May 31st, 2011 
UAA Team 
The ultimate destination on a short trip to Houston Memorial Day was the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH). That and Bayou Bend, a collection of American fine and decorative arts in the former home of noted philanthropist and Houstonian Ima Hogg. It was unclear from the website if Bayou Bend would be open Memorial [...]
May 27th, 2011 ewmiller 
I finally made my way over to a often recommended store in Dallas today called Dolly Python. Expect to see more like this popping up. Dolly Python is not filled with furniture and Victoriana, rather select things from about 1920 forward including telephones, typewriters, clothing, boots, photos, records and lots of jewelry. This store is [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business 
Tags: Antiques, Clothing, Dallas, Dolly Python, Jewelry, Photo, Records, typewriter, Vintage, Vinyl 
1 Comment » May 26th, 2011 UAA Team 
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, Jeff R. Bridgman, the nation’s premier antique flag specialist, will present a selection of rare and important period flags at several art and antique fairs across the country. With stops in Kent, Connecticut, Aspen, Colorado, Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland, Bridgman will [...]
Posted in Antiques, Show & Gallery Tags: Battle of Gettysburg, Civil War Flag, Ethan Allen, Grant, Jeff R. Bridgeman, Lincoln, Pennsylvania, Smithsonian, York No Comments » May 26th, 2011 UAA Team 
Among serious watch collectors and horological aficionados, perhaps no name inspires as much reverence and admiration as that of James Ward Packard (1863-1928), the American auto manufacturer and inventor whose passion for watch collecting is the stuff of legend. Packard was among the first of the great watch collectors to work directly with Patek Philippe [...]
May 23rd, 2011 ewmiller 
Research that reached me via Facebook this morning helped confirm what I have suspected to be true for some time. It’s not the ultra-wealthy who are the primary buyers of antiques. Middle-class baby boomers, and before them middle-class members of the GI-generation, have traditionally been the buyers of antiques. The research that reached my desktop [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business Tags: Age Curve, American Affluence Research Center, antique, Baby, Boomer, Demographic, Generation, GI, Green, Kenneth W. Gronbach, luxury, Silent, X, y 4 Comments » May 18th, 2011 Hui 
Most paintings from Flanner & Buchanan Corporate collection sold well, a reminder of the successful sale of Judge Buchanan’s personal collection (also at Heritage Auctions) two years ago. One of the highlights from Buchanan’s personal collection sale was a painting of forest interior by William Trost Richards during his brief Pre-Raphaelite period. It was [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Auction Tags: Amon Cater, Apache Signal Fire, Charles Hawthorne, Charles Temple Dix, Flanner & Buchanan Corporate Collection, Frederic Remington, Heritage, Judith O'Toole, New England, Seascape, Severin Roesen, Sotheby’s, Victor De Grailly, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, William Henry Bartlett, William Trost Richards No Comments » May 16th, 2011 ewmiller 
There have traditionally been three “d” words that have impacted the antiques industry (not to mention lawyers). They are death, debt and divorce. Now there’s another: downsizing. One thing that, as can be expected, has a significant impact on the antiques market in particular is real estate. The reality there is, not only is [...]
Posted in Antiques Tags: boomers, death, debt, divorce, downsizing, generation y, McIlwain, real estate No Comments » May 12th, 2011 UAA Team 
Metropolitan Museum of Art will take over space vacated by the Whitney Museum of Art when that museum moves into its new downtown digs, the institutions announced today. The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Alice Pratt Brown, Met, Metropolitam Whitney, Renzo Piano, Thomas P. Campbell No Comments » May 12th, 2011 UAA Team 
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale realized $301,683,630, exhibiting a thriving and healthy market for art, in which buyers fiercely competed for works of utmost quality, provenance and beauty. Brett Gorvy, Christie’s International Co-Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Deputy Chairman comments: “Tonight’s extraordinary results exemplify the market’s vigor for top-quality works of art. [...]
Posted in Art, Auction Tags: Anselm Kiefer, Christie's, Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Urs Fischer, Warhol No Comments » May 12th, 2011 UAA Team 
The power and depth of the Charles Martignette Collection of Illustration Art continued to exert its influence on May 4 in the form of Gil Elvgren’s Gay Nymph, 1947, which brought $286,800 – a World’s Record price for the artist – against a $60,000+ pre-auction estimate–in Heritage Auctions’ $3.409+ million Signature New York Illustration Art [...]
