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Woman's Dance Fans (Finger Masks), about 1870 Central Yup-ik, Alaska, Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y.American Indian art from Thaw collection dazzles in traveling show
Cleveland Plain Dealer - March 7th, 2010 19:04
Cleveland Museum of Art has organized a powerful survey of art made by Native North Americans during the tumultuous resettlement years between 1820 and 1920. The 120 works on loan from the Fenimore Museum's renowned Thaw collection, mixed with 15 pieces from Cleveland's own collection, delivers on aesthetic impact, artistic merit and historical significance. The artistry and beauty of these objects demonstrates the cultural survival of a people dealing with near-annihilation and ...

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T.W. Wood, "The Quack Doctor." T.W. Wood Gallery.
A genre painting by 19th c. American artist Thomas Waterman Wood, whose top auction price is $180,000, according to AskArt, has been valued at upwards of $1 million. The 28-by-40-inch work, from the ...
Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer photo. Jon Deeter of the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carvers Association poses with two of his prized ducks. The Canvasbacks were carved by Moses Samuel, circa 1880, in Cayuga, N.Y.
The collecting bug hit Jon Deeter, of the Ohio Decoy Collectors and Carvers Association (ODCCA), with the gift of an old, beat-up decoy carved in the 1930s. He now pursues the thrill of hunting down ...
The Armory Show. Luxist photo.
The modern and contemporary art fairs last week were upbeat. Luxist lists four reasons: Big names brought in buyers, solo booths let collectors focus on one artist, big-ticket sales were back, and ...
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Claude Monet, French, 1840–1926, Garden of the Princess, Louvre (Le Jardin de l'Infante) , 1867, Oil on canvas. The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Colllege, R.T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1948.Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met
March 16 - August 29, 2010
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), SPRING EXHIBITION FEATURES ICONIC MASTERPIECES FROM LONDON’S DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
Release Date: 04 March 2010
This spring, the Frick presents a special exhibition of loans from Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the major collections of Old Master paintings in the world.  Heralding the London museum’s bicentenary in 2011, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to this institution’s ...

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