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Rose Art Museum collection to be leased through Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / July 11th, 2010
The sordid situation which took shape in early 2009 around the collection of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, a leading repository of modern and contemporary art, took a new twist recently. A contract has been signed between the debt-plagued university, located in Waltham, Mass., and ...
Weekend Destination: ArtHamptons 2010
ArtfixDaily / July 8th, 2010
Now in its third year, ArtHamptons, a cultural star of the Hamptons summer season and increasingly a major buying venue for modern art, is chock full of special events this weekend. Friday begins the first annual Worldwide Art Collectors' Conference along with more than two dozen meet-the-artist ...
Book Review: The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley
ArtfixDaily / July 6th, 2010
An "informative and lavishly illustrated book, The Art of Aiden Lassell Ripley...has quickly become recognized as the most comprehensive effort to date on the artist," writes Antiques and the Arts. Co-authored by sporting art and decoy authority, dealer, author and auctioneer Stephen B. O'Brien ...
American artists top $68.2 million London auction
Bloomberg / July 1st, 2010
Pop artist Andy Warhol led a 45.6 million pound ($68.2 million) sale at Christie’s International in London Tuesday night. Good quality and low estimates were a deciding edge in helping along the 52-lot sale's 84% sell-though rate. Twenty-five lots exceeded estimates. The silver 1963 silkscreen, ...
Fusco & Four to relaunch Ellis Boston Antiques Show
ArtfixDaily / June 24th, 2010
The Ellis Antiques Show, Boston's premier fair which ran for 49 years through 2008, will be resurrected for a comeback, October 13 to 16, 2011. Show producers Fusco & Four will relaunch the show at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for The Arts, with 40 exhibitors of the highest quality, drawn ...
“Beauty Rediscovered: The Paintings of Adeline Albright Wigand and Otto Charles Wigand”
ArtfixDaily / June 21st, 2010
The elegant and graceful portraits, domestic scenes and landscapes of Adeline Albright Wigand and Otto Charles Wigand, two overlooked late 19th–early 20th century New York artists, will be celebrated in a new exhibition at the Staten Island Museum. Many of 45 works in the exhibition are on loan ...
Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection
ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2010
In 1837, Baltimore portraitist Alfred Jacob Miller accepted an invitation to join Scottish nobleman Capt. William Drummond Stewart on a six-month adventure to the Rocky Mountains. The expedition, along the Oregon Trail to the annual gathering of the fur trade, transformed Miller into an artist ...
The visionary art of Charles Burchfield
ArtfixDaily / June 15th, 2010
Two exhibitions in New York City this summer explore the extraordinary landscape art of Charles Burchfield (American, 1893-1967), a curiously under-appreciated master watercolorist. Celebrated during his lifetime for his nature-inspired artwork, Burchfield, who was active in Upstate New York ...
June Auctions: 10 hot lots
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2010
A dazzling array of artwork is coming to the auction block this June. Sellers are seemingly confident that the upper level of the market is steady and ready for top tier works of art to be sold. "The best of the best" in all categories is in high demand. So far, 2010 has seen the world record ...
"The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time" at Colby College Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / June 8th, 2010
An advocate of "art for art's sake," American-born painter James McNeill Whistler valued the beauty found in everyday life. He was a leading figure in the 19th-century Aesthetic Movement as it evolved in Victorian England, ultimately transforming Americans' ideas of art's purpose. His ...
"The Subtle Genius of Henry Cooke White" opens June 26 at Cooley Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 7th, 2010
"The poetry, the spontaneity, the stillness, or the depth," a wide range of qualities attracted gallery owner Jeffrey Cooley to the work of American artist Henry Cooke White (1861-1952) as presented in last year's exhibition "Visions of Mood" at the Florence Griswold Museum. Inspired by the ...
Olana exhibit explores impact of Jamaica on the art of Frederic Church
ArtfixDaily / June 3rd, 2010
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), known as a leading figure in the Hudson River School of landscape painting, had a passion for the tropics. In 1865, Church and his wife, Isabel, journeyed to Jamaica for a respite after losing their two young children to diphtheria. Immersing himself in the ...
Gilbert Stuart to star in Grogan & Co.'s June auction
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), famous for his presidential portraits of George Washington, also depicted the American leader’s war enemy. General Charles Rainsford, a British officer responsible for recruiting Hessian soldiers to fight the colonists during the Revolutionary War, was painted in ...
Close to Home: The New England Landscapes of Aaron Draper Shattuck (1832-1928)
ArtfixDaily / June 2nd, 2010
Intimate, detailed views of nature were the focus of 19th-century American artist Aaron Draper Shattuck. A newly-discovered cache by this Hudson River School painter will be presented in an exhibition at The Cooley Gallery, beginning June 3 with an evening opening reception. Described as ...
Winslow Homer celebrated in Maine this summer
ArtfixDaily / June 1st, 2010
Winslow Homer's (1836-1910) enduringly-popular art---from genre scenes of boys fishing to fierce seascapes---immortalized American life and the land itself at the point when the country transitioned from an agrarian society, centered on farms and small towns, to an industrial nation. Curator ...
Hassam pastel leads Skinner's $3.9 million auction
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
Skinner's May 21 sale of American & European Paintings & Prints rocketed to $3.9 million (including fees) with several world record auction prices set among the 850 lots. The Boston auctioneer profited from fresh-to-market gems from private collections. Leading the sale was the rare and ...
New Wayside Inn Antiques Show fills a niche
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
American art was one category that fared well at the inaugural Wayside Inn Antiques Show, a benefit for historic Longfellow's Wayside Inn, from May 14 to 16, in Sudbury, Mass. Sales at the booths of Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, The Cooley Gallery and Vose Galleries, to name a few of the 45 ...
"Currier & Ives on The Hudson" opens this summer
Westchester.com / May 26th, 2010
On July 4, a major exhibition featuring Currier & Ives, “printmakers to the American people," will open at the beautiful Federal-style Boscobel House & Gardens in Garrison, New York. Currier & Ives prints have been popular collectibles since the 19th century. The exhibition focuses ...
New MoMA curator will follow latest sensational show
Wall Street Journal / May 26th, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Sabine Breitwieser, an independent curator, author and lecturer, as the new chief curator for its department of media and performance art. "Media and performance art are among the most popular and cutting-edge fields in the arts, and the renewed interest ...
"American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery
Philly.com / May 26th, 2010
"A handsome and piquant show that contains more than a few delights and surprises," writes Edward Sozanski in the Philadelphia Inquirer of "American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery. The Greenville, Delaware, gallery is showing thirty works by leading American artists, mostly from the ...