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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, December 12, 2011

"Pushing Off the Boat at Sea Bright" by Louis Comfort Tiffany, part of a major exhibit at the Nassau County Museum of Art.

Private Collection of L.C. Tiffany Paintings Featured in Exhibition
ArtfixDaily Staff - December 12th, 2011 03:02

This weekend, an exhibit opened at the Nassau County Museum of Art, featuring approximately 125 of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s oil paintings and works on paper. The works are on loan from a private Long Island collection. Tiffany traveled extensively in Spain and North Africa, and several works in this exhibit reflect the inspiration he found there. Examples of Tiffany paintings done much closer to home are also represented...

TIFFANY STUDIOS, A Selection of Decorated and Floriform Favrile Glass Vases, circa 1900-1910. Estimates from $5,000 to $20,000.

Midwest Collectors Drive Sales of Important Tiffany Glass at Christie's New York
Release Date: 12 December 2011
Christie’s will offer one of the largest single groups of art glass ever offered at auction in its upcoming sale of Magnificent Tiffany: Including Property from the Estate of Jeanne Laverne Dailey on December 17, 2011, at 10am. This lively collecting category has achieved outstanding results ...

Portrait of a Man and Woman in an Interior, painted about 1666, by Eglon van der Neer (Dutch, 1634–1703). Oil on panel. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Seth K. Sweetser Fund.

Museum Curator as Art Detective
Boston Globe - December 12th, 2011 03:44

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Victoria Reed is the first and only endowed curator of provenance at an American museum. Since 2010, her role has been to research objects in the museum's collections, and new acquisitions, in order to determine the right of ownership. At times, Reed's findings have led to restitution...

Gary Tinterow, newly appointed Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Gary Tinterow Appointed Director of the MFAH
Release Date: 09 December 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, announced that Gary Tinterow has been named as its seventh director. Tinterow, an internationally recognized curator and scholar who is currently the Engelhard Chairman of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Art at New York’s ...

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	Seeing Abstractly: Works on Paper and Small Oils by John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902) Release Date: 09 December 2011 Spanierman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening on December 15, 2011, of Seeing Abstractly: Works on Paper and Small Oils by John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902). Including thirteen works from all phases in the artist’s career, this exhibition reveals Twachtman’s quick eye for the ... Read more

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