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The Albemarle Club Games Table, circa 1875, English or Irish, diameter 65 1/8 inches.

On the market: Antique games table of superior quality, Wilde history

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 29th, 2010 18:52

Perhaps the world's greatest antique games table is newly available from New Orleans-based M.S. Rau Antiques. This incredible tables de jeux was made expressly for the posh yet ...

Charles Deas, Long Jakes, “the Rocky Mountain Man,” 1844. Jointly owned by the Denver Art Museum and The Anschutz Collection; purchased in memory of Bob Magness with funds from 1999 Collectors’ Choice, Sharon Magness, Mr. and Mrs. William D. Hewit, Carl and Lisa Williams, Estelle Rae Wolf-Flowe Foundation, and the T. Edward and Tullah Hanley Collection by exchange.

Charles Deas and 1840s America

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 29th, 2010 04:42

The Denver Art Museum explores the decade-long career of Charles Deas, an important early painter of American Indians and frontier life in the American west, in the first retrospective of ...

One of the Yosemite images discovered by Rick Norsigian.

Ansel Adams's trust says rediscovered photographs phony

AP via Boston Globe - July 28th, 2010 17:49

The 65 glass negatives bought for $45 a decade ago at a garage sale by Fresno, California, painter Rick Norsigian are not by Ansel Adams (d. 1984), according to the photographer's ...

Detail of the work "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence."

Vatican retracts new Caravaggio claim

Washington Post - July 27th, 2010 22:40

Art historians have concluded that a painting thought to be an unknown work by Carvaggio is not by the Baroque master. The Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano headlined a story ...

"Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Rock" is from an Ansel Adams negative discovered at a garage sale by Rick Norsigian.

Newly authenticated Ansel Adams cache valued at $200 million

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 27th, 2010 17:55

Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, California, bought two boxes containing 65 glass negatives by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams ten years ago. His $45 garage sale find may be ...

“An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing ‘The Gross Clinic’ Anew” is on view through January 9, 2011, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

'Gross Clinic' unveiled at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Inquirer - July 27th, 2010 03:59

Thomas Eakins' powerful 'The Gross Clinic,' which first shocked audiences at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, riveted visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of ...

Walker Evans (1903–1975) [Lunchroom Window, New York City], 1929. Gelatin silver print © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Arnold H. Crane, 1971, 1971.646.35

American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 27th, 2010 04:29

On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents 'American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.' This special exhibition explores the work of three of the ...

A 1906 pastoral scene by Henri Matisse stolen from the Modern Art Museum in Paris in May 2010.

Summer reading: "The Rembrandt Affair"

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 20th, 2010 20:07

Best-selling author Daniel Silva has crafted an entertaining new spy thriller based on the world's most shocking art heists. "The Rembrandt Affair" portrays art crime---a ...

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Leonardo da Vinci.

Hidden secrets of Old Masters & an American Icon

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 19th, 2010 18:46

Longstanding knowledge of a few major artists and artworks may be altered. The Vatican believes it has uncovered a 'new' Caravaggio; French experts have scientifically analyzed da ...

A record price of $722,000 for Ansel Adams was reached with "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" from the Polaroid Collection at Sotheby's.

ARTFIXdaily Announcement

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 18th, 2010 23:54

ARTFIXdaily offices will be closed July 21 to 26, and reopening on Tuesday, July 27. During this time, ArtGuild members and Guest contributors may continue to submit content to the site. ...

EANGER IRVING COUSE (1866-1936) Kachina Painter (1917) oil on canvas 35 x 46 inches signed l.l. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000

Best of the West on the block

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 19th, 2010 05:12

Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, the Idaho-based auction house specializing in 19th and 20th century Western and sporting paintings, holds its popular specialized sale on July 24th at The ...

Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519). La Bella Principessa, ca. 1480-90. Black, red and white chalk, pen and ink on vellum, with watercolor additions. Strengthened with oak panel backing. 23.87 x 33.27 cm (9 3/8 x 13 1/16 in.). © Private Collection & Lumiere-Technology

Magazine doubts da Vinci fingerprint expert

Edmonton Journal - July 16th, 2010 04:08

Peter Silverman, the Canadian art dealer who garnered international attention last year after claiming he'd discovered a long-lost drawing by the Italian master Leonardo da Vinci, ...

Strobridge Litho. Co., Human Flies, 1882, chromolithograph. Collection of Shelburne Museum.

Circus Day in America

ArtfixDaily Staff - July 16th, 2010 04:04

A lively exhibition at Vermont's Shelburne Museum is a multi-sensory experience celebrating Circus Day, the once-popular holiday which brought entire communities together. During the ...

American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

New York Times - July 15th, 2010 01:16

Alice T. Friedman, an architectural historian and professor of American art history at Wellesley, has a new book, “American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture” ...

New Fitz Henry Lane artwork: the lithograph Sicilian Vespers

Fitz Henry (formerly "Hugh") Lane’s career as an artist officially began in the year 1832, when at the age of 27, he was hired by Pendleton’s Lithography firm in Boston to serve as an apprentice. As the earliest known lithographic creation by Lane had been his "View ...