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Strong start to Bonhams' Scottish Sale
ArtfixDaily / August 19th, 2010
Bonhams' Annual Scottish Sale began this week with a heady total of £1.25m for paintings. the leading lot was Anne Redpath's beautiful 1937 painting, 'Still Life with Michaelmas Daises' which quadrupled its low estimate to sell for £134,000 (pre-sale estimate: £30,000- 50,000). Redpath's ...
Will Cotton to speak at ArtTalks
ArtfixDaily / August 18th, 2010
New York artist Will Cotton, who recently made news as the artistic director for pop singer Katy Perry's California Gurls music video, is the first featured speaker in the 2010/11 ArtTalks series. Cotton is internationally recognized for his dreamy landscapes often composed of sugary desserts and ...
V&A to display Raphael's Sistine tapestries
Telegraph / August 17th, 2010
To mark Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain next month, four glittering tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel will hang, for the first time ever, beside his original designs, or cartoons, in the Victoria & Albert museum. Three years after Michelangelo finished the ...
Raphael masterpiece travels over holidays
ArtfixDaily / August 17th, 2010
The Norton Simon Museum has secured a rare loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. From November 5, 2010, to January 24, 2011, the Pasadena, California, museum will host Raphael’s exquisite The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505. This Madonna and Child painting, on loan for the ...
Princess Diana's necklace stars in Iconic Object sale
ArtfixDaily / August 16th, 2010
On September 24, Guernsey’s will present an Iconic Objects auction at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. Each lot in this extraordinary themed sale relates to a significant person or an event that impacted cultural history. Highlights include the only known recordings of 26 speeches ...
'Antiques Roadshow' video game in the works
ArtfixDaily / August 15th, 2010
With its element of surprise, cast of experts and regular folks, and revelatory nuggets of information, the PBS branded series "Antiques Roadshow" has helped popularize antiques and art over the past 14 years. Now an "Antiques Roadshow" game, possibly played on Wii, DS, or browser based, is ...
Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art
ArtfixDaily / August 15th, 2010
In the Fall of 2010, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will mount Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art. Drawn from Reynolda's own collection of nineteenth-century genre art (including works by William ...
A "Wild, Unsettled Country": Early Reflections of the Adirondacks
ArtfixDaily / August 12th, 2010
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, is showcasing more than forty paintings from the museum's exceptional collection, including works by Thomas Cole, John Frederick Kensett, William Havell, and James David Smillie. The exhibition "Wild, Unsettled Country" features paintings, ...
The Aspen Art Museum's new building
ArtfixDaily / August 12th, 2010
The Aspen Art Museum announced last Friday that the second phase of its capital campaign is underway with matching gifts of $5 million, adding to $28.5 million in existing pledges, for a new building in downtown Aspen. City Council must confirm the plans within 30 days, reports the New York ...
Early $1 coin fetches $1.2 million at auction
Christian Science Monitor / August 11th, 2010
Boston-based auctioneers Bowers and Merena hammered down a $1 coin, the so-called Flowing Hair silver dollar, to an anonymous bidder for $1.2 million last weekend. This rare coin is considered the fourth best specimen of the six mint 1794 silver dollars known to exist. The best specimen, called ...
Bill to limit museum art sales stalls out
ArtfixDaily / August 11th, 2010
Legislation to block New York State cultural institutions from selling off artwork and artifacts from their collections in order to cover operating costs may be halted. Opposition from major organizations like the Metropolitan Museum of Art prompted the withdrawal of support from the bill’s ...
Christie's Haunch of Venison consumes Chelsea gallery
New York Observer / August 10th, 2010
One of New York's more popular young art galleries has merged with Haunch of Venison, the contemporary art dealer owned by auctioneer Christie's International. Robert Goff, who owns an eponymous gallery in Chelsea, along with four of his represented artists, are reportedly joining the auction ...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts receives foundation grant
ArtfixDaily / August 10th, 2010
A small yet splendid repository of American art, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, has just received a $75,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant will go towards American art programming. Founded in 1930, the museum was given the Blount Collection of American Paintings ...
Privately-held Vermeer on display at Chrysler Museum
The Virginian-Pilot / August 9th, 2010
"Young Woman Seated at a Virginal," one of perhaps 36 known works by Johannes Vermeer, and the only one left in private hands (besides Queen Elizabeth's collection), is quietly on public display at Virginia's Chrysler Museum of Art. Aspects of this work have puzzled art experts since it emerged ...
Patriotic Expressions: Flag imagery in antique folk art
ArtfixDaily / August 9th, 2010
Old Glory has proven to be a long-popular image in antique American folk art. Far before Jasper Johns's iconic 'Flag' painting made headlines in May, when one version fetched $28.6 million at a Christie's auction, the American flag in actual or stylized form has consistently been ...
Ralph Cahoon's mermaids showcased in new exhibit
Cape Cod Times / August 8th, 2010
"Chasing the Mermaids," a special exhibition dedicated to the most popular subject matter of Cape Cod folk artist Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), is on view through Sept. 18 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts. The museum was Ralph and Martha Cahoons' home and studio from 1945 ...
Dorsky Museum receives gift of two paintings by Hudson River School Painter Jervis McEntee
ArtfixDaily / August 8th, 2010
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz has received a gift of two paintings by 19th Century Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee from Helen McEntee, who married Col. Girard Lindsley McEntee, the nephew of Jervis McEntee. Mrs. McEntee, who lives in ...
Christie's announces $2.57 billion sales for first half of 2010
ArtfixDaily / August 5th, 2010
Auctioneer Christie's announced on Wednesday worldwide sales of $2.57 billion for the first six months of 2010, up 46% from last year for the same period (figures include buyer’s premium). Results reflected the top end of the art market with Christie's handling 75% of the works sold for over ...
A Jaunty Stroll Through (Art) History
ArtfixDaily / August 4th, 2010
Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (www.thomascole.org) and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn’t be more beautiful. This stretch of history, known as The Hudson River School Art Trail, leads visitors to the sites that inspired ...
Art fraudster Salander sentenced to up to 18 years
Bloomberg / August 3rd, 2010
Bankrupt Manhattan art dealer Lawrence Salander, 61, was sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison for grand larceny and fraud by a New York court on Tuesday. Salander, who was arrested in 2009, pleaded guilty to swindling clients out of $120 million. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries filed for bankruptcy ...