May 18, 2010 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Brown Furniture Is Alive & Well At CRN Auction
    May 18, 2010

    Brown furniture is alive and well in some quarters †auction houses and dealers are selling and buyers are buying. For their April 25 CRN Auction, Carl R. Nordblom and Karin J. Phillips put together an event in which it was furniture that dominated the action.

  • Sotheby Two Jewels Sales Reach Combined Total Of 396 Million
    May 18, 2010

    Sotheby⁳ sales of Magnificent Jewels and Always in Style, a single-owner jewelry collection, achieved a combined total of $39,608,676 on April 21, exceeding the combined presale high estimate of $35.3 million..

  • Doris A Bilodeau, 63, Attorney, Auctioneer, President Of Douglas Auctioneers
    May 18, 2010

    Doris (Mangles) Bilodeau, one of the proud founders and owners of Douglas Auctioneers, died May 10 after a four-year battle with cancer.

  • Ridgefield Outdoor Antiques Market Tries Out A New Date In May
    May 18, 2010

    Despite a Marchlike chill and the threat of rain, 75 or so antiques dealers set up around the periphery of the historic Lounsbury mansion for the one-day annual Ridgefield Outdoor Antiques Market on May 8.

  • Antique Garden Furniture Show Draws Large Gate
    May 18, 2010

    A record crowd was on hand May 6 for the annual preview gala of the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale show and the rare plant sale, sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden.

  • isiting MasterpiecesShowcases Works At MFA, Boston
    May 18, 2010

    Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for Vincent van Gogh, it was a means of self education for the artist in the 1880s, who copied numerous works by Jean-François Millet to teach himself how to draw and paint. The visual dialogue that ensued between master and student is the focus of ⁖isiting Masterpieces,†an ongoing series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

  • African America eyond The BluesAt New Orleans Art Museum
    May 18, 2010

    The New Orleans Museum of Art has partnered with the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University to present ⁂eyond the Blues: Reflections on African America from the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center†through July 11.

  • antasies And Fairy-Tales Maxfield Parrish And The Art Of The Print
    May 18, 2010

    Maxfield Parrish (1870‱966), a supremely talented artist and extraordinary entrepreneur, occupies a special niche in the history of America⁳ culture. Over the course of a 70-year career, stretching from the late Gilded Age to the Vietnam era, his illustrations, advertisements, posters, paintings and murals made him one of the most popular artists of his time. In the 1920s, Parrish produced imagery of such popularity that it was estimated that one of every four American homes had reproductions of his world of make-believe hanging on its walls. Because he was unabashedly a ⁰opular†or ⁰ublic†artist, however, the art establishment tended to look down on his achievements. Toward the end of his long life and for several decades after his death, his work was denigrated and neglected, but in recent years it has regained respect from art historians and commanded large prices on the market. All this makes ⁆antasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish and the Art of the Print,†on view at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y., through July 11, especially timely.



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