A 50-year-old North Annville Township resident is being held without bail in the Dauphin County Prison after he was arrested April 26 in connection with the death of Charles Richardson, 43, of Meshoppen, Penn. More than 200 photographs and drawings created by abstract sculptor Isamu Noguchi during travels funded by the Bollingen Foundation is on view at the temporary quarters of The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum. A collection of more than 75 pieces of ancient glass spanning three millennia - from circa fifth century BC to the Twelfth Century AD - in on view at Hurst Gallery. Beginning May 11 and continuing through August 3, images exploring the natural world by internationally renowned photographers will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to celebrate The Nature Conservancy's 50th anniversary. The board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America has elected Sack in recognition of a lifetime's contribution of scholarship, generosity and passion in the field of decorative arts. Last August the Capitol City's oldest house was almost destroyed by an SUV that jumped the curb at the intersection of Capital and Main going about 50 miles per hour. While the show remains a first-class event, the question raised by some is whether serious selling goes on. Of course, there is a range of opinions among the 67 dealers who participated. The lens, a Photographe à Verres Combinés by Charles Chevalier, Paris, started at $33,000. Furniture from private homes, portraits from institutions, and samplers from longtime collectors all exceeded estimates in a sale that rode the coattails of the Philadelphia Antique Show at the Armory. The Hermann Hauser 1936 creation sold for $93,210, doubling the previous world auction record for a Hauser guitar. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology contains one of the finest collections of ancient artifacts in the country, so the stylish reinstallation of its Mediterranean section is welcome news. Through July 27, the Brandywine River Museum presents approximately 80 outstanding European and American pipes of clay, porcelain, wood and meerschaum. Colonial Williamsburg will display some of the best decorative works of beloved American folk artist Edward Hicks (1780-1849), well known for his ornamental painting and lettering. The Norton Simon Museum will present approximately 20 paintings, works on paper and photographs by prominent Twentieth Century artists associated with Mexico and California. Bill built his business around ideals and friendship, and they flowed forth in every transaction, every "deal," and throughout his personal expression. He magically infused his enthusiasm, his infectious laugh, his warmth, knowledge and generosity into all who crossed his path. More than 20 years ago Don Scott, from Ohio, began his Atlanta career working with another show promoter to develop a large antiques event, and after several years he went out on his own. One exhibitor at the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale noted, "At one time there were so many people in my booth that the two of us could not field all of the questions they were trying to ask. As a result, we could have lost a number of sales." The work was the only one of its kind ever to appear at auction and sold to Stephen A. Wynn, the casino owner and art collector, who bought the painting personally to be publicly displayed in the Wynn Collection in Las Vegas. Ninety percent of the clocks at R.O. Schmitt went to collectors, rather than to dealers - this reflected a change in the usual 75-25, dealer-collector split. Despite some slip loss and several chips, the plate, once was part of the late Titus Geesey's collection, sold well to the trade. Called "mayolica" in Spain, tin-glazed earthenware was known as "maiolica," "majolica," "faience" or "delftware" elsewhere in Europe. The newest museum of early American decorative art opened last July on a chamisa-covered hillside overlooking the ancient city of Santa Fe and celebrates Hispanic culture across four continents and five centuries. The tailgate business is booming in York. This past weekend, Barry Cohen opened a new show, the York County Classic Antiques Show in the Old Main Building on the York Fairgrounds. "We are delighted with the arrangement to have another show at Deerfield Academy," Skip Chalfant, president of the Antiques Dealers' Association of America said this week. The case for Nadelman's importance and the range of his achievements should be notably advanced by this attractive Whitney display. Before using computers, architects employed only two visual formats in drawing the design of a building, the plan and the elevation - conceptual artworks hidden forever in architectural files. At Alabama's Huntsville Museum of Art, the Farmer/James Collection will highlight the people and places of the region during the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. "The Fabric of Moroccan Life," featuring some of the finest and most important such textiles in existence, opens at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art on June 6. Through the anonymous fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, $75,000 was given to endow a perpetual lectureship to honor Jonathan Fairbanks, the president of the trust and one of the leading experts of American decorative arts. "Customers were there to shop, not just browse, a complete turnaround from the industry-wide show reports over the last few months." Barry Cohen's life as an antiques show manager grew yet another notch on May 9 when he opened his new spring show at the York Fairgrounds. "We're still going strong both in the spring and in the fall," Jim Burk, manager, said. At the same time he showed some concern as plans unfolded for two additional shows on the fairgrounds during his dates. Featured were more than 600 varied items gathered from estates across New England in the sale, which totaled $2.3 million. The vase, decorated by Mary Butler with blue tulips and green leaves against a soft blue-green ground, sold at $28,750. A good crowd, a good selection of merchandise, and good action from phone bidders and those in the gallery combined to make for a good day at Carl Nordblom's. It wasn't Mothers Day, an anniversary, or a birthday, that had the slogan on the lips of toy collectors nationwide - it was a rare, large, cast iron delivery motorcycle at Bertoia's. A record number of absentee and telephone bids in conjunction with an overflow crowd contributed to a great sale at the gallery on May 17. The personal collection of Boston dealer George Gravert was among the offerings at Ron Bourgeault's two-day auction this past weekend, attracting major attention from buyers from throughout the country. In 1949, Joseph Downs, curator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and later of Winterthur Museum, opined that nothing of artistic merit was made south of Baltimore. With that, the crusade to prove Downs and all other Yankee snobs wrong was on. All types of originals, signed and numbered prints and lithos. Oil painting and frame restoration. Just as Native American culture emphasizes the essential unity of all things, Steve Wheeler stated that the Indian Space artists' objective was "to weave painting and life into a close knit fabric that has no beginning or end." Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American and European paintings The first exhibition in the United Kingdom devoted to Italian Divisionism comprises some 44 works by the main protagonists of the movement, loaned by public and private collections in Italy. Five works by Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky are on exhibition at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum through July 13. The first US tour of works by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens will be on view at The Parrish Art Museum with 75 of the artist's most famous works -- including reductions of major outdoor commissions. The late work by Frederick Childe Hassam "truly complements our holdings of American Impressionism," said Derek A. Gilman. The event, 27 dealers strong, is one of those where you never know just what is going to show up. There may be no more compelling life force than the hajj to this small town in the heart of southern Massachusetts, where housands once again poured in to hunt for, bargain for and - if lucky - carry away their hard-won spoils. The engraved powder horn depicted the Siege at Fort Meigs, Ohio, and saw action from five phone bidders and several serious suitors in house. The Christie's auction featured 92 lots with 71 finding buyers, resulting in a 77 percent sold rate and a gross of $17,760,500. American works from the collection of Meyer & Vivian Potamkin sold for a total of $15,342,700, more than $2 million above the high estimate. Overall, the sale, including works from various owners, brought $31,909,100. Historic Deerfield's Flynt Center of Early New England Life carefully unfolds the evolution of style that emanated from Windsor and continued to flourish and evolve into the now better-known Hadley and Wethersfield styles. |
