Art and Antique World 2024
Elizabeth Stewart PhD ASA Accredited and AAA Certified Member appraiser offers a review of the art and antique world of 2024.
Connection to Order of Knighthood Medal
This early 19th century medal, an Order of Knighthood, may share a connection to my partner’s family history. You see, my partner’s last name is Flandrick, Province of Flanders, with …
Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffalo
HH owns a 1920s sterling and enamel medallion from the Royal Antediluvian (‘before the flood’) Order of the Buffalo in red, white, cobalt, and turquoise. Fattorini and Sons LTD, Jewelers, …
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Donor Relations Manager Melissa Ha-Navarro talks about the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Watch Video
Duncan Phyfe’s Neoclassical Style
HH’s grandmother from Boston told him Duncan Phyfe made the table she left him. Almost everyone with an East Coast grandma runs the risk that she’ll say Phyfe made her …
Mary Tonetti Dorra and Alex Lukas
First author Mary Tonetti Dorra discusses her new book I Am a Portrait: Flash Fiction and Other Short Stories. Then Associate Professor of Print & Publication Arts Alex Lukas talks …
The Banana Connection
In November of 2024 a banana duct-taped to a white plaster wall sold for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction. Conceived as an edition (series) of five, titled Comedian, …
Beautiful Sommerso Glass
FF owns a nice midcentury example of a technically challenging type of glass. Sommerso, or “submerged,” a technique developed in Murano Italy in the 1930s required skill and dexterity. His …
Emily Rapp Black
Author Emily Rapp Black discusses her book, The Still Point of the Turning World, and her talk at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Sunday, December 8. Watch Video
Barye’s Camel Reproduction
PP owns a twenty-inch plaster cast of a dromedary (Arabian) camel ‘after’ (reproduced from) a sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), the great bronze artist/animalier of the mid-19th century. Sculpture of …