Innehållsförteckning för November 18, 2020 från Kovels Antique Trader

Diego Rivera began drawing at age three. “Just as soon as I could get my short little fat fingers around a pencil, I was drawing on everything,” he once said. Rivera covered the walls and furniture with his work, prompting his father to give him a room of his own covered with blackboard. There the young Rivera spent hours creating worlds on his walls. It’s probably no surprise then that the Mexican artist went on to not only become famous for his towering murals in adulthood, but emerged as one of the great Modernists of 20th-century art and arguably one of the most important painters in his nation’s history. Rivera’s artwork of the working class had a profound impact on the international art world, and among his many contributions, he…

Reader Bayard H. Brattstrom, with his Home Depot T. rex, takes his fun seriously. Brattstrom, Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton, is a pioneer in the fields of herpetological fossils and temperature regulation. He also loves life, which is why he and his T. rex get along so famously. And, oh yeah, the eyes light up on both the skeleton and the professor.…

ATLANTA – WorthPoint Corporation, the largest online resource for researching, valuing, and preserving antiques, art, and collectibles, announces that Scott Thomas has joined the company as vice president of marketing. Thomas brings to WorthPoint 15 years of marketing and technology experience on a global scale. He joins the company from Kabbage, Inc., where he was head of product and brand marketing through Kabbage’s recent sale to American Express. Prior to that, Thomas was senior director of brand marketing for Cox Automotive Inc., and before that, vice president of marketing at Cartoon Network, North America. Thomas has also held marketing leadership positions at HauteHouse and EarthLink. In this new role for WorthPoint, Thomas will lead the company’s marketing strategy to support business goals. He is responsible for brand management, corporate positioning,…

a wardrobe staple that was big from Victorian times through the 1950s has been making a comeback amid the pandemic: the house dress. With COVID-19 causing more people to work from home and stay at home in general, house dresses are emerging as the top fashion trend of 2020. Appropriate for Zoom calls, video work chats, chores around the house, quick errands, virtual brunches with friends or just sitting on the couch and bingeing a favorite TV show, house dresses are hot again with people who want their comfort to be more stylish than a T-shirt and sweatpants. While fashion stylists, retail brands like Target and Instagram influencers have been touting new versions of the house dress, the Antique Trader crowd knows vintage is where it’s at. You can find…

Freedom From Want, with its traditional Thanksgiving setting, is one of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” illustrations that ran in successive issues of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Employing his own Arlington, Vermont, neighbors as subjects, the work is widely heralded as one of his most recognizable paintings. It took on even more meaning at the time of publication. “In the eyes of millions of Americans, his scenes ... amounted to an inspired defense of national values, a pictorial rebuke to fascists the world over,” writes Deborah Solomon in her Rockwell biography, American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell.…

DR. FAUCI, I COULD USE A HUG. I’m frazzled, fried and flummoxed. I’m disheveled, discouraged and disagreeable – just ask my wife. What’s more, I’m bedraggled, befuddled and behaving – which is no fun at all. I admit it. If this insufferable year should suddenly meld into some kind of zombie apocalypse, with frogs and fish falling from the sky, I wouldn’t be surprised. Raindrops on roses And whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens . . . I’m afraid I’ve reached the end of my rope. And I know I’m not alone. Right? You’ve got to be feeling the same way. You just have to be. . . . Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things. . .…

DALLAS — Bidders’ appetites for big-name artists exceeded all expectations in Heritage Auctions’ recent $2 million Prints & Multiples event. Artworks by Andy Warhol, KAWS, Banksy and Damien Hirst all sold for nearly double or triple pre-auction estimates: Warhol’s Chanel, from Ads, 1985, sold for a staggering $225,000 against a $120,000 estimate. Applause, 2006, by Banksy, was expected to sell for $8,000 until 23 bids pushed the sale price to $57,500, fully seven times its pre-auction estimate. “It doesn’t surprise me that the world’s most popular artists would be among the top lots in the sale,” said Holly Sherratt, Directory of Prints & Multiples at Heritage Auctions. “Warhol has always been an auction powerhouse and what can be more luxurious than a bottle of Chanel No. 5? Now Banksy is…

historical silver can be maintained for years of use and enjoyment provided that some basic care and attention is given to their preservation. The conservation staff at The Henry Ford has compiled this information to help people care for their objects and collections. The first step in the care of collections is to understand and minimize, or eliminate, conditions that can cause damage. The second step is to follow basic guidelines for care, handling and cleaning. IDENTIFYING SILVER OBJECTS Most people know that silver is a white, lustrous metal. Pure or “fine” silver is called “sterling” if it is not less than 925 parts silver to 75 parts alloy. Silver objects, especially coins and jewelry, contain copper as an alloying metal for added hardness. The copper may corrode to form…

IN his later years, a favorite accessory of English writer Evelyn Waugh, the celebrated satirist and author of Brideshead Revisited, was an ear trumpet. Waugh, who reportedly had at least two of them, is said to have enjoyed playing up to the image of the grumpy elderly man of letters and used his ear trumpets to great effect in cultivating that persona and wielded them with relish. In one incident, it is reported that Lady Diana Cooper, a famously glamorous social figure, once became so exasperated with him that she poured a glass of champagne down his trumpet while it was at his ear. Claud Cockburn, Waugh’s cousin, also recalled how Waugh once unscrewed his ear trumpet when he became bored during a speech by fellow author and satirist Malcolm…

Together, Broome and Reeves boast nearly three decades of experience as professional graders in the sports card industry. SARASOTA, Fla. — Certified Collectibles Group announces that Andy Broome and Westin Reeves, two world-class sports card experts, have been hired to lead the Certified Sports Guaranty grading team. CSG is the latest company to be formed by CCG and will launch soon to provide sports card collectors and dealers with expert, impartial and efficient certification services. Together, Broome and Reeves boast nearly three decades of experience as professional graders in the sports card industry. Broome started grading sports cards professionally in 2000. Since then, he has graded millions of cards, including the most iconic ones such as the T206 Honus Wagner, T206 Doyl Nat’l and T206 Ty Cobb Back. While Broome…

To list your antiques-related event (show, auction, convention, etc.) for free in Antique Trader, send event information (date, location, contact information, times) at least six weeks in advance to: AT Calendars, C/O Antique Trader Editors, 5225 Joerns Dr., Suite 2, Stevens Point, WI 54481 OR email to ATNews@aimmedia.com. Listings will be included on a space available basis. Antique Trader assumes no responsibility for any show not listed. EDITOR’S NOTE: The cancelations or postponements we have received are marked with asterisks. Be sure to check if events you are interested in are still on before you go. We will be updating this calendar and the one online as we receive official notification of any cancelations/postponements. ARIZONA Nov to Dec 27, 2020 Scottsdale. Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market is excited to…