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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Painter Will Barnet Recieves National Medal of Arts
ArtfixDaily Staff - February 13th, 2012 17:04

President Obama on Monday awarded the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal on two organizations and 15 individuals---from artist Will Barnet to Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino. Among those honored with the National Medal of Arts...

Pierre Bonnard, Le Café, 1915, Coffee. Oil on canvas, 73 × 106.4 cm. Tate, presented by Sir Michael Sadler through the Art Fund 1941.

Sensual, Shimmering, Glowing: Pierre Bonnard’s Spectacular Worlds of Color
Release Date: 13 February 2012
A new catalog for the exhibition "Pierre Bonnard" is a resplendent presentation of Post-Impressionist interiors, gardens, and boulevards. This publication is devoted to a retrospective of the work of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), one of the most fascinating painters of the modern era., on view ...

Rev. Calvert Richard Jones (Welsh, 1802-1877) Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill, Rome, 1846. Salt print from a calotype negative 16.7 x 21.3 cm on 19.7 x 24.8 cm paper.

Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will Present Views of 19th Century Italy by Calvert Jones and Others at TEFAF
Release Date: 13 February 2012
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will feature early photographs by the Welsh marine painter, Rev. Calvert Richard Jones (1804-1877) and others, at TEFAF Maastricht from 16-25 March 2012. Jones’s early salt prints and calotype negatives on view were inspired by the artist’s travels in Italy ...

Charles Shaw, "Black into Yellow," 1970, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches

Impact, Movement, and Simplification: Paintings by Charles Green Shaw, 1966-70
Release Date: 14 February 2012
Spanierman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening on February 23, 2012 of Impact, Movement, and Simplification: Paintings by Charles Green Shaw, 1966-70, an exhibition featuring the extraordinary group of paintings Shaw (1892-1974) created from 1966 through 1970 in which he returned ...

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	Gil Elvgren, Norman Rockwell and J.C. Leyendecker among luminous names in Heritage Auctions Illustration Art event Release Date: 13 February 2012 A grouping of prime canvases by the master of Pin-Up Art, Gil Elvgren, will anchor Heritage Auctions’ March 1-2 Illustration Art Signature® Auction, led by Elvgren’s whimsical, tongue-in-cheek 1946 Brown and Bigelow calendar illustration, “I Hope the Boys Don’t Draw Straws Tonight,” estimated ... Read more

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