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New David McCullough book fleshes out Madame X scandal
The Daily Beast / May 23rd, 2011
When popular society artist John Singer Sargent unveiled his portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau at the 1884 Paris Salon---scandal ensued. Author David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, dishes out the scintillating story behind Sargent's most famous painting in his new ...
Thiebaud takes the cake at Sotheby's Allan Stone auction
New York Times / May 10th, 2011
The estate of Manhattan gallerist and collector Allan Stone yielded a trove of contemporary artworks which began the week of post-war and contemporary art auctions on a happy note. Three John Chamberlain sculptures, 9 Willem de Koonings, and twenty Wayne Thiebuad paintings helped boost the ...
Four American artist records in solid Sotheby's sale
ArtfixDaily / May 19th, 2011
Thomas Hart Benton's politically-motivated painting of 1951, titled "Flood Disaster," fetched $1.87 million at a Sotheby's sale of American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture totaling $27.1 million on Thursday. American private collectors purchased the top ten lots of the sale. Six works went ...
Parrish panorama, W.T. Richards seascape buoy Christie's sale
ArtfixDaily / May 18th, 2011
A view of Mackerel Cove at Jamestown, Rhode Island, fetched $1,650,500, triple the previous auction record for a work by 19th c. artist William Trost Richards at Christie's on Wed. The total figure of $22,193,800 for the Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture sale was up over ...
Timely auction of Benton's "Flood Disaster"
CBS News / May 17th, 2011
The devastating effects of the recently rising Mississippi flood waters in the South are echoed in a 60-year-old painting offered at auction this week. "Flood Disaster," by American Scene painter and muralist Thomas Hart Benton, is...
Rare Cropsey paintings sell for 100 times estimates
New York Times / May 16th, 2011
Two recently rediscovered works by Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey fetched a total of $840,000 at a Clarke Auction in Larchmont, New York, on May 15. A winter hunting scene at Niagara Falls snowballed to...
Yale debuts free online collection database
ArtfixDaily / May 13th, 2011
Yale University has launched a massive online database with records on over 250,000 objects from its museums, archives and libraries. Providing unprecedented, unlimited access to the Ivy League school's varied collections, including a tantalizing peek at artwork in storage, the digitization ...
American Folk Art Museum passes fair to new owner
New York Times / May 7th, 2011
Ownership and management of the annual American Antiques Show, a ten-year-old fundraiser for New York's American Folk Art Museum, has been turned over to the Art Fair Company in an effort to stabilize the museum's finances. Faced with a default on nearly $32 million worth of bonds that it ...
More American masterworks exit Westervelt-Warner Museum
Tuscaloosa News / May 3rd, 2011
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hard-hit by a deadly tornado on April 27, is facing up to $100 million in storm damage, according to reports. The city is also experiencing a cultural loss with the quiet exodus of exceptional artworks from its Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art. Last week, four more ...
American Folk Art Museum executive director quits
American Folk Art Museum / May 4th, 2011
Maria Ann Conelli, executive director of New York's American Folk Art Museum, announced on the museum's website on May 3 that she would be leaving in July to return to academia. The financially-troubled institution missed $3.7 million in payments to a debt service fund connected to bonds issued ...
Spring Show attracts fresh crowd, steady sales
Art Newspaper / May 3rd, 2011
The inaugural Spring Show, organized by the Art and Antiques Dealers League of America, had a promising first-run at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. About 1,495 attendees, including a contingent of designers, celebrities, and collectors, enjoyed the opening night party on April 27. Over the ...
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism
Nassau County Museum of Art / April 25th, 2011
Milton Avery & the End of Modernism, currently at the Nassau County Museum of Art on Long Island, looks at work by the artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting. The exhibition features Avery’s intense ...
Freshly-found Cropsey paintings headline Clarke auction
Antiques and the Arts / April 19th, 2011
A recent appraisal day held by Clarke Auction, of Larchmont, New York, yielded the exciting rediscovery of two lost paintings by 19th century Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey. Missing for 150 years was Cropsey's "Autumn in America," a work from the artist's first series of ...
Winterthur Museum acquires one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny
Winterthur / April 18th, 2011
Delaware's Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and colored eggs was brought to ...
Rediscovered Kensett painting soars at auction
Antiques and the Arts / April 14th, 2011
A rediscovered work by John Federick Kensett (American, 1816–1872), "Study for 'View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts,'" fetched $310,500 (with 15% buyer's premium), ten times the low estimate of $30,000, at Eldred's Americana sale on Cape Cod. From a private estate, the highly-contested ...
Christie's to offer American masterworks from Westervelt Collection on May 18
ArtfixDaily / April 11th, 2011
Works by American masters such as Bierstadt, Burchfield, Hartley, Hassam and Wyeth, culled from one of the most important corporate collections of American paintings, will be offered this spring at Christie's in New York. A selection of 29 paintings from the private collection of The ...
Salander employee found guilty of scheming to defraud
Bloomberg / April 7th, 2011
The former director of bankrupt Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Leigh Morse, was convicted by a New York jury in a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the estates of artists. She was found not guilty of a grand larceny count alleging the theft of $77,000 from actor Robert De Niro Jr. whose ...
Library's Hassam painting may be offered at auction
GoErie / April 7th, 2011
A task force has recommended that the Blasco Library in Erie County, Penn., sell its painting "Summer Afternoon, Isle of Shoals,'' by Frederic Childe Hassam, to fund an endowment for library collections. Christie's has provided an estimate of $2.5 to $3.5 million for the work which may go to ...
Confident dealers offer their best art & antiques in Maastricht; Preview video online
TEFAF Preview / March 17th, 2011
There are 30,000 items worth more than 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) offered by 260 top-tier galleries at the world’s most influential art and antiques fair. Two highlights are extraordinary paintings by Rembrandt and Renoir. Attracting leading international collectors and museum officials, ...
New art fair finds a niche in Naples
Naplesnews.com / March 8th, 2011
Veteran show organizer David Lester estimated that sales soared to between $10 million and $20 million at his inaugural Naples International Art & Antiques Show. About 80% of visitors to the new 4-day show were locals from the southwest Florida city of Naples, but Lester told Naplesnews.com ...