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New York, NY, June 13, 2014—The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that noted drawings collector Eugene V. Thaw, a life trustee of the Morgan and longtime supporter, will endow a curatorial position in the Department of Drawings and Prints.
New Haven, Conn.—The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University today announced its acquisition of the papers of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, prominent figures in English arts and letters in the 20th century whose complex relationship was intimately recounted in the…
A previously unknown letter from J. R. R. Tolkien to a schoolteacher in Eltham in South East London is to be sold at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Photographs sale in London on June 18. It is estimated at £1,500-2,000.
Doyle New York is honored to auction a remarkable collection of original album cover art, rare photography and related ephemera assembled by Bruce Lundvall, longtime president of the renowned Jazz label, Blue Note Records. During his half-century in the music industry at record labels Columbia, CBS…
New York, NY, June 11, 2014—John Marciari, an independent curator and scholar who most recently held the position of Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art, has been chosen to lead the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library…
A first edition of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses smuggled out of Paris in 1922 and read aloud to the young Vladimir Nabokov is to be offered at Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in London on June 18. It is estimated at £15,000-20,000.
AUSTIN, Texas—The exhibition "The Making of 'Gone With The Wind'" commemorates the 75th anniversary of one of the most popular films ever created by exploring its history and legacy. The exhibition runs from Sept. 9 to Jan. 4, 2015, at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and…
New York—Active online bidding and a lively saleroom led to a high sell-through rate and some record prices at Swann Galleries’ Contemporary Art auction on May 13.
New York—On May 8, Swann Galleries conducted a two-part auction of Art, Press & Illustrated Books that featured the Edward Gorey Collection of Samuel Speigel.
New York, NY June 2014—American artist Spencer Finch (b. 1962) pursues the most elusive and ineffable of experiences through his work—from the changing water conditions of the Hudson River, in his New York High Line piece, to the color of a sunset outside a Monument Valley motel room, or from the…
