JULY 10, 2020  A Rare Aesthete’s Landmark Collection Comes Up for Auction. Brunk Auctions, the premier Southern U.S. auction house has announced the kick-off to the Fall auction season with the much-anticipated single-owner sale of the collection of William N. Banks, Jr. The auction consists of the contents of Bankshaven, the collector’s renowned historic property […]

PUBLISHED: JUNE 30, 2020 By Laura Beach ASHEVILLE, N.C. – William N. Banks Jr, who died last November at age 95, was the model of a scholar collector, his work as a regular contributor to The Magazine Antiques dovetailing with his passion for preserving historic homes of his own in Georgia and New Hampshire. Banks appointed […]

Maine Antique Digest, July 2020, by Lita Solis-Cohen William Nathaniel Banks’s collection of Federal and Classical furniture, lighting, 19th-century American paintings, and the accouterments of gracious living that filled the Gordon-Banks house in Newnan, Georgia, some 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, will be sold at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 12. The […]

Asheville, North Carolina, August 1, 2020— Brunk Auctions’ global appeal was on full display at its mid-summer sale as bidders registered from 26 countries on six continents and vied for winning bids across an array of periods and categories. Very fine examples of American and European Paintings, American Furniture, Fine Silver, and Firearms and Militaria […]