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Tillou Gallery presents the art of Winfred Rembert
Huffington Post / July 17th, 2011
Winfred Rembert (b. 1945), whose work is currently exhibited at the Tillou Gallery in Litchfield, Connecticut, learned the craft of leather tooling while serving on a chain gang in a Georgia prison.
Book presents artists' to-do lists, inner thoughts
The Atlantic / July 14th, 2011
Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Collections of the Smithsonian Museum gives an inside look into the lives of some of the 20th century's most remarkable artists...
Art dealers accused of selling fake Motherwells
New York Post / July 11th, 2011
Two Manhattan art dealers---formerly with Knoedler Gallery---have been accused of selling fake paintings by abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell, according to the Dedalus Foundation, a group in charge of authenticating the artist's work.
Artnet forges ahead with online auctions
New York Times / July 4th, 2011
Although its online auction business has not yet turned a profit, Artnet has now sold more than 6,500 objects or artworks, generating $2.5 million in commissions on $12 million in sales in 2010. The average price...
"Duets: Themes and Variations, New Paintings by Warren Prosperi" at Vose Galleries
Boston Globe / July 1st, 2011
"Bringing a portrait painter’s depth of psychological realism to the table, the Prosperis make history paintings that are distinctly contemporary," writes Cate McQuaid in the Boston Globe of the current exhibition at Boston's Vose Galleries.
Water Views from the Figge Collection
Quad-City Times / June 30th, 2011
Works by Hudson River School masters figure laregly in“Water Views from the Figge Collection,” an exhibition on display through Aug. 21 at the Figge Art Museum, appropriately overlooking the Mississippi River, in Davenport, Iowa.
Last chance to visit American Folk Art Museum on West 53rd Street
ArtfixDaily / June 30th, 2011
Independence Day weekenders can soak up Americana, from Colonial portraiture to quilts, in Manhattan for one last stretch at the American Folk Art Museum's 45 West 53rd St. location. The museum will be moving to its home at 2 Lincoln Square on July 9.
Rose Art Museum will keep its collection
Boston Globe / June 30th, 2011
A contentious lawsuit against Brandeis University has been settled with an agreement that will keep its Rose Art Museum's modern art collection intact.
John Paulson fund rescues Berry-Hill Galleries
Wall Street Journal / June 30th, 2011
A fund controlled by finance titan John Paulson has purchased a loan to American-art specialist Berry-Hill Galleries for about $10 million, as well as the mortgage on the gallery's property...
Record $175m contemporary art auction in London
Bloomberg / June 29th, 2011
The contemporary art auctions in London this week sent high-level works to top prices. The 88-lot Sotheby’s evening auction on June 29 totaled a robust 108.8 million pounds ($175 million), the highest total ever...
Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth at Brandywine River Museum
ArtfixDaily / June 28th, 2011
Portly pigs, graceful horses, and plucky chickens figure largely in Jamie Wyeth's lively depictions of farm work and life in the current exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum. These seemingly docile creatures populate serene landscapes and mix with images of farm objects in a world that the ...
BBC hosts Britain's public art collections online
BBC / June 26th, 2011
Works by John Singer Sargent, John Constable, and Andy Warhol are among the 200,000 paintings in a national collection owned by British taxpayers. Some of this art trove resides in small publicly-funded collections and others exist in relative obscurity, either stashed in museum storage or on ...
Heiress Huguette Clark leaves art museum to Santa Barbara
LA Times / June 24th, 2011
Paintings by such artists as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Renoir will take residence in a new public museum on a California beach bluff. The will of reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark, who died last month at 104, was made public Wednesday. She stipulated that one of her ...
Legal battle brews over Allan Stone estate
New York Post / June 21st, 2011
Clare Stone, the widow of Manhattan art dealer and ardent collector Allan Stone, is suing the executor of his $300 million estate. When he died in 2006, Allan Stone left his estate, including works by such artists as Willem de Kooning, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol, in a trust for his ...
Winslow Homer watercolor sparks dispute
The Independent / June 21st, 2011
An 1885 watercolor by American artist Winslow Homer was found in a trash pile by a fisherman and his daughter in Ireland in the 1980s. They discovered it was worth around £150,000, and consigned it to a Sotheby's auction in New York in 2009. After the auction catalog came out, the painting's ...
Wal-mart heiress set to share art from Crystal Bridges museum
New York Times / June 16th, 2011
For a decade, Alice Walton, of the Wal-mart fortune, has quietly planned and astutely acquired artwork for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that she is building in her Midwestern hometown. With the just 35,000 residents, Bentonville, Arkansas, will soon host a museum twice the size of ...
Stanford to receive major collection of 20th c. American art
ArtfixDaily / June 14th, 2011
Stanford University will be given a significant donation of 121 paintings and sculpture, including some of the foremost examples of post-World War II American art, from a Bay Area family. With the addition of key works such as Jackson Pollock's "Lucifer" to its holdings, the gift places Stanford ...
"New England Impressionists Rediscovered" opens at renovated Fruitlands Museum
Milford Daily News / June 13th, 2011
In Harvard, Mass., Fruitlands Museum has opened a rich exhibit of New England paintings, featuring 55 exquisite examples of impressionism by John Joseph Enneking, Frederick Childe Hassam, Daniel F. Santry, Oliver Chaffee, Helen Sawyer, and others.
Claes Oldenburg sculpture to adorn Philadelphia's new Lenfest Plaza
ArtfixDaily / June 11th, 2011
In late August, a towering 53-foot high sculpture of a paintbrush with illuminated bristles, created by world-renowned American artist Claes Oldenburg, will make its home at the start of Philadelphia's expanding "Museum Mile." The monumental sculpture, titled Paint Torch, will be installed on ...
Wayside Inn Antiques Show shines in second year
Antiques and the Arts / May 24th, 2011
Forty-six dealers assembled a fresh and inviting display of art and antiques, particularly strong in Americana and New England paintings, for the second annual Wayside Inn Antiques Show in Sudbury, Mass., from May 13 to 15. Guy Leblanc, the historic inn's Director of Marketing, cheerfully ...