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Met Unveils its New European Paintings Galleries
Released: May 22, 2013The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century reopen on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost one-third, the space now accommodates the display of more than 700 paintings in 45 galleries, including one rotating special exhibition gallery. The galleries are organized both chronologically and geographically to ...
Whitney Museum Presents First In-Depth Study of Edward Hopper's Process
Released: May 22, 2013This spring, the Whitney Museum celebrates Edward Hopper’s achievements as a draftsman in the first major museum exhibition to focus on the artist’s drawings and working process. Along with many of his most iconic paintings, the exhibition features more than 200 drawings, the most extensive presentation to date of Hopper’s achievement in this medium, pairing suites of preparatory studies and related works with such major oil paintings as New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940), Nighthawks (1942) and Morning in a City (1944). The show will be presented in the Museum’s third floor Pete...
Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, a Reunion of Masterworks Exhibited in the Hotel Suite of the Presidential Couple
Released: May 22, 2013In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Dallas Museum of Art will bring together the works of art installed in the president’s suite at the Hotel Texas during his fateful trip to Texas in 1963. The original installation, orchestrated by a small group of Fort Worth art collectors, was created especially for the president and first lady in celebration of their overnight visit to the city and included paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Eakins, Lyonel Feininger, Franz Kline, and Marsden Hartley, and sculptures by Pablo Picasso and Henr...
“That’s Amore: Travel Posters to Love” at International Poster Gallery
Released: May 22, 2013BOSTON – Wanderlust is the theme of International Poster Gallery’s 21st annual Summer Show, “That’s Amore: Travel Posters to Love”. The core of the exhibition traces the fascinating development of travel to Italy, the “Sunny Boot of Europe,” from the rise of railroad travel in the 1890s to the 1960s. Featuring more than 100 original vintage travel posters, the exhibition will be rounded out by a select group of fine posters from every continent. “That’s Amore” opens June 11 and runs through September 2, 2013. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday no...
C.M. Russell Museum Announces Record Breaking Results for 2013 Auction
Released: May 22, 2013The C.M. Russell Museum today announced the official net proceeds of The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum, which took place March 14–16, 2013. The sale is the signature fundraising event for the non-profit museum. Dr. Michael Duchemin, C.M. Russell Museum Executive Director, stated, “The Russell 2013 raised a total of $1,035,268 in earned income from the three-day sale and auction for the benefit of the museum. A special appeal for education raised $130,000 as guests invested not only in artwork, but also in student programs and scholarships. This was the...
Trinity House Paintings to Feature Sargent Landscape at Masterpiece London
Released: May 22, 2013Almost 100 years after it was first exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1914, Trinity House Paintings brings John Singer Sargent’s (1856 - 1925) beautiful landscape ‘Cypresses and Pines’ back to London for Masterpiece London 2013 (27 June – 3July). This marks the first time this important signed painting (priced in excess of $10million) has come to the open market in over 70 years. ‘Cypresses and Pines’ was exhibited in 1914 to overwhelmingly positive reviews, lauded by the Evening News as ‘perhaps the best landscape’ in the Royal Academy Exhibition and by The Daily Telegraph, wonderfully...
RAGO’S EXPERT APPRAISERS TOUR WITH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW THIS SUMMER.
Released: May 22, 2013RAGO’S EXPERT APPRAISERS TOUR WITH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW THIS SUMMER. Lambertville, NJ: Expert appraisers from the Rago Arts and Auction Center are on the road again with Antiques Roadshow this summer. Four of Rago’s specialists will join Roadshow on its tour of eight cities throughout the U.S.: Detroit, MI on June 1; Jacksonville, FL on June 8; Anaheim, CA on June 22; Boise, ID on June 29; Knoxville, TN on July 13; Baton Rouge, LA on July 27; Kansas City, MO on August 10; and Richmond, VA on August 17. The episodes filmed this summer will make up the series 18th seas...
FINE DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS FEATURED IN SWANN GALLERIES’ AUCTION OF AMERICAN ART ON JUNE 13
Released: May 21, 2013On Thursday, June 13, Swann Galleries will offer more than 150 unique works of art in an auction of American Art. Highlights include a run of works by Paul Cadmus, created in his early 90s and representing the culmination of his career as a master draftsman of the human form—specifically males. The Male Nude, NM series was of his longtime lover, Jon Anderson, 32 years his junior, whom he met in Nantucket in 1965—the “NM” notation stands for “Nantucket Man.” Cadmus and Anderson’s collaboration explored all aspects of the male nude, and the two remained lovers until Cadmus’s death ...
THE MORGAN JOINS THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT TO OFFER UNPARALLELED VIEWS OF ITS FAMED McKIM BUILDING
Released: May 21, 2013The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has added nearly 100 of its treasures to the Google Art Project. The Google Art Project allows for these works—rare books, paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts—to be viewed in exceptional detail. In addition, the Morgan’s 1906 McKim building—an architectural gem comprising Pierpont Morgan’s Library and Study—can be appreciated in exciting new ways. Google’s Street View feature allows users to explore each room. A specially designed Street View ‘trolley’ shot 360 degree images of the building’s interior, which were then st...
"Nineteenth-century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute" Wins 2012 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
Released: May 21, 2013The 33rd Annual George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award was presented at the annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) held in Pasadena, California April 25-29, 2013. The award was established in 1980 to honor the memory of the premier New York City art book dealer and publisher George Wittenborn. The award is given each year to a North American art publication which represents the highest standards of content, documentation, layout and format in art publishing. One outstanding book published in 2012 was selected to receive the 33rd Annual George Wittenbor...
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