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Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837–1908) Rocky Shore, 1886 Ink wash, gouache and graphite on blue wove paper 10 15/16 x 19 9/16 inches Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; The Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr. Collection of American Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr. GMOA 1989.40

Georgia Museum of Art to exhibit work by A.T. Bricher, Christian Marclay and Yoko Ono in “Water Music”
Release Date: 19 December 2012
The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) at the University of Georgia will present the focused exhibition “Water Music” in its Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery, dedicated to time-based media, from Feb. 2 to March 10, 2013. Drawing from private collections and from the permanent collection of the Georgia ...

Custer’s personal carbine brings $179,250; Little Big Horn archive brings $89,625 in Political and Americana event Dec. 11-12 in Dallas.

Custer items rule Heritage Auctions $2.5+ million December Americana event
Release Date: 19 December 2012
– General George Armstrong Custer’s personally owned Army-issue Model 1865 Spencer Carbine brought $179,250 to claim top lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ $2.5+ million Political, Western Legends & Americana Signature® Auction, Dec. 11-12. Items relating to the well-known general led ...

Fasciculus rariorum et aspectu dignorum varii generis,Engraved title page, Basilius Besler, Nuremberg, 1616

Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum: 1599-1899
Release Date: 17 December 2012
In the early 16th century, Europeans began to form Wunderkammers (often called "Cabinets of Curiosity") with collections of wondrous natural and man-made objects that filled shelves, drawers, and ceilings with possessions of the marvelous. Elaborate illustrated catalogues were produced to ...

Paul Resika: 8 + 8
Release Date: 19 December 2012
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects presents 8 + 8, a two-gallery survey of Paul Resika’s painting, featuring eight works that span eight decades of Resika’s career, beginning in the 1940s and continuing up to the present. Resika has never had a retrospective before. Connected to personalities as ...

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