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| 7/27/2005 | The Stunning Designs Of Georg Jensen The most important silversmith of the past century, Jensen's work is on view at the Bard Graduate Center through October 16. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | $27.7 Million Yuan Dynasty Jar Christie's sold an exceptionally rare and important blue and white jar, Yuan dynasty, Fourteenth Century, for $27,679,100. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Grueby Arts And Crafts Masterpiece Rescued In Cleveland A remarkable installation of nearly 1,200 matte-glazed Grueby tiles has been preserved in its entirety in Cleveland, Ohio. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Time Flies At Antiquorum Wristwatch Sale Antiquorum New York closed its spring season with a sale of important collector's wristwatches, pocket watches and clocks totaling $4,274,449. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Winterthur & Library Co. Of Philadelphia Co-Sponsor Ephemera Conference In September "Ephemera Across the Atlantic: Popular Print Culture in Two Worlds" takes place September 15-17. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Million Dollar Babe (Document) There was extended applause when the contract selling Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees sold for $996,000. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | McInnis Auction Marks 25th Year A Thomas Seymour Boston Sheraton worktable, circa 1808-1810, was the runaway highlight of John McInnis Auctioneers' sale, selling for $97,750. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Art From Tibet, China & India At Philadelphia Through October "Mongols, Manchus, and Monks: The Art of Tibetan Diplomacy" explores politics, religion and national security at the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | National Wildlife Museum Exhibits 'O'Keeffe: Unexplainable Thing In Nature' "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Unexplainable Thing In Nature" will be at the National Museum of Wildlife Art through October 2. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | National Gallery Discovers Leonardo da Vinci Sketch Under Another National Gallery experts using infrared techniques have discovered a Leonardo da Vinci sketch hidden underneath a painting by the Italian master. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Antiques Dealer Dominick Troiani Dies At 89 After a brief illness, longtime antiques dealer Dominick H. Troiani died on July 7 at the age of 89. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Hundreds Swarm Mulford Farms Show Jean Sinenberg assembled nearly 100 dealers of antiques and decorator accessories for the many hundreds of visitors. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Buyers Flock To Stella's Bridgehampton Show Hailed a success by both dealers and the society, it was greeted by surprisingly big crowds who did a good deal of buying. Read More...
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| 7/26/2005 | Brisk Business In Brimfield "The weather was certainly a factor this time but the crowds seemed to hang in there for the week," said Tim May, who runs Brimfield Exchange. Read More...
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| 7/21/2005 | 'Tommy Gun' Sets Record An early Colt Model 1921 Thompson Submachine Gun in magnificent condition brings $43,125.00. Read More...
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| 7/21/2005 | Sails Strong At Thomaston A stunning depiction of the Ocean Herald, an American clipper ship, sells for $88,000. Read More...
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| 7/21/2005 | No Small Peanuts For Charles Schulz Drawings Original Charles Schulz Li'l Folks pages sell for $14,850 and $27,500, while vintage train passes bring $70,000. Read More...
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| 7/21/2005 | French Porcelain Brings $1.8 Million Christie's sale of important European furniture, works of art, ceramics, tapestries and carpets realized a total of $10,161,500 and 70 percent sold by lot. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | Virginia Museum Acquires Rare Chinese Funerary Couch A rare Chinese funerary couch, a variety of African works and a bronze by Antoine-Louis Barye are among works added recently to the VMFA collection. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | Wadsworth Atheneum Acquires Two Rare Nineteenth Century French Sculptures The museum has purchased two rare Nineteenth Century French sculptures by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) and Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (1833-1891). Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | Dealers Total 167 For First NHADA-Sponsored Blue Ribbon Show A blue ribbon must be awarded for the concept of the show, a one-day event with a fine cast of dealers. Another blue for the location, that allowed dealers to set up either in any one of a number of buildings, or outside. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | The Prallsville Mills Spring Antiques Show Hosts 33 Exhibitors The Prallsville Mills Antiques Show, under the management of Ellen Katona and Bob Lutz, on June 18 and 19, had 33 exhibitors offering a variety of antiques. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | 'Mavericks' Of Color Photography Honored In Exhibition At Philadelphia Museum Of Art In the 1960s, a group of innovative artists began experimenting with improved technologies. Their potent work gained recognition in the 1970s and inspired a new generation of American color photographers. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | 'Degas At Harvard' Opens Aug.1 Alfred M. Sackler Museum This exhibition examines the university's comprehensive holdings by Edgar Degas, one of the most important collections of the artist's work in the United States. Read More...
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| 7/19/2005 | Harold Weston Retrospective At The Adirondack Museum Offers A New Perspective On American Art A significant painter, etcher and muralist, critics and collectors widely recognized that Weston was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. Read More...
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| 7/18/2005 | 'Rockwell Kent: The Mythic And The Modern' At Portland Museum Of Art Today, he is increasingly recognized as one of the finest modernists of the Twentieth Century - a visual poet of the natural world. Read More...
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| 7/18/2005 | 'Centers And Edges' Modernist Ceramic Arts In America The recently opened exhibit examines the wide variety of styles and influences that propelled the evolution of Modernist ceramic arts in America. Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Ernden Fine Art Gallery Ernden Fine Art Gallery, Dennis Costin, director, 397 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657; 508-487-6700; cell: 888-304-2787; fax: 508-487-6700; email: erndengallery@att.net; website: www.ernden.com; Hours: Daily June through October Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | P.H. Miller Studio & Gallery P.H. Miller Studio & Gallery, Peter Miller, 495 Main Street South, Woodbury, CT 06798; 203-263-3939; fax: 203-263-6244; email: info@phmiller.com; website: www.phmiller.com; Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 am-5:30 pm; Sunday and Monday by chance or appointment. Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Bert Gallery Bert Gallery, Catherine Bert, 540 South Water Street, Providence, RI 02903; fax: 401-751-2628; email: bertgallery@conversent.net; website: www.bertgallery.com; Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 11 am-5 pm; Saturday, Noon-4 pm Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Franklin Riehlman/Megan Moynihan Franklin Riehlman Fine Art/Megan Moynihan Fine Art, 24 East 73rd Street, New York City; 212-879-2545; fax: 212-879-2703; email: mail@franklinriehlman.com; website: www.nycpaintings.com; Hours: By appointment. Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Schwarz Gallery Schwarz Gallery, Robert Schwarz, Jr, 1806 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 17103; 215-563-4887; fax: 215-561-5621; email: mail@schwarzgallery.com; website: www.schwarzgallery.com; Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 am-5:30 pm Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Mercury Gallery Mercury Gallery, Amnon Goldman, 8 Newbury Street, second floor; 617-859-0054; Fax: 617-859-5968; email: mercgal@aol.com; website: www.mercurygallery.com; Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 am-5:30 pm Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Crane Collection Crane Collection, Bonnie L. Crane, 564 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482-6409; 781-235-1166; Fax: 781-235-4181; email: info@cranecollection.com; website: cranecollection.com; Summer Hours: Tuesdays-Friday, 10 am-5 pm; Saturday, 11 am-4 pm; or by appointment. Closed Mondays for July & August Read More...
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| 7/14/2005 | Sylvan Gallery Sylvan Gallery, Ann & Rick Scanlan co-owners, 121 West Main Street, Clinton, CT 06413; 860-669-7278; email: info@sylvangallery.com; hours are Monday, Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am-5 pm; Sunday, Noon-4 pm Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Sacred Healer's Fan Returned To Navajo Medicine Man Art dealer Norman Hurst and his wife, Katherine B. Jones, have given a Diné (Navajo) medicine man a sacred, antique, ceremonial healer's fan. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Diehard Collectors Swarm Wilton Summer Show Diehard Collectors Swarm Wilton Summer Show Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Iconic Pre-Peruvian Tapestries At The Textile Museum "Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles," an exhibition featuring 12 tapestry-woven objects is on view at The Textile Museum through January 15. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Negro Leagues' Stars Emerge At The Morris Museum "The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955," at the Morris Museum, tells the story of the Negro baseball leagues. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | MOMA Acquires Rauschenberg Painting The Museum of Modern Art has acquired "Rebus," 1955, a major early combine painting by Robert Rauschenberg (American, born 1925). Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | $121,500 For Violoncello At Skinner's Crowning the selection was a violoncello made in 1817 by Giacomo Rivolta, an instrument reputed to have been built on Stradivaris's own "B-Pattern" mold. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | American Indian Art Exceeds Estimates At Sotheby's The sale of American Indian art on May 13 at Sotheby's totaled $3,446,866, far above the high estimate of $2.6 million. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | $20 Million Old Master Painting Sets Record At Christie's Canaletto's spectacular view of "The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day," realized $20,086,024 and set a world record price for the artist at auction. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Dealer Arrested In Yale Library Map Theft Yale Police have charged a former Manhattan map dealer with the theft of what could add up to several hundred thousand dollars worth of antique maps. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Antiques Enthusiasts Descend On Scott Antiques Market When the doors open to the public, shoppers scramble toward their favorite exhibitors at Scott Antiques Market. Read More...
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| 7/12/2005 | Litchfield Antiques Sizzles With Activity Despite Heat Despite the heat, "We had a steady stream of visitors on Saturday and a number of the dealers did quite well," Karen DiSaia, Antiques Council liaison said. Read More...
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| 7/6/2005 | Pennsylvania Impressionists Lead Freeman's Auction Several works by Pennsylvania Impressionists fetched well over $100,000 at Freeman's June 26 auction of Fine American and European Paintings and Sculpture. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Chimp's Art Outsells Renoir And Warhol At Auction While Warhol's and Renoir's work did not sell, bidders lavished attention on Congo the chimp's paintings. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Tiffany mosaic tiles discovered during restoration Luminescent Tiffany tiles were exposed after multiple layers of paint and plaster were scraped off the century-old Hudson Theatre in Times Square. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Beck Whittemore, Chairperson Of Golden Ball Tavern Show Dies For more than 25 years, she and her husband were chairpersons for the museum's annual outdoor antiques show. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Prat 'Poussin To Cézanne' Drawings At Philadelphia Museum Of Art One hundred master works that chronicle the genius of French draftsmanship over the course of three tumultuous centuries provide the focus for an exhibition showcasing one of the world's foremost private collections of French drawings. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Vassar To Survey American Artist Jim Dine's Deeply Personal Yet Grand-Scale Work An exhibition on view at Vassar College from July 16 through September 11 allows museumgoers in the New York region to survey the large and extraordinary body of prints that Dine has created since 1985. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | The Bloomin Pick Antiques Show Repeating on the third Tuesday of each month until November, the Bloomin Pick Antiques Show charges $10 to be an exhibiting dealer, and admission is free. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Local Dealers Promote New Show in Oley, Penn. On Friday, June 17, after about 18 months of planning, Antiques in the Valley opened for a two-day run at the Oley Valley High School in Berks County, Pennsylvania with a full compliment of 53 exhibitors. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Godfather Script Fetches $312,800 At Christie's Marlon Brando Sale Christie's auction of Marlon Brando's personal property garnered $2,378,300. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Rare German Crucifix Clock Sells for $20,160 At R.O. Schmitt Purchased in 1975 for $4,500, the circa 1620 Augsburg clock garnered a lot of attention at the two-day antique clock auction. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Robert Edward's Baseball Card, Memorabilia Auction Generates $7.1 Million Fashion Course trophy ball sells for $498,800, approximately three times the previous record. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | Mickey And Minnie Roar Off At $55,000 Bertoia's $2 million Rare Fun Sale delivers some exciting new finds for collectors and the trade. Read More...
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| 7/5/2005 | 'John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker' At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Forty pieces of furniture made or attributed to the cabinetmaker, on view through September 25 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrate the arc of Townsend's career. Read More...
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