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The American Art Association (AAA) was founded by James F. Sutton (President of AAA), R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas Kirby (1846–1924) in 1883. [4] Thomas Kirby had grown up in Philadelphia and moved his family to New York in 1876, in the years prior to starting the AAA, he worked at various auction firms and importers in New York. [5]
January 25 – Stephen Chbosky, American novelist and screenwriter; February 28 – Daniel Handler, American novelist; March 6 – Simona Vinci, Italian fiction writer; March 12 – Dave Eggers, American writer, editor and publisher; March 20 – Michele Jaffe, American author; March 26 – Martin McDonagh, British-born Irish playwright
January 16 – John Lennon's exhibition of Bag One at the London Arts Gallery is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".; October - In celebration of her large gift of art works (including ones by Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, and Picasso, ) to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco from the collection assembled by her late husband Thomas Edward Hanley, Tullah Hanley throws an ...
Anderson Galleries began as an auctioner of books, and prints in New York City and comprised the Anderson Auction Company and Metropolitan Art Association. It was founded by John Anderson Jr. in 1900 and later renamed Anderson Galleries. [1]
This one was very different from the others we’ve read in Book Chat, as it’s based on real-life literary icon Joan Didion and real-life ’60s-’70s It girl, artist, and writer Eve Babitz ...
March 29 - Ernest Cline, American science-fiction novelist and screenwriter; May 22 – Max Brooks, American horror author and screenwriter [30] May 27 – Maggie O'Farrell, Northern Ireland-born novelist; July 21 – Josué Guébo, Ivorian writer and academic; August 6 - Paolo Bacigalupi, American science-fiction and fantasy writer
The auction will raise funds for the non-profit's internship and professional programs, materials for underfunded schools and resources for authors affected by book bans. The auction has raised ...
The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift. By 1964, the company was the largest auction house in America, [1] with 115 employees and total sales of $11 million ($108 million in 2023). That year, Sotheby's purchased a ...