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ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY AMERICA’S CELEBRATED NATURALIST TO HIGHLIGHT CHRISTIE’S AMERICAN PAINTINGS SALE THIS FALL. On September 28, Christie’s is honored to announce the upcoming sale of twenty original paintings by the celebrated naturalist, artist, and educator Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996). Peterson’s best-selling field guides, beginning with his seminal 1934 book A Field Guide to the Birds of North America, have been a must-read for generations of ornithologists and bird-watchers alike. This selection of original paintings and works on paper, consigned directly ...

TWELVE RARE WORKS OF ART ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME OCTOBER 21 - NOVEMBER 19, 2010 AT MORETTI FINE ART, 24 EAST 80TH STREET, NEW YORK. In their first collaborative exhibition, two renowned Renaissance and Baroque fine art specialists, Andrew Butterfield of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts and Fabrizio Moretti of Moretti Fine Art, will present Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture on Thursday, October 21 through Friday, November 19, 2010 at Moretti Fine Art, 24 East 80th Street in New York. “We are very pleased to present this group of twelve rare ...

  A recently rediscovered Childe Hassam “Landscape, Eastern Oregon” will be included in Matthew’s Galleries' September 21, 2010 Fine & Decorative arts auction. Painted in 1908 on one of the artist’s two trips to the West, the oil on board measures 5 1/8” x 8 ¼”, and is similar in size and character to “Rain Clouds over Oregon Desert” (Childe Hassam Impressionist in the West, Margaret E. Bullock, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, 2004, p. 65, plate 36). The painting is signed lower left with the artist’s crescent mark, ...

On Friday, August 6, a large selection of American and Asian furniture, art, pottery, porcelain, glass, toys, lighting, sterling and advertising will be presented by Garth’s Auctions Inc. during its Eclectic Auction.  The sale will include almost 1000 lots with many consigned from a wonderful West Virginia collection. As they say, there will be something for everybody from a Globe Wernicke 30-drawer cabinet file with fine tambour door to an authentic 1935 Old Spanish Trail Half Dollar to a large electrified dollhouse with furniture & accessories to an impressive ...

Bonhams & Butterfields, California's oldest and largest auctioneers, is pleased to announce the August 17, 2010 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture.  On offer are variety of important early 19th century landscapes; Western scenes; Impressionist and Modernist compositions including plein air paintings; genre scenes and cityscapes by established California and American artists.  Following on the success of the April sale, which featured property from the Estate of Los Angeles Philanthropist Nancy M. Daly, the Los Angeles-based auction will feature ...

    Ernest Briggs: Ernest Brigg’s volcanic abstract paintings from the 1950’s and 60’s place him firmly in the ranks of the New York Avant-Garde of that era. Until his death in 1984, Briggs continuously explored new ways of combining and changing compositional arrangements and painterly strategies. His compositions are powerful, interpreting nature as a cataclysmic force. Briggs studied at the radical California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the early 1950s. It was there, under the tutelage of a faculty that included Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, and ...

Fourteen members of the Asian Art Dealers New York (AADNY) will present an exciting Fall schedule of exhibitions, focusing on a wide range of subject matter, throughout the month of September. The specialists in Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian works of art include: Art of the Past, Leiko Coyle, Arnold Lieberman, Kapoor Galleries, Theresa McCullough, Nancy Wiener, and Doris Wiener. Chinese art, ancient through contemporary, will be shown at the Ralph M. Chait Galleries, China 2000 Fine Art, Kaikodo, and M D Flacks, with Joan B. Mirviss, Scholten Japanese Art, and the Kang Collection ...

On September 15, when the doors of the Grand Palais open in Paris for the 25th edition of the Biennale des Antiquaires, six prominent New York galleries will be among the eighty-seven international exhibitors offering a wide array of treasures from antiquities to the twentieth century. First time participants include: Jason Jacques (19th and early 20th European pottery), J J Lally & Co. (antique Chinese works of art), L & M Arts (post-war and contemporary art), and the Marlborough Gallery (post-war and contemporary art). Returning to the fair are: Adam Williams Fine Art Ltd. (15th ...

The Harvard Art Museums announce the appointment of Lynette Roth as Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, effective January 3, 2011. A specialist in German art of the early 20th century, Roth’s highly disciplined and innovative work in the academy and in the museum has distinguished her early in her career. “I am happy to welcome Lynette to our staff,” said Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums. “Her academic experience and her original work as a curator and writer make her perfectly suited to this ...

In celebration of the landmark exhibition Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg on view at the National Gallery of Art through September 16, Busboys and Poets and Split This Rock present “Howl” in the City at the Fifth and K Streets location of Busboys and Poets on July 23 and 24. Renowned poet Anne Waldman will perform accompanied by a quartet of musicians led by DC-based Matthew Hemerlein, and the event will conclude with a free concert by musician Kyp Malone.   Waldman will present three performances of Allen Ginsberg’s legendary poem Howl. A string ...