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The Landscapes of Hanson Duvall Puthuff
ArtfixDaily / August 3rd, 2010
Beverly Hills and Carmel, Calif.-based William A. Karges Fine Art has a collection of fine works by Southern California Impressionist Hanson Duvall Puthuff (1875-1972), a founder of the Laguna Beach Art Association whose coastal, desert and mountain scenes are prized for their fluid brushwork, ...
Expanded Crocker Art Museum inaugurates new galleries with special exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / August 2nd, 2010
This fall the Crocker Art Museum, in Sacramento, California, will celebrate the opening of its 125,000-square-foot expansion, designed by Charles Gwathmey, with a retrospective of the work of Sacramento native Wayne Thiebaud. On view beginning October 10, 2010, Wayne Thiebaud: Homecoming ...
The rise of auction houses in private sales
Spear's / August 2nd, 2010
Even while record prices for major artists at auction have been headline news in the past year, the recession has helped accelerate the art market's shift towards private sales. Some sellers are seemingly reluctant to take the risk of their art failing at public auction. In response, auction ...
Crystal Bridges To Loan Major Works by Parrish, Rockwell
ArtfixDaily / August 1st, 2010
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will share important works of art by America’s most beloved artist-illustrators with the Toledo Museum of Art. Maxfield Parrish’s lyrical nocturne The Lantern Bearers (1908), originally created as a frontispiece for the December 10, 1910 issue of Collier’s ...
On the market: Antique games table of superior quality, Wilde history
ArtfixDaily / July 29th, 2010
Perhaps the world's greatest antique games table is newly available from New Orleans-based M.S. Rau Antiques. This incredible tables de jeux was made expressly for the posh yet distinctly bohemian Albemarle Club in London, the site of literary legend Oscar Wilde's 1895 scandal. If tables could ...
Charles Deas and 1840s America
ArtfixDaily / July 28th, 2010
The Denver Art Museum explores the decade-long career of Charles Deas, an important early painter of American Indians and frontier life in the American west, in the first retrospective of the artist's work, opening August 21. Nearly 45 paintings and works on paper include Deas's most important ...
Ansel Adams's trust says rediscovered photographs phony
AP via Boston Globe / July 28th, 2010
The 65 glass negatives bought for $45 a decade ago at a garage sale by Fresno, California, painter Rick Norsigian are not by Ansel Adams (d. 1984), according to the photographer's trust. Norsigian's lawyer announced Tuesday that the images of places such as Yosemite and Carmel were long-lost ...
Vatican retracts new Caravaggio claim
Washington Post / July 27th, 2010
Art historians have concluded that a painting thought to be an unknown work by Carvaggio is not by the Baroque master. The Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano headlined a story last week about a discovery of a lost Caravaggio titled "Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" in a Jesuit church. Experts ...
Newly authenticated Ansel Adams cache valued at $200 million
ArtfixDaily / July 27th, 2010
Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, California, bought two boxes containing 65 glass negatives by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams ten years ago. His $45 garage sale find may be worth up to $200 million, says one expert. "You look at these photographs and they take your breath away," ...
'Gross Clinic' unveiled at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Inquirer / July 26th, 2010
Thomas Eakins' powerful 'The Gross Clinic,' which first shocked audiences at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, riveted visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art over the weekend. A special exhibition featuring the iconic work, on view for the first time since an extensive ...
American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White
ArtfixDaily / July 26th, 2010
On October 2, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents 'American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White.' This special exhibition explores the work of three of the foremost photographers of the twentieth-century and the golden age of documentary photography in America. ...
Summer reading: "The Rembrandt Affair"
ArtfixDaily / July 20th, 2010
Best-selling author Daniel Silva has crafted an entertaining new spy thriller based on the world's most shocking art heists. "The Rembrandt Affair" portrays art crime---a lucrative underground activity resulting in losses of at least $6 billion annually, according to the FBI---set against the ...
Hidden secrets of Old Masters & an American Icon
ArtfixDaily / July 19th, 2010
Longstanding knowledge of a few major artists and artworks may be altered. The Vatican believes it has uncovered a 'new' Caravaggio; French experts have scientifically analyzed da Vinci's painting style; and Thomas Eakins' iconic "The Gross Clinic," perhaps the most important American painting of ...
Best of the West on the block
ArtfixDaily / July 18th, 2010
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, the Idaho-based auction house specializing in 19th and 20th century Western and sporting paintings, holds its popular specialized sale on July 24th at The Silver Legacy Resort in Reno, Nevada. This annual auction has reeled in a total of $200,000,000 over the last ten ...
ARTFIXdaily Announcement
ArtfixDaily / July 18th, 2010
ARTFIXdaily offices will be closed July 21 to 26, and reopening on Tuesday, July 27. During this time, ArtGuild members and Guest contributors may continue to submit content to the site. (Guest submissions will be published after the 26th.) The daily e-mail newsletter will not be published from ...
Magazine doubts da Vinci fingerprint expert
Edmonton Journal / July 15th, 2010
Peter Silverman, the Canadian art dealer who garnered international attention last year after claiming he'd discovered a long-lost drawing by the Italian master Leonardo da Vinci, insists the portrait's new attribution is sound despite troubling questions raised by The New Yorker magazine about ...
Circus Day in America
ArtfixDaily / July 15th, 2010
A lively exhibition at Vermont's Shelburne Museum is a multi-sensory experience celebrating Circus Day, the once-popular holiday which brought entire communities together. During the Golden Age of the American circus (1870-1950) schools closed, factories shut down, and farmers left their fields ...
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture
New York Times / July 14th, 2010
Alice T. Friedman, an architectural historian and professor of American art history at Wellesley, has a new book, “American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture” (Yale University Press; $65), that links the work of postwar architects like Morris Lapidus, Philip Johnson and Richard ...
Munch's iconic Madonna fetches £1.25 million at Bonhams
ArtfixDaily / July 14th, 2010
A hand-colored Madonna image by Edvard Munch sold for £1.25 million ($1.9 million) at a Bonhams sale in London on Tuesday - twice its lower estimate, making it the the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. An American private collector snapped up the once-controversial ...
'Sargent and the Sea' in London
Bloomberg / July 12th, 2010
The traveling exhibition “Sargent and the Sea” is on view at the Royal Academy in London. Bloomberg's Martin Gayford finds the early seascapes by John Singer Sargent the most appealing. He writes, "'Atlantic Sunset' (c. 1876) catches the ocean in a moment of calm, the water shimmering like ...