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Schedule Brimfield 2013
Brimfield Antiques Weeks begin with the Spring Running, May 14 – 19, 2013 Editor’s Note: We publish this view of how to manage Brimfield during the opening of the 2013 Brimfield Antiques and Vintage Markets. Corroboration on dates and times came from David Lamberto of Hertan’s, a member of the Brimfield Show Producers Association. Tuesday, [...]
Real, Fake or Repro? Look With a Slow Eye
Editor’s Note: Today award-winning author and antiques hound Maureen Stanton offers sage advice on arming yourself with knowledge when searching out American antiques, 20th C. modern art and design or European antiques. Today’s homepage image is Maureen Stanton shopping a flea market. To order Ms. Stanton’s recent book “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money,” click [...]
Finding a Frederick Stuart Church for $4
Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to give you this exclusive article by Maureen Stanton, award-winning author of “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money.” It’s the first in a series called Eye of the Beholder. Tomorrow we bring you Part II. EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Maureen Stanton “Training Your Eye – Part 1: Relatively Rare” Flea [...]
Brimfield’s Back Story
As Maureen Stanton tells in “Killer Stuff and Tons of Money,” the Brimfield Flea Market began in 1959. While it is generally touted as the largest outdoor flea market and antiques show in the country, at least two other shows dispute that. Never mind – one is located in California and the other in Texas, [...]
PULSE of Contemporary American Artists
As American tastes advanced in recent years, the antiques shows were among the first to extend the boundaries of Americana. The traditional now reaches from the Colonial era through mid-20th C. art, design and what can now legitimately be called antiques. Eclectic as tastes are, it’s not surprising that contemporary art is as crucial to [...]
USC Posts Insights Into F. Scott Fitzgerald Finances
Americana comes in all forms, art, music and literature and, yes, finance. The University of South Carolina, which holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) memorabilia, has posted the author’s handwritten financial ledgers online. It’s fun to see how the writer kept impeccable records, all notated in cursive script, but it [...]
The Many Seasons of the Wyeths
At least five exhibitions surveying the Wyeth legacy are opening in museums as far flung as the Shelburne in Vermont to the Ibaraki Modern Museum of Art in Japan and Christie’s is holding a single-owner sale of three generations of the Wyeths’ works on May 23, making this the perfect time for you to get [...]
