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Museum Exhibition Explores Work of Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Sisters
Wisconsin State Journal / September 4th, 2016
Georgia O’Keeffe was not the only one in her family with artistic talent. Two of her sisters, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and Catherine O’Keeffe Klenert, had their own achievements in the art community as well. Their hometown, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is honoring them with an exhibit, “The Three Sisters ...
Whaling Museum Gets Grant to Restore 1,275-Foot Painting
Patriot Ledger / August 31st, 2016
It's a quarter-mile long - a fitting size for a painting of sea-faring ventures - and now this rare panoramic artwork will return to its former glory. From the Patriot Ledger: The New Bedford Whaling Museum [Mass.] has been awarded $180,000 to restore one of its largest and rarest artifacts, ...
Original Norman Rockwell Painting Surfaces in Hospice's Labor Day Auction
Lancaster Online / August 31st, 2016
An original work by famed illustrator Norman Rockwell will be offered among Amish-made food, quilts, and "awesome stuff" at a Pennsylvania charity auction this weekend. A local donor gave the Rockwell painting, “Swords at Weehawken,” to the 32nd annual Hospice & Community Care's Labor Day ...
SF Chronicle: Sneak Peek Inside the George Lucas Museum
San Francisco Chronicle / August 30th, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Desmarais visited the George Lucas estate in California for an initial look at the fimmaker's vast collection that would form the planned Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Previous attempts to create the museum in San Francisco and Chicago have fallen ...
Discover Dance-Inspired American Art in Traveling Exhibition, Catalog
Museum Shop / August 24th, 2016
On view now through Oct. 2, 2016, at the Denver Art Museum is a traveling exhibition centered on American art from 1830 to 1960. The 304-page exhibition catalog can be ordered online through the Denver Museum Shop: As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, ...
New Book Compiles the Best in Botanic Imagery
PHAIDON / August 24th, 2016
Plant: Exploring the Botancial World is a new compilation of 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever made. From Phaidon, the 353-page book will be released in September and includes a seminal Georgia O'Keeffe painting, exquisite images assembled by the Royal Botanic Garden ...
Digging Into the SFMOMA Deal with the Fisher Family
San Francisco Chronicle / August 22nd, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle's Charles Desmarais reports on the Fisher Collection of contemporary art on display at the expanded SFMOMA, and the scant details provided on the deal between the museum and the Fisher family. As Donald Fisher’s health failed, a new deal was struck with SFMOMA, resulting ...
Sebastian Smee's The Art of Rivalry Covers Riveting Relationships of Modern Masters
Indiebound / August 16th, 2016
The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize winning art critic Sebastian Smee has penned a spellbinding 416-page tome about eight of modern art's most hallowed names -- and the artists' very complicated relationships with each other. The book The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, ...
François Pinault Steps Up Plans for Paris Art Museum
New York Times / August 4th, 2016
French luxury-goods billionaire François Pinault has accelerated plans for a private art museum in Paris to bring a bright new spot to the city after a string of terror-attacks. The Paris City Council approved final plans last month for the museum to open in a renovated 18th-century stock ...
SF Museums Board Head Dede Wilsey to Step Down
San Francisco Chronicle / August 1st, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle: Dede Wilsey, longtime head of the board that runs the de Young Museum and Legion of Honor in San Francisco, is giving up her top spot after the museums paid a $2 million settlement to a former high-ranking executive who said Wilsey had her ousted for revealing alleged ...
University of Iowa Plans $60-Million Art Museum
Press-Citizen / June 6th, 2016
University of Iowa officials are proposing a new $60-million museum facility be built to house its displaced art collection. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports: UI's request comes eight years after the Iowa River flooded UI's half-century-old Museum of Art, located along the river's ...
Feds Sue Dealer For Depression-Era Artwork
Washington Times / May 31st, 2016
New Jersey art dealer Matthew Schwartz offered a $8,500 painting for sale on eBay in October 2015 and got an immediate response---from the federal government. The portrait "1934 Farmer" by John Slavin was commissioned under the Depression-era federal work program for artists sponsored by the ...
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Acquires Rare O’Keeffe Painting
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / May 24th, 2016
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is pleased to announce it has acquired a rare 1926 painting by Georgia O’Keeffe titled; The Barns, Lake George. Funds from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s acquisition fund were used to purchase the painting. Exhibited in multiple important exhibitions during O’Keeffe’s ...
Rediscovered Painting Joins Major Retrospective of Impressionist Edmund Tarbell
ArtfixDaily / May 24th, 2016
Renowned American Impressionist painter Edmund C. Tarbell is in the spotlight. The most ambitious exhibit of Tarbell’s vibrant work is open daily through June 3 at Discover Portsmouth, in Portsmouth, NH, operated by the nonprofit Portsmouth Historical Society. Illuminating ...
60 Minutes: "Obvious" Overlooks in the $80 Million Art Scam
60 Minutes / May 23rd, 2016
"The most audacious and lucrative art scam in U.S. history," 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper says of the 63 artworks forged by a Chinese immigrant in Queens and sold largely through Knoedler Gallery in New York for $80 million. Anderson sat down with Jack Flam, the Robert Motherwell expert, and a ...
Works by Sargent, O'Keeffe Lead American Art Auctions in New York
ArtfixDaily / May 19th, 2016
Sotheby’s May 18 auction of American Art brought $27.1 million with the three top lots bringing over half of the sale's total. The 65-lot sale achieved a sell-through rate of 72% by lot. Liz Sterling, Sotheby's Head of American Art, noted that the sale was "a continuation of the ...
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Curator of American Art, Remembered
Washington Post / May 17th, 2016
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., an art historian who became a curator at the National Gallery of Art, where he took a leading role in organizing several major exhibitions, including a 1995 retrospective of the works of painter Winslow Homer, died May 1 at his home in Washington. He was 83. Dr. Cikovsky, ...
Tour the Art Studios Where Whitney Museum Began
New York Times / May 17th, 2016
A $30,000 grant from the National Trust of Historic Preservation will in part support public tours of the New York City art studios where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) began her vision of an American art museum. Whitney's series of studios along West 8th Street in Greenwich Village ...
5 Things To Do During American Art Week
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2016
American Art Week is underway in New York City where historical and modern works get the limelight at galleries, museums and auction houses. Here are a few highlights: 1. Just Off Madison. This annual event is an open house at leading private American art galleries on May 18, from 10am-2pm. ...
George Lucas Eyes San Francisco Again For Museum Site
Chicago Tribune / May 15th, 2016
Months of legal entanglements over the Chicago lakefront site chosen for George Lucas's museum has the Star Wars creator looking again at San Francisco. Chicago Tribune reports: Aaron Peskin, a San Francisco supervisor, confirmed Sunday afternoon that preliminary discussions between the city ...