The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawGeo | August 30, 2009
Roseville Pottery collectors can now identify their pottery pattern name by using the JustArtPottery.com Roseville Pottery pattern and shape number index. The index allows collectors to browse each of over 100 Roseville Pottery patterns to match their shape number and type of pottery such as vase, bowl, wall pocket, basket, bookends, etc. to specific pattern [...]
Pearl | August 30, 2009
The last Sunday in August at the Met was crowded as usual, even after 5 p.m. “In 10 minutes, we are going to clean the galleries,” one of the security guards told us. ”Or as someone called ‘the blue wave’, because most people have never thought so much blue polyester in one place!” What I have [...]
Geo | August 30, 2009
In this series, Geo and I will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops or eBay. We neither own the items and in most cases don’t have the capability of examining the items in person. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interest us (not necessarily in [...]
Geo | August 28, 2009
There are many frames in the world that have been repainted with gold radiator paint. Sometimes it can be removed to reveal original gilding, but I have found this process to be somewhat frustrating. You have to move very quickly so the solvents don’t take the gold with the paint. Another option is to add new gold.
Yes, [...]
Geo | August 28, 2009
Lots are won on eBay every day, some with high prices, but few buyers respond to a winning lot by issuing a press release. Oregon Blues Collector and longtime Rare Records dealer John Tefteller won a recent eBay auction which featured a previously unknown and potentially one of a kind Blues 45 rpm record produced by the Sun label back in 1953. “I think I stole it,” said Tefteller in his release. [Read More...]
Geo | August 26, 2009
Convention would have it that you often pay a premium to buy from a dealer. In return for the premium, you get the advice, knowledge and reassurance they can provide. However, as a recent experience shows, that’s not always the case.
A dealer that we’ve done business with previously approached us with two paintings by the [...]
Hui | August 24, 2009
I still remembered the exhibition ” Seeing the City: Sloan’s New York” at Westmoreland Museum of American Art. In one of the lectures, Judith O’Toole, the director, vividly recalled her encounterance with Helen and praised her efforts to protect and preserve Sloan’s legacy. Perhaps she should have ket the independence status of the Trust which would have allowed the works to be temporarily exhibited throughout the country in order to reach a greater amount of audience. There is an old saying — Rules are made to be broken. I wondered how Hellen would feel if she knew the money obtained from deaccessioning Sloan’s works are used to acquire OTHER’s works. [Read More...]
Hui | August 23, 2009
No matter what spokespersons from the banking companies say of their motivations, eventually the art collection that they have amassed are part of their assets which can be sold for financial, tactic or strategic purposes. Art collections are part of their long-term financial investment, which in short term serves for publicity purpose. Just like lending money for interest, each time they lend museums for exhibitions, they are building up the legacy of the collection for monetary gain in future. This must be admitted by those museums who are inclined to accept the offers. [Read more...]
Hui | August 23, 2009
In this series, Geo and I would list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops or eBay. We neither own the items nor do we have the capability of examining the items in person. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interest me (not necessarily in terms [...]
Hui | August 21, 2009
There are many factors working against the antiques business. The economy is taking its toll. Baby boomers are downsizing. Young people prefer “vintage” or “retro” to “antiques.” Even the interior designers seem to have it to easy to seek out real antiques.
One of the biggest concerns about the future of antiques business is the source [...]
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