American paintings drove strong results in Shannon’s Fall Fine Art auction held October 26th. The 153-lot sale was nearly 90 percent sold and grossed $3 million.

He found some of his paints the next spring, still usable. Aldro Hibbard’s “Ice Pond,” which he painted in Vermont in 1927, is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Few are aware that they are in the Aldro Hibbard Gallery, or why it has that name. Now they can find out. A retrospective of Rockport’s most famous plein-air artist, and founder of the RAA ...