1. Margaret Brundage was the primary designer of covers for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales throughout much of the 1930s, and into the 1940s. She was a pioneer of the pulp era, becoming its first female cover artist. Her covers drew attention and sparked controversy. They often depicted scantily clad female characters—many times in treacherous situations—associated with one of the magazine’s “tales.”
BALTIMORE (AP) – It would be easy to miss the street lamp at the corner of Baltimore and Holliday streets, an innocuous green pole topped by three small bulbs.
But the soft yellow light that glows from the glass day and night betrays the site as an anachronistic oddity – home of the first, and one of the last, gas street lights in America.
MT. CRAWFORD, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates’ February Variety Auction contains a true diversity of material and will include everything from Shaker furniture to sterling silver souvenir spoons. The two-day auction will begin with a special selection of ceramics on Friday, Feb. 17, to be followed by the main sale on Saturday, Feb. 18. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
MONROVIA, Calif. – John Moran Auctioneers kicked off their 2017 auction calendar with an exciting auction event featuring an eclectic selection of 248 works of fine art, the majority of which carried estimates below $2,000. Many pieces featured in Moran’s Studio Fine Art Auction fell under the heading of California and American art for which Moran’s is known. Absentee and Internet live bidding was available through LiveAuctioneers.
THOMASTON, Maine – The single-owner lifetime folk art and antique collection of Leo Wilensky will be featured at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ Winter Auction on Feb. 11-12, 2017. This collection, which will be sold unreserved on Saturday, Feb. 11, includes a diverse array of rare, museum-caliber examples of American folk art, Colonial furniture, paintings and accessories. Absentee and Internet bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – The University of Michigan Museum of Art plans to debut an exhibition later this month to celebrate the school’s bicentennial.Continue reading
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – I.M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers will sell an array of antique Spanish Colonial and Continental religious statuary at its Asian Art, Antiques & Estates Auction on Sunday, Feb. 12. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
CRANSTON, R.I. – A lifetime musical instrument collection – an assemblage brimming with names like Gibson, Martin, Hofner, Henri Selmer, C.G. Conn, Sho-Bud and more – will be sold at auction on Saturday, Feb. 25, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
OAKLAND, Calif. – On Feb. 18 and 19, Clars Auction Gallery will present two early paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, decorative art and furnishings from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a significant collection of fine art prints and major ethnographic and tribal collections. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Figural weather vanes top the list of prized items in an Americana auction being conducted online by Jasper 52 on Sunday, Feb. 12. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.