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Painted Gray Torso of a Horse from the Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.-A.D. 220

FOR A NEW GENERATION OF COLLECTORS, ASIA WEEK NEW YORK EXPERTS OFFER SKILLED GUIDANCE FOR DISCOVERING NEW AND AFFORDABLE MARKET SECTORS

Released: February 3, 2015

When the 47 galleries participating in Asia Week New York open their doors from March 14 to March 22, they will be extending a welcoming hand to the next generation of collectors. On view will be an affordable range of Asian works of art priced to fit a novice collector’s budget. Given newspaper headlines about skyrocketing prices in the Chinese art market, budding collectors might conclude that Asian art is simply beyond their reach. To that, Asia Week experts respond with: Think again! Asia Week New York has many choice pieces in all Asian categories priced under $5,000. Says Carol Co...

Untitled, 2000, Linoleum cut , 22 ½ x 16 ¾ inches, Edition of 38, Low Road Studio 6 , Art Jasper Johns and LRS/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, Published by Low Road Studio

The Katonah Museum of Art presents Jasper Johns & John Lund: Masters in the Print Studio, the first in-depth exhibition to focus on the collaboration between the iconic American artist and his master printer

Released: March 3, 2014

An extraordinary, little-known story unfolds in the exhibition Jasper Johns & John Lund: Masters in the Print Studio. Over the past 30 years Johns and Lund have forged a rare artistic collaboration: side-by-side, master printer Lund has helped one of America’s foremost living artists achieve precisely the desired effect he seeks in his prints, 47 of which are featured in the exhibition. This is the first museum exhibition to explore these two masters’ working relationship. Johns is one of the most prominent and prolific printmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries. While he has...

Atomic Series - Man in Gas Mask by Brent Hayden.

Photography by Former Canadian Olympic Swimmer Brent Hayden

Released: March 3, 2014

Contact: Erik Whittaker or David Cassera Tel: (604) 317-4499, +1 (310) 691-9391 email: casseranyc@gmail.com PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRENT HAYDEN What: Exhibition of Fine Art Photography by Brent Hayden. Where: Foot of Main Gallery, 119 Main Street (at Alexander) Vancouver, BC When: March 11th through the 24th, 2014 Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, noon till 6pm Opening Reception by invite only: Saturday March 15th at 6pm Website: Footofmain.com Cassera Arts Premiers in association with Foot of Main Gallery Proudly Present: Photography by Former Canadian Olympic Swimmer Brent Hayden....

Gameboard, American, late 19th century, poplar. Single board with parcheesi in original paint. Estimate: $1,000-$2,000

Country Americana: Painted Furniture, Folk Art & Accessories Auction

Released: March 1, 2014

Did you know that St. Patrick's original signature color was blue? Just maybe, St. Patrick himself was ahead of his time and could have eventually been a collector of Americana where blue is the hottest color around. On Saturday, March 15th beginning at 10 am, Garth’s Auctions will host a one day auction of Country Americana: Painted Furniture, Folk Art & Textiles in which the color blue is highlighted and certain to please the crowd of bidders. With over 550+ lots of country and painted furniture, folk art, gameboards, trade signs, western paintings, taxidermy mounts and a small, but ...

Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Waiting Years, 2013, Mixed media

Contemporary Exhibition Opens with Artist Discussion at the Mattatuck Museum

Released: March 3, 2014

Visual Poetry: Stephanie Brody-Lederman Waterbury, CT… Join the Mattatuck Museum for the opening reception of Visual Poetry: Stephanie Brody-Lederman on Thursday, March 13, 2014 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. The opening celebration will feature a conversation with museum curator Dr. Cynthia Roznoy and artist Stephanie Brody-Lederman at 6:30 p.m. New York-based artist Stephanie Brody-Lederman creates paintings and mixed media collages that combine imagery and text. More than fifty works are included in the exhibition. Brody-Lederman’s original interest in poetry has fused ...

David Forks, Summer Chisos, 2012, Oil on panel, 11" x 14"

Contemporary Western Art Exhibition Opens at the Mattatuck Museum

Released: March 3, 2014

The Mattatuck Museum announces the opening reception for A Feeling of Humanity: Contemporary Western Art from the Ken Ratner Collection on Thursday, March 13, 2014 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. Mr. Ratner will be in attendance to talk with visitors about his collection and will participate in a conversation with the Museum curator, Dr. Cynthia Roznoy and artist Stephanie Brody-Lederman. The exhibition, on view through April 27, 2014, is organized by the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York, with the Mattatuck Museum. This exhibition of more than 65 works including paintings, works on...

Marc Tauss’s mixed media cover art for Jay McInerney’s 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City brought $11,250

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM WINNIE THE POOH, THE WIZARD OF OZ, KRAZY KAT AMONG TOP LOTS AT SWANN GALLERIES’ SECOND ANNUAL AUCTION OF 20th CENTURY ILLUSTRATION ON JANUARY 23

Released: March 2, 2014

Bidders competed actively for illustrations from beloved children’s classics, comic strips and well-known dust jacket artwork in Swann Galleries’ January 23 auction of 20th Century Illustration. Christine von der Linn, Swann Galleries’ Art & Illustrated Books specialist, and John Larson, Swann Galleries’ 19th & 20th Century Literature specialist, said, “We were very pleased with the enthusiastic response from the participants in this sale. A flurry of telephone and internet activity joined the salesroom audience making for a fun and lively auction.” The sale’s top lot was a p...

Henry Cooke White (1861 - 1952) In the Meadows estate stamped lower left pastel on paper 8" x 11 3/4"

“Shipmates for Fifty Years” On View at the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show and The Cooley Gallery

Released: March 15, 2014

The Cooley Gallery announces Shipmates for Fifty Years, paintings by Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) and Henry Cooke White (1861-1952). Shipmates for Fifty Years is on view from March 22 to March 23 at the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show, the nation’s leading show featuring pre-1840′s American furniture, and then travels to the Cooley Gallery in Old Lyme, where the exhibition will be on view through the end of April. “We were congenial in every way, in our tastes in art and literature and in our sports and diversions,” wrote Henry C. White, reminiscing of his friend...

4th Annual CityScapes Art Exhibition Now Online Ready to View

Released: March 1, 2014

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its March 2014 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online. The theme for this art exhibition is “CityScapes” and artists were asked to submit their best cityscape art. Cityscape art includes cities, towns, urban scenes and any related metropolitan subjects. An art competition was held in February 2014 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 19 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 3...

1891 was the first year Coke began producing calendars. This is the earliest known example.

1891 Coca-Cola calendar, possibly the only one in existence, will be sold at auction March 15th

Released: March 15, 2014

(LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – An extremely rare 1891 Coca-Cola wall calendar – the first year Coke began making calendars and possibly the only surviving example in existence – plus other turn-of-the-century Coca-Cola items, will be part of an eclectic auction scheduled for Saturday, March 15, by Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s gallery at 74 Merrick Road in Lynbrook, N.Y. The auction will also feature Part 1 of the John Panza collection of ice cream and soda fountain memorabilia, items from the “Moonlight Kid” collection of motorcycle memorabilia, rare and vintage advertising posters, coin-...