September 26th, 2011 
ewmiller 
I feel very lucky to have had the experience in the past few days of traveling around Shanghai, China and experiencing some of the art and architecture of this ancient, and very modern culture. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to West Lake in Hangzhou. It’s a place well-chronicled in Chinese [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art, Asian Art 
Tags: Bunny Mellon, Chinese, Hangzhou, I.M. Pei, Li Song, Musuem, Seal Carving, Shanghai Museum, Suzhou, West lake 
No Comments » September 19th, 2011 UAA Team 
A Wormser Brothers barrel bitters bottle, made between 1867 and 1871 and quite possibly the only green example in existence (most are amber in color), soared to $18,480 in an Internet and catalog auction that began Aug. 29 and ended Sept. 8 by American Bottle Auctions. It was the top lot of the 146 bottles [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Collecting Tags: American Bottle Auctions, bottles, Jeff Wichmann, San Francisco, Wormser No Comments » September 19th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has acquired the painting Man at His Bath (1884), regarded as one of the greatest works by artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894). This important canvas represents the first Impressionist nude to enter the Museum’s collection of paintings. The almost life-size work, which has been on loan at the MFA [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Boston, Degas, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Caillebotte, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry Matisse, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Mary Cassatt, Mat an his bath, MFA, Mueum of Fine Arts Boston, Musée d’Orsay, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir No Comments » September 19th, 2011 UAA Team 
Chinese porcelain starred at Kaminski Auctions’ August Fine Asian Art and Antiques sale, with a circa 1925, 20” x 9 ½” high vase painted in the traditional style of artist Wang Shigu of finely painted mountains selling for $152,100 as the top lot in the three day sale. The audience was filled with familiar faces [...]
Posted in Asian Art Tags: Bronze, Bronze Panel, Chinese, Japanese, Kaminski, princeton. Buddha, QianLong, Republic era, Wang Shigu No Comments » September 19th, 2011 Helen 
Every year for the past forty seven years or so, the Altha Theta Sorority from Western Kentucky University hold an antique show and sale at the Knights of Columbus Hall off Lovers Lane in Bowling Green. This was one of the best attended years in the show’s history. By Saturday morning, many of the vendors [...]
September 18th, 2011 Helen 
In 1934,during the Great Depression, the WPA workers built the main Post Office on Broadway in Nashville. The impressive Art Deco building on Broadway, flanked by the old Customs House and the Estes Kefauver Federal Courthouse on one side, and the Union Station on the other, went largely unappreciated by the residents. Ten years ago, [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Bexhill Museum, Bible Belt, Cambbells, Clouds, Frist, Interview, Lana Turner, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Pop Art, Warhol No Comments » September 15th, 2011 UAA Team 
After successfully raising more than $200 million through its capital campaign and surpassing 10,000 members, the Barnes Foundation officially announced today the much-anticipated opening date of its Philadelphia campus is May 19, 2012. The facility on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will be the new home of the Barnes art collection and art education programs. PNC [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Albert C. Barnes, Barnes, Cézanne, Opening, Philadelphia, Renoir No Comments » September 14th, 2011 Lin 
Even though North Texas had its 70th triple-digit-temperature day in 2011, no one would doubt it will get cooler in no time – not only weatherwise, but also culturally. On the first weekend of September when Dallasites can finally walk leisurely on the street, gallery openings were found everywhere from trendy uptown to Deep Ellum. [...]
September 14th, 2011 UAA Team 
An 18th-century corner cupboard believed to have been made by Squire Boone, Jr., the younger brother of Daniel Boone, realized $35,000 during an auction conducted by Beckort Auctions, LLC on Sept. 3. The cupboard sold to representatives of the Old Goshen Church & Cemetery Memorial Foundation, which intends to display the piece in Corydon. Having [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Collecting, Furniture Tags: Beckort Auctions, Daniel Boone, Frederick Porter Griffin, Indiana No Comments » September 14th, 2011 UAA Team 
Doyle New York’s Asian Works of Art auction on September 12, 2011 attracted intense competition from an international audience of bidders in the crowded salesroom, on the telephones, and live on the Internet. In all, the sale totaled a strong $2,805,906 against a pre-sale estimate of $2,228,400-3,299,100 with 63 percent sold by lot and 75 [...]
