Grant Wood at Auction: The Results
If you stopped by and read last week's column, you'll recall that I had been in an email dialogue with an auction house that was preparing to sell what they had first been calling an oil painting "attributed" to Grant Wood.
The painting was…
Fraud, Reproduction, or Find of the Century?
Now before you simply dismiss this week's column as "just another of my Grant Wood stories," bear with me, for there is something to be learned from what I am about to relate.
As I was continuing my research into Grant Wood's 19 lithographs…
Motel Mischief, Arts and Crafts Style
I am writing this week's column from a hotel room in Salt Lake City, where I taped a television show Wednesday morning before appearing at the national SNAP! conference for do-it-yourself bloggers. In my other, non-Arts and Crafts life (and…
From Father to Son, and Back Again
If you have read much of what I have written about the Arts and Crafts movement, you may know that one of my special interests is the hand-hammered silver of William Waldo Dodge, who worked in Asheville from 1924 until the advent of World…
Motel Room Mischief, Arts and Crafts Style
I am writing this week's column from a hotel room in Salt Lake City, where I taped a television show Wednesday morning before appearing at the national SNAP! conference for do-it-yourself bloggers. In my other, non-Arts and Crafts life (and…
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