75-year Southern art collection featured in Everard’s Oct. 18-20 series

Virginia and John Duncan, with their Cavalier King Charles spaniel Emma, enjoy some quiet time in the front parlor of their antique- and art-filled home, the historic Thomas-Levy House in Savannah, Georgia. Their collection will be auctioned in the October 19 and 20 sessions of Everard’s three-day series. Photo by Richard Leo Johnson, provided by Everard Auctions

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Everard Auctions takes great pleasure in announcing highlights of its Oct. 18 Fall Southern Estates auction to be followed on October 19-20 by a very special sale of the John and Virginia Duncan collection of fine, folk and ethnographic art and antiques. Amassed over 75 years, the Duncan collection encompasses fine, folk & ethnographic art; antiques, furniture, rare maps and broad range of material culture of Southeastern United States. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.

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Freeman’s debuts Judson’s famous ‘Bird Girl’ bronze June 6

Sylvia Shaw Judson’s ‘Bird Girl,’ bronze, 1936, estimated at $100,000-$150,000
Sylvia Shaw Judson’s ‘Bird Girl,’ bronze, 1936, estimated at $100,000-$150,000
Sylvia Shaw Judson’s ‘Bird Girl,’ bronze, 1936, estimated at $100,000-$150,000

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Freeman’s is pleased to present Sylvia Shaw Judson’s Bird Girl, the highlight of its June 6 American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. This fresh-to-market work is one of the most recognizable American sculptures to ever appear at auction. Conceived in 1936 by the Chicago-based Judson, Bird Girl was cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York, and will carry a pre-sale estimate of $100,000-150,000. One of four extant original bronzes, this iconic image is immediately familiar from Jack Leigh’s haunting photograph used as the cover of John Berendt’s 1994 best-selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

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