The Connecticut gallery will feature the work of Joe Goodwin, Silvius Krecu and Leigh Palmer. After a tour with three museum venues, a selection of works by the artist returns to Hollis Taggart Galleries through July 25. This Norton Simon exhibition features sculpture, paintings and book covers. On view are beautiful examples of Himalayan gilded sculptures that exhibit graceful posture and sensuous modeling. The gifts are the first late Renaissance bronzes from the Giambologna school to enter the collection and they will be on public view in the Living Hall of the mansion. Just down the road from Brimfield's bustling markets, a bold experiment was in the making with 100 dealers from a dozen states. Weekend antiquers could count on finding a diverse representation of merchandise among the 40 dealers set up at the fairgrounds. One of the most difficult autographs to come by is that of North Carolina Declaration of Independence signer William Hooper, so it was not surprising that passions ran high when a rare autograph letter from Hooper came on the block. The jersey helped swell the two-day total for the auction to $4.7 million, making it the largest in the company's 15-year history. The auction was buoyed by several extremely desirable pieces, with some of the lots fetching prices in excess of more than 20 times the high presale estimates. An exhibition of samplers currently on view at the Decorative Art Center of Ohio offers insight not only into the lives of the girls who made them, but also provides a glimpse into the history of the state during its first 50 years of settlement. Featured will be the works of such notable botanical illustrators as Besler, De Bry, Curtis, Meriam, Catesby, Weinmann, Redoute, Volckamer, Thornton and Loudon. One of three exhibits on view at the McMullen Museum of Art, 'Common Ground' brings together 22 photographs that inventively examine and record commonplace events, people and objects. A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum will be a real treat, combining our popular American pastime with the ever-growing interest in American folk art. After six years in the business of auctioning antique toys, advertising, coin ops and mechanical music machines, Maine-based Randy Inman Auctions Inc is making a permanent move to Allentown, Penn. It's an area for New York City people to travel north for weekend homes, vacations or just outings. And that makes it a natural for antiques shows. The event drew a gate of 7,800, according to promoter Jimi Barton, who pointed out that the figure was just shy of May's all-time record of 8,100. "[Buyers] showed great appreciation not only for the items, which included some of the best Americana to come to the market recently, but, in a broader sense, for the collecting habits of all our consignors." Leading the Ron Rhoads sale was a "wonderful" country auction scene depicting an auctioneer in front of a barn with a ring of bidders looking on that had been executed by Ellinger many years ago. Bidding on the piece opened at $70,000 and bounced back and forth between the gallery and the telephones, with phone bidder Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett Antiques claiming the lot at $127,000. The Woodstock Guild hopes to share with the world the philosophy, fine art, furniture and decorative arts that have assured the community's reputation among serious students of the Arts and Crafts Movement. "Robert Bateman: A Retrospective," at The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, includes 35 paintings, as well as one sculpture, several sketches and a few prints, all dated from 1948 to 2000. "Women of the Academy, 1826-2003" will examine the role of women in the history of the National Academy of Design and by extension, women's role over the past two centuries in the American art world at large. Biographical in its focus, this Portland Museum of Art exhibition features Porter's paintings and works on paper and also draws extensively on his personal correspondence, poetry, critical writings, notebooks and published works. An exceptionally large number of art museums seem to be dedicating newly expanded facilities these days, but few will outdo the dramatic effect of the new Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing of the Norton Museum of Art. Close to 1,000 people came through the show during the two days and management is looking to increase that number substantially this fall. The early American glass cup plate collection of the late Robert W. King featured provenance cards that read like the "who's who" of glass circles of years past. The Marblehead vase was consigned by a woman from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Mass., who was cleaning house prior to a move. It ultimately sold in the room to Arts and Crafts consultant Marilee Meyer. "American Modernism of the 1930s did extremely well and cutting edge high-end design by Ruhlmann and Eileen Gray proved to be extraordinarily hot." A $125 million project, the expansion has allowed the institution to properly and prominently display its vast collections in both a newly renovated and new state-of-the-art facility. American Nineteenth Century paintings, sculpture and decorative arts Susan Firestone
abstract sculpture
mixed media. Judith Godwin
2nd generation abstract expressionist Many important aspects of American art - including the Hudson River School, Luminism, genre painting, American Impressionism and Modernism - are represented at Kennedy Galleries, now in its 129th year Founded in 1799 as the East India Marine Society and later changing its name to the Peabody Museum, it is the oldest continuously operated museum in America. Located just several blocks away was the Essex Institute that was founded in 1815. Biographical in its focus, this Portland Museum of Art exhibition features Porter's paintings and works on paper and also draws extensively on his personal correspondence, poetry, critical writings, notebooks and published works. "Women of the Academy, 1826-2003" will examine the role of women in the history of the National Academy of Design and by extension, women's role over the past two centuries in the American art world at large. "Robert Bateman: A Retrospective," at The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, includes 35 paintings, as well as one sculpture, several sketches and a few prints, all dated from 1948 to 2000. An exceptionally large number of art museums seem to be dedicating newly expanded facilities these days, but few will outdo the dramatic effect of the new Gail and Melvin Nessel Wing of the Norton Museum of Art. "We are very concerned about the pattern of behavior and victimization of honest and hardworking merchants in the antiques business. That is why we are devoting the resources that are necessary in this case."
Close to 1,000 people came through the show during the two days and management is looking to increase that number substantially this fall. "American Modernism of the 1930s did extremely well and cutting edge high-end design by Ruhlmann and Eileen Gray proved to be extraordinarily hot." The early American glass cup plate collection of the late Robert W. King featured provenance cards that read like the "who's who" of glass circles of years past. The Marblehead vase was consigned by a woman from Manchester-By-The-Sea, Mass., who was cleaning house prior to a move. It ultimately sold in the room to Arts and Crafts consultant Marilee Meyer. Splendid Expansion at the Peabody Essex Museum Providence happens to be the birthplace of this fixture on the American landscape, and this new show is currently on view at the Culinary Archives & Museum at Johnson & Wales University. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will present the first major exhibition in 30 years of the art of Mexico's premier abstract painter, Gunther Gerzso. In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Paris was alive with the spirit of the avant-garde. Into this world stepped 22-year-old Amedeo Modigliani. The event, at the Clarion George Washington Hotel, hosted a full house of 32 dealers from throughout the East and Midwest. Dealers hailed from as far away as Dallas, Los Angeles and Seattle and as close by as New York. All faced the challenges of an uncertain economy and a hesitant buying public. "Conditions here sure have been tough, but Frank Gaglio has remained calm through it all and has done everything humanly possible to help the dealers and make sure the show goes on." Even the 1981 reissue of this ground-breaking photomontage image is difficult to obtain, and examples of the original almost never come on the market. The Christie's auction totaled $2,696,840 and was 80 percent sold by value and 74 percent sold by lot. A large and impressive needlework chimneypiece created to hang above a fireplace in a proper Boston home sold after highly competitive bidding for $611,250 in San Francisco. "Reality is what you can get away with." The phrase, both wry and inspirational, sums up the guiding philosophy of Nutting, the crazy-like-a-fox Congregational minister turned marketeer. The diner is at the center of a new exhibit in Providence, which also happens to be the birthplace of this fixture on the American landscape. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the first major exhibition in 30 years of the art of Mexico's premier abstract painter, Gunther Gerzso. In the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Paris was alive with the spirit of the avant-garde. Into this world stepped 22-year-old Amedeo Modigliani. The event, at the Clarion George Washington Hotel, hosted a full house of 32 dealers from throughout the East and Midwest. "The US market for antiques and fine arts has remained stronger than Europe's and there are indications that that will continue to be the case. This is particularly important in the field of tribal and ethnographic works." "Conditions here sure have been tough, but Frank Gaglio has remained calm through it all and has done everything humanly possible to help the dealers and make sure the show goes on." Even the 1981 reissue of this ground-breaking photomontage image is difficult to obtain, and examples of the original almost never come on the market. The Christie's auction totaled $2,696,840 and was 80 percent sold by value and 74 percent sold by lot. In San Francisco, a large and impressive needlework chimneypiece created to hang above a fireplace in a proper Boston home sold to the trade - after highly competitive bidding - for $611,250. "Reality is what you can get away with." The phrase, both wry and inspirational, sums up the guiding philosophy of Nutting, the crazy-like-a-fox Congregational minister turned marketeer. |
