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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, one of the nation’s leading fine art auction houses, is pleased to announce its inaugural auction of Works by African American Artists on March 1, 2012. In addition to the March 1 auction, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will hold a separate selling exhibition featuring Works by African American Artists. These works will be listed for private sale and offered during the week leading up to the auction. Heading the sale are a variety of abstract contemporary works, including Alma Woodsey Thomas’s acrylic and gouache on paper Abstract Composition ...

  For Asia Week New York starting on March 16, nearly three-dozen galleries will host simultaneous exhibitions to spotlight prized ancient, antique, and contemporary Asian artworks. International and Manhattan dealers will showcase an astonishing array of the best art from China, Japan, Korea, India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. The rarest and finest Asian examples of porcelain, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, books, bronzes, prints, photographs, and jades constitute the rich offerings at the 33 specialist gallery presentations, some of which are being unveiled to the ...

Super Bowl artistry is extending off the field and into an Indianapolis landmark as IDADA, the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association, presents Turf, a presentation of experiential art and design. This brand new presentation of 20 juried artists is going on now through Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2012, just 1,700 yards from Lucas Oil Stadium. The old Indianapolis City Hall building at the corner of Alabama and Ohio streets – a 100-year-old landmark formerly housing the Indiana State Museum and, most recently, the interim Central Library – is the IDADA Art Pavilion, a ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast with textured nutshells. The acquisition was made possible with funds from Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund. "The National Gallery of Art has long been seeking works by Duncanson, and we were ...

  Aspire Auctions, Inc., offers a selection of Black Americana and Slave Items in our February online auction. The items range from novelty humidors and boot scrapers to documents such as a Bill of Sale for a slave from 1857 and West African wooden teaching tablets.  We are also offering a fine collection of rare books such as Africa by John Ogilby printed in 1670 and One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; or, The Centennial of African Methodism. Aspire Auctions’ February online auction catalogue will be posted for viewing on January 27th at ...

Aspire Auctions, Inc., is offering a portrait by 20th century Chicago area artist Louis Frederick Grell. Grell was a muralist, a teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, and made his home and studio at the historic Tree Studio Building. The beautiful portrait, which is part of the February sale, is of the artist’s wife and was painted in 1922. Aspire Auctions’ February online auction catalogue will be posted for viewing on January 27th at www.aspireauctions.com  Bidding opens this Friday February 3rd and lots close the following week, February 9th. It's a timed auction, so ...

Dolphin Promotions, in association with 1stdibs, has announced its roster of prominent 20th century design specialists who will participate in the inaugural New York 20th Century Art and Design Fair (NYC20), opening on April 12-15 at The Tent at Lincoln Center in Damrosch Park on New York's Upper West Side.   Many of the leading names in the field of 20th century design will showcase a cross-section of iconic material including furniture, lighting, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, silver, glass, ceramics, photography, textiles, prints, and vintage clothing and accessories. Among ...

The San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show (SFAPA) will debut a contemporary Asian Art Initiative featuring select galleries from China.  Contemporary Asian Art has grown in prominence in the last decade. As Asia's importance in the world market rises, so too does its artistic traditions. Taking place February 3 – 5 at the historic For Mason Center, the exhibit, led by Contemporary Program Partner Weimei Chen and 186 Projects, will feature galleries from Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces in China, that have never exhibited in the San Francisco area before   ...

  Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, February 23, featuring a talk by Newark Museum curator Ulysses Grant Dietz.   In “What Happened When Pots Became Art?”, Mr. Dietz will discuss ceramics as art, contrasting how this was idea was apprehended in the 19th C. and how multiple aesthetics came to be bracketed by the market into what we now call American art pottery.   Ulysses Grant Dietz has been the curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum since 1980.  He has been collecting American art pottery ...

This exhibition features small scale works, pastels by William Partridge Burpee and watercolors by Thomas McNickle. The power and individuality of Pennsylvania native Thomas McNickle’s brushstrokes transforms archetypal motifs of land and sky into unique and personal images. Although McNickle utilizes photography and makes several small studies on site, he says he doesn't rely on just that visual record, but the experience of a place. The result is a work of art that pulls the viewer in visually while simultaneously reaching out to the other senses. One doesn’t just look at ...