July 31st, 2011 
ewmiller 
And it’s a song you’ve heard before. I was watching a carpet on LiveAuctioneers and New Orleans Auction Galleries today and couldn’t help notice the traditional/classical looking furniture wasn’t bringing much. When you compare it to paper items like maps and samplers- the price per ounce would seem pretty unreal. Small items like curtain rods [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture 
Tags: American, Americana, Bookcase, Boston, Classical, curtain rods, Ephemera, Maps, New Orleans, New Orleans Auction, Paper, Secretary, Sideboard 
No Comments » July 29th, 2011 UAA Team 
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art today announced a $20 million grant from Walmart to cover admission fees for all visitors. Prior to the grant, a $10 admission fee was being considered for adults. “While saving people money is how we make people’s lives better every day, we realize that things like listening to your [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Asher B. Durand, Crystal Bridges, Don Bacigalupi, Ginger Beebe, Mike Duke, Wal-Mart 1 Comment » July 27th, 2011 UAA Team 
Clad in age-defying cast iron, antique mechanical banks made another bulletproof run across the auction block June 4th at RSL’s 499-lot sale featuring the John Jirkofsky collection. Partner Ray Haradin, along with Steven and Leon Weiss – said the sale held at Opfer Auctions’ gallery attracted around 160 online bidders and another 76 bidders in [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Collecting Tags: Bank, Cast iron, Chicago World's Fair, Christopher Columbus, German, J. & E. Stevens, Opfer Auctions, Ray Haradin, Santa Maria, Spelter, Toy No Comments » July 26th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded in 40 years. The total was more than 400,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2010. “We are [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Alexander McQueen, Cloisters, Met, New York, Picasso, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas P. Campbell No Comments » July 26th, 2011 ewmiller 
Some of the best news I’ve heard on the art market came across my alerts this morning. No, it’s not another record from a 12 million dollar stuffed shark. It’s the fact that the prices for affordable art are rising-at least in the UK where the information originates. This gets back to something close to [...]
July 25th, 2011 UAA Team 
On July 28, Gray’s Auctioneers in Cleveland will be selling lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from 1865 entitled ‘Our Flag is There’. The signature is indecipherable however the Gray’s appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, February 13, 1864. The sketch is [...]
Posted in Art, Auction Tags: Auction, Civil War, Cleveland, Confederate, Democratic, Flag Republican, Gray's, Thomas Nast, Union No Comments » July 24th, 2011 UAA Team 
You just never know where or when things are going to show up. A record was set recently when five Chinese carved rhinoceros horn cups believed to be from the late 17th century or early 18th century were brought to the Road Show. Valued at $1 to $1.5 million, the cups are the most valuable [...]
Posted in Antiques, Asian Art Tags: Antiques Roadshow, Chinese, cups, jade, rhinoceros horn, Tulsa No Comments » July 24th, 2011 UAA Team 
ABC This Week with Christiane Amanpour featured a segment in Gracie Mansion. Having had a private tour of the house and grounds, it is truly one of the gems of New York City and the country. The decorative arts collection is unequaled- and it appears the Mayor and other guests were sitting on some Phyfe chairs! [...]
Posted in Antiques, Architecture Tags: ABC, Bloomberg, Christiane Amanpour, Gracie Mansion, Michael Bloomberg, New York, This Week No Comments » July 22nd, 2011 Helen 
Murfreesboro is more than football games and walking horses. Every July, the world descends upon Rutherford County, Tennessee. It is too early for Middle Tennessee State University football, too late for basketball or baseball. The county fair won’t be for another few week. The third week in July, MTSU plays host to a wonderful Antiques [...]
July 22nd, 2011 UAA Team 
Crystal Bridges isn’t the only museum acquiring these days, and some of the art is traveling north. The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced recently it has acquired three important French Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley, and a pastel by Mary Cassatt, the Pennsylvania native and American expatriate who became famously [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Camille Pissarro, Crystal Bridges, Daniel Garber, Joseph Rishel, Mary Cassatt, Monet, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tanis No Comments »
