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A "Wild, Unsettled Country": Early Reflections of the Adirondacks
ArtfixDaily / August 12th, 2010
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, is showcasing more than forty paintings from the museum's exceptional collection, including works by Thomas Cole, John Frederick Kensett, William Havell, and James David Smillie. The exhibition "Wild, Unsettled Country" features paintings, ...
The Aspen Art Museum's new building
ArtfixDaily / August 12th, 2010
The Aspen Art Museum announced last Friday that the second phase of its capital campaign is underway with matching gifts of $5 million, adding to $28.5 million in existing pledges, for a new building in downtown Aspen. City Council must confirm the plans within 30 days, reports the New York ...
Bill to limit museum art sales stalls out
ArtfixDaily / August 11th, 2010
Legislation to block New York State cultural institutions from selling off artwork and artifacts from their collections in order to cover operating costs may be halted. Opposition from major organizations like the Metropolitan Museum of Art prompted the withdrawal of support from the bill’s ...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts receives foundation grant
ArtfixDaily / August 10th, 2010
A small yet splendid repository of American art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, has just received a $75,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant will go towards American art programming. Founded in 1930, the museum was given the Blount Collection of American Paintings ...
Patriotic Expressions: Flag imagery in antique folk art
ArtfixDaily / August 9th, 2010
Old Glory has proven to be a long-popular image in antique American folk art. Far before Jasper Johns's iconic 'Flag' painting made headlines in May, when one version fetched $28.6 million at a Christie's auction, the American flag in actual or stylized form has consistently been ...
Ralph Cahoon's mermaids showcased in new exhibit
Cape Cod Times / August 8th, 2010
"Chasing the Mermaids," a special exhibition dedicated to the most popular subject matter of Cape Cod folk artist Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), is on view through Sept. 18 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts. The museum was Ralph and Martha Cahoons' home and studio from 1945 ...
Dorsky Museum receives gift of two paintings by Hudson River School Painter Jervis McEntee
ArtfixDaily / August 8th, 2010
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has received a gift of two paintings by 19th Century Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee from Helen McEntee, who married Col. Girard Lindsley McEntee, the nephew of Jervis McEntee. Mrs. McEntee, who lives in ...
A Jaunty Stroll Through (Art) History
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2010
Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn’t be more beautiful. This stretch of history, known as The Hudson River School Art Trail, leads visitors to the sites that inspired ...
The Landscapes of Hanson Duvall Puthuff
ArtfixDaily / August 3rd, 2010
Beverly Hills and Carmel, Calif.-based William A. Karges Fine Art has a collection of fine works by Southern California Impressionist Hanson Duvall Puthuff (1875-1972), a founder of the Laguna Beach Art Association whose coastal, desert and mountain scenes are prized for their fluid brushwork, ...
Expanded Crocker Art Museum inaugurates new galleries with special exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / August 2nd, 2010
This fall the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, California, will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming ...
The rise of auction houses in private sales
Spear's / August 2nd, 2010
Even while record prices for major artists at auction have been headline news in the past year, the recession has helped accelerate the art market's shift towards private sales. Some sellers are seemingly reluctant to take the risk of their art failing at public auction. In response, auction ...
Crystal Bridges To Loan Major Works by Parrish, Rockwell
ArtfixDaily / August 1st, 2010
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originally created as a frontispiece for the December 10, 1910 issue of Collier’s ...
Charles Deas and 1840s America
ArtfixDaily / July 28th, 2010
The Denver Art Museum explores the decade-long career of Charles Deas, an important early painter of American Indians and frontier life in the American west, in the first retrospective of the artist's work, opening August 21. Nearly 45 paintings and works on paper include Deas's most important ...
Newly authenticated Ansel Adams cache valued at $200 million
ArtfixDaily / July 27th, 2010
Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, California, bought two boxes containing 65 glass negatives by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams ten years ago. His $45 garage sale find may be worth up to $200 million, says one expert. "You look at these photographs and they take your breath away," ...
'Gross Clinic' unveiled at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Inquirer / July 26th, 2010
Thomas Eakins' powerful 'The Gross Clinic,' which first shocked audiences at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, riveted visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art over the weekend. A special exhibition featuring the iconic work, on view for the first time since an extensive ...
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
ArtfixDaily / July 26th, 2010
On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents 'American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.' This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. ...
Hidden secrets of Old Masters & an American Icon
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2010
Longstanding knowledge of a few major artists and artworks may be altered. The Vatican believes it has uncovered a 'new' Caravaggio; French experts have scientifically analyzed da Vinci's painting style; and Thomas Eakins' iconic "The Gross Clinic," perhaps the most important American painting of ...
Best of the West on the block
ArtfixDaily / July 18th, 2010
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, the Idaho-based auction house specializing in 19th and 20th century Western and sporting paintings, holds its popular specialized sale on July 24th at The Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada. This annual auction has reeled in a total of $200,000,000 over the last ten ...
'Sargent and the Sea' in London
Bloomberg / July 12th, 2010
The traveling exhibition “Sargent and the Sea” is on view at the Royal Academy in London. Bloomberg's Martin Gayford finds the early seascapes by John Singer Sargent the most appealing. He writes, "'Atlantic Sunset' (c. 1876) catches the ocean in a moment of calm, the water shimmering like ...
Art & antiques fair renaissance
ArtfixDaily / July 12th, 2010
Art Basel, TEFAF Maastricht, New York's Winter Antiques Show, each is long-established in its own niche as a world-class art fair, drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually, at least some of them deep-pocketed buyers. These mainstays of the art and antiques scene, to name a few, are now ...