for a Phillip R. Goodwin oil....Read More
New $724,300 High for Chola Bronze at Indian and Southeast Asian Art Auction The sale was the "second strongest sale in the field of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at Christie's ever and achieved the highest average lot value."...Read More
In Pennsylvania, a Schimmel Eagle Flies to $33,000 The Conestoga auction, which totaled more than $660,000, attracted a huge amount of attention, including a record number of phone bidders for the gallery....Read More
English Antiques Sizzle at Stair Auction buyers seem to have shaken off the recession blues, according to the gallery's owners, whose recent sale saw steady strong bidding in the room and from absentee bidders as well as periodic bursts of lively phone bidding....Read More
A Bidding Game of Cat and Mouse for Rare Stoneware Crock at North Star The four-gallon crock, with folky decoration of a cat and a mouse, became the top lot at the gallery's first anniversary auction on September 20....Read More
Stickley Bridal Chest Leads Fontaine's Arts and Crafts Offerings The chest, which retained the original medium dark finish, had reportedly been recently picked from a home in Philadelphia. It attracted quite a bit of attention from collectors and the trade....Read More
At $78,400, a Florida Collector Puts the Lid on Bids for a Rare Newcomb Canister The rare, lidded canister, by Henrietta Joor, circa 1904, sold this past Sunday at Houston's Simpson Gallery....Read More
Colt Texas Paterson Revolver Reaches $63,000 in New Hampshire The 165-year-old firearm had been unknown to most, having been retained by the collector's granddaughter since his death 28 years ago....Read More
New York Buyer Wins Martin Johnson Heade Still Life for $195,500 in Massachusetts The picture, said to be one of only two views of tropical fruit by Heade, was accompanied by a letter of authentication from painting authority Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston....Read More
At Grogan, Willard Wall Clock Chimes to $126,500 The unusual amount of interest paid to the piece during preview proved an early clue for auctioneer Michael B. Grogan that he had something pretty special. Just how special, however, would not be revealed until the lot crossed the auction block....Read More
Connecticut Chip-Carved Document Box Fetches $32,200 in Its Home State The box, a rare pine survivor dating to about 1700, easily surpassed its $10/15,000 estimate, selling to Ohio dealers Sam Forsythe and David Good. Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum museum was in the running to $25,000....Read More
Newcomb Crawfish Vase Tops Royka's Sale "I think we are really finding our niche in the $1,000 to $20,000 market," commented auction gallery owner Paul Royka. "The big auction houses take these items for granted."...Read More
Julia's 'Spectacular Auction' Is True to Its Name The annual sale, which takes place at the Samoset Resort, is always scheduled to coincide with the busy vacation and antiques season in Maine....Read More
Garth's Sale Unveils Change in Buyer's Premium, New Catalog Format The new premium is 15 percent on purchases up to $50,000 and ten percent above that amount, although the charge for doing business via eBay is 20 percent....Read More
Eighteenth Century Americana Drives Golden Gavel Event The sale, which featured the contents of Greystone Farm, was much like peeling back layers of time, with most every period of collecting uncovered....Read More
High Revs for Roadster at Bonhams & Butterfields The sale brought more than $2.5 million and featured a famous hot rod and motorcars from the collection of Robert Hood - all of which found new owners....Read More
Curtin Folk Collection Brings Dealers to Maine The auction hall was packed with collectors and a great many representatives of the trade, no doubt looking for "merch" to take to the plethora of shows coming up....Read More
Doyle Sets Record for Chinese Porcelain with Rare Flask With important collectors, prominent dealers and distinguished museums from around the world bidding on the telephones and in the salesroom, the Morrill collection fetched $12,046,669....Read More
A Beacon for Auction Buffs Along the Jersey Shore Valuable cargo still finds its way to Point Pleasant in the form of antiques, as witnessed by more than 200 bidders during a recent 309-lot sale....Read More
One Thousand-Lot Marine and China Trade Sale Keeps Bidders in Their Seats Bourgeault noted during the sale that Northeast is the "only major auction house in the country to keep the premium at 15 percent. And we intend to do so as long as possible."...Read More
Paintings by Russell and Miller Top $1 Million in Reno More than 600 people packed the sales room of the Silver Legacy Resort for the recent annual Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, one of the largest auctions in the country of classic Western wildlife and sporting art....Read More
Victorian Furniture Sizzles at Fairfield The gallery reported a full house as well as numerous absentee and phone bidders, with a total of 234 bid cards issued....Read More
In Rockport, a Roux Server Reaches $189,750 Called a "masterpiece" by Julia's American antiques specialist Bill Gage, the server was also described as "one of Roux's finest works." ...Read More
Stained Glass Brings $74,750 in Pittsfield Also notable at Fontaine's was Tiffany lighting and the highly anticipated art glass collection of Greg Giampapa, from which many of the lots routinely tripled presale estimates. ...Read More
Cape Cod Paintings Anchor Eldred's Auction A Cahoon-like painting by Elizabeth Mumford of mermaids, "Mermaids Just Want to Have Fun," in a Woodman shellwork frame, fetched $9,200 from a Cape buyer....Read More
Sunqua China Trade Portrait Fetches $222,500 Auctioneer Ron Bourgeault called the work "as fine as any marine painting by a Westerner of this [time]," and further stated that it is "considered to be one of the most important trade paintings of the period."...Read More
Weathervanes, Mocha Ware Make for Memborable Skinner Sale Bidding was lively, sparking from the telephone to the desk to the room, despite the humidity, with a sale total in the high estimate range of $802,348....Read More
Incredible, Indelible, in Camelot No items went unsold among more than 300 lots of Kennedy memorabilia at Hantman's - bidders from Ireland, France, Australia, Israel, Germany, Mexico and Malaysia participated....Read More
Wish You Were Here An Iowa auction featuring the lifetime collection of postcards and ephemera from the estate of Abe Samuels drew 287 registered bidders representing 39 states and five countries....Read More
Northeast Exceeds $9.6 Million in Record Auction In three nonstop days at the gavel, auctioneer Ron Bourgeault demonstrated once more that he could reach beyond his core audience of Americana collectors and dealers to generate top bids for objects as diverse as gold coins and glass paperweights....Read More
Montague Dawson's 'Mayflower II' Sails to Europe for $83,650 Christie's New York's sale of maritime art offered 196 lots, of which 134 sold for a total of $1,091,095, including buyer's premium....Read More
Maentel Watercolor Returns to Pennsylvania Roots at Conestoga With six phone lines vying for ownership, bidding opened at $5,000. The competition quickly escalated to the selling price of $24,750. The successful buyer, in the gallery, was a collector/dealer from Lancaster County, Penn....Read More
William and Mary Dressing Table Starts NH Antiques Week with a Bang The circa 1710-30 table from Salem, Mass., in a remarkable state of preservation, went to New York dealer Leigh Keno for $464,500 including premium. ...Read More
Lillian Wescott Hale Drawing Brings $161,000 at McInnis The rare and extremely well-executed work had been found in a closet in a North Shore home and, ironically, was left behind after another auction company had been through....Read More
Apache Basket Holds Surprise for Bidders at Knotty Pine John Pappas commented that as soon as the ads broke the phones started ringing, with calls coming in from all around the country requesting images and reserving phone lines....Read More
Lathrop Holmes Decoy Leads $1.54 Million Guyette & Schmidt Auction "Prices in general were high," said Gary Guyette, and prices for the large selection of Crowell miniatures sold were "higher than high."...Read More
Dealer Delivers $341,000 for Prior Double Portrait at Thomaston Place "The painting had all the right elements," commented Kaja Veilleux. "It had been recently discovered, had come directly from the family, the condition was unbelievable and one of the key things was that it is the only double portrait known."...Read More
Shaker Action at Canterbury Village as Northeast Offers the Zanetas Collection In an absolutely picture perfect setting, Ron Bourgeault conducted a true, old-fashioned New England country auction with a variety of Shaker lots....Read More
Lots of Surprises at Skinner European, Asian Sale Offerings estimated in the hundreds of dollars routinely brought several thousand dollars and more....Read More
Bidders Converge at Merrill's for Period Vermont Furniture The reason for the excitement was that material from the Holly Webb Froud estate in Shelburne, Vt., was being offered....Read More
Drtikol's 'Nue' Brings $29,900 at Swann Galleries As well, a presentation copy of "Photo-Secession: A Collection of American Pictorial Photographs," New York, 1904, brought $19,550 at the firm's recent sale of Photographic Literature and Photographs....Read More
Record Rembrandt Heads for Vegas The painting sold to the American collector Steve Wynn, who bid by telephone and who bought the painting after a lively battle with a determined private collector bidding in the room....Read More
Citizen from Cologne Captures $30,800 Steam Crane at Noel Barrett's There were 150 successful eBay bidders and worldwide interest, as toys were shipped to Japan, England, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic....Read More
From Miniature Portraits to Soaring Obelisks in New Orleans To the antiques world, the Crescent City is a bustling crossroads marketplace with a never-ending source of merchandise....Read More
Candy Container Brings Sweet Record at Julia's The legendary Kaleidoscope candy container, which sold for mere pennies in the 1920s and 1930s, is considered one of the rarest and certainly most sought-after of all such containers....Read More
International Buyers Buoy European Paintings at Freeman's Bidders from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and nine other countries helped generate combined totals exceeding $1.2 million against an $800,000 low estimate with a sell-through rate of 84 percent....Read More
Theriault's on a Roll with Dolls in Las Vegas Each of three diverse collections represented at the firm's largest single-day auction thus far this year helped nearly double expectations of the weekend as totals soared to almost $1.4 million....Read More
Folk Art World On Edge for Rare Portraits at Cottone's The unsigned 20- by 25-inch watercolor portraits attributed to Mr Wilson attracted the attention of all of the major folk art dealers and collectors, and according to auctioneer Sam Cottone, "everyone was on the phones" to compete for the lots....Read More
Record $124,000 for Lincoln Banner in Indianapolis Unique in its focus on slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation, the banner depicted kneeling male and female slaves and received institutional attention. It was, however, ultimately purchased by a private Ohio collector on the phone....Read More
Gems Too Late for the Catalogue Make Good Buys at Antique Bicycle Sale Copake Auction founder and auctioneer Mike Fallon described the sale as "a rousing success. Our low estimate of $230,000 was far exceeded with a gross of $309,000."...Read More
Bonhams & Butterfields Auctions Meet Success on Two Coasts In San Francisco, a large and impressive needlework chimneypiece created to hang above a fireplace in a proper Boston home sold to the trade - after highly competitive bidding - for $611,250....Read More
'Triumph of Summer' Triumphant among Old Masters in New York The Christie's auction totaled $2,696,840 and was 80 percent sold by value and 74 percent sold by lot....Read More
Rare Russian Poster Fetches a Record at Swann Galleries Even the 1981 reissue of this ground-breaking photomontage image is difficult to obtain, and examples of the original almost never come on the market....Read More
Cup Plate Collection Is King in Virginia The early American glass cup plate collection of the late Robert W. King featured provenance cards that read like the "who's who" of glass circles of years past....Read More
Late Addition Vase at Landry's Sale Fetches $27,125 The Marblehead vase was consigned by a woman from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Mass., who was cleaning house prior to a move. It ultimately sold in the room to Arts and Crafts consultant Marilee Meyer....Read More
Modernist Materials Tally $3.1 Million at Phillips "American Modernism of the 1930s did extremely well and cutting edge high-end design by Ruhlmann and Eileen Gray proved to be extraordinarily hot."...Read More
The Pennsylvania Antiques Show Taking advantage of the newly constructed York Expo Center, Frank Gaglio rounded up 130 antiques dealers and jumped onto the coat tails of longtime fairgrounds resident Jim Burk....Read More
The Greater York Antiques Show & Sale "I can tell you one thing for sure, I will not be the last one to open my show in the spring or in the future," Jim Burk said after reflecting on the events at the York Fairgrounds....Read More
York County Classic Antiques Show Barry Cohen found an excellent way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his fall York Tailgate Antiques Show. He left his motel room venue and moved into Memorial Hall on the York Fairgrounds, the very site of the Jim Burk show he was tailgating in the first place....Read More
Triple Pier Opens to Huge Crowds Promoted by Stella Show Mgmt. Co., the event has certainly become a crowd favorite over the years, attracting collectors, dealers and vendors from throughout the United States and abroad....Read More
Heart of Country's Smaller Edition Gains Strength The "pumpkin" edition of the Kramers' show in Nashville has gained its own strength of sales and distinctive character....Read More
The Bedford Historical Society Antiques Show "The show is wonderful," said Sally Case of Deacon's Horse Antiques. "The atmosphere is very personal." ...Read More
New Arrivals Update The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show's Gilded Image Having markedly influenced collecting and design trends, along with show business from Manhattan to Palm Beach, the International's trademark luxe and volupte has evolved into a more diverse array....Read More
Gramercy Park Antiques Show "From all indications at this point just about every exhibitor will be returning, including our dealers from England," Leanne Stella said....Read More
Quality Sales Reported at North Carolina's Metrolina Show While no one is proclaiming that the end of the national recession is officially here, the dealers at the monthly Metrolina Antiques & Fine Collectibles Show continue to report that quality objects are bringing fair market prices. ...Read More
A Double Loss for the Art World: Dealer Vance Jordan, 60 According to Ulrich Hiesinger, Jordan "held his own with and even pointed the way for more than one scholar of American art."...Read More
Fall Rhinebeck Antiques Fair Maintains Strong, Positive Look The spirit of discovery and foliage fever once again drove crowds to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds....Read More
The Modern Show Delights Twentieth Century Fans in Manhattan While many of the participating dealers only make the trip from downtown, Modern also attracts a host of specialty dealers from around the country with numerous in attendance from Chicago and from as far as Los Angeles....Read More
ADA Debut Gets High Marks for Content and Presentation "Great show, great dealers, great venue, great scenery, great weather, great overall setting, great joint-venture partners." ...Read More
Oliver & Gannon's Millbrook Says 'Goodbye, Columbus' for 2004 On that holiday weekend it seemed as if few of the local residents who bought preview tickets to support the event actually came to the show....Read More
Many New Faces Seen at the Washington Connecticut Antiques Show Determined not to see this benefit for the town's Gunn Memorial Library fail, the committee put the show into the hands of Lou Marotta last year - and the event took an about face....Read More
Caramoor: An Autumn Tradition Set within Caramoor's Venetian Theatre and adjacent tent, the annual affair brought together 44 well-known dealers to benefit the Garden Guild and its restoration projects...Read More
York: A Home Away from Home for the Glazers "Early on in York Bill DuPont came into our booth and asked, 'Do you know anything about antiques?'" Nancy said. Jim replied, "I know they are heavy." He also knows they are exciting, interesting, eye-pleasing and an important part of their everyday life....Read More
Pratt Exonerated in Bill of Rights Investigation "It was my goal from the beginning to have this critical piece of America's heritage go to a public institution."...Read More
Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Hosts 29th Show "We did it, our best show ever," Howard Graff reported the day after the event closed....Read More
Antiques at Hildene There are two factors that measure the success of an outdoor show. The first one is uncontrollable: the weather. The second is controllable: the level of antiques offered by the exhibitors....Read More
The Fall Hartford Antiques Show Beautiful weather, a September date, and competing shows in Wilton, New York and Katonah were cited as possible causes of an attendance decline. ...Read More
The Wilton DAR Antiques Marketplace There were myriad opportunities for people to either begin, continue or complete their own particular collecting "hunt" among 100 exhibitors of art and antiques from 15 states....Read More
Frank and Nancy Boos Take a New Business Direction After 42 years, they will no longer conduct regular auctions in their current premises, but will move to a new site where they will emphasize the appraisal and private sale aspects of their business. ...Read More
Brimfield: September Song for a Collectors' Paradise Antiques found throughout the Northeast and parts of Canada were put out, in many cases, for the last time this year, because after September, Brimfield's 2003 is over. Pack up and wait until next year....Read More
The Adirondack Mountains Antiques Show It is little wonder the show draws close to 3,500, many of them eager to enhance their collections with "finds" among the 79 dealers occupying 120 spaces....Read More
Stolen Maxfield Parrish Painting Returns to New Hampshire After a nine-month delay, all parties - including the police, an insurance company, an auction house and its consignors - agreed to return "Dingleton Farm" to Alma Gilbert....Read More
Chris Jussel to Join Northeast Auctions "Chris and I have known each other for many years," said Ron Bourgeault. "We paid our dues exhibiting at Lake Forest, Grosse Pointe, Houston and the Winter Antiques Show."...Read More
Farmington Antiques Weekend It appears early entry has begun to hurt shows as many patrons feel if they are not early, all the "best stuff is gone." Farmington's new policy would seem to level the playing field....Read More
The August Antiques Show, Nantucket The elegant event showcased approximately 33 antiques dealers from 12 states and England in the middle of the blistering heat wave....Read More
Papermania Plus As pages of the calendar go flying off, ephemera dealers catch them and save them, and maybe, later on, sell them. That is what Papermania Plus is all about. ...Read More
Glass Museum in Maine Found in Contempt of Court Order An order dated August 22 finds that John Holverson, current director of the Jones Museum, and another staff member improperly removed items from the museum in Sebago earlier this year....Read More
A Maine Thing If you cannot find early Americana here, you cannot find it anywhere. And Union is also just plain fun....Read More
Cape Cod Dealers Host 33rd Expo This simple, high-quality show featured 46 dealers, all members of the association....Read More
Christie's International Announces Worldwide Sales of $947 Million The total is a decrease against the 2002 half-year total of $989 million, which the company said can be attributed to uncertainty in the general worldwide economy and markets as a result of the Iraq conflict, the adverse impact of foreign currency movements, and the SARS epidemic in the Far East....Read More
Hurricane Isabel Cancels Ulster Show Promoter Vivien Cord said that the cancellation was due to dealers' concerns about the potential effects of Isabel on an event conducted primarily outdoors under tents....Read More
The Newburyport Antiques Show The event, in just two short years, is well on its way to becoming one of the nicest moderately sized shows in New England....Read More
Antiques in a Cow Pasture In the process of moving the dealers onto the field, Cynthia Saniewski, Frank Gaglio's executive assistant, tripped, broke a leg, and will spend the next two weeks with paperwork to pass the time....Read More
Adamstown Antique Gallery to Launch Morphy Auctions in the Spring "We have a heavy traffic flow already in existence here," said Dan Morphy. "I wouldn't be surprised if we're able to draw between 300 and 400 people at our bigger sales."...Read More
Historic Deerfield Curator Stitches Together a Quilt Symposium "There has never been anything like this series of lectures and workshops," said Edward F. Maeder....Read More
Robert Koch, Tiffany Scholar A highly respected worldwide authority on Art Nouveau and early Twentieth Century decorative arts, Koch was known for his seminal books on the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Will Bradley....Read More
Hal Bornstein, Antiques Dealer and Show Promoter The founder and promoter of the Yankee Doodle Drummer Antique Shows at The Northeast Trade Center, Woburn, Mass., Bornstein was well known in the trade and respected by all....Read More
Marion Hosts 70 Dealers at Tabor Academy "After the unbearable heat last year we knew that the show would not survive if we did not do something, so we bit the bullet and ordered-up some air-conditioning," Trish McElroy told us....Read More
Davis and Maine Paul Davis, a Maine antiques show promoter best known for his Festival at Union for the last 20 years, has begun a limited number of upscale indoor shows....Read More
Collector's Profile: A Wall Street Story Pieces from the Brown Brothers Harriman collection of furniture, ranging from early American and Federal to Hepplewhite, find a home among the important architectural details of the old Seaman's Bank Headquarters. ...Read More
Americana Celebration in Deerfield We start off with our New Hampshire Antiques Week coverage with Nan Gurley, who can take credit for getting this entertaining and buying frenzy off to a grand start....Read More
The Start of Manchester Antiques Show "We had just about the same gate as last year," Tina Bruno said, "and there really are people we call be-backers."...Read More
The Riverside Antiques Show Linda Turner bills the show as a cornerstone of Antiques Week in New Hampshire and this year strengthened that position with the largest gate ever and some dealers with record sales. That is what it is all about. ...Read More
A Birthday in Bedford: Barn Star's Mid*Week Celebrates Tenth Year No longer the new kid on the block, the show's 111 exhibitors had plenty to celebrate....Read More
New Hampshire: A Banner Show, by All Accounts People would kill to be first in the door at the New Hampshire Antiques Show, and that is only a mild exaggeration....Read More
The Bedford Pickers Market So you had four lousy years, Frank, but you certainly have made up for them in grand style....Read More
Adamstown Antique Gallery to Launch Morphy Auctions in the Spring "We have a heavy traffic flow already in existence here," said Dan Morphy. "I wouldn't be surprised if we're able to draw between 300 and 400 people at our bigger sales."...Read More
Historic Deerfield Curator Stitches Together a Quilt Symposium "There has never been anything like this series of lectures and workshops," said Edward F. Maeder....Read More
Robert Koch, Tiffany Scholar A highly respected worldwide authority on Art Nouveau and early Twentieth Century decorative arts, Koch was known for his seminal books on the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Will Bradley....Read More
Hal Bornstein, Antiques Dealer and Show Promoter The founder and promoter of the Yankee Doodle Drummer Antique Shows at The Northeast Trade Center, Woburn, Mass., Bornstein was well known in the trade and respected by all....Read More
Marion Hosts 70 Dealers at Tabor Academy "After the unbearable heat last year we knew that the show would not survive if we did not do something, so we bit the bullet and ordered-up some air-conditioning," Trish McElroy told us....Read More
Davis and Maine Paul Davis, a Maine antiques show promoter best known for his Festival at Union for the last 20 years, has begun a limited number of upscale indoor shows....Read More
Collector's Profile: A Wall Street Story Pieces from the Brown Brothers Harriman collection of furniture, ranging from early American and Federal to Hepplewhite, find a home among the important architectural details of the old Seaman's Bank Headquarters. ...Read More
Americana Celebration in Deerfield We start off with our New Hampshire Antiques Week coverage with Nan Gurley, who can take credit for getting this entertaining and buying frenzy off to a grand start....Read More
The Start of Manchester Antiques Show "We had just about the same gate as last year," Tina Bruno said, "and there really are people we call be-backers."...Read More
The Riverside Antiques Show Linda Turner bills the show as a cornerstone of Antiques Week in New Hampshire and this year strengthened that position with the largest gate ever and some dealers with record sales. That is what it is all about. ...Read More
A Birthday in Bedford: Barn Star's Mid*Week Celebrates Tenth Year No longer the new kid on the block, the show's 111 exhibitors had plenty to celebrate....Read More
New Hampshire: A Banner Show, by All Accounts People would kill to be first in the door at the New Hampshire Antiques Show, and that is only a mild exaggeration....Read More
The Bedford Pickers Market So you had four lousy years, Frank, but you certainly have made up for them in grand style....Read More
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