ST. LOUIS (AP).- One of the nation’s leading battlefield archaeologists fanned out with volunteers in central Missouri Friday in hopes of pinpointing the exact spot of a Civil War battle that ended one of the divisive war’s most famous and longest raid…
Two Outstanding Beach Scenes by Sorolla are the Highlights of Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that the Spanish section of the 19th Century European Paintings sale on 23 November will be headed by two outstanding oil paintings by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Depicting children by the sea, both works were painte…
Two Outstanding Beach Scenes by Sorolla are the Highlights of Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that the Spanish section of the 19th Century European Paintings sale on 23 November will be headed by two outstanding oil paintings by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Depicting children by the sea, both works were painte…
Robert F. Kennedy-Owned Emancipation Proclamation Up for Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln and bought by Robert F. Kennedy, who drew inspiration from the document as he enforced civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is going up for auction and could fetch as much as $…
Robert F. Kennedy-Owned Emancipation Proclamation Up for Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln and bought by Robert F. Kennedy, who drew inspiration from the document as he enforced civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is going up for auction and could fetch as much as $…
Important Early Photographs of Yokohama by Father of Photo Journalism for Sale
LONDON.- Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 O…
Important Early Photographs of Yokohama by Father of Photo Journalism for Sale
LONDON.- Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 O…
Crystal Bridges Announces Landscape, Tapestry
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- A luminous 19th-century landscape and a contemporary tapestry that confronts viewers with Civil War-era racial violence, both by important African American artists, are the latest works announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American…