October 29, 2018Kelsie JankowskiVintage Posters Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters Read more about Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters Swann Travel Posters Auction Sets 8 Records Philip Zec reaches $17.5K Poster lovers from far and wide came to Swann on Thursday, October 25, sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Mrs. Stimson Joins Her Husband at the Huntington Historical Society June 27, 2017 American Art Mrs. Stimson Joins Her Husband at the Huntington Historical Society Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson lived in an estate in Huntington, Long Island. In his memoir, he wrote of her, “That marriage has now lasted over fifty-four years, during… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about East Hampton Artists May 10, 2017 Contemporary Art East Hampton Artists The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contemporary Art features a century’s worth of output by artists who… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Edith Brevoort: Diary of a Wealthy Manhattan Orphan April 12, 2017 Printed & Manuscript Americana Edith Brevoort: Diary of a Wealthy Manhattan Orphan From the catalogue for our April 27 sale of Printed & Manuscript Americana. The sale will feature a year-long manuscript diary of wealthy Manhattan orphan Edith Brevoort. Edith Henry Brevoort (1832-1891)… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about The Short & Riveting History of Zeppelins, as Told Through Posters October 20, 2016 Vintage Posters The Short & Riveting History of Zeppelins, as Told Through Posters The annual Rare & Important Travel Posters sale demonstrates the diversity of locomotive options available in the twentieth century. In anticipation of the October 27 auction, Associate Cataloguer & Administrator… Share Facebook Twitter
October 4, 2016 African-American Fine Art Discovery: Four W.H. Johnson Woodcuts Is there anything more thrilling than discovering artwork in your attic? Four previously unknown woodblock prints by William H. Johnson will be offered in our October 6 sale… Share Facebook Twitter
May 19, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Notes From the Catalogue: Irving Penn Whether applied to fashion or flowers, Irving Penn’s iconic, clean and quietly demonstrative style was wholly his own. Born in 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey, Penn originally studied drawing, graphics… Share Facebook Twitter
February 18, 2015 Photographs & Photobooks Edward J. Kelty: Circus Photographer The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is currently on tour with its latest spectacle, Circus XTREME, and a collection of photographs coming up for auction at Swann Galleries… Share Facebook Twitter
November 24, 2014 Printed & Manuscript Americana Thomas Paine’s American Crisis Makes the Albany News “These are the times which try men’s souls…” so begins Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis, arguably his second most famous work. Tomorrow, in our annual fall Americana auction, Swann will… Share Facebook Twitter
May 25, 2011 American Art Summer Vacation Landscapes After an interminably long winter, Memorial Day weekend is almost here. While this year’s winter seemed unusually harsh, and spring’s allergies abnormally potent, the escapist urge presents itself like clockwork… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Robert Scott Duncanson’s East Coast Debut May 11, 2011 African-American Fine Art Robert Scott Duncanson’s East Coast Debut Robert Scott Duncanson was the first African-American landscape painter to achieve international recognition. The son of a biracial tradesman from Virginia, and the grandson of a freed slave, Duncanson apprenticed in… Share Facebook Twitter