December 4, 2007 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • ‘Coming Of Age American Art, 1850s To 1950s’ At Meadows Museum of Art
    December 4, 2007

    Since its founding in 1931, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., has assembled an extraordinary collection of some of America⁳ finest paintings and sculpture. It is surely the premier art collection in any American preparatory school and, indeed, one of the best collections of American art anywhere. All this is abundantly clear in a grand traveling exhibition of more than 70 selections from the Addison collection, ⁃oming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s,†on view at Southern Methodist University⁳ Meadows Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas, through February 24. Offering a rare opportunity to trace the evolution of America⁳ unique aesthetic identity, it starts with Hudson River School landscapes and concludes with the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, which secured America⁳ preeminent position in the international art world. There are few better ways to trace the development of America⁳ art from its relatively humble beginnings to today⁳ world eminence than by studying the Addison Gallery⁳ holdings.

  • Grand Rapids Art Museum Acquires Drer ngraved PassionSeries
    December 4, 2007

    The Grand Rapids Art Museum has acquired ⁔he Engraved Passion,†a series of engravings by Albrecht Dürer (1471‱528), the northern Germany Renaissance painter and engraver. The series, dating from 1507 to 1513, is considered one of the most important and earliest series of engravings on laid paper.

  • ome Is Where The Art IsAt New Orleans Museum
    December 4, 2007

    Zita Marks Templeman, an artist, collector and benefactor, shared her home and extensive art collection with a wide circle of friends. Today, her bequest of 124 pictures to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) allows more art lovers to appreciate her treasures in her collection.

  • ‘Navajo Textiles’ Opens At The Bruce Museum December 8
    December 4, 2007

    The exhibition ⁎avajo Textiles from the Bruce Museum†opens December 8, and will run through March 24. The Bruce Museum exhibition includes approximately ten examples from the transitional to the Rug periods and explores this important time in the history of Navajo artistry.

  • A Strong Showing At Clarke Third Annual Art Auction
    December 4, 2007

    ⁉t was a strong, strong showing,†commented auctioneer Ronan Clarke in the days following the Third Annual Fine Art Sale conducted at Clarke Auction on Monday, November 5..

  • Smalls Bring Big Prices At Willis Henry Shaker Sale
    December 4, 2007

    The preview buzz at the October 14 Willis Henry Auctions Shaker sale was all about the quality of the Nineteenth Century smalls about to cross the block. The proof was in the pudding, and it was the smalls that ruled the day.

  • Folk Art Flies At Philip Weiss Sale
    December 4, 2007

    Normally, the carved folk art that flies at auction has wings, but a decidedly unaerodynamic looking Nineteenth Century Punch cigar store figure soared to $542,400 on day two of Philip Weiss⁳ October 20 and 21 sale.

  • Heritage Sets New Record For eanutsOriginal At 113,525
    December 4, 2007

    Heritage Auction Galleries†auction of Vintage Comic Books and Original Comic Art on November 15‱6 saw two new world records set: one for the sale of a Charles Schulz original Peanuts strip and one for original cover art by underground comic artist Robert Crumb.

  • Discovered Rothschild Faberg Egg Brings 185 Million At Christie
    December 4, 2007

    The Rothschild Fabergé egg sold for $18.5 million to a private Russian bidder at Christie⁳ on November 28, establishing a new world record price for a Faberge work of art and for a Russian object.

  • The Delaware Antiques Show A Darling With The Dealers
    December 4, 2007

    Beautiful and boasting some of the most prominent names in the business, what’s not to love about the Delaware Antiques Show?



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