In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops, shows or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in some cases. It mainly serves as an inventory record of what interests us (not necessarily in … Continue reading A Gaggle of Interests – Jan 16, 2011
Tag: Poster
Record Prices Smashed in Heritage’s Latest Illustration Art Auction
After more than a solid year of dominating Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Auctions, Pin-up and Glamour Art, while still performing superbly, was forced to cede the spotlight on Aug. 17 to classic Pulp Art, as several icons of the genre burst into the spotlight, led by Hugh Joseph Ward’s The Evil Flame, Spicy Mystery Stories … Continue reading Record Prices Smashed in Heritage’s Latest Illustration Art Auction
Vintage Airline Posters
While TWA is gone, its posters are still popular To find ourselves, we have to lose ourselves. Art and Air travel are both meant to free human beings. One mentally, one physically. In the best case of each form, we lose ourselves from the mundane reality. An 18th Dynasty Egyptian limestone statue may transform our … Continue reading Vintage Airline Posters
Celebrating Woodstock: Forty Year’s On
I was born before Woodstock, but certainly not long before. I’m not sure given the opportunity I would trade being older for being able to attend Woodstock, but still it is undeniably one of the last century’s defining events. Those were different times. Today it still amazes me that 350,000 people descended on a farm … Continue reading Celebrating Woodstock: Forty Year’s On
Urban Art & Antiques 