News: Antiques & Art

In the Eye of His Storms PHILADELPHIA — Vincent van Gogh was shaken but also calmed by nature. The natural landscape inspired some of his most implacably innovative paintings, roiled of surface, ablaze with color and steeped in feeling. Read More

Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Featuring more than 60 drawings in pencil, charcoal, crayon and poster paint by Depression-era artist Bill Traylor, this visual autobiography places Traylor among the most important self-taught artists in the world. Read More

Carved and Whittled Sculpture: American Folk Art Walking Sticks From the Hill Collection The collection of American walking sticks belonging to Pam and Tim Hill of Birmingham, Michigan is one of the finest of its kind Read More

LOOK OF LOVE: EYE MINIATURES FROM THE SKIER COLLECTION This stunning exhibition explores the little-known subject of “lover’s eyes,” hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewelry and given as tokens of affection or remembrance. Read More

In My Opinion [NEAJ] - February Does the idea of a National Antiques Week (NAW) ring any of your bells? Read More

Grand Galleries for National Treasures IN 1924, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its American Wing, the Met’s president, Robert W. de Forest, cautiously toasted the state of what he called “American domestic art.” Read More

Morris Finkel (1923-2011) Morris Finkel, a Philadelphia antiques dealer who rose to national prominence during six decades of business on the city’s Antiques Row, died Thursday, December 22, after a long illness. He was 88 years old. Read More

With Help From Friends, Folk Art Museum Will Stay Open The quilts will live to see another day. Read More

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker In New York At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Inextricably linked with high-style New York since its appearance in the late Eighteenth Century, Duncan Phyfe furniture has retained a prominent place through the centuries. Read More

Seven Eras of Willem de Kooning “De Kooning: A Retrospective,” a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, includes some 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures created by Willem de Kooning, Read More

The Star-Spangled Collection Morris Offit loves watching people enter the offices of his New York wealth-management firm, Offit Capital Advisors, which is filled with antique American flags Read More

A Billionaire’s Eye for Art Shapes Her Singular Museum BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The era of the world-class museum built by a single philanthropist in the tradition of Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. Read More

The Fine Points Of Albert M. Sack (1915-2011) Albert M. Sack, the prominent author, lecturer and antiques dealer, died on May 29. He was 96. Read More

The Art of Collecting Collections SHELBURNE, Vt. — There is a mystery about the Shelburne Museum. And you could easily spend a day here, just south of Burlington, walking around its 45 acres, amazed, awed and amused, and still not figure it out. Read More

THE ADA AWARD OF MERIT DINNER Morrison H. Heckscher Read More

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News: ADA Members

Morris Finkel (1923-2011) Morris Finkel, a Philadelphia antiques dealer who rose to national prominence during six decades of business on the city’s Antiques Row, died Thursday, December 22, after a long illness. He was 88 years old. Read More

The Albert Sack Memorial Breakfast On Sunday, January 22nd, 2012, from 10am-11am, the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. will host a memorial reception and tribute for the late Albert Sack Read More

Morrison H. Heckscher: ADA Award of Merit Recipient Morrison H. Heckscher, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the American Wing of the Read More

Angel Gabriel Weathervane Comes Down To Earth When I looked at the Angel Gabriel weathervane on top of the church through binoculars, I judged it to be about 42 inches wide. Read More

Three Generations At Nathan Liverant And Son "What do you think of that chair?" the proud, smiling dad said, looking down on his 3-year-old son, who quickly replied "Chippendale," to the amazement of the couple standing in the room. Read More

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