Robert Adams

WASHINGTON – The National Gallery of Art has acquired an impressive number of new acquisitions, augmenting the collections of paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photographs. These new works included a collection of 169 photographs by Robert Adams hand-selected by the artist, the gallery’s first watercolor by Thomas Moran, its first paintings by Giorgio Vasari […]

Some antiques are so rare and strange that they are classed as “what’s its” by collectors. Sometimes they are also so interesting they can sell for high prices. This year two different auction houses offered “Victorian glass parlor fountains” – items that were “what’s its” to most collectors. A few years ago, only 12 examples […]