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Huntington Adds Rauschenberg to Collection
ArtfixDaily / June 10th, 2012
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens near Pasadena, Calif., long known for its collection of nineteenth-century English portraits, has made a foray into the post-war era by purchasing a work by Robert Rauschenberg.
Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective is a Summer Hit
The Washington Post / June 4th, 2012
A 1964 Life Magazine article titled “Is he the worst artist in the U.S.?” featured Roy Lichtenstein's first Pop painting, Look Mickey (1961). Shocking audiences five decades ago was his ground-breaking use of pop culture and advertising imagery, mixing high and low art.
Woman Gets Probation for Attack on Abstract Artwork
Reuters / May 31st, 2012
An intoxicated woman who attacked a $30 million painting by American abstract expressionist Clyfford Still will get probation and undergo mental health treatment, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Receives Transformative Gift
Boston Globe / May 20th, 2012
A treasure trove of art collected by Saundra and the late William Lane has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On Saturday, the museum announced the extraordinary gift of 6,000 photographs, 100 works on paper, and 25 paintings, potentially valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Pioneer collectors in American modernist painting and photography...
Barnes Foundation Shows Art in a New Light
The New York Times / May 17th, 2012
A long, contentious battle over the relocation of the multi-billion-dollar Barnes Foundation's art collection has subsided. This week, the new Barnes opens in Philadelphia after its hotly-contested uprooting from the city's suburbs.
Stand-outs in the American Art Auctions
ArtfixDaily / May 16th, 2012
Following the record prices achieved for post-war and contemporary art last week, sales of historic American art this week have started off with several high-flying lots. Highlights include a vibrant...
Recovered Hassam, Courbet at Auction
CBS / April 29th, 2012
Back on July 2, 1976, a violent home invasion robbery took place in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The robbery netted furs, rugs, silverware—and three significant works of art. Two of those artworks, by seminal Realist artist Gustave Courbet and American Impressionist Childe Hassam, were recovered...
A Provenance Under Investigation
Vanity Fair / April 25th, 2012
It is going on six months since the sudden shuttering of New York's Knoedler Gallery, yet the scandal surrounding it continues to loom large, dragging other galleries into the miasma. Michael Shnayerson, contributing editor to Vanity Fair, ponders whether or not the gallery, and its former president, will ever be free of the dark cloud that was the “David Herbert Collection”...
Saint Louis Art Museum Restores an American Treasure
ArtfixDaily / April 24th, 2012
This summer, the Saint Louis Art Museum unveils "Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley." The second of a two-part exhibition series, this behind-the-scenes look at conservation of the 348-foot Panorama is a continuation of work begun in ...
Rediscovered Hudson River School Painting Nets Six-Figures
Antiques and the Arts / April 17th, 2012
"Fresh is best" is a dictum often applied to the auction market. A fresh-to-market work by the Hudson River School master Jasper F. Cropsey painting that had descended in a California family for 80 years created buzz at Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries in New York on March 24.
How an Art Dealer Inspired an Icon of Modern Art
Yorkshire Post / April 11th, 2012
It's rare that an artist asks his art dealer to direct his creative output. Such was the case in 1985, when Pop artist Andy Warhol left the decision of what to create for his next exhibition in the hands of...
$5 Find Could Be $2 Million Andy Warhol Sketch
BBC / April 4th, 2012
A possible early Andy Warhol drawing has been discovered in an unlikely place. English businessman Andy Fields purchased a drawing by legendary art patron Gertrude Stein at a Las Vegas garage sale for the astonishingly low price of $5, a notable find in and of itself. The seller's aunt had once babysat for Andy Warhol...
Art Dealer's Companion Named in Painting Forgery Probe
New York Daily News / April 2nd, 2012
Dozens of artworks by leading modernists from Rothko to de Kooning, Motherwell to Pollock, that were sold to New York galleries through Long Island art dealer Glafira Rosales are still under investigation by the FBI as possible forgeries. Recently added to complicated tale is Rosales' longtime companion, Jose Carlos Bergantiños Diaz, who was involved in a lawsuit over...
Spring Art Auctions Boast All-Star Line-Ups
ArtfixDaily / March 29th, 2012
A number of standout artworks by modern masters Cezanne, Munch and Warhol as well as pioneering women artists from Tamara Lempicka to Cindy Sherman are heading to the auction block in May. Leading the line-up is the high-profile sale of...
Five Years Later, Brooke Astor's Estate Settled
ArtfixDaily / March 28th, 2012
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will receive about $20 million as part of a settlement agreement made on Wed. with the estate beneficiaries of philanthropist Brooke Astor, who died in 2007 at age 105. After a 5-year struggle over the estate that resulted in...
Major Exhibition of Thomas Hart Benton Artworks Planned
LA Times / March 22nd, 2012
An exhibition devoted to American painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) is being co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Boisterous Bidding for C.M. Russell Watercolors
Great Falls Tribune / March 18th, 2012
A trio of original watercolors by iconic Western artist Charles Marion Russell topped $1 million at The Russell: the Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum auction on Saturday night in Great Falls, Montana. Two works, "Waiting for Her Brave's Return" and "Roping a Steer," each wrangled...
Buzzworthy at the New York Art Shows
Huffington Post / March 8th, 2012
With 10 art shows running concurrently in New York this week, and hundreds of dealer exhibitions of modern and contemporary art on view, the stage is set for an art market gauge. Interest levels of collectors, curators and art-curious are soon measured in terms of sales. Red-dot reports have already abounded from the Armory Show...
Leslie Hindman African-American Art Auction Sells Out
ArtfixDaily / March 2nd, 2012
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' inaugural auction featuring Works by African American artists was completely sold out, making it a "white glove" sale. Aggressive phone and internet bidding brought strong prices overall for the March 1 sale in Chicago. Among the highlights were historic paintings ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Debuts Free Online Catalog of American Art
ArtfixDaily / February 29th, 2012
For the first time in a generation, a publication has been dedicated to documenting the Boston Museum of Fine Art’s world-renowned holdings of American paintings, along with those that represent the broader spectrum of the Americas. The free digital publication features...