May 19, 2009 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Furniture, Art & Glass Lead Hudson Valley Auction
    May 19, 2009

    Hudson Valley Auctioneers’s April 27 sale saw an excellent pair of pine blanket boxes in their original blue paint fetch $1,955 each. They were just the tip of the iceberg in an auction that saw furniture, once again, giving a hint of better things to come.

  • ooking In Robert Frank The AmericansAt San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    May 19, 2009

    For more than a half century, Robert Frank has repeatedly broken accepted rules and flouted well-worn conventions to expand the expressive potential of photography. He has pioneered in a revolutionary approach to photography that combines autobiography, emotion and poetry with gritty reality. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking publication that changed the course of Twentieth Century photography and helped America see itself more clearly, the National Gallery of Art has organized ⁌ooking In: Robert Frank⁳ The Americans.†After recently closing in Washington, D.C., the exhibition is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through August 23.

  • Jeweled Saber Trumps Jade At Skinner Asian Auction
    May 19, 2009

    Bidders came drawn by the toothsome offerings of jade at Skinner⁳ two-day April sale of Asian works of art on April 24′5, but it was a Turkish jeweled saber that captured much attention †and the most money.

  • Paul Scott Hospitalized From Fall, Patient At Boston Medical Center
    May 19, 2009

    Antiques dealer Paul Scott is recovering from a fall at Boston Medical Center after suffering a fractured neck and bruised spinal cord.

  • Charles Rohlfs Show To Open At Milwaukee Museum June 6
    May 19, 2009

    The first major exhibition of furniture and decorative art by the protean American craftsman and designer Charles Rohlfs begins its five-venue national tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6⁁ugust 23.

  • ortraits, Pastels, Prints Whistler In The FrickOpens June 2
    May 19, 2009

    From June 2 to August 23, The Frick Collection will present a focus exhibition dedicated to the colorful and often controversial artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834‱903).

  • Early Deadlines
    May 19, 2009

    Due to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, May 25, advertising deadlines for the issue of Antiques And The Arts Weekly dated May 29 are as follows: EARLY AUCTION: Wednesday, May 20, 10 am DISPLAY: Wednesday, May 20, 10 am REGULAR AUCTION: Thursday, May 21, 10 am The paper will be mailed Tuesday, May 26.

  • Dealers & Collectors Bid Vigorously At CRN ecession-ProofSale
    May 19, 2009

    Despite a distinguished New England provenance, it was a southern Hepplewhite walnut hunt board made in coastal North Carolina that achieved $33,350 from a North Carolina collector on the phone at CRN Auctions†April 25 sale.

  • Thirty-Five Dealers Put On Grand Show At Botanical Gardens
    May 19, 2009

    ⁗e knew from the start that it would not be like it has been in the past, but in the end it was better than anyone expected,†Catherine Sweeney Singer, show director, said of the Antiques Garden Furniture Show and Sale at the New York Botanical Garden.



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