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J.H.  Sharp at the March in Montana Auction.March in Montana Auction features Sharp paintings, Navajo weavings
Great Falls Tribune - March 16th, 2010 17:58
Nearly 650 pieces of artwork and artifacts, including two fine oils by J.H. Sharp, will be offered next weekend in the annual March in Montana Auction. About 225 lots come from the collection of Bob Praegitzer, a wealthy West Coast industrialist who was a fixture at the Russell Art Auction and the Manitou Auction during the 1980s and 1990s. His Sharp painting "Hunting Sun — Taos Indian" is estimated at $100,000 to $150,000. Antique Navajo weavings, out of a Reno estate, as ...

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Image: Zaha Hadid Architects
A groundbreaking ceremony took place yesterday for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Billionaire Eli Broad ponied up $28 million for the new building, ...

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FBI billboards along interstates in Massachusetts
Rembrandt’s “The Storm on the Sea of Galilee,’’ his only seascape, has been plastered on Massachusetts billboards along two interstates in an effort by the FBI to ...

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A detail from Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'David and Bathsheba', which was sold for almost £5 million in Maastricht by Konrad Bernheimer.
American museums have prowled TEFAF, the Maastricht art fair on through the end of this week, and made significant purchases. Washington's National Gallery of Art bought a 17th-century ...

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Hudson River Valley view.The Berkshires and Hudson River Valley Art Tour
May 14-16, 2010
Organized by the Delaware Art Museum
Lenox, Massachusetts
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Arnold Newman, Self Portrait: Studio, New York City,1987, 1987 B/W Modern 7 x 7 ¼ inches.  Arnold Newman/Getty ImagesPhotography Exhibition at the Farnsworth: Arnold Newman
Release Date: 15 March 2010
(Rockland, ME) On Saturday, March 27, the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine will open a new exhibition of photographs by Arnold Newman. The exhibition, entitled Arnold Newman, will be on view in the museum’s Craig Gallery through August 8, 2010.   Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was ...

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