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Illustration Art

Artist Profile: Charles Addams

With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous …

African American Art

Artist Profile: Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the …

Contemporary Art

A Look at Roy Lichtenstein’s Early Works

Roy Lichtenstein is known for his commercial art-inspired works that provided parody through Pop Art and elevated th…

Vintage Posters

Records & Results: Vintage Posters

Poster Passion Leads to a Successful Auction    Our August 1 Vintage Poster sale set at least six auction recor…

Vintage Posters

Keep It Under Your Stetson

Wartime propaganda can serve a variety of purposes, from recruitment and morale-building to conservation. During Wor…

Vintage Posters

The Hot Bid Interviews Nicho on Cassandre’s “Best Way”

Sheila Gibson Stoodley, author of The Hot Bid, interviewed our President & Principal Auctioneer Nicholas D. Lowr…

Swann

Swann Summer Reading List 2018

Our Summer Reading List is back for 2018! Here’s what some of us are cracking into in the off-season. Nicholas…

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2017-18 Year in Review

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering wo…

Autographs

Records & Results: Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler IIII

On June 21, our auction of Revolutionary & Presidential Americana from the Collection of William Wheeler III saw…

American Art

Records & Results: American Art

Our auction of American Art on June 14 offered original works by bastions of the category including William Glackens…

Maps & Atlases

Records & Results: Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books

Our auction of Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books on June 7 brought to market landmarks fro…

Autographs

William Wheeler III: The Quest for American History

William Wheeler III’s collection of Revolutionary and Presidential Americana, coming to auction June 21, began on hi…