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ArtfixDailytm News Feed
- Thursday, July 29 2010
On the market: Antique games table of superior quality, Wilde history
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 and 1840s America
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 ...
Ansel Adams's trust says rediscovered photographs phony
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 ...
Vatican retracts new Caravaggio claim
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 ...
Newly authenticated Ansel Adams cache valued at $200 million
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 ...
'Gross Clinic' unveiled at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Thomas Eakins' powerful 'The Gross Clinic,' which first shocked audiences at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, riveted visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of ...
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
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 ...
Summer reading: "The Rembrandt Affair"
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 ...
Hidden secrets of Old Masters & an American Icon
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 ...
ARTFIXdaily Announcement
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. ...
Best of the West on the block
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 ...
Magazine doubts da Vinci fingerprint expert
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, ...
Circus Day in America
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
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” ...
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![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 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](/images/cache/tease/july26_amon_evans140x180_c.jpg?1280207762)









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