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Artist Profile: Charles Addams
With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous …
Artist Profile: Norman Lewis
Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter associated with The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the …
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…
Records & Results: Vintage Posters
Poster Passion Leads to a Successful Auction Our August 1 Vintage Poster sale set at least six auction recor…
Keep It Under Your Stetson
Wartime propaganda can serve a variety of purposes, from recruitment and morale-building to conservation. During Wor…
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 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…
2017-18 Year in Review
The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering wo…
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…
Records & Results: American Art
Our auction of American Art on June 14 offered original works by bastions of the category including William Glackens…
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…
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…