Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
Donna Kaz is a writer, director, choreographer and activist, who has led the theatre troupe, “Guerrilla Girls …
Modernism’s Arrival in the United States Modernism arrived in the United States in two waves. The first of the…
Our sale of African-American Fine Art on June 4, 2020 was met with much fanfare, despite an online-only format due t…
An exquisite selection of antiquarian maps and atlases, globes, color plate books, works by John James Audubon, Curr…
The June 18, 202 Graphic Design auction featured an array of rare and influential examples of photography in posters…
A Note From Swann Galleries President Nicholas D. Lowry: Swann is unequivocally against racism, institutionalized ra…
Michael Halsband is known for his striking portraits of celebrities, from rock stars to artists, as well as his comm…
This Contemporary Art auction on June 25, 2020 includes works for sale by Jackson Pollock, Louise Nevelson, Helen Fr…
Swann Auction Galleries’s June 4, 2020 sale of African American Fine Art features five lots from contemporary …
Three fascinating sculptures by Richmond Barthé feature in our June 4 sale of African-American Fine Art. Each embody…
Ernie Barnes was the first American professional athlete to become a noted painter. From his sports experience and t…
This year’s Graphic Design auction presents exciting posters and materials ranging from the Vienna Secession to poli…
We are sad to hear the news yesterday of Emma Amos’s passing. Emma Amos was a painter, printmaker, weaver and …
Our Thursday, May 7, 2020 sale of Printed & Manuscript African Americana was held live online and was conducted …
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art posits M…
At Auction August 13, 2020 A Portion of Proceeds to Benefit NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project 19th & 20th Century …
Sarah McMillan, a cataloguer for Swann, takes us through a brief history of Mixografia, Rufino Tamayo and the lastin…
As a bibliophile expands their collection, they gain a feel for auction house and bookseller’s catalogues, whi…
At Auction May 21, 2020 Our May 21, 2020 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with a special section—the f…
At Auction June 11, 2020 Masterworks of 20th-Century Photography Michael Halsband’s iconic 1985 silver print, …
Medieval bestiaries were illustrated catalogues of creatures both real and imagined, detailing physical descriptions…
With the largest selection of old master prints to be found at auction stateside, this sale offers an array of fine …
Robert Mapplethorpe met Lisa Lyon, the first World Women’s BodyBuilding Champion, at a party in SoHo in 1979 where h…
Among the highlights will be an 1836 autograph book with inscriptions by noted early African-American orators Moses …
The AfriCOBRA movement was borne from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The collective was founded in 1968…
Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, St. Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death and the Devil, all from…
Or, WTſ? It’s a common source of confusion: “I have this book, and it’s really old, and all of the s’s are f’s, so I…
A long line of artists and designers. William Pène du Bois seemed destined to follow a creative path. Since his du B…
The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and T…
Lauren Goldberg, our vintage poster specialist, takes us through the ins-and-outs of what to look for when collectin…
Internationally-renowned graphic artist and designer Tadanori Yokoo, who has been called “the grandmaster of Japanes…
As jobless Americans eventually found work with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA)…
We are greatly saddened to hear the news of David Driskell’s passing yesterday with the email announcement from the …
In addition to the many murals, sculptures, paintings and photos commissioned by the Works Progress Administration d…
Welcome! Our speakers tonight are David Leopold, Creative Director of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, and Christine vo…
While Dorothea Lange—and her portrait of Florence Thompson, Migrant Mother—has become one of the most well-known pho…
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother is widely recognized as the most popular social documentary photograph of all time. …
Finding yourself at a loss for what to read while social distancing? Take a look at what our specialists and staff a…
Here we take look at letters, postcards and greeting cards from Romare Bearden to his longtime friend and collaborat…
With photography’s inherent ability to be duplicated, edition size can be a major focus and concern for collectors. …
