Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Art
The five disc-headed sculptures sat atop the table like sentries, their metal bases constructed with parts that looked like gears. Their faces were glass prisms, more like optical lens, one squeezing out the other. These works…
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I was previewing the upcoming sale at one of my favorite auction houses when a familiar name re-appeared: Stuart M. Egnal. I had written about Egnal and his mother Sylvia two months ago when stacks of his etchings and…
“Have you heard of this artist,” one auction-buyer asked as he walked up to another who was checking out books on an auction table. His friend had never heard the name Stuart M. Egnal before, and neither…
I was standing a short distance away from where the auctioneer was selling tables of books. I had already shuffled through them and hadn’t seen any that I just had to have. But when I…
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When you touch what was once in the hands of an artist, the things he cared for and preserved, are you also feeling a part of him? That’s what I was wondering this week as…
I was waiting for the art auction at Freeman’s Auctioneers to end after about two hours, tired, when up on the video screen flashed a lovely painting with a dark face smack in the middle.…
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Crafts
Recently, I was talking to the sister of a regular auction-goer who had tagged along with him to the biweekly auction. She had joined him at other auctions, but she had never bought anything. This time,…
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The terracotta figurine was decidedly a black woman. Full lips, wide nose, fashionable tip of the head. I spotted her almost hidden among some larger items on the auction table recently. The skirt of her…
Posted in Beauty Products, bottles, and collectibles
I don’t wear perfume but I do love the bottles they come in. Many of them are works of art, as refined as some of the fragrances they hold. I’ve found a few in box…
For years, I collected children’s books illustrated by African American artists. I imagined that that these artists found it liberating to be painting for children, their stories simple yet imaginative. I’ve never found any of…
