UAA Team | April 30, 2010
The beauty of glorious attire and what it communicates to others is celebrated in two works of art announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr. (1765), an oil portrait by John Singleton Copley, considered one of the most influential painters in colonial America, augments an exceptional collection of portraits by [...]
UAA Team | April 30, 2010
The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired the painting Christ and the Woman of Samaria, dated to 1619–20, by the Italian artist Guercino, one of the foremost painters of his time. The purchase was announced today by the Museum’s director, Eric M. Lee. The painting dates from Guercino’s early, rarest, and most desirable period, when the [...]
UAA Team | April 28, 2010
A crowd gathered at the Kimbell Art Museum was told by Director Dr. Eric McCauley Lee to “watch the papers” for a major museum acquisition announcement this coming Friday. The news came while standing in front of Michelangelo’s The Torment of Saint Anthony, a work Lee says in more ordinary economic times would have found a [...]
UAA Team | April 27, 2010
Our present economy may have some similarities to the 1930s and if the Michigan Modernism Exposition is any indication American Art Deco style may be on its way back onto our collecting and decorating palates. According to Don Colclough, also known by his business name, Mr. Modern, there were more modern American art deco items [...]
UAA Team | April 26, 2010
The 15th Annual Los Angeles Antiques Show was held April 21-25 at Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Air Center. While your editors didn’t quite make it to the show, we were able to obtain some photos. The Los Angeles Antiques Show is presented by the Antique Dealers Association of California, and produced by Dolphin Promotions.
UAA Team | April 26, 2010
A marked, 25-inch Handel leaded and reverse painted lamp with an Egyptian design and large 20-inch square shade lit up the room for $16,000 at a sale of the single-owner lifetime collection of Dale Gabel, held Apr. 9-10 at the St. Charles Convention Center. The auction was conducted by Woody Auction, based in Douglass, Kan. [...]
ewmiller | April 23, 2010
MRS. THAW IN TEARS OVER SON’S ARREST, an Aug 19, 1913 New York Times Headline read. “Gayly chatting with her woman traveling companion, smiling and laughing, although she undoubtedly knew that her son, Harry, was under arrest, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw stepped from the Pennsylvania Limited at 5:22 o’clock this evening, threw up her parasol [...]
UAA Team | April 22, 2010
One of the most widely identifiable of all professional sports uniforms – the pinstriped New York Yankees home uniform Yogi Berra wore during the 1956 World Series perfect game pitched by Don Larsen – has sold at auction for an astounding $564,930. The iconic uniform, which is prominently visible in a now-famous, copyrighted photo of [...]
ewmiller | April 22, 2010
I picked up a book called Era of Elegance at the Grapevine Antique Mall a few days ago. It gives a flowery glimpse of both Gilded Age palaces and their occupants. The author, Andrew Tully, bookends the Era of Elegance at 1865 and 1914. The first chapter is titled Mrs. Astor’s Couch. It’s appropriate that [...]
UAA Team | April 15, 2010
Fashion sketch artist Ward Nipper is finding inspiration in the clothing and accessories offered at vintage markets. This weekend he’s heading to Modern Vintage Chicago where he’ll put poses by a friend and model on paper. “Drawing is an important creative outlet for me,” Nipper says. “When I was a kid I used to think it [...]
