ArtfixDaily News Feed

ArtfixDaily: Curated Art World News & Exclusives

FORWARD TO A COLLEAGUE

Breaking News

ArtWire

Blogs

Calendar

Join ArtGuild

ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, February 14, 2011

Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943. Oil on canvas, 8 by 20 feet. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim 1959.6 / © 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / ARS, NY

Legislator proposes pawning Pollock
Quad-City Times - February 14th, 2011 04:35

Iowa State Rep. Scott Raecker has an idea about how to fund art student scholarships at the University of Iowa. Sell the school's Jackson Pollock "Mural," a massive painting valued at $140 million. It is Pollock's seminal work that reshaped his style and transformed American art in the 1940s. 'Mural' helped catapult Pollock to international fame as a leading modern painter. The late Peggy Guggenheim, Pollock's patron, donated 'Mural' to the University of Iowa Art Museum in 1951. Since then ...

Adoration of the Magi, installed, c.1886

Evidence of Edmonia Lewis’s Lost Work Found in Baltimore Church

The location and photographs of a “lost” sculpture by famous sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis, entitled Adoration of the Magi, have been found in a Baltimore church by student researcher, ...

Featured Event - View the events calendar >>

	talk: Elizabeth Enders Modern Poetics February 17-19, 2011 diane birdsall gallery Old Lyme, Connecticut Read more

Artwire^TM - Read the latest Press Releases >>

	First Nationally Touring Exhibition of the Work of Gustav Stickley, Patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Opens at Dallas Museum of Art Release Date: 13 February 2011 On February 13, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) inaugurates Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, the first nationally touring exhibition to offer a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the leading figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav ... Read more

Got a news tip? Email us or join ArtGuild for art world professionals to post press releases to ArtWire.

Advertise! Reach a targeted audience of art world professionals and leading collectors. Email us at advertise@artfixdaily.com with your telephone number to learn more about advertising in this daily e-newsletter and on artfixdaily.com.