Your search for "Barrymore Laurence Scherer" returned 9 entries.
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Posted 11/21/11
Strikingly colorful, often large scale and beautifully designed, vintage posters form one of the liveliest and most accessible collecting fields among the graphic arts, especially as they cover a wide range of interests from travel, food, and entertainment, to politics and propaganda.
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Posted 09/15/11
The comeback: The National Academy reopens with six new exhibitions
The National Academy reopens with six exhibitions designed to reclaim its pivotal role in American art and architecture.
Posted 07/25/11
The Man Who Could Do Everything
Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, who decreed the building of a stately pleasure dome on "twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers...
Posted 05/01/10
Today “armorial” porcelain remains an area of specialization among many collectors
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Posted 03/01/10
Glittering competition: the rivals of Faberge
To many collectors of nineteenth-century silver and objets de vertu, imperial Russia is the fount of Europe's most exotic work. And even for those who can only dream of its legacy de luxe, mention of Mother Russia immediately triggers thoughts of one name, Fabergé.
Posted 08/26/09
Raising a glass of wine in a toast is among the oldest of dining traditions, and antique wineglasses are among the most appealing objects upon which to build a glass collection.
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Posted 06/24/09
Early photographs: Daguerreotypes
This striking portrait, offered by Dennis A. Waters Fine Daguerreotypes, of Exeter, New Hampshire, is of one R. F. Jameson, who was a month short of his twentieth birthday when he sat before an unknown daguerreotypist's camera in Montrose, Pennsylvania, in October 1846.
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Posted 04/29/09
Old master and nineteenth century drawings
Drawings are a splendid area for new collectors interested in artists of almost any period. Whether by old master or by nineteenth- or twentieth-century figures, they embody the immediacy of the artist's own hand.
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Posted 04/23/09
Old silver is a classic collecting field, one that combines the aesthetic pleasures of imaginative design, fine workmanship, and history. In the often hotly competitive field of American silver, the latest area to fire the acquisitive imagination seems to be the arts and crafts style.
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