Exhibition featuring thirty-six artworks by renowned American artists at the Boca Raton Museum

BOCA RATON, FL.- What characterizes a “treasure” and what defines “greatness” in art? The criteria of a “treasure” – whether historical or contemporary – is decided by history. In these revisionist times, artworks, no matter how important they may have been at the time of their creation, are subject to reassessment of how we view the past. On December 13, the Boca Raton Museum of Art opens American Treasures, an exhibition featuring thirty-six artworks by renowned American artists. The exhibition offers viewers the [...]

“Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” exhibition at the Akron Art Museum

AKRON, OH.- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, on view at the Akron Art MuseumOctober 29, 2011 – February 5, 2012, offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by leading French artists from Gustave Courbet to Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. This exquisite exhibition of more than fifty paintings will include many of the finest examples of French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum as [...]

Doyle New York to auction Old Master, Modern and Contemporary prints in November

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Doyle New York will offer a fine selection of prints in the Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints auction on November 7, 2011 at 1pm. Old Master Prints feature Albrecht Durer, Christ Before Caiaphas, engraving, 1512 (est. $3,000-5,000); Rembrandt van Rijn, The Tribute Money, etching, circa 1635 (est. $6,000-8,000); and The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias, etching, 1641 (est. $7,000-10,000). European Prints feature Paul Klee, Der Seiltanzer, color lithograph, 1923 (est. $20,000-30,000); Henri Matisse, Danseuse au Tabouret, [...]

Alex Mann joins the Chrysler as the Joan and Macon Brock curator of American art

NORFOLK, VA.- Crawford Alexander Mann III has joined the Chrysler Museum of Art as the Joan and Macon Brock curator of American art. The new position within the curatorial department is fully endowed and made possible by a generous contribution from the Brocks. Macon Brock currently serves as the chairman of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. Mann, a specialist in 19th-century American art, will use his knowledge and experience to build and reinterpret the Museum’s exceptional collection of pre-1945 American art. “The Museum [...]

Two New York City-themed exhibitions open this weekend at The Katonah Museum of Art

KATONAH, N.Y.- Empire City, Gotham, The Big Apple — whatever you call it, there’s no doubt that New York City has impacted millions of hearts, minds, and imaginations throughout history. This fall, the Katonah Museum of Art shows works of art inspired by New York City in New York, New York! The 20th-Century. Organized by the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL, the exhibition features over 50 works from the Norton collection, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works on paper, [...]

Benson Masterwork to Lead Christie’s Sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces further details of its upcoming auction of Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 18 May 2011, at 10 am. A total of 138 lots will be offered, featuring outstanding works drawn from a cross-section of styles and genres, including Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Regionalism, Modernism, and Western Art. The sale is expected to achieve in excess of $29 million total. Christie’s previously announced that the upcoming sale would include the Westervelt Company Collection [...]

Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Offered at Sotheby’s New York

NEW YORK, NY.- The 19 May auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby’s New York will offer works by important American artists and genres, spanning Impressionism, Modernism, 19th Century Paintings and Western Art. The sale is highlighted by two important private collections: Property from the Collection of Edward P. Evans, featuring works by American Impressionist and Ashcan School artists, and Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection, including canvases by Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery and Marsden Hartley. [...]

The American International Fine Art Fair Closes with Record Attendance and Strong Sales

PALM BEACH, FL.- The American International Fine Art Fair closed its 15th edition with record attendance and strong sales reported by a number of dealers. More than 42,500 attendees visited the 10-day event. Many dealers reported outstanding sales results. “We had the best fair in the 14 years that we have been participating in Palm Beach,” said arms and armor dealer Peter Finer of London. Italian goldsmith and jeweler Buccellati echoed these sentiments: “This was also the best year in [...]

Tampa Museum of Art Opens “The American Impressionists in the Garden”

TAMPA, FL.- Beginning September 23, 2010 and running through January 2, 2011, the Tampa Museum of Art will present American Impressionists in the Garden, an exhibition organized by Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee, that explores the theme of the garden in American art and society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition features paintings depicting European and American gardens by American Impressionist artists along with bronze sculptures created by American artists for [...]

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Presents Exhibition of American Impressionist Paintings

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940 from the Bank of America Collection features more than 100 paintings, drawings, and prints by more than 70 artists, including some of America’s most important. This spectacular exhibition, on view from August 28, 2010-January 9, 2011, is mainly comprised of oil paintings and encompasses the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and a few works on the cusp of Modernism. It focuses on one of the most fertile periods in American art and [...]

John W. Coker Announces Sale of Impressionist Treasures

NEW MARKET, TENN.- An extraordinary and virtually unknown collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks amassed by the former president and later chairman of the board of Eastman Kodak will be auctioned with no reserve on Sept. 15, 2010, at the John W. Coker gallery in New Market, Tennessee. The Dr. Albert K. Chapman (1890-1984) collection, which has been privately held in three subsequent generations of the Chapman family since the 1930s, includes artworks by Childe Hassam, Alfred Sisley, Pierre Bonnard [...]

Collectors Compete for American Paintings at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY.- Active bidding by private collectors resulted in a strong auction of American Art and Contemporary Art at Swann Galleries on June 8. The sale’s top lots, offered in the Contemporary Art section, were Louise Nevelson’s Maquette for Monumental Sculpture II, welded black steel, 1977, which sold for $78,000*, and Willem de Kooning’s The Devil at the Keyboard, lithograph with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache, 1976, $40,800. Highlights of the American Art section included Landscape, oil on [...]

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Opens Four New Exhibitions

NASHVILLE, TN.- Cheekwood held a quadruple opening of contemporary art on March 11 for The American Impressionists in the Garden in the Museum of Art; Virginia Overton’s exhibition in the Temporary Contemporary gallery; Soaps, Flukes & Follies in the Video Installation galleries; and Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art in the Courtyard Gallery. Featuring forty paintings and four sculptures, The American Impressionists in the Garden revisits the different kinds of garden settings that inspired American artists working in Europe and [...]

Leslie Hindman to Offer Property from the Estate of Ronald C. Sloter

CHICAGO, IL.- On March 28 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers will offer property from the Estate of Ronald C. Sloter in a single-owner auction benefitting the Columbus College of Art and Design. Sloter, a longtime Columbus resident, approached CCAD President Denny Griffith in 2005 to explore the idea of leaving his home and its contents to CCAD. Mr. Sloter wished to benefit the college through the gift of his estate, thereby memorializing his parents, Wilford and Dorothy Sloter. Ronald C. Sloter ran [...]

Artist Jenness Cortez Exhibits Contemporary American Realism

NAPLES, FL.- DeBruyne Fine Art will host their ninth solo exhibition by artist Jenness Cortez. “Homage to the Creative Spirit,” January 28 through March 31, 2010. For centuries artists have been challenging their intellect and skills by paying homage to the innovators who preceded them. In her new work, Jenness Cortez becomes the 21st century’s most notable example of this genre. Her continuing fascination with creating original paintings that incorporate art within art makes her work compelling––both by the virtuosity [...]

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