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Cartoonists Emily Flake & Benjamin Schwartz in Conversation We got together on December 5, 2019 to hear from car…

Your exhibition guide to shows featuring the women of the Abstract Expressionist movement and beyond.

Our curated sale of Old Master Drawings on November 5, 2019, brought original works, studies and preparatory drawing…

This fun and wide-ranging Illustration Art auction offers an early images by Dr. Seuss, as well as a selection of il…

Swann Galleries’ November 14 sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters marks the house’s twentieth an…

With an offering from the past five centuries, our October 29, 2019 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints brought…

Interesting items for all collectors feature in the sale with botanical and historic prints, plates by John James Au…

Join us on November 19 for the third in a series of events highlighting The Archives of American Art.

Our Thursday, October 24 sale of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books saw a full auction room and …

Who builds a statue of a young man with locks, perched on a horse ready to ride into the ranks of Confederate statue…

Swann’s Thursday, October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs featured a broad range of photogr…

Born in London in 1606, John Bulwer was an important figure in the study of deafness, gesture and the human body and…

Anchoring this auction is a special selection of works by women of the New York Abstract Expressionist school, notab…

We brought forth a remarkable offering of autographs, art, press and illustrated books, as well as nineteenth and tw…

Our twentieth anniversary Travel Poster sale can be summed up in one powerful, romantic word: trains. An extraordina…

Swann Galleries’ Fall 2019 auction of African-American Fine resulted in nine new auction records, supported by…

Amid a backdrop of highlights from the Johnson Publishing Company’s incredible art collection—the majority of …

Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction October 29 Over the course of his prolific career, Rembrandt van Rijn (1…

Bibliophiles of every denomination—Americana, a…

New York was waiting for Aaron Douglas, though no one knew just how much, including the artist himself. By the time …

The September 26 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana was an overall success with material relating to slaver…

Old Master works include early tour-de-force impressions by Francisco José de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, …

Our October 17 sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs features an impressive selection of portraiture from …

This auction traces the development of draftsmanship over several centuries from late-Gothic, early-Renaissance work…

A superb selection of images by African-American photographers is set to come across the block in our Fall 2019 sale…

Born in 1929, Vincent D. Smith was a Brooklyn native and innovative African-American artist. By the late 1950s, he i…

Describing himself as a “Rural Modernist,” McArthur Binion is known for his paintings that encapsulate b…

Two volumes from Herman Melville’s personal library come to auction at Swann Galleries October 10.

Swann Galleries opened the fall 2019 season with an exceptional sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawi…

An extensive and detailed record of the Underground Railroad is set to come across the block in our upcoming sale of…

A choice selection of incunabula brings to auction infrequently seen editions of Johannes Jacobus Canis’s 1476 guide…

Swann Galleries’ sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on September 19 features property fro…

With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous …

Before being moved to its permanent home at the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections, a choice selection…

Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the …

Featured photographers include: Walead Beshty, John Divola, Seydou Keïta, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano…

Remarkable firsts in unrestored dust jackets by Barnaby Ross, Owen Wister, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, plus wel…

Signed material by artists, authors, politicians, musicians and more, including Davy Crockett, Walt Disney, Annie Oa…

Fall 2019 promises a strong collection of exquisite artist’s books, and illustrated volumes, some unique and s…

At Swann, we’re lucky to contribute to an overall market correction, offering exceptional art by women of colo…