http://www.urbanartantiques.com Thoughts from visiting galleries, museums, flea markets and antique shows Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:04:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:52:50 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5811 Descending the escalator, a line stretched through the lobby of the Baltimore Convention Center all the way to the exterior doors that opened onto Charles Street. It’s not often you see a line at an antique show these days and this one on the surface was a good sign. A closer look however revealed that [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/the-sights-of-the-baltimore-antiques-show/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:41:27 +0000 Geo http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5684 It was seventy percent public relations and thirty percent art, but the thirty percent kept me long enough to take a quick look at thirty or so objects on display in the Dallas Galleria.  I had missed the opening for the Red Bull-sponsored Art of Can, but no matter I imagine the energy drink was [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-of-what-you-can-do-or-should-not-do-with-a-can/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/nelson-atkins-art-quiz/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/nelson-atkins-art-quiz/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:20:57 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5630 B can now officially stand for baffling. We said it was a hard quiz we posted July 17 and it looks as if we have only one correct answer–not set of answers, representing a high score of 25 percent. Here are the answers–all were b. 1) The medium in this painting is b, oil. By [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/nelson-atkins-art-quiz/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bruce-crane-at-philbrook-museum-of-art/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bruce-crane-at-philbrook-museum-of-art/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:26:38 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5563 The 19th century American Art collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art is on the second floor of its Italian Renaissance Mansion. Upon entering the first room slightly on the leftside of the staircase, one is greeted by a large winter scene painting by Bruce Crane, donated by Laura A. Clubb in 1947. New England [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bruce-crane-at-philbrook-museum-of-art/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/a-short-art-quiz/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/a-short-art-quiz/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:16:01 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5487 Here is a four-question art quiz. We’ll randomly choose among those with the correct answers July 31, 2010 and send a free Urban Art and Antiques T-Shirt to a winner. It’s not the world’s easiest quiz, but we’re confident someone will present four correct answers. Click images to expand . 1) This medium of image [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/a-short-art-quiz/feed/ 7 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-sale-collectors-of-fort-worth/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-sale-collectors-of-fort-worth/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:27:38 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5368 “The two cities are totally different. In Dallas, they call it sushi. In Fort Worth, they call it bait,” said Royd Riddell, a Dallas dealer in maps and fine prints at the art sale from the Collectors of Fort Worth last Friday. The sale was held at Fort Worth Community Arts Center (the old Modern [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/art-sale-collectors-of-fort-worth/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/go-again-grif/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/go-again-grif/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:12:22 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5307 If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. This Grif Teller painting failed to bring even the minimum bid of $15,000 a few months ago at William Bunch Auctions.  June 22nd it brought $61,000. This may put questions into the minds of consignors. Is the hammer price an actual estimate of an items value? Should [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/go-again-grif/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/george-platt-murphy-john-moran-auctions/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/george-platt-murphy-john-moran-auctions/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:54:04 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5243 George Platt, as a still-life painter, may not stand out among his peers from the Northeast. With neither the lush colors under suffused light as in Fall River School, nor the sumptuousness of George Henry Hall, Platt’s works are not widely collected in the art institutes of America nowadays. But as one of a few [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/george-platt-murphy-john-moran-auctions/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bannister-swann-galleries/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bannister-swann-galleries/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:50:39 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5176 Back in February, A large painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister was for sale in the Swann Auction Galleries. It was, according to the auction catalog, the largest painting by the renowned African American painter of Barbizon school came to auction, although Renwick Gallery (a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum near the White House) [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/bannister-swann-galleries/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/heritage-auction-preview-modern-contemporary/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/heritage-auction-preview-modern-contemporary/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:28:48 +0000 Hui http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=5141 Maybe our article “Won’t You Try Saturday” reached the management of the auction houses, now Heritage Auctions is offering previews on Saturday (at least for the current Signature Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Fine Art sale). There’s no lack of weekend previews in New York city. Auction houses draw large crowd from collectors who may not [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/heritage-auction-preview-modern-contemporary/feed/ 1