whatsitworth | January 30, 2013
I have an original WWII era watercolor by Arthur Beaumont and I’m curious to know the estimated value. The dimensions are 14.5 by 19 inches. Interestingly, two WWII era artists by the name of Arthur Beaumont worked in watercolors and my correspondent did not send an image. Arthur James Beaumont was born in Cornwall, England [...]
whatsitworth | December 17, 2012
A.C. Bradley or Anne Carrie Bradley was a longtime resident of my home town of Fryeburg, Maine. As a youngster growing up in Fryeburg, I remember seeing her riding a women’s bicycle down Main Street on her way to work on her paintings. She usually was seen in a long dark gray or black flowing [...]
whatsitworth | June 4, 2012
Anna McKenna was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1845. After her father’s death the family moved to Boston. One of Anna’s older sisters had settled in San Francisco and, when Anna went to visit her sister in the 1860s, she was introduced to Frank Tillman, a wealthy San Francisco businessman more than twice [...]
whatsitworth | May 21, 2012
Dear What’s It Worth, I live in Albany and yesterday we had our 5th annual citywide garage sale. I didn’t get to all 55 sales because early in the morning I found a print and fell in love with it. The picture shows a man and a woman in a rowboat. The man is in [...]
whatsitworth | February 24, 2012
I enjoyed your article last week about the relationship between the Greek acronym for fish and the popular fish symbol seen everywhere. It made me remember this picture I grew up with of 10 dancing women. They are all labeled in what I think is Greek. I would appreciate any information you can give me. [...]
whatsitworth | December 22, 2011
I inherited a number of pictures signed Harrison Fisher and I’m trying to determine the value of them. The larger one reads,” I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross, Woodrow Wilson” and measures 39 x 30 inches. The second reads, “Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?” and is 20 x [...]
whatsitworth | November 19, 2011
In a funny coincidence, I came across two California paintings this week by two artists with roots in Missouri. The first was a sweet river landscape with cows by artist Meyer Straus; the second a scene of the Sierra Madre Hills by Hanson Duvall Puthuff. Hanson Duvall Puthuff was born to poor working parents in [...]
whatsitworth | June 22, 2011
I inherited this picture from my grandmother who got it in the 1930s or 1940s. It measures 14 ¾ by 9 ¾ inches. As far as I know, it has always been in this frame. On the back is a note that reads “Shoson Yanagibashi in snow. Only landscape he ever made”. I’ve been lucky [...]
whatsitworth | June 22, 2011
I recently completed an inventory of the contents of the Dunsmuir-Hellman Estate, a 37 room, 16,000 square foot neo-classical revival mansion in Oakland. The home was built in 1899 by Alexander Dunsmuir as a wedding gift for his bride Josephine. Unfortunately, Alexander died while the couple was honeymooning in New York; Josephine died two years later. [...]
whatsitworth | May 31, 2011
It is a pleasure emailing you as I hosted an event with Michaan’s here at our San Leandro Library two years ago! I missed the opportunity of having one of Michaan’s appraisers take a break from appraising our patrons’ items and look at our mysterious painting in our Library and determine if it’s noteworthy at [...]
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