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American Art

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…

American Art

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…

Vintage Posters

Records & Results: Graphic Design

Our May 25 auction of Graphic Design offered a cornucopia of inspired works spanning fin de siècle Art Nouveau maste…

Maps & Atlases

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…

Vintage Posters

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…

Books & Manuscripts

Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Literature

First editions and inscribed copies filled the shelves at our May 16 auction of 19th & 20th Century Literature. …

Books & Manuscripts

George & Robert Cruikshank, Early Caricaturists

Brothers George and Isaac (who often went by his middle name of Robert) Cruikshank were famed early nineteenth-centu…

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 Contempora…

Autographs

Records & Results: Autographs

On Thursday, May 4, we held an auction of Autographs, with twentieth-century highlights by authors taking the spotli…