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Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
Some people made such an impact on history that we see them in multiple sales each season, across widely disparate g…
Black and White All Over: The Riddle of Classical Photography
The following was written by Vice President and Director of Photographs & Photobooks, Daile Kaplan: I lov…
Records & Results: Vintage Posters
More than 600 colorful advertisements and announcements crossed the block at our sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesda…
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Tattoos & Posters
An unusual lot in our upcoming auction of Vintage Posters features a colorful individual: Captain Costentenus, a Gre…
Isle Adam: Timeless & Inspiring
Shrewd perusers of our sales may notice a familiar eave lurking in the catalogue for our upcoming auction of Vintage…
Abram Games’s Sultry Poster Causes a Stir
Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters features the largest — and best — selection of war posters we ha…
American War Posters, 100 Years Later
Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters will feature an exceptionally wide array of World War I imagery, honoring th…
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, R…
Records & Results: American Art
We closed our Spring 2017 season with a climactic sale of American Art on Thursday, June 15. The annual auction offe…
Records & Results: Spring 2017
The spring 2017 season at Swann Galleries marked the 75th anniversary of our first auction. On March 27, 1942, Benja…
Records & Results: Art, Press & Illustrated Books
Our June 13 auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books offered a spectrum of books that doubled as objets d’art, …
Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
Our June 7 auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books saw strong results with multiple a…