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Family Collection Brings Record Results in One of Swann’s Highest-Grossing Poster Sales to Date
First Known Reference to Baseball at Yale
James Beebee Brinsmade Jr.’s diary offers intimate details of what life was like on Yale University’s ca…
David Hammons Garners International Recognition for African-American Art
Contemporary African-American artist David Hammons is known for his body prints and assemblages of found objects, su…
Daile Kaplan on Ansel Adams & the Value of a Photograph
With the unfolding story surrounding a box of photographic negatives discovered in California, which were originally…
Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York
Scenes of the City: Prints, Drawings & Paintings of New York is an important collection of some of the finest an…
Bob Thompson and the 1960s New York Art Scene
Bob Thompson stood apart from most of his contemporaries in the early 1960s. On one hand, he was the epitome of a Ne…
Gordon Matta-Clark: Walls Paper, Deconstructed
Gordon Matta-Clark, whose work is featured in the Photographic Literature portion of Thursday’s sale, brought …
Imogen Cunningham’s Magnolia Blossom
Imogen Cunningham’s life-long love for flora, combined with her keen understanding of line, textural contrast …
Alexey Brodovitch: Ballet
Both sections of the May 20, 2010 Photographic Literature and Important Photographs auction at Swann feature highlig…
The Inventory of the late Lawrence Feinberg
Deborah Chaleff and Jacqueline Feinberg introduce the Early Printed Books & Manuscripts from the Inventory of th…
The Otto Penzler Collection of British Espionage and Thriller Fiction
Any collector knows that the reasons behind a particular collection are often just as fascinating as the collection …
Bill Clinton’s American Dream
President Bill Clinton discusses his idea of the American Dream in the introduction to our catalogue for The Stephen…
Hammons, or World’s Most Expensive Fly Swatter?
Among the top lots in the February 23, 2010 auction of African-American Fine Art was a unique Fly Swatter created in…
James Amos Porter Archive Comes to Auction
Among the highlights of our 15th annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana is an incredible archi…
Malvin Gray Johnson Painting in Swann African-American Fine Art Auction February 2010
Swann Galleries’ auction of African-American Fine Art on February 23, 2010, will offer approximately 160 lots from m…
The Photobook and Conceptual Art
Sol LeWitt, Autobiography, illustrated with more than 1,000 reproductions of LeWitt’s sequential photographs o…
Ansel Adams’s ‘Moonrise’ at Auction December 2009
Ansel Adams’s position in the pantheon of master photographers is assured by his magisterial studies of the American…
Lewis W. Hine, America’s First Photojournalist
Among the highlights in our October 22, 2009 Photographs & Photographic Literature auction is a stunning array o…
Alma Thomas Paintings Hang in White House
A painting by Alma Thomas will be hung in the White House during the Obama administration! Sky Light, 1973 (left),…
A Brilliant Lot: Letter Signed by Thomas Edison
Swann Galleries will be offering illuminating material related to scientists and inventors in its auction of Autogra…
William Henry Fox Talbot: Father of Modern Photography
Swann’s October 22 Photographs auction offers several salted paper prints by William Henry Fox Talbot, which date fr…
Diane Arbus and the American Art Scene
Among the highlights in our October 22 auction of Photographs & Photographic Literature are portraits by Diane A…
Spotlight on John Biggers’s ‘Shotguns’
The image that graces the cover of the auction catalogue for Swann Galleries’ sale of African-American Fine Art on T…
Richard L. Brown Painting to be Offered in October 2009
Our October 8, 2009 auction of African-American Fine Art featured the Richard L. Brown painting Mt. Monadnock, 1911,…
Cornelius Marion Battey Photographic Portraits Discovered
Our October 8, 2009 African-American Fine Art auction marks the first time that early photographer Cornelius Marion …
Collection of Rare and Important Bibles to be Offered at Swann in 2009
Two of Swann Galleries’ autumn 2009 auctions feature desirable Bibles from the collection of Mel and Julie Meadows—i…
Howard Hughes Material to be Offered in September 17, 2009 Sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana
Swann will kick off our fall season with an auction of Printed & Manuscript Americana September 17, 2009 which …
Swann President Nicholas D. Lowry on the Recession
Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President and Current President of the International Auctioneers consortium, recently share…
Elizabeth Catlett Speaks at MoMA
Conversations: Among Friends – May 19, 2009 On May 19, 2009, 94-year-old Elizabeth Catlett and David C. Driske…