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March 29, 2018|Swann News|Vintage Posters

#5WomenArtists – Lauren Goldberg’s List

As part of Women’s History Month, we’re offering a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We asked some women of Swann to tell us…

November 1, 2017 | Prints & Drawings

Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction

American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended…

November 22, 2016 | Art Press & Illustrated Books

A Bright Light at a Dark Time: The WPA Handicraft Project

One unusual piece in our December 1 of Art, Press & Illustrated Books is a six-volume folio of textiles designed and produced by the WPA Handicraft Project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. …

September 30, 2016 | Illustration art

Records & Results: Illustration Art Draws A Crowd

Our September 29, 2016 auction of Illustration Art offered works by Ludwig Bemelmans, Howard Chandler Christy and Man Ray to a room packed with eager buyers. The sale broke five auction records and covered…

May 21, 2014 | American Art

Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats

Lot 232, Barnet’s watercolor and oil, Play, differs from the later print. Among the highlights of our June 12 auction of American Art–and the image that graces the catalogue…

WPA

#5WomenArtists – Lauren Goldberg’s List

Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction

A Bright Light at a Dark Time: The WPA Handicraft Project

Records & Results: Illustration Art Draws A Crowd

Sense of Play: Will Barnet’s Nude with Cats

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