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Chinese art, modernism transform Biennale
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2010
Smaller, and with a many more stands focused on 20th century art, the dazzling 25th Paris Biennale on view at the Grand Palais through Sept. 22, has taken a giant leap into a new aesthetic in 2010. The New York Times' Souren Melikian calls this year's show "a watershed in the history of Western ...
Kroll painting, Chinese export smash auction estimates
ArtfixDaily / September 16th, 2010
Ten Chinese Export armorial plates, conservatively estimated at $1,000 to $2,000, catapulted to a final bid of $16,157.50 (including 15% buyers premium) at Cleveland-based Aspire Auctions' recent sale ending Sept. 2. The Kang Hsi (circa 1720) plates, noted as heavily glazed with carved rims, ...
President Obama pens Georgia O'Keeffe profile
ArtfixDaily / September 15th, 2010
This fall President Barack Obama will publish his first children's book: Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters. The book profiles thirteen prominent figures in American history, among them, first President George Washington, baseball legend Jackie Robinson, and pioneering painter Georgia O' ...
Roycroft among highlights at upcoming Rago sale
ArtfixDaily / September 13th, 2010
A browse-worthy duo of 20th-century design auctions is slated for a three-day weekend this fall. Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, will offer up several hundred choice decorative items, from Arts & Crafts pieces by Stickley and a Louis Comfrot Tiffany sketchbook to ...
Let them eat (Thiebaud) cake: SFMOMA coffee bar offers artful desserts
Huffington Post / September 12th, 2010
If you ever wanted to lick the thick and alluring frosting (brushwork) of a Wayne Thiebaud cake painting, or deconstruct Mondrian's abstractions with a fork, the time has come. The coffee bar within the new rooftop sculpture garden at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is making edible ...
1934: A New Deal for Artists
ArtfixDaily / September 12th, 2010
American artists during the Great Depression produced a body of artwork that told the story of the era. Their paintings, capturing harsh realities and, often, the resiliency of the American spirit, has a certain resonance in the current economic climate. Genre scenes depicting life in gritty ...
Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
ArtfixDaily / September 9th, 2010
Influential English craftsman, designer, artist, and writer William Morris (1834-1896) once told an audience, "...if you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: ‘HAVE NOTHING IN YOUR HOUSES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW TO BE USEFUL OR BELIEVE TO BE BEAUTIFUL.’" The multitude of ...
Estate auction offers 2,000 lots from 10 generations
ArtfixDaily / September 9th, 2010
From Thomas Jefferson letters to Tiffany glass, a George Inness landscape to 1860s gowns, the personal property of ten generations of descendants from Thomas Green (born 1640) are part of a huge four-day auction underway through Sept. 12. The R.W. Oliver auction takes place at the DCU Center in ...
Solid sales at Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
ArtfixDaily / September 4th, 2010
The 30th Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, from September 2 to 5, sustained a high gate as well as notable retail and trade business over Labor Day weekend. More than 550 exhibitors displayed nearly 200,000 objects from antiquarian books, fine art, jewelry, and silver, to textiles, ...
“A Privileged View,” Paintings by Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) at The Cooley Gallery
ArtfixDaily / September 2nd, 2010
"A Privileged View" is among the first public exhibitions of both plein air sketches and major easel paintings by the artist Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932). Closely held by the artist during his lifetime, and subsequently by his family, these often intimate and consistently vital works from ...
Significant American Art offered in Charlton Hall’s September auction
ARTFIXdaily ArtWire / September 1st, 2010
A trove of paintings from a prominent Upstate South Carolina art collector will be offered in Charlton Hall's Sept. 11-12 sale, including works by Anthony Thieme, William R. Leigh, Emile Albert Gruppe, Walter Emerson Baum, Frederick Judd Waugh and others.
Clyde Aspevig wins Maynard Dixon Country Artist Choice Award
ArtfixDaily / August 30th, 2010
Each August the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts hosts the Maynard Dixon Country, an art show, gathering and sale of work by thirty-forty of America's premier artists. This year's Maynard Dixon Country Artist Choice Award for the best body of work went to Clyde Aspevig (b. 1951). Aspevig ...
Estate of Hibbard student enters market softly
The Keene Sentinel / August 29th, 2010
New England impressionists Aldro T. Hibbard and Anthony Thieme were his teachers and his friends. Like his contemporaries, Gloucester, Rockport, and scenic points along the North Shore of Massachusetts as well as New Hampshire's snow-covered mountains figured large in his oeuvre. An estimated ...
Art dealers expose their personal collections
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2010
Collectors sometimes suspect that dealers keep the best stuff for themselves. Recently, notable dealers have unabashedly revealed their personal tastes, which at times mirror their gallery's specialities, in exhibitions and as inventory for sale. This fall New York dealer Larry Gagosian will be ...
Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend
ArtfixDaily / August 25th, 2010
The Hyde Collection, in Glen Falls, New York, presents a loan exhibition, organized in assocation with Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, featuring about 40 pencil, watercolor, and tempera works by celebrated American artist Andrew Wyeth. Although lacking a few of his most well-known works, such as ...
Western artists heat up Coeur d'Alene auction
Antiques and the Arts / August 24th, 2010
The annual Couer d'Alene Auction in Reno, Nevada, totalled a strong $9.2 million (with buyer's premium) on July 24. Among the 312 lots of traditional and contemporary Western, wildlife, and sporting art, were several notable record-breakers. A 13-by-10-inch portrait of Chief Joseph by Edgar ...
"John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women"
ArtfixDaily / August 24th, 2010
The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, has on view, through Dec. 31, 2010, a dazzling assemblage of portraits by American impressionist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women features approximately 25 of Sargent's paintings of American ...
Judge denies split ownership of O'Keeffe art
ArtfixDaily / August 22nd, 2010
Fisk University can't sell a 50 percent share in its art collection to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., a Tennessee chancery court judge ruled Friday. Museum founder Alice Walton, the Wal-Mart heiress, offered $30 million for an undivided interest in the ...
Princess Diana's necklace stars in Iconic Object sale
ArtfixDaily / August 16th, 2010
On September 24, Guernsey’s will present an Iconic Objects auction at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. Each lot in this extraordinary themed sale relates to a significant person or an event that impacted cultural history. Highlights include the only known recordings of 26 speeches ...
Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art
ArtfixDaily / August 15th, 2010
In the Fall of 2010, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will mount Virtue, Vice, Wisdom & Folly: The Moralizing Tradition in American Art. Drawn from Reynolda's own collection of nineteenth-century genre art (including works by William ...