BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Neue Auctions’ online-only Winter Fine Antiques & Art auction slated for Saturday, February 19 at 10 am Eastern time, features more than 300 lots of fine antiques and art, including works by Jim Dine, John Hemming Fry, Pablo Picasso, Mark Lancelot Symons, Gary Spinosa, Gretchen Troibner and Nat Koffman. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
AUGUSTA, Maine – The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) Visiting Artist Program encourages artists to develop their art through experiencing the wilderness of the state’s most remote park, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW). The Visiting Artist Program application period runs through February 28, and artists are encouraged to learn more and apply now.
BERKELEY, Calif. – PBA Galleries‘ first auction of the year, held on January 13, had an impressive 91% sale rate, with a large amount of early bidding on numerous lots and competitive bidding throughout the sale. The auction consisted of more than 450 lots of fine literature and ephemera.
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) – A rare football card featuring Tom Brady in the year he won his first Super Bowl sold for $118,000 at auction in Maine. Internet bidding was facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.
SALEM, Ore. – The Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA) is pleased to present Depth of Field: Selections from the Bill Rhoades Collection of Northwest Photography, which is currently on view and continues through April 23 in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center. Organized by curator Jonathan Bucci in collaboration with the collector, the exhibition presents a range of Northwest photographs donated to the HFMA by Bill Rhoades of Madras, Oregon.
MONROVIA, Calif. – The first of John Moran Auctioneers’ bi-annual Made in Mexico auctions for 2022, scheduled for Tuesday, February 15, will feature more than 200 lots of mostly mid-20th century Mexican jewelry from all the preeminent designers, as well as a selection of Latin and Central American art, including Guatemalan, Peruvian, and Panamanian silver, pottery and woodwork. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
WORCESTER, Mass. — In February 2022, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will present its new exhibition Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity, an in-depth look at how contemporary artists since the mid-1970s have used formal artistic devices in their work — such as text, juxtaposition, pattern, and seriality — to explore socio-political concepts. The exhibition opens February 19 and runs through Juneteenth, which takes place on June 19.
PHILADELPHIA – When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went head-to-head in the 1796 United States presidential election, it was the first time that the young nation’s presidential succession system was put to the test, following George Washington’s two uncontested terms. A campaign handbill discovered in Maryland and on offer in Freeman’s Books and Manuscripts auction on February 17 represents the first time such campaign material was used to influence voters on a national scale. Offered at an estimate of $15,000-$25,000, this handbill is the only known surviving example of its kind, and is a significant artifact from an election for which any extant handbills are rare. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
DETROIT — In celebration of Detroit’s history as the hub of American automotive design, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is enjoying success with its special exhibition titled Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020. Since opening on November 15, 2020, the popular show has been extended multiple times. Its current end date is June 5.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO – Stephen Turner, founder of Turner Auctions + Appraisals, hails from Canada and spent the early years of his career in the auction business working as an appraiser and specialist with auction houses in Vancouver and Victoria. After relocating to San Francisco in 1991, he worked for Butterfield & Butterfield, one of the country’s oldest auction houses, before and after it was acquired by eBay and then Bonhams. In 2004, Turner opened an auction and appraisal consulting firm, and, seven years ago, the company began hosting online-only auctions. His namesake firm specializes in fine arts, decorative arts, Asian and Southwest arts, toys, photography and prints, jewelry, militaria and books and manuscripts. Here is our recent conversation with Stephen Turner.