| Noteworthy Sale: Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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This July 27th marked the inaugural Sporting sale for Copley Fine Art Auctions, the new company founded by decoy and sporting art expert and dealer Stephen B. O'Brien, Jr. The top selling lot, Salmon Fishing, was by impressionist artist.......
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| Noteworthy Sale: Frank and Barbara Pollack American Antiques & Art |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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These portraits achieve the highest standards of quality, beauty, and vitality, and include characteristics evident in Plummer's work: his use of bold color; precise outlining to his profiles; the delicate drawing of details in the faces, hair, and......
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| Noteworthy Sale: Hyland Granby Antiques |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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This pair of tusks was engraved by Nathaniel S. Finney, considered by some to be the most technically proficient scrimshander to have plied his art. He is recognized as the first professional scrimshander, taking commissions from clients rather than.......
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| Noteworthy Sale: Thurston Nichols American Antiques |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Robert Wood and Company of Philadelphia was one of America's premier iron manufactories of the late nineteenth century specializing in decorative iron and bronze works. This rare life-size iron figure of a dog is cast in the form of a retriever.......
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| Peace, Plenty, and Independence: Selections from a Collection of English Ceramics made for the American Market, 1770-1820 |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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This year the Delaware Antique Show features a loan exhibition from the finest private collection of Liverpool jugs and other English pottery made for the American market. Made in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the creamware jugs......
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| Self Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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Portraits -- visual representations of self -- are layered accounts of actuality, desire, and projection. Add the filter of time and historical portraits are granted a curious authority by modern viewers. Read as documents, they are taken at face value......
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| The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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The major commemoration in the United States of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette will inaugurate Mount Vernon's new changing exhibitions gallery. A Son and his Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George......
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| The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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While the main storyline in American art has always emphasized the importance of urbanism -- especially machine-age technology -- a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, argues that the vast, rugged land of the American West has also left......
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| The Story of the Saturday Evening Girls and their Paul Revere Pottery |
Autumn-Winter 2006
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It is said that every object tells a story. A mug recently given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, quite literally tells one (Fig. 1); inscribed on the side of the mug are the words: "In the forest must always be a nightingale and in the soul a faith......
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| Vincent Van Gogh: Meiji Art from the Khalili Collection |
Autumn/Winter 2006
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The artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a great regard for Japanese prints: ukiyoe colour woodcuts. Indeed, he wrote to his brother, Theo, that looking at them made him feel...
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