Americana and Its New York Home

Posted By on January 23, 2012

Folk Art Room American Galleries Met

The primitive roots of much of what we think of as Americana makes New York City seem an odd place for it. Yet each January thousands of visitors descend on the city to take in the best in the category. Things have changed somewhat this year, gone is The American Antiques Show (TAAS), the once [...]

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Phyfe Sideboard at Auction

Posted By on January 19, 2012

Thomaston Phyfe Sideboard Boscobel

With all the brouhaha over the Duncan Phyfe show at the Met, you don’t expect you could find a attributed Phyfe sideboard for sale in the price range of a ten year old used car. If you’re visited the show, or even if you haven’t, you may want to watch this auction. Thomaston Place is offering a New [...]

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Hammers Fall on the First Lots of Americana Week

Posted By on January 17, 2012

Seymour Table Keno Americana Week

A fancy painted card table, by Thomas Seymour, a blown flask, a winter painting by Walter Palmer and two sofas in a classical form provide additional highlights in a an auction featuring a broad spectrum of American art and decorative arts. Keno Auctions’ Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts kicked off Americana Week activities. The Boston [...]

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Into Americana Week

Posted By on January 16, 2012

Americana Week 2011 Photo by Eric Miller

Americana Week has begun. Yesterday perhaps the first event of the week was a gallery talk at Keno Auctions ”American Still Life Painting in the 19th Century,” with Dr. William H. Gerdts. There’s a good deal of excitement and enthusiasm around Americana Week this year. The American Wing Galleries are re-opening at the Met and [...]

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A Gaggle of Interest, Americana Week Edition

Posted By on January 15, 2012

Christie

In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops, shows or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in some cases. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily in [...]

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Chinese Art in San Antonio Museum of Art

Posted By on January 15, 2012

Pink Enamels Medallion Bowl from Daoguang Period at SAMA

If, according to a director of a New York art institution, the first thing that curators should study is the neighborhood’s demography, then a collection in San Antonio will seem out of place.  If an emphasis on Latino culture, with a vast selection from pre-Columbia, Spanish Colonial to contemporary, matches the city’s dominant Hispanic population, [...]

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Ladies’ Cartier Watch Brings More Than $20K

Posted By on January 12, 2012

Cartier Watch Jan 12, 2012

A ladies’ Cartier Art Deco diamond wristwatch realized $21,000 in Cordier Auctions’ Two Day Antique & Fine Art Auction, the inaugural auction in their new Harrisburg, Pennsylvania salesroom on November 5 and 6. Watches especially saw several strong results including the top lot of the two day auction, a lady’s Cartier Art Deco platinum, 18K [...]

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Renowned Art Deco Artist Hildreth Meière Celebrated in New Exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art

Posted By on January 12, 2012

St. Peter, detail of the Transfiguration, 1928.

Renowned and versatile Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) is the subject of the Museum of Biblical Art’s exciting new exhibition Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière. On view from February 3 to May 20, 2012, Walls Speak showcases the liturgical designs this path-breaking artist created for many of the New York metropolitan [...]

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PAFA Presents Barnes Show Prior to Landmark Museum Opening

Posted By on January 11, 2012

PAFA Albert C. Barnes from Wikipedia

In celebration of the debut of the Barnes Foundation in its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is presenting PAFA and Dr. Barnes, on view April 7 through July 8, exploring the connections between the Pennsylvania Academy and Dr. Albert Barnes. This exhibition will [...]

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Faces On the Walls — Visiting San Antonio Museum of Art

Posted By on January 7, 2012

San Antonio Museum of Art

Situated north of downtown San Antonio along the famous River Walk, the San Antonio Museum of Art is housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery building complex. From the outside, the complex lacks the grandeur of Beaux-Arts facades. Multi-floored, with a subdued sun-fade yellow, the brick buildings give the feeling of a genteel southern living [...]

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