Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Category: Art
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Numbers were small but talents were big at Harlem Doll Show
Posted in Art, Doll collectors, and Dolls
Looking over the display of disparate dolls, I knew that this had to be the work of several doll-makers. The three-tiered display sported cloth dolls and dolls with papier-mache-like faces, black origami doll ornaments, and…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The stuffed cardboard box was trying mightily to stay folded shut, but the papers inside were not cooperating. Ever curious, I wanted to see what was preventing it from lying flat and closing. Pulling back the…
Reader asks about Thomas Blackshear art figurines
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Figurines
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A print of Buffalo Soldiers at Cuba’s San Juan Hill
Posted in Art, Black history, history, and Military
As I approached the display of books and documents on the table, the words 9th and 10th Calvary in a title stirred my memory. Weren’t those the African American soldiers who charged with Teddy Roosevelt, I…
It was raining buckets outside but inside was as dry as cornstalks in an autumn field. I was at Heritage Weekend at the Folk Art Center, milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville,…
There was nothing appealing about the woman in the print. In fact, she seemed troubled, her wide eyes staring out beyond the artwork but her mind firmly planted on something inside her head. She reminded…