Once grounded in furniture, folk art, silver, ceramics, stoneware and samplers, this expansive collecting category's highest prices suggest that American identity itself has become a trophy asset.
A trio of Frederic Remington masterworks led the sale: ‘Coming to the Call,’ which set a world record at $13,285,000; ‘An Argument with the Town Marshall,’ which sold for $11,847,500; and a bronze, ‘Coming Through the Rye,’ which more than doubled its low estimate to realize $9,950,000.