By Stephen May
Provincetown, Mass., in summer turned out to be an ideal place for artists. Artists of many disciplines and supporters of the Provincetown Playhouse flocking to the Outer Cape art colony gave rise to a Bohemian atmosphere, which in turn attracted more artists and art schools. This important saga is explored in “The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011),” a splendid exhibition organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art, currently on view at the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kan., through April 29. Curated by Alexander J. Noelle of the New Britain Museum, the show’s more than 100 works document the legacy of the art colony “at the end of the world,” which has had such a significant impact on America’s artistic development. With the help of an excellent catalog, the show makes a good case for New Britain Museum director Douglas K.S. Hyland’s assertion that Provincetown is “the preeminent American art colony.”
...Read More
Folk Art Finds Appreciative Crowd At Stella’s Americana @ The Pier
A highlight of Americana Week, Stella Show Mgmt Co.’s Americana & Antiques @ the Pier show offered a compelling and diverse presentation January 21–22.
...Read More
| Antiques Shows |
|---|
 Folk Art Finds Appreciative Crowd At Stella’s Americana @ The Pier
A highlight of Americana Week, Stella Show Mgmt Co.’s Americana & Antiques @ the Pier show offered a compelling and diverse presentation January 21–22.
|
| Auction Watch |
|---|
R.I. Furniture Stars At Christie’s, Where Total Nears $25 Million
This year, Christie’s scheduled a series of sales of American furniture, folk art, silver and related Chinese Export art that stretched from Thursday, January 19, to Tuesday, January 24. Including a complete set of John Jay Audubon’s Birds of America, the week generated $24,816,375 for the Rockefeller Plaza auction house. As they say in New Orleans, laissez les bons temps rouler.
|
| Trade Talk |
|---|
The Art Of The Anatolian Kilim: Highlights From The McCoy Jones Collection
Centuries before the high mountain plain of Anatolia was known as the western two-thirds of Turkey, before Constantinople was Istanbul, an Anatolian woman’s dowry was measured in large part by rugs.
|
| Obituaries |
|---|
Stuart Jackson Horn III, 77, Antiques Dealer
Stuart Jackson Horn III, 77, died on Saturday, November 5. He was known to so many in the antiques trade — first as a partner with Jim Parker for 30 years in Jackson-Mitchell Antiques, which they closed in 2003. Stu was an active member of The Antiques Council and in recent years was always helping Elinor Gordon at her shows.
|
| Stolen Items |
|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Free Antiques News |
Dealer Associations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
