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Smithsonian Buys Benjamin Franklin Suit; His 1778 Bust Reported Stolen in Penn.
Washington Post / August 30th, 2012
Donors have helped the Smithsonian purchase Benjamin Franklin’s three-piece silk suit worn on a pivotal diplomatic mission to France in 1778. Just last week, a valuable portrait bust of Franklin, also dated 1778, was reported stolen from a private home...
Presidential Picks: Inside Barack Obama's Art Collection
L Magazine / August 29th, 2012
"And we are told we're divided as a people, and then suddenly the arts have this power to bring us together and speak to our common condition," remarked President Obama at the 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal ceremony.
Storm Brews Over Jackson Pollock's Last Painting
Vanity Fair / August 22nd, 2012
With the 100th anniversary of Jackson Pollock's birth this year, attention is turned to a work said to be the great abstract expressionist's last painting.
Artists Drawn to Monhegan Island for More than a Century
Boston Globe / August 21st, 2012
Located 10 miles off the mid-Maine coast, Monhegan Island has been drawing artists from around the world for more than 150 years. Giants in the US art world have been inspired by island, including George Bellows, C. K. Chatterton, Randall Davey, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent...
Pair of Rare Washington Portraits Gifted to Columbus Museum
ArtfixDaily / August 17th, 2012
The Columbus Museum has announced the acquisition of a pair of extraordinary portraits of George and Martha Washington by the important American artist Rembrandt Peale. The portraits are a gift from...
Harvard Appoints New Associate Curator of American Art
ArtfixDaily / August 16th, 2012
The Harvard Art Museums appointed Ethan Lasser as Margaret S. Winthrop Associate Curator of American Art. Lasser will join the Art Museums’ Division of European and American Art, beginning on September 18, 2012. Lasser’s innovative work as a curator and academic experience align well with the ...
Art Dealer Found Guilty of Selling Stolen Painting
Los Angeles Times / August 14th, 2012
A former art dealer was convicted on charges of selling a stolen landscape painting by California impressionist Granville Redmond and income tax evasion...
John Singer Sargent's Manet Acquired By Ashmolean Museum
Guardian / August 8th, 2012
In just eight months, £7.83 million ($12.5 million) was raised to help keep a 19th-century masterpiece by Edouard Manet in Great Britain and on public display. Thousands of donations from the public along with...
Robert Hughes, Art Critic, Remembered
TIME / August 7th, 2012
Known for his eloquence and grit, the longtime TIME art critic Robert Hughes died on August 6, at age 74. With TIME for more than three decades, Hughes often eschewed trends to remind readers that art should be viewed as...
With Art Authenticity, the Market Could Trump Court Rulings
New York Times / August 6th, 2012
The current legal wrangling over the trio of cases involving modern masters sold by the now-defunct Knoedler & Company gallery points to the rising trend of courts deciding the authenticity of artworks.
Whistler and Rebellion in the Art World
ArtfixDaily / August 2nd, 2012
On view at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art from August 4 to December 2, 2012, is the exhibition "Whislter and Rebellion in the Art World." James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was one of the most deliberately contentious, witty, and fiercely independent artists of his generation.
Aging Artists Consider Leaving Legacies to Select Museums
Sentinel Online / July 30th, 2012
Will Barnet, at age 101, is among America's premier artists searching for a place to leave his life's work and create a legacy.
Sargent Paintings Exit New York's Players Club
New York Post / July 24th, 2012
A crumbling facade is blamed for the sale of two historic portraits by premier American artist John Singer Sargent from a designated National Historic Landmark building.
Chief Joseph War Shirt Brings $877,500 at Auction
Las Vegas Review Journal / July 23rd, 2012
A Chief Joseph war shirt fetched $877,500 at the 317-lot Coeur d'Alene Art Auction in Reno. Top-sellers also included the painting "Scout's Report," by Howard Terpning, hammered down...
NH's White Mountains Museum to Feature Women Artists Collection
Yahoo / July 18th, 2012
Women artists associated with the 19th-century "White Mountain School" will be featured in a new museum set to open at New Hampshire's Plymouth State University. A collection of 19 landscape and still-life paintings by...
Rare Cyrus Dallin Sculpture Recovered Decades After Heist
Boston.com / July 17th, 2012
Police have recovered a bronze by famed sculptor Cyrus Dallin more than three decades after it was stolen from a Boston-area school. A Boston art dealer contacted the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum about the piece while doing an appraisal for...
Metropolitan Museum of Art Boasts Record Attendance for New Galleries, Exhibits
ArtfixDaily / July 16th, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30.
Knoedler Gallery Sued by Another Collector
Businessweek / July 10th, 2012
Once New York's oldest commercial art gallery, defunct Knoedler is again the target of a lawsuit by a collector. A former Bear Stearns director is suing Knoedler for allegedly selling him a fake...
National Gallery of Art Restores Gilbert Stuart Portraits of Founding Fathers
Huffington Post / July 2nd, 2012
The National Gallery of Art's portraits of George Washington and John Adams are among a select group of 16 Federal-era paintings in its collection by American master Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) that are being conserved. New details are emerging under layers of old varnish...
Maine Landscapes by Frederic Church on View this Summer at the Portland Museum of Art
ArtfixDaily / July 1st, 2012
This summer the Portland Museum of Art presents Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin, an exhibition exploring the half-century during which the famed American landscape painter traveled to and was inspired by the landscapes of Maine.