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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 10 – Charles Olson, American modernist poet (liver cancer, born 1910) January 29 – B. H. Liddell Hart , English military historian (born 1895 ) February 2 – Bertrand Russell , English philosopher (born 1872 ) [ 20 ]
In 1929, the establishments merged to be the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc. and operated at 30 East 57th Street in Manhattan. [2] It sold decorative arts, American and Italian antiques, and modern and antique art, like works of the Barbizon School . [ 2 ]
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 ...
The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1970 through 1975. [ 1 ] The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the 1990s and 2000s – are currently unknown.
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 ...
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 ...
Cheryl B (Cheryl Burke), American poet and spoken word artist; N. K. Jemisin, American science fiction and fantasy writer; November 4 – Yiyun Li (李翊雲), Chinese American writer of fiction in English; November 26 - James Dashner, American writer of speculative fiction; December 20 – Gen Urobuchi, Japanese novelist and screenwriter ...