May 20th, 2012 
Hui 
The current exhibition George Grosz’s Flower of the Prairie at the Dallas Museum of Art centers at four oil paintings and seventeen watercolors by the artist, commissioned by Leon Harris Jr. in 1952, to celebrate A. Harris & Company’s 65th anniversary. These works, nonetheless, were not what Grosz was famous for, who fled Germany at [...]
May 18th, 2012 ewmiller 
The room was full for a recent American art auction at Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The evening brought paintings from the Williford Trust. Together with the morning session, which offered works from Lexington Trust of Los Angeles, the sale brought in more than $5 million. It was the collection of Graham Williford we found most [...]
May 10th, 2012 UAA Team 
Nelson A. Rockefeller Jr. has loaned the San Antonio Museum of Art a tapestry of Picasso’s Guernica from his family’s private collection. The tapestry is now hanging in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art at the museum. Rockefeller traveled to San Antonio this week for the formal unveiling. Seventy-five years ago, Picasso [...]
May 7th, 2012 ewmiller 
Washington was chosen as the site for the Capital of the United States because of its proximity to the geographical center of the country. Of course if that decision were being made today, a city named after another oft-admired president would fit the bill. Lincoln, Nebraska was named in 1867 after the recently assassinated President [...]
May 7th, 2012 Hui 
Patinamania is not enough for describing the dominant theme in the 23rd street Armory Show. The obsession with surface and paint has already stirred up interests and prices in many folk art areas, such as dower chests or weathervanes; now dealers must prove that collect-ability and bargains can still co-exist, in an antiques show. At the 23rd [...]
May 3rd, 2012 Hui 
The Philadelphia Antiques Show has a new look. Certainly the brand new Pennsylvania Convention Center better serves the show with its central location and super-wide aisles, but more importantly the vetted show has adopted a more flexible standard on what can be brought in. Many new faces, together with “newer” merchandise liberate the show from [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Furniture, Show & Gallery 
Tags: Charles Wilson Peale, Dolan/Maxwell, Don Thrash, Donald Cresswell, Dornach, Edward Burd, Guy Pene Du Bois, Harriet Candy Peale, Jonathan Boos, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Antiques Show, Philadelphia Print Shop, Robert Aibel, Robert Schwartz, Robert Vickery, Schwartz Gallery 
No Comments » May 2nd, 2012 UAA Team 
Move over Picasso, with a pre-sale estimate of $80 million, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, became the highest-priced artwork to ever sell at auction during Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. This version of the iconic masterpiece achieved $119,922,500 million. Painted between 1893 and 1910, the works show an agonized figure against a red sky. The National Gallery, Oslo holds one of two [...]
Posted in Art, Auction Tags: Auction, National Gallery, Oslo, record Price for Painting, Sotheby's, The Card Players, The Scream No Comments » May 2nd, 2012 Geo 
What’s hot in the antiques world? A new survey from Urban Art & Antiques seeks to find out. Providing a continuous reading of the popularity of small shows, big shows, repurposing, vintage and the like is the Industry Pulse Survey. Click to chime in!
April 30th, 2012 UAA Team 
I am not sure I have ever seen Freeman’s auction so packed with furniture. Today’s American Furniture, Silver, Decorative & Folk Arts auction in Philadelphia featured an array in styles and quality, providing insights into market strengths. The highlight for me was an architect’s desk once owned by Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll. Irish [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction Tags: armorial, Auction, Charles Carroll, Freeman's, Furniture, porcelain, Whale Oil No Comments » April 30th, 2012 Geo 
This was a good year to visit Philadelphia Antiques Week as there was some renewed energy in the air. I should not say was yet, because Freeman’s auction is going on now and the Philadelphia Antiques Show is still in progress. The first stop was the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show. With its usual charm, [...]
