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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Two chairs from set of six by Charles Rennie Mackintosh sold for £13,200 in March, but two more have just sold for £109,000.

Prices for Charles Rennie Mackintosh Work Soar Following Glasgow School of Art Fire

The value of work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is set to soar in price after the fire at the Glasgow School of Art, according to auction experts. Sellers were “amazed” at the rocketing value of...

Arts and Crafts style floral paper. Block printed. 1880-1900.

Expanded database makes largest wallpaper collection in New England available worldwide

Thanks in part to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Historic New England announces the completion of a digitization project that makes its extensive wallpaper ...

PARALLEL MODES: ILLUSTRATED VISUAL JOURNALISM AND AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 1955–1980s

The reportage tradition in American illustration was born during the Civil War, when illustrators worked in the field as "special artists," sending sketches back to be engraved for ...

Joel Meyerowitz, New Mexico, from the portfolio Early Years, 1972. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14". Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Joanne and Douglas Milch, 2003

Felix F. de Crano, King Street Looking East, 1906, oil on panel, 20.5"h X 16.5"w,

Rediscovered Artist Felix F. de Crano Featured in Exhibition at Lightner Museum

A Curator’s Tour in January will focus on the Lightner Museum’s major exhibition of 19th century artist Felix F. de Crano’s oil and watercolor paintings. “Long forgotten by most of the ...

Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collection

Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collection will be on view from ...

ZERO IN ASPEN Exhibition Focuses on Experimental German Artists' Group

“The exclusiveness of a completely nonrepresentational, dynamic pictorial structure, light years apart from nature, will be redeemed in a pure emotion. It will unveil a new reality, whose ...

William Gear 1915-1997, Triumverate, 1953, mixed media, 22 x 15 ins

William Gear | Centenary Exhibition of Works on Paper 1947-1996

A Centenary Exhibition of Works on Paper from 1947-1996 by William Gear is devoted to his herculean output of works on ...