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A Familiar Face Joins Toomey & Co and A Virtual Visit to Pewabic Pottery
by Kate Nixon Riley Humler of Humler & Nolan has joined Toomey & Co Auctioneers. Photo courtesy of Toomey & Co Auctioneers. Toomey & Co. Auctioneers of Oak Park, Illinois is excited to announce the addition of Riley Humler to its team of auction specialists. Humler is joining Toomey & Co. as head of its Ceramics Department. Humler has over 30 years experience in the auction business, beginning with Cincinnati Art Galleries and then as founder of Humler & Nolan, a premier Cincinnati auction house specializing in American and European ceramics. Humler brings extensive knowledge of ceramics and …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
Fall Memories
November always brings back memories of my grandfather, Myron Hickok. From the time I was sixteen until I was twenty-six, I spent nearly every Thanksgiving break working beside him on his farm back in Illinois. November has always been an important month for farmers. By then the corn and soybeans had all been harvested, and the barn was packed with bulging bales of sweet-smelling hay. If we were lucky, November could be mild and dry, which meant time to repair fences, patch roofs, organize tools, and bolster sagging sheds. Outside of family, my grandfather and I did not have …
Collector’s Guide
Rare Works in Pottery, Lighting, Furniture and More Up For Bid at Dual Toomey & Co Auctions
by Kate Nixon Toomey & Co Auctioneers Tradition & Innovation – December 3rd, 2020 starting at 6:00 p.m. CST Art & Design – December 6th, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. CST Lot #2, a Roberta Beverly Kennon (1877-1931) for Newcomb College Grapevine Vase, in the upcoming Tradition and Innovation auction from Toomey & Co Auctioneers on December 3rd. The estimate is $10,000-20,000. An original Frank Lloyd Wright lamp from Wright’s Oak Park house, impressive rare vases from Newcomb College and Arequipa Pottery, and a silver pendant necklace featured in Rosalie Berberian’s Creating Beauty: these are just a sample of …
Traveler’s Guide
Whether it be a museum with an Arts & Crafts collection, a nearby Prairie School home, a bungalow neighborhood, an Arts & Crafts gallery or a Frederick Law Olmstead park, just being able to add an Arts & Crafts side trip to our journey would add to our enjoyment and our education.
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How-To Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a video?
Here at ArtsandCraftsCollector.com we have been busy making brief, informative videos to educate and instruct viewers in a variety of aspects of Arts & Crafts collecting.
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Know Your Shopmarks
We are currently in the process of collecting, organizing, identifying and displaying on this website as many Arts & Crafts shopmarks as possible. And like our Reference Library, we need your help. While we have documented the shopmarks of the major Arts & Crafts firms, we need for you to email us a photograph of any shopmarks you have from lesser known firms, along with a brief description of the piece.
Shopmark Guide
Books Worth Reading
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
Reference Library
