UAA Team | June 30, 2010
Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in [...]
UAA Team | June 30, 2010
Three years ago this web site, Urban Art & Antiques came into existence. The first post was on a visit to the Butler Museum of American Art. Since then we’ve provided reports from museums, vintage markets, antique shows and antique malls. We’re also grateful for the contributors who have helped us over these three short [...]
UAA Team | June 29, 2010
A Powell & Stutenroth “Favorite Bitters” bottle, one of only a few known and graded 9.7 out of 10 for condition, soared to $64,960 at the 50th Internet and catalog ever held by American Bottle Auctions (AmericanBottle.com). The bottle was the top lot of the more than 300 rare and vintage bottles sold. Most dated [...]
Geo | June 28, 2010
A bronze art-deco panel said to be from the Texas and Pacific railroad station in Fort Worth brought intense bidding between a floor and internet bidder Saturday at Austin Auction Gallery. The floor bidder won out with the panel at $1,100. The item description provided was as follow: Bronze Art Deco architectural panel, purportedly from [...]
ewmiller | June 25, 2010
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. This Grif Teller painting failed to bring even the minimum bid of $15,000 a few months ago at William Bunch Auctions. June 22nd it brought $61,000. This may put questions into the minds of consignors. Is the hammer price an actual estimate of an items value? Should [...]
Geo | June 24, 2010
On June 11, 2010, Cowan’s in Cincinnati offered an archive of documents detailing the 1875 insanity hearing and ultimate commitment of Mary Todd Lincoln into Bellevue Place, a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois. A Louisville, Kentucky, family decided to sell the archive after preserving it since the 1930s. The archive, which included the commitment decree, [...]
UAA Team | June 24, 2010
This year Master Drawings London celebrates its 10th anniversary. The inspiration of Crispian Riley-Smith, the event proved an immediate success when first launched in 2001. Many of the galleries taking place this year have participated each year since its inception. Master Drawings London is a collaborative event in which London’s leading drawings specialists join together [...]
UAA Team | June 23, 2010
An oil on canvas Paris street scene by the renowned French painter Edouard Cortes (1882-1969), titled Boulevard des Capucines, sold for $34,500 at a two-session Fine & Decorative Arts Catalog Auction held June 19 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales. The painting was one of the top earners of the nearly 800 fresh-to-the-market lots [...]
UAA Team | June 22, 2010
Real life picker Frederick Klass Jr. is heading to the inaugural Highwood Street Market June 26 and 27, bringing the fruits of his labor and sharing a bit about the reality of “picking.” It’s a reality he says is painted in an unfavorable light on television. “I’ve seen American Pickers and I know how you [...]
Hui | June 21, 2010
During my several visits to the Dallas Museum of Art, I did notice that their Asian art, especially Chinese art, is not extensive. It is fortunate that Dallas has a museum dedicated to Asian Art just cross the street of DMA. Even better, it is admission-free! The Crows started collecting Asian art from 1960′s. They [...]
