January 31st, 2012 
ewmiller 
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the [...]
January 23rd, 2012 ewmiller 
The primitive roots of much of what we think of as Americana makes New York City seem an odd place for it. Yet each January thousands of visitors descend on the city to take in the best in the category. Things have changed somewhat this year, gone is The American Antiques Show (TAAS), the once [...]
January 19th, 2012 UAA Team 
With all the brouhaha over the Duncan Phyfe show at the Met, you don’t expect you could find a attributed Phyfe sideboard for sale in the price range of a ten year old used car. If you’re visited the show, or even if you haven’t, you may want to watch this auction. Thomaston Place is offering a New [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture, Museum 
Tags: Boscobel, Duncan Phyfe, Hudson Valley, Met, Thomaston Place 
No Comments » January 17th, 2012 ewmiller 
A fancy painted card table, by Thomas Seymour, a blown flask, a winter painting by Walter Palmer and two sofas in a classical form provide additional highlights in a an auction featuring a broad spectrum of American art and decorative arts. Keno Auctions’ Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts kicked off Americana Week activities. The Boston [...]
January 16th, 2012 ewmiller 
Americana Week has begun. Yesterday perhaps the first event of the week was a gallery talk at Keno Auctions ”American Still Life Painting in the 19th Century,” with Dr. William H. Gerdts. There’s a good deal of excitement and enthusiasm around Americana Week this year. The American Wing Galleries are re-opening at the Met and [...]
January 15th, 2012 UAA Team 
In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops, shows or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in some cases. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily in [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art Tags: advertising art, Ammi Phillips, Belter, Bonhams, Christie's, Gaggle of Interests, Keno, Levi Prentice, Meridienne, Moravian, Owl Bottle, Sotheby's, Thomas Chippendale, Thomas Sheraton No Comments » January 15th, 2012 Sun 
If, according to a director of a New York art institution, the first thing that curators should study is the neighborhood’s demography, then a collection in San Antonio will seem out of place. If an emphasis on Latino culture, with a vast selection from pre-Columbia, Spanish Colonial to contemporary, matches the city’s dominant Hispanic population, [...]
Posted in Art, Asian Art, Collecting, Museum Tags: Bunny Mellon, Kangxi, Liao Dynasty, qianglong, San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, Yongzheng No Comments » January 12th, 2012 UAA Team 
A ladies’ Cartier Art Deco diamond wristwatch realized $21,000 in Cordier Auctions’ Two Day Antique & Fine Art Auction, the inaugural auction in their new Harrisburg, Pennsylvania salesroom on November 5 and 6. Watches especially saw several strong results including the top lot of the two day auction, a lady’s Cartier Art Deco platinum, 18K [...]
Posted in Auction, Fashion Tags: Art Deco, Cartier, Clocks, Cordier Auctions, Harrisburg, Watch No Comments » January 12th, 2012 UAA Team 
Renowned and versatile Art Deco muralist Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) is the subject of the Museum of Biblical Art’s exciting new exhibition Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière. On view from February 3 to May 20, 2012, Walls Speak showcases the liturgical designs this path-breaking artist created for many of the New York metropolitan [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Art Deco, Hildreth Meière, MOBIA, Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University No Comments » January 11th, 2012 UAA Team 
In celebration of the debut of the Barnes Foundation in its new home on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is presenting PAFA and Dr. Barnes, on view April 7 through July 8, exploring the connections between the Pennsylvania Academy and Dr. Albert Barnes. This exhibition will [...]
Posted in Museum Tags: Arthur B. Carles, Barnes, Charles Demuth, Glackens, Henry McCarter, Horace Pippin, Museum, PaFA, Philadelphia, show No Comments »
