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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Stuart Davis, Summer Landscape#2, offered at Sotheby's on May 22.

Sotheby's American Art Sale Features Museum Deaccessions
ArtfixDaily Staff - May 20th, 2013 23:04

Sotheby’s will offer a range of works deaccessioned from the collections of four museums in its May 22 sale of American art in New York. Three works sold by the Art Institute of Chicago are led by...

George Catlin, Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie, 1832-1833, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

"George Catlin’s American Buffalo” Debuts at National Museum of Wildlife Art
Release Date: 20 May 2013
Taking a fresh look at George Catlin’s paintings through the artist’s representation of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans, a new exhibition, George Catlin’s American Buffalo, debuted at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on May 18, 2013. The ...

George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1879) The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877–78 Oil on canvas 26 1/16 x 36 3/8 in. (66.2 x 92.4 cm.) Terra Foundation for American Art Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.15

Crystal Bridges Museum Opens Two American Genre Painting Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily Staff - May 20th, 2013 23:04

On the heels of a hugely popular Norman Rockwell exhibition, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is showcasing two new temporary exhibitions featuring American genre painting. More than 65,000 visitors trekked to Bentonville, Arkansas, to view...

Lot 9: Grueby Kendrick vase, ca. 1905, $15,000 – 20,000

Work by Paul Evans, George Nakashima, and George Ohr Among Highlights of Rago’s June 8th-9th Auctions
Release Date: 20 May 2013
Other top lots by Martin Brothers, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Felix Agostini, Grueby and Gustav Stickley Lambertville, NJ On Saturday June 8th and Sunday June 9th, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its auctions of Early 20th Century Decorative Arts and Modern Design. “The ...

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	Calder gouache soars to $114,000 at A.B. Levy's May 5 auction in Fla. Release Date: 20 May 2013 (PALM BEACH, Fla.) – An original gouache (opaque watercolor) painting by renowned artist Alexander Calder (Am./Fr., 1898-1976), titled Red and Blue Egg, signed in the artist’s hand and dated 1969, sold for $114,000 at a two-session auction held May 5th by A.B. Levy’s, in the firm’s main gallery ... Read more

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