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  • Early Spring Blooms In Portsmouth At Nan Gurley Antiques Show
    March 20, 2012

    March 4 presented early spring-like weather for New England, which probably contributed to a great crowd for the sold-out facility Nan Gurley has for one of her regular gatherings of exhibitors. About 50 dealers booked exhibit space in the Frank Jones Center, where the dealers showed their freshest acquisitions to hundreds of shoppers that were waiting for the starting bell at 10 am.

  • Milford Antiques Show Continues Its Success
    March 20, 2012

    Jack Donigian assembled a near-capacity gathering of antiques dealers on March 4 at Hampshire Hills Club for his regular Sunday affair where about 80 exhibit spaces were filled with great early antiques, mostly from New England.

  • Barnett Aden Rediscovered Artworks Go On View At Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
    March 20, 2012

    ⁍aking History: Twentieth Century African American Art†at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts offers a fascinating glimpse at artistic production and patronage associated with the renowned Barnett Aden Gallery, operating in Washington, D.C., from 1943 to 1969.

  • ural IrelandOn View At Boston McMullen Museum
    March 20, 2012

    The McMullen Museum of Art presents ⁒ural Ireland: The Inside Story,†an exclusive exhibition that introduces American viewers to many recently discovered genre paintings of Nineteenth Century rural interiors. The exhibition is on view to June 3.

  • Quilts Track 150 Years Of Change In Hawaii
    March 20, 2012

    Like slack-key guitar, quilting is an enduring island art that evolved from an imported tradition. Hawaiian women adapted the textile art brought to the islands by missionaries and made it their own expressive tradition. Now the Honolulu Museum of Art puts on view a dozen of its prized Hawaiian quilts in ⁒egal and Royal Hawaiian Quilts,†revealing a response to a century and a half of adaptation and change, sewn by skilled hands.

  • Duke Armchair Brings 144,000 At White Auction
    March 20, 2012

    A George II mahogany armchair came to auction at Gustave J.S. White Company⁳ March 14 auction at Newport County Auction Gallery, where it sold for $144,000.

  • Ming Dynasty Jar Sells For 154 Million At Freeman
    March 20, 2012

    On the heels of Freeman⁳ third consecutive Asian art auction achieving a multimillion-dollar lot, a Chinese Ming dynasty gilt bronze and cloisonné covered jar sold on March 17 for $1.54 million.

  • Dale Nichols Transcending Regionalism At Montgomery Museum Of Fine Arts
    March 20, 2012

    Some of the most interesting and compelling Twentieth Century American art was produced by American Scene painters, specifically so-called Regionalists, led by Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood. Protesting against the spread of European Modernism, they sought an authentic American style that focused on realistic depictions of the rural Midwest and South of the 1930s. Arguably the fourth most important Regionalist to emerge from this milieu after the triumvirate of Benton, Curry and Wood is Dale W. Nichols (1904‱995). His crisp and colorful depictions, most famously of red barns in snow-laden landscapes under blue skies with farmers at work, were rooted in his own farm upbringing and his fealty to an American agrarian ideal. After a long period of neglect, there is a resurgence of interest in Nichols⁳ work among curators, historians and collectors. A rewarding and revelatory exhibition, ⁄ale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,†is currently on view at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, Ala., through June 17.

  • Super Offering Super Prices At Crocker Farm Pottery Sale
    March 20, 2012

    ⁗e certainly didn⁴ plan it this way,†stated Crocker Farm auction house principal Tony Zipp, ⁢ut we are more than pleased with the way it ended up.†The auctioneer was referring to the exceptional quality of the offering that was about to be sold at Crocker Farm⁳ auction of American stoneware and redware pottery on March 3.

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