Clara and her mother Susan were noticeably jubilant after finding out their painting was worth $150,000. The sizeable abstract art, beaming with splattered color, was deemed an original Sam Gilliam by appraisers at the Antiques Roadshow on Wednesday, hiking up the hefty price. “Somehow this fell off the radar," Susan said of the painting, once purchased by her stepmother in 1974 in Washington D.
C. and now hanging on her wall idly. "I didn’t know anything about the artist.
I didn’t know that he had become collectable.” Both Clara and Susan saw that the Antiques Roadshow was coming to film at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms as part of the reality show's 29th season and decided to get the art checked out. Now, they're leaving happy.
Susan, a metro Denver resident, inherited a painting from her stepmother that was appraised for $150,000 by an art expert at Antiques Roadshow at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. The painting is going back up on the wall, “But I don’t know what’s going to happen after that,” Susan joked. The mother-daughter duo were just two of the nearly 3,000 Denver-area residents invited to bring antique items to the show's taping on Wednesday.
Almost 23,000 people applied to get tickets. Producers asked that last names and places of residence not be published. Antiques Roadshow — the PBS reality program that sees experts giving real antique appraisals to real people since 1997 — has been to the .