#VintagePosters | Take a tour of vintage ski posters from the late nineteenth century through the 1990s:
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#VintagePosters | Take a tour of vintage ski posters from the late nineteenth century through the 1990s:
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#AuctionCatalgue | 19th & 20th Century Art is at auction March 12.
Browse the complete auction catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...
Two bars of musical notation from Madama Butterfly signed by Puccini in 1918.
The Hands of Heroes. On this day in 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s _Madama Butterfly_ premiered at Milan’s La Scala opera house (AMQS, two bars from the second act of _Madama Butterfly_, 1918, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on October 26, 2023, $1,750. bit.ly/4tCjrks)
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Deborah Rogal, Director of Photographs & Photobooks at Swann, gives us the scoop on press photographs and the five things to consider when adding a photograph to your collection.
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Edison's neatly written letter of March 3, 1878, concerning a "bug" in his apparatus.
The Hands of Time. Remembering Thomas Edison, who was born on this day in 1847. (Autograph Letter Signed, to William Orton, explaining that delay is due to a “bug” in the apparatus, 1878, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on March 22, 2018, $12,500. bit.ly/3M56vCZ)
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Devon Eastland, Fine Books Specialist at Swann, shares about Emily Brontë’s #WutheringHeights ahead of the release of Emerald Fennell's adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
Read: www.swanngalleries.com/news/books/f...
#AuctionCatalogue | Vintage Posters are at auction February 26.
Browse the complete auction catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...
NUEVAYoL!!!! 🇵🇷🌴🐇
Feeling inspired to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's half-time performance?
Learn more about Puerto Rican graphic design and the movement that brought these works to light: www.swanngalleries.com/news/vintage...
Photograph of U.S. President Ronald Reagan standing at a podium with the Brandenburg Gate behind him, under which Regan has signed his name after writing, "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
The Hands of Time. Remembering Ronald Reagan, who was born on this day in 1911. (Photograph Signed and Inscribed, "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!" showing at Brandenburg Gate, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on March 19, 2015, $16,250. bit.ly/4a2TFhK)
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#AuctionResults | Swann Galleries opened the year with an auction dedicated to The Artists of the WPA for the fifth year in a row, bringing a strong start to the season.
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"Magnolia Grandiflora and Fruit," a 1933 color woodcut on Japan paper by Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956), 11¾" x 9¾", sold for $8255 (e $3000/5000) at @swanngalleries.bsky.social. It's signed, titled, dated, and numbered “no 7.” www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/part... #art #woodcut #artist
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#AuctionHighlights | Bella Savignano shares a selection of highlights in tomorrow's Art, Subculture & LGBTQ+ History sale
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#AuctionHighlights | Learn more about a piece of protest history worn by a University of Minnesota student-activist during the 1970s protests against the ongoing warfare in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Featured in Swann's upcoming offering of subculture material on Thursday, February 5, 2026.
Group of men standing around a table at which McKinley is seated, signing the document that ended the Spanish-American War.
The Hands of Time. Remembering William McKinley, who was born on this day in 1843. (Group photograph signed by McKinley and 11 others at the signing of the Protocol of Peace closing the Spanish-American War, 1898, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on February 11, 2010, $2,880. bit.ly/4qMNYdq)
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#AuctionHighlights | A Country Called California: The Collection of Stephen White is featured in our February 12 auction of Fine Photographs.
Featuring photographs from the 1850s to the 1960s, the collection presents California's unique history through the lens of photography.
We like our specialists SPIFFY!
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#NigelFreeman evaluates a #FrankStella screenprint purchased at a thrift store for $3.99 and carries an auction estimate of $5,000-7,000!!! #antiquesroadshow
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#DevonEastland is evaluating a SUPERB assoication copy of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. #antiquesroadshow
Sold at Swann this past October: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...
Swannies are in Georgia on tonight's @roadshowpbs.bsky.social episode!!!
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#AuctionCatalogue | Fine Photographs featuring Selections from a Country Called California: the Collection of Stephen White is at auction February 12, 2026.
Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...
#AuctionCatalogue | Art, Subculture & LGBTQ+ History is at auction February 5. Featuring a material-culture-focused view of twentieth-century subversion in art, politics, and the queer community.
Browse the complete auction catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...
CATALOGUE NOW ONLINE | The Artist of the WPA auction will open the 2026 season on Thursday, January 29, bringing together a selection of artwork by the artists who participated in these New Deal programs.
Browse the complete catalogue and register to bid: www.swanngalleries.com/auction-cata...
Seven lines of a letter in the neat and miniscule handwriting of Albert Schweitzer.
The Hands of Time. Remembering Albert Schweitzer, who was born on this day in 1875. (Archive of 12 letters and notes to German-Jewish philosopher Hans Margolius, 1926-65, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on October 27, 2022, $10,625. bit.ly/3LIae95)
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Elvis Presley was #BOTD in 1935
See a typed letter signed by him below:
Portion of dust jacket for Philip K. Dick's book, _Flow My Tears_, showing portrait of him, his signature, and inscription to his psychiatrist.
The Hands of Time. Remembering Philip K. Dick, who was born on this day in 1928. (Small archive of items Signed, to his psychiatrist, including dust jacket for _Flow My Tears_, 1973, sold @swanngalleries.bsky.social on February 20, 2020, $9,375. bit.ly/4oRhfSr)
16.12.2025 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy Birthday to poet #EmilyDickinson, #BOTD in 1830
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#OTD in 1847 #FrederickDouglass began publishing The North Star!
See below: an autograph letter signed by Douglass extending a job offer to work at his abolitionist newspaper in 1851. Sold at Swann in 2021.
Are you a lover of #GustavKlimt, his contemporaries, and the Vienna Secessionist movement, but find yourself a little short of nearly half a billion dollars? Fret not, collecting works on paper is a way to have a piece of your passion for less.
Read more about collecting Klimt:
