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19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART PREVAILS AT BONHAMS NEW YORK
Released: May 23, 2013NEW YORK — Bonhams May 22 American Art auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom saw success across categories, particularly for 19th century paintings as well as sculpture from a variety of periods. Interest came overwhelmingly from the US, with discerning bidders from the UK and Europe also represented. Bidding by telephone proved to be the most popular method overall, yet fortunate attendees and enthusiastic online bidders still managed to take home a significant share of the top lots. The auction’s cover lot, Eastman Johnson’s “Indian Family,” painted circa 1856-57, led the ...
SCOTTSDALE ART AUCTION SHATTERS WESTERN ART RECORDS
Released: May 23, 2013For the ninth consecutive year Scottsdale Art Auction, holder of over 137 contemporary and deceased Western masters’ auction records, sets 31 new records as a packed sale room provided enthusiastic bids on Saturday, April 6th. Top lot for the day was Frederic Remington’s black and white oil, Pack Horse Men Repelling an Attack by Indians, 27 inches by 40 inches, (estimated at $500,000 to $700,000) that sold for $1,035,000. Contemporary lots that set new records included Martin Grelle’s Prayers of the Pipe Carrier, a 58 inches by 66 inches oil, (estimated at $200,000 to $30...
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...
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 ...
"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...
Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million
Released: May 21, 2013Rago’s May 18 Fine Art Auctions Realize $1.9 Million. Lambertville, NJ Rago Arts and Auction Center’s Fine Art auctions on May 18 brings an impressive $1.9 million. “Results for the Contemporary Art in the Joshua Smith Collection were strong and the collection exceeded the high estimate,” said Meredith Hilferty, who directs Rago's Fine Art department. The top price in Contemporary Art was for a Kenneth Noland painting entitled “Flown” from 1978 selling for $81,250. In the early 20th C. category, a small portrait by Milton Dacosta stole the sh...
"George Catlin’s American Buffalo” Debuts at National Museum of Wildlife Art
Released: May 20, 2013Taking a fresh look at George Catlin’s paintings through the artist’s representation of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans, a new exhibition, George Catlin’s American Buffalo, debuted at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on May 18, 2013. The exhibition features 40 paintings by the artist, who produced some 500 works based on travels among 50 Native American tribes in the 1830s. The exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Wildlife Art, is drawn entirely from the Smithsoni...
Work by Paul Evans, George Nakashima, and George Ohr Among Highlights of Rago’s June 8th-9th Auctions
Released: May 20, 2013Other top lots by Martin Brothers, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Felix Agostini, Grueby and Gustav Stickley Lambertville, NJ On Saturday June 8th and Sunday June 9th, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its auctions of Early 20th Century Decorative Arts and Modern Design. “The June action Saturday session features 30 works by George Ohr from the Ellison collection plus some extraordinary Martin ware from the same source,” says David Rago. “Additionally there are strong examples of American decorative ceramics by Rhead, Redlands, Newcomb College, and Gr...
CHRISTIE’S SHOWCASES MASTERWORKS OF AMERICAN MODERNISM
Released: May 19, 2013On 23 May, Christie’s will present the Spring sale of American Art, with modern masters Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Milton Avery and others, highlighting the event. The sale will feature works from prominent private collections including Three Generations of Wyeth: The Collection of Eric and Cynthia Sambol, which is comprised of a stunning group of 13 pieces by N.C., Andrew, and Jamie Wyeth, and a selection of works from the Collection of Andy Williams. In all, 140 exceptional works from a diverse group of artistic movements in American Art across the 19th and 20th centuri...
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Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
Released: May 10, 2013Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), is proud to present Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, the first major museum exhibition of Francis’s work in over a decade. Known as one of the twentieth century's most influential painters of light and color, Sam Francis maintained studios in New York, France, Switzerland, and Japan, but continually returned to his native California, finishing his last series of paintings in Santa Monica just before his death in November 1994. The exhibition brings together Francis’s paintings and u...
The Civil War and American Art Opens at the Met
Released: May 16, 2013Because the American Civil War threatened both the founding principles and the viability of the republic, the nation’s entire population was deeply affected by the fact of the conflict and its outcome. The major loan exhibition The Civil War and American Art, which will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning May 27, will consider how American artists responded to the Civil War and its aftermath. Landscapes and genre scenes—more than traditional history paintings—captured the war’s impact on the American psyche. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the conflict: unease...
Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington achieves $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ two-day, $4.5+ million American art events
Released: May 16, 2013Rembrandt Peale’s iconic portrait of U.S. President George Washington – created in the artist’s lifelong quest to paint the most recognizable image of the “Father of the United States” – realized a new world record for a porthole portrait by the artist when it sold for $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ two-day, $4.5+ million American art events in Dallas. The May 10-11 events spanned American Indian art, Texas, Western and California Art and masterpieces of Fine American art. The auction sold 88 percent by lot and 93 percent by value and pushed three artists’ records past $5...
Westchester Conservatory Honors Educator, Artist, Musician at Alumni Reunion June 1st.
Released: May 15, 2013The Music Conservatory of Westchester (MCW), a non-profit community music school in White Plains, NY, that sponsors a regular series of art exhibitions in their 260-seat recital Hall, will hold their Inaugural Alumni Reunion and Concert June 1st. The event will feature an exhibition of paintings, performances by MCW students and faculty, cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, and the unveiling of a new photo exhibit chronicling the school since its founding in 1929. Alumnus and celebrated New Rochelle artist, educator and musician David Tobey will be honored at the event. Over the past 2...
MATTHEW'S GALLERIES - June 25th Auction
Released: May 15, 2013Matthew's Galleries announces its summer fine arts auction of 19th & 20th century American and European paintings, watercolors and fine prints. Highlights include a sanguine drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renior (French, 1841-1919) "Jeune Femme nue aux bras leves", 8 1/4" x 6 3/8", and two street scene paintings by Eugene Galien-Laloue (French, 1854-1941), each 10 7/8" x 13 7/8". Noted lots from the American paintings selection is "Mt. Shasta, California" by William S. Parrott (1843-1915), a 18" x 22" canvas, and a high key impressionist painting by Henry J. Albright (1887-1951)...
Tim White-Sobieski: stainless steel and light sculptures in Palma de Mallorca
Released: May 14, 2013Galeria Maior is pleased to present work of Tim White-Sobieski in Palma; in 2008 Galeria Maior has exhibited the artist's installation at its satellite location in Pollença. Current project consists of mirror polished stainless steel sculptures with projected video compositions, full-color light-emitting diodes panels, and fiver-optics light installations, wall video projections. Project includes series of 24 photographs. Artist employs various multimedia sources for establishing a sacred space within his glowing photo-video-sculptural installation. Lights and projected videos are filme...
PROVENANCE TAKES PRECEDENCE: AMERICAN ART AT BONHAMS NEW YORK
Released: May 13, 2013NEW YORK —A significant selection of fresh to the market American art highlights Bonhams May 22 American Art auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. 96 lots will be offered in total, including works from the 19th century, Hudson River School, Impressionism, Modernism, and regional schools of art. Eastman Johnson’s painting Indian Family, circa 1856-57, is the auction’s top lot (est. $400,000-600,000). This authentic scene depicts a seated elderly American Indian man, his face worn and his eyes wary, next to a curious and rosy-cheeked infant swaddled and placed in...
Complete Andy Warhol Endangered Species and Ads 1985 portfolios expected to exceed $250,000+ each at Heritage Auctions modern and contemporary art event
Released: May 13, 2013More than 200 fresh-to-market lots includes works by Estes, Ruscha, Lichtenstein and Picasso, May 22, in Dallas. A portfolio of 10 screen prints from Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species, 1983, may bring $250,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' May 22 Modern and Contemporary Art Signature® Auction in Dallas. Each signed and numbered in pencil, the portfolio is presented in a single lot and is one of eight lots featuring the Master of Pop Art, to include Ads, 1985, ($200,000+), Liz, 1967, ($5,000+) and Teddy Roosevelt, from the Cowboys and Indians portfolio, ($12,000+). “The fine Warhols are j...
BONHAMS NEW YORK TO OFFER IMPORTANT STUDIO GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA
Released: May 13, 2013NEW YORK — Bonhams will offer Important Studio Glass from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana in the June 14 20th Century Decorative Arts auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. Comprised of 23 impressive works created by some of today’s most gifted, innovative and influential artists in this burgeoning collecting field, this notable group inspires the mind with its exploration of the modern-day treatment of glass. 2013 marks the 51st anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement – a phenomenon which has brought glassmaking from the domain of factory crafts...
John Waddingham: Retrospective
Released: May 11, 2013Matthew's Galleries is pleased to have acquired the estate collection of Oregon artist John Waddingham's work, spanning more than 65 years. More than 200 works will be on exhibit for sale, with an opening reception Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 4-8pm. The exhibit will run through June 4, 2013. Oils, watercolors, monotypes and fine prints will be included, many created in the Portland metropolitan area, but also from his travels around the world. John Waddingham was internationally known, but is remembered as the Art Director for The Oregonian for twenty years (and Art Director at the Oregon Jou...
African American Art Featured at Gray’s Auctioneers
Released: May 13, 2013Gray’s Auctioneers’ May 15 Fine Art, Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction features a number of stellar artworks by African-American artists. One such stunning piece is Lot 54, The Seamstresses, painted in 1954 by famed African-American artist and master of the Harlem Renaissance, Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence gained national acclaim as a painter while still a young man in his twenties when a portion of his work from the Migrations Series, a suite of paintings depicting the early twentieth-century passage of African-Americans from the Deep South to the urban North, was featured in a 1941 issue o...
Rockwell Kent- Rediscovered
Released: May 8, 2013Tom Veilleux Gallery in Portland, Maine is currently showing a group of works by Rockwell Kent, including recently discovered works given by Kent to Mr. and Mrs. Abe Colish and their daughter. These works have descended in that family and now make their way to the art market for the first time. The Colish family paintings include an oil painting titled, Monhegan. Paintings of Monhegan by Kent, not previously known to scholars, are rarely offered for sale. Most are in museums and prestigious private collections. Rockwell Kent arrived on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine...
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