In one of the most significant donations of American art in recent memory, art historian John Wilmerding has presented the National Gallery of Art with 51 works by 26 American artists from his personal collection. A current exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts reveals the artist's daunting intellectual capacity and lifelong passion for creation through prints from his northern European homeland. Gerald Peters Gallery presents an examination of 100 years of American sculptural traditions. Each year the show brings to market singular pieces of American art carefully shepherded by some 55 dealers. Updated over the years through the infusion of more Twentieth Century decorative arts, the event remains a crossroads between innovation and tradition. The vast majority of the dealers scheduled to set up on the pier this coming weekend, November 19-21, will not be repeat exhibitors from the previous weekend. The highest-selling item was a southern Ohio curly maple and cherry tall case clock that fetched $25,300. On view at Winterthur is an exhibition of 117 objects drawn from the holdings of the Drambuie Liqueur Company. The cupboard not only established a record price at auction for any example of Shenandoah Valley furniture, but also became the most "expensive, important and exciting" piece Green Valley has ever sold. In the spirit of the holidays, the Bruce Museum will mount an exhibition of European and American still life painting from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth centuries. The artistic treasures will augment the enjoyment of any stroll along the Philadelphia parkway for the next year. Leaner, but definitely not meaner, and decidedly lush, the event had enormous visual appeal. The early classic pendant was purchased by the US trade. Spanierman Gallery, LLC is hosting "Charles Warren Eaton (1857-1937): An American Tonalist Rediscovered" through December 31. This fall Jim Burk tried something new, opening what has always been a two-day show on Thursday afternoon at 3, and then running both Friday and Saturday. Did it work? "I think it went well," he said. F.H. Lane Record Topples $5.5 Million At Skinner Bonhams & Butterfields Serves Up Rare Ming Copper Red Dish For Record $5.7 Million John Wilkes Booth Letter Breaks Record At Skinner The show numbered 95 exhibitors, down some from the spring, but the dealers presented an interesting and colorful display of antiques furniture and related items. Barry Cohen began his second decade of running an antiques show in York on November 5 when his York Classic Antiques Show opened for early buying at 7 am. F.H. Lane Record Topples; $5.5 Million At Skinner American Masters And Modernists At David Findlay Jr Bugatti Exhibition Extended To December 17 Marklin Circus Train Brings $100,100 At Noel Barrett's Latin American Portraits Exhibition To Premiere At El Museo del Barrio An exhibition of 20 bronze sculptures of animals by Italian-born artist Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) is currently on view at James Graham & Son. David Findlay Jr Fine Art will open "Recent Acquisitions of American Masters and Modernists," on November 29. Comprising 70 works, the exhibition is the largest and most comprehensive show of Charles Warren Eaton's art to date. "Manchester Harbor," whose existence has long been known but whose whereabouts was not, brought a record breaking $5,506,000. NEW YORK CITY - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is celebrating the reopening of its original midtown Manhattan location, marking the completion of the most extensive renovation project in its 75-year history. Several exhibitions will kickoff the much-anticipated event, paying tribute to the redesign that nearly doubles the museum's original size. A rare letter written by John Wilkes Booth broke all sorts of records at Skinner's books and manuscripts sale when it sold for $79,900. The dish, for years used to serve meals to a Bay Area family, sold for $5,726,250 on November 17 after competitive bidding via telephone from three international clients. The dish, for years used to serve meals to a Bay Area family, sold for $5,726,250 on November 17 after competitive bidding via telephone from three international clients. |
