I recently was offered an amazing opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes tour with Dr. Laura Johnson at the Winterthur Museum in​ Wilmington, Delaware. This was my first time at...

November was a busy month for Brunk Auctions furniture and decorative arts specialist Polly Rolman-Smith, who attended conferences in Williamsburg, Virginia and Louisville, Kentucky, in...

The ceramicist Michelle Erickson, is that sort of rockstar artist that makes you wish you were sitting there with her in the studio, not just looking at her work in a museum or magazine...

George Washington is without a doubt the best known face in the history of American Art. He is a powerful symbol of our country, known the world over. He is also the reason for the...

Present-day Lower Manhattan proudly carries the historic legacy of the early Dutch settlement established in 1624. For 40 years, New Amsterdam served as the foothold for the Dutch in the...

Lot 526(Two) Half-Ounce Austrian Philharmonic Gold CoinsThroughout the ages, the yellow metal has been prized for its symbolic and ceremonial usage in different cultures around the world....

Max Loehr spent his life working with Asian works of art. A respected art historian and noted authority on Chinese art, Max Loehr would eventually accept the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chair...

Lot 172Early Gordon Onslow-Ford PaintingBorn in 1912, Gordon Max Onslow-Ford came from an artistic family. By 1937, Onslow-Ford was dedicated to a career as a painter. In the fall of that...

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