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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, February 24, 2010

William Bradford's portrait of a whaleship, estimate: $60,000-80,000, will be offered on March 7 at Skinner's American Furniture & Decorative Arts auction.

Bradford painting, mocha pottery on the block in Boston
Auction Central News - February 23rd, 2010 18:41

A luminous William Bradford oil depicting a whaleship off New Bedford (est. $60,000-$80,000) is among the highlights in Skinner's March 7 Americana auction. Also of note is an elegant Simon Willard tall clock in a classic Roxbury case (est. $30,000-$50,000), an enormous collection of mocha pottery (estimates range from $200 to $1,200), and a rare pair of polychrome fire buckets ($4,000-$6,000).

Gerhard Richter, Seestücke (Seascape); 1998; oil on canvas; 114 1/8 x 114 1/8 inches; Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at SFMOMA; © Gerhard Richter; photo: Ian Reeves

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion plans on fire

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom orchestrated a deal for SFMOMA to take over property housing an aging, architecturally-challenged fire station. The museum would raze the building for a planned ...

Alfred Stieglitz photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918. (via Wikipedia)

University faces more legal hurdles in art collection sale

Attorney General Bob Cooper issued a statement on Tuesday saying that a collection of 110 works of art, given by artist Georgia O'Keeffe to Fisk University, can not be moved. The Tennessee ...

The recently unveiled Kieran Timberlake design for a new U.S. embassy in London.

U.S. picks "blastproof" glass cube design for new embassy

Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architecture firm noted for such projects as Yale's Sculpture Building & Gallery, has been chosen to design a new (and very expensive) U.S. embassy in the ...

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