Rago Auction's May 16 Open House Features Artist Peter Paone on Collecting Prints.

Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, May 16, featuring a talk by artist Peter Paone on “The Rewards and Pitfalls of Collecting Prints” at 6 p.m. The talk takes place during the preview week for Rago’s May 18 Fine Art auction.

Peter Paone will share important information for the print collector, a step by step description of the printmaking processes, the language, symbols, terminology and conservation of the print, and the markets for collecting.

Peter Paone attended the Philadelphia College of Art. He has taught at Pratt Institute in New York, The National Academy of Design in New York and since 1978 The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He has received a number of grants and awards such as two Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grants, a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, A Mid- Atlantic Foundation grant, the first Print Club Award of Merit, The 172nd Annual Painting Prize from The National Academy of Design and three years in London on a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

His work has been featured in fifty-two one person exhibitions in New York, Houston, Fort Worth, Philadelphia, as well as in London, Vienna and Germany. Since 1960, his work has joined that of other artists in sixty national and international group exhibitions. A selected list of public collections in which paintings, drawings and prints are represented include The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum and The British Museum, in London England, The National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Academy of Design, Yale University Art Gallery, The Jersey City Museum, The Arkansas Art Center and The National Portrait Gallery.

He has been affiliated with the exhibitions committee of the National Academy of Design, the Visual Arts panel of The Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and is a board member of the Appraisers of Fine Arts Society and a member of The National Academy of Design.

His most recent one person museum exhibitions include, “Poets” in conjunction with his photography collection “ The Artist Revealed” at the National Academy of Design, “The Italians” at The Jersey City Museum, “Imaginary Watercolors” at the James A. Michener Museum.

The talk takes place during preview week for Rago’s Fine Art auctions, to be held on Saturday, May 18, featuring 19th/20th C. American and European Art and Post-War and Contemporary Art, featuring the collection of Joshua Smith, Part Two.

The auction house opens on Thursday, May 16 at Noon. A reception begins at 5 p.m.  Mr. Paone will speak at 6 p.m.

RSVP to 609.397.9374 ext. 119 or raac@ragoarts.com. If you unable to RSVP in advance, please join us if you can; all are welcome.

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About Rago Arts and Auction Center

Since 1994, Rago's has served thousands of sellers and buyers with a singular blend of global reach and personal service. Originally specialists in 20th century design, today Rago's expertise covers centuries of fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry and ethnographic property.  It is a world-class venue through which to buy and sell. It is also a destination for those who seek to learn and share knowledge about art, antiques and collecting, offering free valuations for personal property (from a single piece to collections and estates), appraisals and auction exhibitions in house and online. Rago's, the largest and leading auction house in New Jersey, is located midway between Philadelphia and New York.

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