SARASOTA, Fla. – Sarasota Estate Auction will host an online auction consisting of more than 700 lots of fine art on Sunday, May 10. Highlights include a critical work by Felicie Waldo Howell titled Washington Square, Parade Day, circa 1907. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A guitar from Prince’s prime and some legendary Beatles lyrics sketched out by Paul McCartney are among the items going up for auction at a major music artifacts sale.
LONDON – Jiab Prachakul has won the prestigious first prize in the BP Portrait Award 2020 it was announced today on the National Portrait Gallery’s social media channels. Prachakul’s winning portrait, Night Talk, which depicts her close friends in a bar in Berlin, is displayed in the BP Portrait Award 2020 exhibition, which has opened online on the National Portrait Gallery’s website, while the Gallery in London is temporarily closed due to the current Coronavirus pandemic.
ROCK FALLS, Ill. (AP) – When Dan Sutton was learning contractor skills at his father Chet’s side in Whiteside County, he took his advice to heart.
“He told me, ‘Danny, save this lumber. They don’t make it anymore,’” the younger Sutton, now 62, said.
NEW YORK – Playful and dramatic yet functional and, above all, comfortable, Milo Baughman furniture is the epitome of good design. The designer’s work is renowned among aficionados of the midcentury modern look. In the mid-1940s, he was an integral part of the California modernist movement and designed furniture for big companies like Directional, Drexel and others.