North American Bracelets

NEW YORK – Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits, an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 5 through July 25, 2021, will present a compelling visual response to Native North America through watercolors created in the 1830s by the Swiss draftsman Karl Bodmer (1809–1893). Bodmer was one of the most accomplished […]

NEW YORK – Covering a period of nearly five centuries, printed and manuscript Americana will cross the auction block at Swann Galleries on Thursday, Sept. 24. This auction is exceptionally varied in content and subjects covered, from colonialism and the Westward expansion of the United States, to presidential material and firsthand accounts by ordinary people of important historical moments. Bid […]

NEW YORK — Rene Portocarrero (Cuban, 1912-1985) was an early pioneer of Cuban art whose artworks, as well as those of his native countrymen, came to greater worldwide attention. He rode a late 20th-century wave that saw contemporary art become more global and saw Cuban and Latin American artists start to gain the recognition they […]