Brimfield Antique Shows llc returns to their flagship location Hertan's Field for the July 2021 Epic Show-Brimfield Rises! Our world famous antique show features over 250 of the industries hottest seasoned and up and coming dealers! At this show we will also be hosting an incredible appraisal event with super star appraiser Leigh Keno, a fine estate antiques auction brought to you by our sister company Brimfield/Crown Auctions and Studio Vintage 4 Disco Party! Our show sponsor Ruby Lane will also be providing our shoppers with an air conditioned hospitality tent where you can sit down, cool off and have a nice frosty beverage!
The show runs from Wednesday July 14th at Noon (12pm) to Sunday July 18th. Get your FIRST PICK TICKETS here for Wednesday Noon-3pm for $5. to be amongst the first to shop our 250+ amazing vendors. Enter on Mill Lane Road.
Join us on Saturday, July 17 at 2pm for an incredible appraisal event with super star appraiser Leigh Keno! Have an item you want Leigh to appraise? Send pictures to [email protected] and include your contact info. Leigh will select an interesting assortment from the submissions and do live appraisals onstage! It's like watching the TV show but live in person! Tickets are $25. each and include admission to the antique show on opening day as well.
Leigh's Incredible Bio:
Leigh Keno is founder and president of Keno Auctions. During his nearly 50 years in the art and antiques world, he has helped build some of the top institutional and private collections of paintings, furniture and decorative arts in the world. Leigh has advised or represented some of the country’s leading museums including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Colonial Williamsburg, Winterthur Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Leigh holds a BA in Art History from Hamilton College, and was a graduate fellow at Historic Deerfield and Visiting Scholar at Winterthur Museum. Starting in 1979, Leigh worked as a buyer, appraiser and Director of the American Furniture and Decorative Arts Department at Doyle Galleries in New York City as well as a Vice President of Christie’s Appraisals and Expert in Christie’s American Furniture and Decorative Arts department.
In 1986, Leigh opened his own gallery and founded Keno Auctions in 2009. The firm has thrived since its first auction- which grossed just over $6 M. Since then, Keno Auctions has continued to thrive, setting multiple world records with fine and decorative arts ranging from the 17th century through modern and contemporary art. In the company's first two years of existence, 13 million dollars worth of fine and decorative arts was sold to buyers globally.
Leigh lectures throughout the country and for more than 23 years has volunteered as an appraiser on the Emmy nominated PBS television program Antiques Roadshow. In 2000, Leigh co-authored Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture, which recounts some of his most memorable discoveries of American masterpieces. Leigh has co-hosted: the internet program “Collect This” for MSN; the television series “Find” for PBS and ‘Buried Treasure’ for the Fox network.
For 24 years, Leigh was an exhibitor and served on the American furniture vetting committee as well as Director of Vetting at the prestigious Winter Antiques Show in New York. In 2001, he was appointed to serve for a decade by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to its Art Advisory Panel in Washington, D.C.. In 2005 the President of the United States awarded Leigh the National Humanities Medal for his role as an educator in the field of American History and Artifacts.
Leigh has been a member of numerous professional dealer organizations, including the National Antique & Art Dealers Association (NADA), and the Antique Dealers Association of America (ADA) and a founding member of the Shelburne Museum National Advisory Committee. Leigh is a USPAP certified member of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) and was a member of their board of directors for three years. Since 2006, Leigh has been a judge in the Preservation Class at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, considered the most prestigious classic car event in the world.
Can't make it in person? join us for our online show brimfield live online streaming live on our website and on ruby lane! shop 'til you drop on your couch! www.brimfieldlive.com