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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Sotheby's scores Denver deal for Clyfford Still paintings
ArtfixDaily Staff - August 23rd, 2011 22:42

Sotheby's was granted the right by the city of Denver to sell four rare-to-market paintings by American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still (1904-1980). Rival auction house Christie's says it could offer the city a better deal. Both Sotheby's and Christie's submitted proposals to handle the artworks which are being sold to benefit a new Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, scheduled to open in November. The four paintings could net the museum $25 million. A collection of 825 paintings from ...

Julia Margaret Cameron (English, born in India, 1815-1879) A Beautiful Vision, Julia Duckworth. Carbon print, June 1872, 33.5 x 25.4 cm.

Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition opens at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs
Release Date: 23 August 2011
"My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty." —Julia Margaret Cameron. An exhibition of portraits by 19th century British ...

Romare Bearden, Evening, 1985, Collage on Board, 14 x 12 inches

Romare Bearden: An Artist Remembers His Birthplace
Release Date: 23 August 2011
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Romare Bearden’s birth, Jerald Melberg Gallery presents a major exhibition of over forty collages, watercolors and prints featuring the artist’s memories of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Romare Bearden was born in his great-grandfather's house in ...

Dallas Museum of Art Appoints Sue Canterbury as Associate Curator of American Art
Release Date: 22 August 2011
Patricia “Sue” Canterbury has been appointed The Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, it was announced today by Olivier Meslay, the DMA’s Interim Director and its Senior Curator of European and American Art and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon ...

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