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America's oldest hostelry hosts new antiques show
Community Advocate / May 6th, 2010
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in historic Sudbury, Mass., is holding its inaugural Antiques Show May 14 through 16. Nearly 50 premier antiques dealers from around the country will offer American art, American and European furniture, ceramics, silver, books, jewelry, folk art and more. American ...
Bird decoy sales take off this week
Chicago Sun-Times / April 20th, 2010
Folk art and antique decoy collectors have descended upon the 45th National Antique Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show for room-to-room trading this week at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois. The theme this year is Southern Decoys. The resort will also host a corresponding ...
Enthusiasm for Americana at TAAS
Maine Antique Digest / March 22nd, 2010
From William and Mary gate-leg tables to Art Deco silver, The American Antiques Show saw some swift sales last January, but nothing was selling like hotcakes, according to Maine Antique Digest's recap of the Americana Week event in New York. "It is a good time for savvy money to be in the ...
The appeal of duck decoys
Clevelan Plain-Dealer / March 7th, 2010
The collecting bug hit Jon Deeter, of the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carvers Association (ODCCA), with the gift of an old, beat-up decoy carved in the 1930s. He now pursues the thrill of hunting down antique decoys, especially vintage Mason Decoy Factory. The 33rd annual ODCCA Show on March ...
Steady sales in Americana
Maine Antiques Digest / February 24th, 2010
Maine Antique Digest's Lita Solis-Cohen recaps the January Americana sale at Christie's which reaped a decent $5,681,025 (including buyers' premiums) for 398 lots sold. The recession-induced dip in the antiques market was evident with American furniture. Lots in the $50,000 range proved soft with ...
Bradford painting, mocha pottery on the block in Boston
Auction Central News / February 23rd, 2010
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 ...
Signs of Rebound in Antiques Market
New York Times Art / February 17th, 2010
After 12 months in which antiques sales were down and prices fell, collectors and dealers again flocked to major antique shows last month in New York. Red dots were plentiful, but according to some of the shows' exhibitors, there are still good buys to be had in certain categories, such as ...
Leigh Keno's auction premiere to offer a boat-load of Americana
Hartford Courant / February 11th, 2010
Recently, American antiques expert Leigh Keno, of "Antiques Roadshow" fame, has been making many housecalls looking for objects for his newest venture — the inaugural auction of Keno Auctions, to be held at the Marriott Stamford (CT.) on May 1 and 2. He's already amassed an impressive sale ...
American Charmer: Folk artist Grandma Moses on the block in Nov.
Citizen Times / October 29th, 2009
Just in time for the holidays, "Grandmother's House We Go,” by self-taught artist Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses, New York and Virginia, 1860-1961), is up for sale at North Carolina's Brunk Auctions on Nov. 14. Her 1940 painting depicts a family in a horse-drawn sleigh crossing a bridge ...
$48k Schoolgirl Stitches: Southern sampler snags auction record
Maine Antiques Digest / October 27th, 2009
A rare and exceptionally well-preserved silk-on-linen sampler stitched by Sarah Ann Gibbons in 1834 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, its colors bright and clear, opened at $9000 and quickly moved past the $20,000/30,000 estimate last July. Virginia auctioneer Jeffrey Evans brought the hammer down at ...
Creative Spaces: Mixing folk art, antique styles in a Spanish Colonial
Architectural Digest / October 12th, 2009
“Each object becomes a piece of art,” Malibu-based designer Karin Blake says of her treatment of folk art in her clients' Los Angeles house. She placed an antique rocking horse on an 1890 sideboard with an oil by Rufino Tamayo. Her signature style is a blend of antiques, often from unexpected ...
Quilts come in from the cold, with V&A collection as an art show
London Times / September 2nd, 2009
It is one of the common threads that runs through the great art collections of the world — among the masterpieces of Velázquez and Manet, Rennaissance frescoes, and the Venus de Milo, you are unlikely ever to come across a quilt. Now, though, the craft once disparaged as a pastime for bored women ...