Wright, one of the Twentieth Century's leading industrial designers, is the focus of a comprehensive new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum which features more than 350 artifacts.

The firm’s evening sales of Post-War Art and Contemporary Art realized a total of $13,641,689. Four world auction records for individual artists were realized.

Nearly 300 bid cards were issued and buyers from six states were successful either in person, by phone or by absentee bid. The varied selection of lots came from more than 20 consignors.

The New England Toy Train Exchange conducted their winter auction featuring 395 lots of toy trains dating from 1912 through the 1980s. There was standing room only as auctioneer Mark Tobias kept the action up at 85 lots an hour.

The site’s first sale of the year indicated that the autograph market is still strong, with some 800 bidders pushing the sale’s total to more than $400,000.

The Reynolds Foundation pulls a $38 million donation to the Smithsonian….Sotheby’s settles with the Onians estate over incorrectly attributed Poussin painting….First Lady Laura Bush tours the American Folk Art Museum….Denver receives the Logan collection.

In a grand display of enthusiasm for antiques and for the City of New York, Stella Show Mgmt. Co. opened the doors to the Antiques @ The Piers Show to a steady line of customers, which continued until the event’s final day.

Flamingo has acquired The New England Antiques Festival in Hopkinton, N.H., and The Vermont Antiques Festival in Quechee, Vt.

This past fall, the Jackson Hole, Wyo. museum acquired "Tiger Observing Cranes," circa 1890, a significant painting by French Salon artist Jean-Leon Gerome.

Included are etchings, lithographs, pastels, watercolors, and oil paintings. The focal point of the exhibition is "Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Little Blue Girl," commissioned by Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), founder of the Freer Gallery. The gallery has the most complete collection of Whistler's nudes in the world.