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A Greene and Greene Arts and Crafts Gem Hits the Market at $4.7 Million
ArtfixDaily / November 24th, 2019
Now considered a prime example of early California Arts and Crafts architecture, the Duncan-Irwin House (1906) began as a modest cottage owned by a seamstress named Katherine Duncan. She sold the house to wealthy New Yorker Theodore Irwin Jr. and his family who enlisted famed ...
Neustadt Opens Up Its 250,000-Piece Tiffany Glass Archive For Tours
AD / December 11th, 2018
The public can now go on tours of the world's largest archive of glass remnants from Tiffany Studios. From December through February, twice a month, the non-profit Neustadt is offering hour-and-a-half-long tours to preregistered groups, capped at six people, reports AD. The Neustadt ...
Second Major Fire Consumes Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building
The Art Newspaper / June 18th, 2018
A blaze that broke out on June 15 at Glasgow School of Art has left its historic heart devastated for a second time since a fire in 2014. Considered Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) building was undergoing a massive £35m restoration, including the ...
On the Market: Historic Julia Morgan-Designed Residence
ArtfixDaily / September 3rd, 2015
An early and fine example of architect Julia Morgan's residences in the First Bay Tradition is on the market in Vallejo, Calif. Designed by Morgan (1872-1957) in an eclectic Beaux-Arts chalet-style with neoclassical and Arts & Crafts features, the magnificent home was completed ...
O'Keeffe Flower Painting, Tiffany Glass Lead Sotheby's Sales
ArtfixDaily / May 20th, 2015
Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design from the Warshawsky Collection led Sotheby's sale on May 19 to $8 Million total, topped by a Tiffany "Oriental Poppy" Floor Lamp which sold for $1.1 Million, an auction record for the model. The next day American Art fetched a total $38.3 million, just ...
Construction Begins on $40 Million Museum of the American Arts & Crafts in Florida
My Fox Tampa Bay / February 18th, 2015
Florida businessman and art collector Rudy Ciccarello has endowed the Two Red Roses Foundation, a non-profit educational institution, with extraordinary gifts to foster an appreciation of America's Arts & Crafts Movement. Now, the foundation has a new Museum of the American Arts & ...
Prices for Charles Rennie Mackintosh Work Soar Following Glasgow School of Art Fire
Scotland Now / December 29th, 2014
The value of work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is set to soar in price after the fire at the Glasgow School of Art, according to auction experts. Sellers were “amazed” at the rocketing value of...
"Revival and Reform—Eclecticism in the 19th-Century Environment" to Open at Morse Museum
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2014
The Arts window, a neoclassical masterpiece by J. & R. Lamb Studios, makes its debut at the Morse Museum of American Art, in Winter Park, Florida, as the centerpiece of a major new exhibition.
Detroit Hit With a $4 Billion Proposal for City's Art
New York Times / August 27th, 2014
New York-based Art Capital has offered Detroit a loan of up to $4 billion in a new proposal that leaves the city's museum intact with its art used as collateral.
Gustav Stickley, now in paperback
PHAIDON store / March 10th, 2011
Phaidon has released a massive paperback about Gustav Stickley (1858-1942), the iconic character and one of the most influential figures of the American Arts & Crafts movement. Stickley was a self-made man whose furniture company, Craftsman Workshops, and the seminal magazine he founded in ...
Early 20th c. decorative arts soar at Rago auction
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2010
Rago Arts and Auction Center totalled a strong $5.6 million for 1,380 lots in its 20th c. Design sale, from October 1 to 3. Pieces dating from the early 20th century, including Roycroft furniture and metalwork, which completely sold-out, elicited fierce bidding "at levels not seen since 2007," ...
Roycroft among highlights at upcoming Rago sale
ArtfixDaily / September 13th, 2010
A browse-worthy duo of 20th-century design auctions is slated for a three-day weekend this fall. Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, will offer up several hundred choice decorative items, from Arts & Crafts pieces by Stickley and a Louis Comfrot Tiffany sketchbook to ...
Clear as Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery
ARTFIXdaily ArtWire / June 27th, 2010
Clear as Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery, edited by Warren Payne, is a ground-breaking new book on the art pottery produced in Kentucky during the first half of the 20th century. From Cornelison Bybee to Waco, Louisville Pottery Co. (Cherokee) to Hadley, ...
Tiffany, Nakashima featured in Skinner's 20th-century design sale
Auction Central News / March 25th, 2010
Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern and Studio Movement furniture and decorative arts, including Scandinavian modern, will be auctioned March 27 at Skinner's in Boston. Highlights include a Tiffany student lamp, bronze with green damascene shades, estimated at ...
From Thomas Hart Benton to Tiffany Studios: Cottone's Sept. 26 auction offers fresh-to-market goodies
RocNow / September 23rd, 2009
GENESEO, N.Y. - Off the beaten track, Cottone’s is dubbed the Christie’s of cow country. The upstate New York firm is known to yield treasures long tucked away in local houses — recently, a Remington bronze brought $600,000 and a Tiffany lamp garnered $90,000. Highlights in next Saturday's ...