Met to exhibit mid-century African-American photos

Image: Unknown American makers and Daisy Studio (American, active 1940s). Studio Portraits, 1940s-50s. Gelatin silver prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015, 2017

NEW YORK – African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s, will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 26 through October 8, 2018. Featuring more than 150 studio portraits, the exhibition offers a seldom-seen view of the African-American experience in the United States during World War II and the following decade — a time of war, middle-class growth, and seismic cultural change. Part of an important acquisition made by The Met in 2015 and 2017, these photographs build on and expand the Museum’s strong holdings in portraiture from the beginning of photography in the 1840s to the present.
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George Washington broadside to lead Mid-Hudson sale June 16

Detail of the George Washington funeral broadside to be sold. The framed item measures 18 by 11 inches. Estimate: $2,200-$3,000. Mid-Hudson Galleries image

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. – In an eclectic sale from three estates, Mid-Hudson Galleries will feature three rare lots in their sale on Saturday, June 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Included is a Boston broadside (above) dated Jan. 6, 1800, announcing the arrangements for the Thursday, Jan. 9, 1800, delivery of the eulogy for Gen. George Washington at the Old South Meeting House by George Richards Minot Esq. The broadside outlines what males and females in attendance should wear as mourning attire, the order of the procession and the seating arrangements. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Kamelot sales June 14, 16, 18 go from fine art to garden items

Red Grooms (American, b.1937), ‘City Junket,’ Scene 10 The Exposition, watercolor on paper, signed lower right and dated 1980, 28.5 x 39 in., presented in a Lucite shadow box frameEstimate: $5,000-$7,000. Kamelot image

PHILADELPHIA – Kamelot Auction House will be hosting a three-day auction on June 14, 16 and 18. This three-day offering has a wide variety of lots from high-end garden items, selections from world-class artists and an array of traditional and mid-century furnishings.  Lots in the three-day sale include fine art, outdoor urns and statuary, decorative arts, lighting, rugs, mirrors and other design elements. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Bicycles: combining form and function since 1817

A circa 1888 Singer 48-inch high wheel (ordinary) bicycle realized $15,000 at Copake Auction in April 2014. Photo courtesy of Copake Auction and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK — Antique bicycles are collectible not only as early forms of transportation but also because of their hybrid nature – they seamlessly blend art with technology.

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Winston Churchill painting gifted to Missouri museum

Winston Churchill authored this book on painting in 1950. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Crescent City Auction Gallery

 

FULTON, Mo. (AP) – The latest addition to the National Churchill Museum in Missouri is a testament to the longtime British prime minister’s artistic, rather than political, skills.

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Wendell Castle’s last works on view at Nelson-Atkins, starting June 23

Photo of Wendell Castle taken by Kevin Rowland

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Wendell Castle: Shifting Vocabularies, an exhibition of the latest and last works created by Castle, will be shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City beginning June 23. Castle, hailed as the most important postwar American furniture designer, died in January at the age of 85. Wendell Castle: Shifting Vocabularies includes five large works in the Bloch Building and four on the lawn of the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park.

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Auctions at Showplace staging Sunday afternoon affair June 24

Marc Chagall lithograph, ‘The Tribe of Gad,’ from the ‘Jerusalem Windows’ series, depicting one of the artist’s 1962 designs for the stained glass windows of the Abbell Synagogue at the Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem, 24 x 18 in., frame: 42¾ x 36¾ in. Estimate: $6,000-$8,000. Auctions at Showplace image

NEW YORK – Auctions at Showplace will present an impressive sale of 300 lots on June 24. The catalog offers a far-reaching array of fine art, European and Chinese antiques, jewelry and modern design. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading