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Winslow Homer’s Personal “Bible”
On a visit to his Prout’s Neck studio, Winslow Homer’s friend and fellow artist John W. Beatty picked up…
Grapefruit: Yoko Ono’s Guide to Living Art
Visionary Yoko Ono created “event scores” as a way to encourage people to find art and beauty in their q…
Recently Rediscovered Watercolor by John Marin
A recently rediscovered watercolor by John Marin will be making its auction debut in our June 15 sale of American Ar…
Nahui Olin: Muse & Maker
Nahui Olin, the pseudonym of Carmen Mondragón, was a Mexican Surrealist active in the 1920s and ’30s. She hail…
Records & Results: Graphic Design
Our May 25 auction of Graphic Design offered a cornucopia of inspired works spanning fin de siècle Art Nouveau maste…
Leaving the Land: Ship’s Logs from England to the Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century
In January of 1819, Captain William Hodgson steered the three-masted merchant ship Transit down the River Avon from …
A Personal Collection of Bernhardt Wall Books
Bernhardt Wall was an American illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. A selection of fine, e…
Graphic Design in the Vienna Secession
This post includes notes from the catalogue of our May 25 auction of Graphic Design, featuring an extensive selectio…
Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature
First editions and inscribed copies filled the shelves at our May 16 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. …
George & Robert Cruikshank, Early Caricaturists
Brothers George and Isaac (who often went by his middle name of Robert) Cruikshank were famed early nineteenth-centu…
East Hampton Artists
The community of East Hampton has long been known as an avant-garde artist enclave. Our May 11 auction of Contempora…
Records & Results: Autographs
On Thursday, May 4, we held an auction of Autographs, with twentieth-century highlights by authors taking the spotli…