BERKELEY, Calif. – On Thursday, August 22, PBA Galleries will host an Americana, Travel, Cartography and Mexican War auction with material from the Warren Heckrotte Collection. More than 500 lots will be offered, ranging from a book signed by Apollo XI astronauts to color lithographs depicting the battles of the Mexican-American War. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.
TOMBALL, Texas – Brownwood Collection in suburban Houston will offer its very first grouping of Chinese antiques, jade, furniture, vintage jewelry, Wedgwood and decorative art in a Sunday, August 25 online auction exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. Start time will be 1 p.m. ET.
NEW YORK – A new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum explores another side of beloved children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Titled Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet, the special summer exhibition runs through October 6, 2019.
BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) – Tie-dyed pilgrims and white-haired Woodstock festival veterans converged at the generation-defining site to celebrate its 50th anniversary, while Arlo Guthrie came back to sing — what else? — “The Times They Are a-Changin’.”
OAKLAND, Calif. – On Wednesday, August 14, 2019, Clars Auction Gallery announced that is had been acquired by a private investment group. The investors, who will now serve as the board of directors of the firm, confirmed that Richard G. Unruh (who is also part of the investment group as well as on of the board of directors) will assume the role of CEO and President of Clars. For the past several years, Richard (Rick) Unruh served as Vice President and Director of Fine Arts for Clars, and has been pivotal in substantially increasing sales of the Fine Art department to national and global-level collectors, achieving numerous new world records and securing important estates, institutions and museums as clients.