As part of the New York Transit Museum's centennial celebration of the motorized bus, it is showcasing vintage toy buses in its Grand Central Holiday Train and Bus Show. Found in an attic eave untouched for years, the top lot of Thomas's recent sale turned out to be a rare Bellamy carved and painted eagle with banner that sold for $101,750. R. Scudder Smith, editor and publisher of Antiques and The Arts Weekly and its sister publication, The Newtown Bee, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Award of Merit. Paintings by Zoran Anton Music and Nancy Maybin Ferguson led the pack at Grogan & Company's December 4 sale. Despite hurricanes, a war, Texas heat, a cold front, vendors and buyers came out in droves to Marburger Farm's fall antiques show. The Delaware Antiques Show never looked so grand with a shift in location within the Riverfront facility and displays by the exhibitors that showed extra effort. Something wonderful happened in Boston on November 10: the ninth annual Boston International Fine Art Show opened. The National Museum of American Illustration announces it has received on loan a significant oil painting by America's beloved illustrator, Norman Rockwell, "Choirboy Combing Hair For Easter." A display of rare medieval sacred crosses from Ethiopia will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College through January 28. Death, divorce and debt - these are the three Ds that generally propel items to the auction block. For Pioneer Auction, its own debt seems to be pushing the business toward the gavel. A painted chest-on-chest was the top lot at Brunk Auctions' September 24 sale, realizing $276,000 and believed to be the second highest price paid for a Dunlap. Early's fall art glass auction on October 28-29 at the Radisson Hotel at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport was a stellar sale by all accounts. Christie's series of three photographs sales the week of October 10 totalled $14,530,360 and has taken the market to previously unseen heights. On September 17 and 18, Craftsman Auction offered a select assortment of Arts and Crafts furniture and accessories that were well received by a large audience. Chelsea Edition's showrooms proved a congenial setting for "The Admirable Art of The Needle," an exhibition of antique English and American samplers and embroideries. "Color in itself is beautiful," Oscar Bluemner once wrote. The current retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art demonstrates the accuracy of his view. Something wonderful happened in Boston on November 10: the ninth annual Boston International Fine Art Show opened. A silver salver by New York maker Myer Myers was bidders' choice at Skinner's November 6 Americana sale, where it sold for $99,500. A painted chest-on-chest was the top lot at Brunk Auctions' September 24 sale, realizing $276,000, believed to be the second highest price ever paid for a Dunlap. A silver salver by New York maker Myer Myers was bidders' choice at Skinner's November 6 Americana sale, where it sold for $99,500. Savvy patrons lined up in droves to snap up merchandise November 12 and 13 at the New Hope Autumn Antiques Show in Bucks County, Penn. Constance L. Hays, wife of John Hays, deputy chairman of Christie's, died of cancer on December 5 at Calvary Hospital in New York City. Prettier than ever, the Connoisseur's Antiques Fair opened for five days at the Gramercy Park Armory at Lexington and 28th Street on Wednesday, November 16. Robert Kinnaman, the American folk art and antiques dealer, died at his home on December 8, after a long illness. He was 57 years old. The long-running Chappaqua Antiques Show takes into account the wide range of tastes of its repeat and new customers who come for its top-drawer wares. Optimism was in good supply at Art20, the Modern and Contemporary fine art fair that took place at the Seventh Regiment Armory November 18-21. "We just completed our fifth year and we feel really good about what we are doing," said Tim Verre, co-manager of the Wethersfield Antiques Show. The Prallsville Mills Fall Antiques Show offered a serene and inviting antiquing experience and boasted "knowledgeable antique customers" and dealers. The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center turns 30 this year and in celebration of its "pearl" anniversary, the center hosted a party to benefit ASID on November 10. Sotheby's October 26 sale of important English and Continental silver brought $1,345,860 and early English silver from the collection of the late Charles L. Poor totaled $3,139,260. The October 19 Christie's sale of Magnificent Jewels featured diamonds in all colors and shapes with 347 lots sold, totaling $35,652,800. The River Stone Antiques and Design Center has opened with more than 40 dealers exhibiting quality antiques and decorative accessories in a 10,000-square-foot space. The Neuberger Museum of Art will open three new shows in January at Purchase (N.Y.) College and will continue the exhibition of Jim Dine's drawings to January 8. The New York Botanical Garden is currently presenting an exhibition, "Flowers by Redouté, Artist for an Empire," that showcases the artwork of Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Guyette and Schmidt, Inc grossed $2 million at its annual fall decoy auction in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival on November 9-10. Freud once observed that the anticipation of an event is usually far sweeter than the event itself. If so, a notable exception was on October 22 at the Metropolitan Galleries. "A Toy Feast," a pre-Thanksgiving auction conducted by Bertoia Auctions, literally turned into a feast for toy buyers as they gobbled up item after item in the 2,500-lot auction. Artists have long sought refuge in the town of Woodstock, N.Y., and a recent auction of items from the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts community there were well received. Samuel T. Freeman & Co. has conducted many important and record-setting auctions over the past two centuries yet it just had one of its finest moments. Like the elegant sailing ships that called Salem home for more than two centuries, the Peabody Essex Antiques Show cruised into town last month with great fanfare. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc, a fine art gallery specializing in American paintings and sculpture, and Coram Capital LLC, an affiliate, has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. On the same day the 71st Heisman Trophy award winner was elected, Sotheby's and SCP Auctions sold the original plaster cast of the Heisman Trophy sculpture for $271,360. December 3-5 was the third Premiere Auction for Rock Island Auction Company in 2005, totaling more than $4 million in sales and pushing yearly sales total to over$15 million. On December 6, The FBI in Philadelphia, announced the recovery of three stolen paintings by Heinrich Burkel valued at approximately $125,000. On December 6, the FBI in Philadelphia, announced the recovery of three stolen paintings by Heinrich Burkel (German, 1802-1869) valued at approximately $125,000. About 250 people attended the Friday night opening of the 24th annual Holiday Antiques Show at the Williamsburg Kingsmill Marriott on November 25. Seventy-five authentic American powder horns created between 1747 and 1781 are joining the world-class collection of Americana at Historic Deerfield. On November 30, in an overflowing salesroom at Sotheby's, a sale of American paintings, drawings and sculpture brought a total of $62,979,600. A desirable Gunthermann Gordon Bennet 12-inch racer, modeled after a renowned French racecar from the 1930s, drove the auction action at James D. Julia's last month. Christie's November 1 sale of Impressionist and Modern art totaled $160,931,200, the highest total for a various owners Impressionist and Modern art evening sale there since May 1990. The auction year has ended for Antiquorum New York with a $5,787,000 sale of collectors' wristwatches, pocket watches and clocks on December 7. The sounds and smells of Christmas past pervade the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate this holiday season in recreations of past American Yuletide traditions. For 31 consecutive years, the faithful members of the Pound Ridge Historical Society have gathered for their fund raising affair - the Fall Antiques Show. A silver dealership here reported the theft of a James I silver gilt wine cup valued at $75,000 from an antiques show in Manhattan in October. Nan Gurley produced a very fine antiques show at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, Mass.with lots of booths of great period paint, folk art and weathervanes. Less than a year ago, the map division of the New York Public Library was a public disgrace but all that changed when the room re-opened, renewed and restored. Thirteen phone bidders and one in the room chased the Martin Johnson Heade oil on canvas "Still Life with Cherokee Roses" to $402,000 at Skinner's American and European paintings sale. Bear-hunting season in New Jersey was preceded by "antiques-hunting" season that opened at the December 3 -4 Christmas Antiques Show, run by Ellen Katona and Bob Lutz. Well known and highly respected, Peter W. Chapulis, 77, of Litchfield, Conn., died December 21 at St Francis Hospital in Hartford after suffering a heart attack. Barry Halper, owner of one of the most extensive collections of baseball memorabilia and a limited partner in the New York Yankees, has died at 66. The Amon Carter Museum will present an exhibition next month of more than 50 prints that illustrate the enduring vision of master printmaker Robert Blackburn. Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers marked its 175th year as the oldest auction house in the Midwest with a Winter gallery auction that took place on December 3 and 4. The North Carolina Museum of Art announced it has received an unprecedented gift of 22 Auguste Rodin works from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. A civil action complaint was filed Wednesday, December 14, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against Bryn Mawr auctioneer Russell Pritchard III. An original stained and layered figural window by Tiffany Studios sold for $166,750 at Red Baron's Antiques last sale of 2005 before its next auction March 4-5. A handsome Massachusetts Federal tall clock with a case attributed to John and Thomas Seymour of Boston was the star of the day at CRN Auctions, fetching $92,000. The Wilton Holiday one-day show is a popular destination for antiques lovers and holiday shoppers, and the early morning snow did little to discourage early buyers . The Atlanta International Antiques Fair filled the Cobb Galleria Centre with a successful premier for this first three-day show. More than 40 exhibitors took part in the Antiquarius Antiques Show, which kicked off its 48th year with a gala preview party to benefit the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich. When the Winter Antiques Show opens on Thursday evening, January 19, Bill Guthman will not be among the fair's 74 exhibitors. Nor will he have been replaced. The exhibition, "For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection" now on view at The Art Institute of Chicago, chronicles handwrought African ceramics, old and new. |
