“Recently, at Cowan’s American History auction, the Hall Family Foundation purchased the photograph for $324,500, on behalf of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.”
“The rifle has come full circle, back in Cincinnati – at least until Saturday.‘If you are an Audubon collector and passionate about Audubon, or if you are the Cincinnati Museum Center, this is sort of a holy relic,’ Cowan said.”
“A lot of what we do is help people establish expectations,” Pinney said. She pointed to a large Asian floor vase awaiting the next auction. “It might be worth a couple hundred dollars,” she said. “The heirs thought it would go for a couple of thousand.”
“I find Remington’s sculptures to be powerful, classic renderings of a romantic view of the American West,” Farnand said. “ I think this is why his work continues to be sought after by collectors and Western Art enthusiasts.”
“A capacity crowd. Battling phone calls. Bated breath. Someone in the room waiting, quietly, until sweeping in and moving the conversation toward the half-million dollar mark. Multiple records broken. Ten minutes that felt like forever.”
“Letters and documents recording individual experiences during the Gold Rush were featured as Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati offered selections from the collection of Eric C. Caren on Sept. 8.”
“Nationally renowned appraisers Wes Cowan, Nan Chisholm and Ken Farmer — who appear regularly on the popular PBS program “Antiques Roadshow” — will be on site to evaluate items brought in by the public.”
“Throughout the afternoon, more than 100 people came to the historic east-side complex, toting jewelry and artwork and textiles for appraisal by Wes Cowan, an anthropologist of Antiques Roadshow and History Detectives fame, and his team from Cincinnati.”