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William Louis Sonntag (18221900), Autumn Landscape, oil on canvas, 35 x 51½ inches. Gifted by Hilary Vesell in memory of Elliot Vesell, founding chair of Pharmacology of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced the gift of a stunning landscape painting by William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900) from Hilary Peery Vesell. Hilary donated Autumn Landscape, 1864, in honor of her late father Dr. Elliot Vesell, who served for thirty-two years as the founding chair of Pharmacology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and twenty-two years as assistant dean of graduate studies at the Penn State College of Medicine. He was recognized as an Evan Pugh Professor, the University's highest honor, and later a professor emeritus. Dr. Vesell published more than 350 articles on pharmacogenomics and received many awards and honorary degrees including an honorary degree from Penn State University. Dr. Vesell also edited several books and was a scholar of American art. His first publication on American art was written the summer between graduating from Harvard College and starting Harvard Medical Sc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day London Art Week Summer 2019, which opened Thursday 29 June and continues through Friday 5 July 2019, includes exhibitions, events and sales at 50 pre-eminent international galleries and auction houses across St. JamesÂs and Mayfair, traditional heart of LondonÂs fine art district, featuring works dating from antiquity to the present day. In this image: Ambrose Naumann Fine Art NY, at LAW for the first time, shows jointly at Tomasso Brothers with sculpture and mainly Belgian art, from medieval to modern (Photo - Flo Brooks)
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 | | Summer 2019 exhibition opens at The Redwood Library & Athenæum | | Marian Goodman Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Allan Sekula | | Rare pair of Edouard Cortes paintings surface and sell | 
1884 Goelet Cup for Schooners, New York Yacht Club.
NEWPORT, RI.- The Redwood Library & Athenæum announces the opening of its summer exhibition Spectacular Silver: Yachtings Goelet Cups, a landmark presentation focused on the elaborate silver sailing trophies commissioned by New York real estate magnate Ogden Goelet for New York Yacht Club races held off of Newport in the last decades of the nineteenth century (1882-1897). The exhibition will be on view at the Redwood, the sole venue, until September 29, 2019. Organized by the New York Yacht Club in collaboration with the Redwood Library & Athenæum, the exhibition features a dozen Goelet trophies (over a third of those awarded), and a range of exceptional historic materialfrom yacht models and marine paintings to trophy designsthat locates the Goelet cups within the yachting culture of Gilded Age Newport. Products of some of the leading silversmiths of the era, ... More | | 
Allan Sekula Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following an inaugural exhibition of Allan Sekula at the London gallery this spring, Marian Goodman Gallery New York opened a summer show of work by Allan Sekula (1951-2013), which constitutes the largest presentation on the East Coast of this artist and critics photography. Sekula may be best known for his substantial essays of images and texts exploring the maritime world, such as Fish Story featured in Okwui Enwezors Documenta XI (2002), and subsequent films The Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), the latter co-directed with Noël Burch. Growing up in San Pedro, the immense port of Los Angeles, Sekula gravitated to the sea as a space of freedom and hard, sweaty work. As important, the contemporary maritime world was a site of rapid changes in modern technologies from traditional bulk holds to enormous container ships and accompanying cranes, which reduced much labor on ... More | | 
Edouard Cortes, Moulin Rouge (detail). 15 x 24 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., a New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, announces the discovery and sale of a rare pair of paintings by Edouard Cortes. Born in Lagny, France, on August 6th, 1882, into a family of artists, Edouard followed the family tradition and started training with his father at an early age. In 1899, at the age of 16, he made his debut at the Paris Salon with Le Labour, a painting which clearly owed a debt to both Realist and Naturalist painters as well as his father and brother. The works acceptance by the Salon jury signaled that the artist showed great promise. The critics agreed. Le Figaro proclaimed: His style and his color have greatly impressed the jury. Young Cortès did, of course, attend a good school: we all know what a talented artist his father is. The newspaper Le Matin commented that Cortès was A little chap, only so high, who by rights should still be w ... More |
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| | | Rarely seen artworks by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Howard Gardiner Cushing now on view in Newport | | Graham Nash Collection of historic guitars offered at auction July 20-21 at Heritage Auctions | | Protesters urge Louvre to cut ties with donor over opioid crisis | 
Howard Gardiner Cushing (1869-1916), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in Bakst Costume with Fleurs du Mal, 1911-12, Oil on canvas, (104 1/4 x 63 7/8), Whitney Studio Mural Panel Westbury.
NEWPORT, RI.- The Newport Art Museum is exhibiting sculptures and paintings by these two remarkable artists and art patrons who met in Newport in 1893 and became close friends and colleagues for the rest of their lives. They were actively involved with the Newport Art Museum, then the Art Association of Newport, during its formative years in the early twentieth century. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known as a visionary art patron and founder of New Yorks Whitney Museum of American Art. Yet she also had a significant career as a sculptor, exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe and receiving major commissions and prizes. This is the first exhibition of Whitneys art since her death in 1942 and her third exhibition at the Newport Art Museum. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture, organized by Dr. Ellen E. Roberts, the Harold and Anne Berkley Smith curator of American Art at ... More | | 
Duane Allman's Circa 1961/1962 Gibson SG. This is best known as the guitar Allman played on the live recording of "Statesboro Blues," the opening track of At Fillmore East.
DALLAS, TX.- For more than 60 years, Graham Nash is the voice of a generation. Through collaborations with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash, Nash & Young became a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, however, few know of his passion for historic collection guitars he amassed over the years. On July 20, Heritage Auctions will present a group of 19 guitars from Nashs important collection at auction for the first time, including the iconic 1969 Martin D-45 Acoustic Guitar, which he played at Woodstock. Ive always collected only what touches me, Nash said. Its like being close to the fire. I like holding Duane Allmans guitar. I like holding Don Everlys guitar. Its been played on all these incredible records and you can feel it. I just dont collect any guitars. Johnny Cash. Stephen Stills. Charlie Gracie. Buddy Holly. Bo Diddley. All live on in Nashs collection a ... More | | 
Activists of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) association - created to respond to the opioid crisis - and of French NGO Aides hold banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "Take down the Sackler name" (back) in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre museum. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Protesters gathered outside the Louvre in Paris on Monday to condemn the museum's ties with the Sackler family, billionaire donors accused of pushing a highly-addictive opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths. Around 30 activists waved red banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "Take down the Sackler" in front of the Louvre's famous glass pyramid, while others played dead next to the museum's fountain. American group PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and French charity AIDES want the museum to rename its Sackler Wing of Oriental Antiquities, which got its name after the family gave $3.6 million (3.2 million euros) to refurbish the space more than two decades ago. The Louvre is the latest in a string of museums to face criticism over links to the Sackler family ... More |
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| | | Major Ivon Hitchens exhibition opens at Pallant House Gallery | | Dallas Museum of Art opens "Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence" with Arts of the Americas | | Hyde unveils conserved works | 
Ivon Hitchens. Spring Glory, 1973. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Image courtesy Candida Stevens Gallery. © The Estate of Ivon Hitchens.
CHICHESTER.- Pallant House Gallery opened a major exhibition on British painter Ivon Hitchens (1893 1979) for summer 2019. The largest exhibition of his work since 1989, it considers the whole scope of his career, spanning a remarkable six decades from the 1920s to the 1970s. It provides a fresh perspective on one of Britains most admired modern artists, whose paintings brought continental colour to the English landscape. The exhibition seeks to reappraise Hitchens significant contribution to British art, following his journey towards abstraction through over 70 works, from his earliest figurative scenes to his final vibrant abstract paintings. Although Hitchens painted the landscape of the South Downs in Sussex throughout his career, his work transcended location, bringing him a national and international reputation. Hitchens was a progressive artist in the 1920s and 30s. He was one of the earliest ... More | | 
Peru, Bag with fringe. Cotton and camelid fiber. Dallas Museum of Art, the Nora and John Wise Collection, bequest of Nora Wise, 1989.W.2416.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting its first exhibition of works by pioneering fiber artist, designer, and weaver Shelia Hicks in a special display illuminating how the 84-year-old contemporary artists practice is inspired by the weaving traditions of indigenous artisans from Latin America. Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence pairs works from the Museums collection of ancient Andean art with a selection of loom-woven, wrapped, twisted, and knotted fiberworks by the artist to offer a fresh examination of textile traditions through time. As part of the exhibition, the DMA debuts the first work by Hicks to enter its collection, a richly textured panel titled Zihzabal. It was purchased in April at the Dallas Art Fair through the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program. On view in the DMAs Arts of the Americas Andean gallery and Atrium Overlook, this new exhibition partners the Museums Arts ... More | | 
The Hyde Collection's Madonna by Andrea della Robbia recently underwent conservation, funded by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, a partner of New York State Council on the Arts.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Artists' secrets uncovered in recent conservation projects were unveiled in Masterpieces Under the Microscope: Andrea della Robbia and James Brade Sword, an exhibition on view at The Hyde Collection. The exhibition presents for the first time since their conservation two works from the Museum's collection: a terracotta sculpture, Madonna, ca. 1480, by Andrea della Robbia, and a landscape painting, A Peep Into Lake George (1873) by Hudson River School artist James Brade Sword. The projects were completed at Williamstown + Atlanta Art Conservation Center and funded by a grant from Greater Hudson Heritage Network, a partner of New York State Council on the Arts. As one of just five museums in the United States with works from all three generations of the legendary Renaissance Florence ceramics shop of the della Robbia family, ... More |
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| | | Spirit in the Inanimate photography exhibition opens at Prahlad Bubbar Gallery | | 14a opens a group exhibition with works by Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann & Emanuel Mauthe and Gina Fischli | | The 47th edition of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia saw some of the star pieces selling early | 
The photos highlight details from the vast installation such as scaffolding and other construction materials, transforming them into just light and shadows.
LONDON.- Shubha Taparia has created a collection of photographs entitled Spirit in the Inanimate exploring new details and multiple elements from her latest large-scale installation Silhouette of an Unknown Landscape. These are being presented at Prahlad Bubbar Gallery. The photos highlight details from the vast installation such as scaffolding and other construction materials, transforming them into just light and shadows. Industrial materials that are usually overlooked and traditionally used to conceal, support or contain, have been transformed into subjects, revealing unexpected beauty in the seemingly mundane. The photographs have become new abstract works in their own right. Taparia says Through these photographs, I attempt to recreate the magic of an ephemeral encounter, where nature interacted with the manmade ... More | | 
Gerrit Frohne Brinkmann & Emanuel Mauthe, Ball Boy (V).
HAMBURG.- 14a is presenting Good Service, a group exhibition with works by Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann & Emanuel Mauthe and Gina Fischli. Photography has always been an inherent part of London-based artist Gina Fischlis (*1989 Zurich, Switzerland) practice. Only recently, has Fischli swapped her body camera for her iPhone camera as it allows her to observe and capture her surrounding undisturbed and unwatched. Both large format works, Good Service and Lifes A Tale Told By An Idiot, depict a view through a sheet of glass, which again is captured on the phone. It is, so to speak, double-glazed. The screen becomes our lens through which life is experienced. Constantly trying to hold on to brief moments in time via our phone references our daily consumption of images that get lost in the depths of our storage. This ephemeral character of Fischlis photographs, ... More | | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- The 47th edition of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia (June 19-18) was extended in 2019 by exhibitor demand and got off to a strong start on the preview day with some of the star pieces selling early, and steady sales over the duration of the fair. Fair Director, Mary Claire Boyd, commented, 'Larger pieces that tend to display especially well at fairs sold well, as did the smaller decorative pieces. In the context of what are undeniably difficult times for trading, the overall results were positive.' Furniture sales were strong on the first few days of the 10 day fair. David Bedale sold a grand-scale mahogany side table, a sofa, a 19th century stone bench and antique lighting on the preview day and continued selling and re-stocking until the end. Hansord sold a Chippendale period mahogany writing table, c1770 on opening day. James Brett Antiques sold well over the 10 days including larger pieces such as ... More |
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 National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition presented by Southampton Arts Center and ICPNEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography and the Southampton Arts Center are presenting the National Geographic Photo Ark exhibition, featuring the compelling and visually stunning work of National Geographic photographer and Fellow Joel Sartore. It is on view from June 27 to September 8, 2019 at SAC. The exhibition highlights Sartores images from his work in more than 250 zoos, aquariums and animal rescue centers around the world. Founded by Sartore in 2006, the National Geographic Photo Ark aims to document event species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, inspire action through education, and help save wildlife by supporting on-the-ground conservation efforts. National Geographic is showcasing this important project through multiple platforms, including this exhibition, to inspire people not just to care, but ... More Princess Diana's go-to workout wear to go under the hammer - Bono's Emporio Armani sunglasses, + moreBOSTON, MASS.- Princess Diana's Virgin Atlantic sweatshirt will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. Diana's go-to workout wear that was given to her by business magnate Richard Branson, which Diana later presented to her longtime personal trainer, Jenni Rivett. The dark blue cotton/polyester sweatshirt, no size but likely medium/large, features a screen-printed image of the Virgin Atlantic Flying Lady logo with white cursive text: Fly Atlantic. Included with the sweatshirt is a small 4 x 2.75 gift tag bearing an a note signed from Princess Diana, which reads: Dearest Jenni, Lots of love from, Diana, x. The recipient of the sweatshirt, Jenni Rivett, served as the personal trainer to Princess Diana for over seven years. In a 2018 interview with the Yahoo! series The Royal Box, Rivett recounted Dianas decision to simplify her workout outfits: ... More The Personal Collection of Moe Howard, founding member of The Three Stooges sells for $1.2 MillionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Nate D. Sanders Auctions sold over 1,100 pieces from Three Stooge Moe Howard's personal collection for $1,218,180. The five-day auction concluded Friday night. Top sales included: A 1944 Columbia contract with the Three Stooges sold for $53,926. Bidding began at $400 and it received an astonishing 35 bids. The contract called for a five-week lay-off from producing short films. The document was signed by Jerry Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine. Other Three Stooges signed Columbia Picture contracts sold for $44,566 and $30,458. One of the most unique items offered was a 1946 Columbia Pictures agreement signed after Curly suffered a stroke and was unable to perform. The contract sold for $27,670. The contract allowed Shemp Howard to step in for Curly as one of the Three Stooges. Shemp was Moe and Curlys brother. Shemp eventually took over Curlys ... More Packed crowd produces strong prices at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates' Americana auctionMT. CRAWFORD, VA.- The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates June 21 & 22 Americana & Fine Antiques Auction was a highly successful event and produced robust prices along with a few surprises - in multiple categories. The two-day format consisted of 1,448 lots of high-quality material, much of which was fresh to the market, and, in a number of cases, had descended directly in the families of the original owners. Bidding was intense throughout each day with thousands of registered bidders from numerous countries participating online in competition with a standing-room-only gallery crowd eager to acquire something rare and desirable. Session I on Friday was devoted exclusively to the collection of Jack and Tommie Marsh of Columbia, South Carolina. Consisting of over 500 lots of country Americana, ships models, folk art, toys, and textiles purchased ... More Collectors drawn to genre of books where the cover is kingCAMBRIDGE.- You should never judge a book by its cover, as the saying goes, but there is a certain category of books where the design and quality of binding is all-important to collectors. Books bound by Captain Charles Elsden Gladstone (1855-1919), a Commander in the Royal Navy, are a prime example of this category, where the elaborate design hand-tooled into the binding is the driver of the value, rather than the text printed inside. Three of Captain Gladstones books, signed with his initials CEG, are set to be offered at Cheffins Fine Art on Thursday 4th July at the specialist Book sale, having been in his family for over 100 years. A 1910 Club Members edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a translation of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, is perhaps the most elaborately decorated of the three and has an estimate of between ... More Rediscovered collection of ten rare Douglas motorbikes for sale with H&H ClassicsBIRMINGHAM.- The late Motor Magazine journalist John Anstice-Brown, born in 1934, was a huge enthusiast for the Douglas motorcycle and built a collection. Ten of them are now being sold by H&H Classics on July 30 at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. Besides collecting Douglas bikes John Anstice-Browns hobbies included motor racing and in 1972 he was British GT Champion. He stored his motorbike collection in his shed in Hitchin, Herts, in various states of disrepair when he tired of biking. After his death the family took them out and discovered that they had a big collection of Douglas models, most not known to still exist according to the Douglas Owners Club machine register. Mark Bryan of H&H Classics Motorcycle Department, comments: It is people like John Anstice-Brown who embody the true passion of the Collector. It is thanks ... More Tiffany glass featured at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of ArtUTICA, NY.- A celebration of light and glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection on view through September 8 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, features more than 60 artworks, spanning more than 30 years of Tiffanys prolific career. The exhibition focuses on Louis Comfort Tiffanys brilliant stained-glass windows, iridescent floral vases, shimmering lamps, and accessories highlighting masterworks never before presented in a comprehensive exhibition. Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios designed and created some of the most stunning and innovative art objects produced in the late 19th and early 20th century. No other artisan left as strong an imprint on American decorative arts. The remarkable works in the Driehaus collection offer a rare opportunity for our visitors to experience the breadth ... More Weisman exhibit brings best of pop art to Cal State LALOS ANGELES, CA.- The latest exhibit at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State LA features everyday objects depicted in thought-provoking ways. Works by celebrated pop art icon Andy Warhol and artists including Yayoi Kusama, Red Grooms and Claes Oldenburg are part of the exhibit: Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. It will be on display at the university through August 2. We have people painting things like soup cansjust taking everyday things and making them important, curator Billie Milam Weisman said at an opening reception for the exhibit. Its documenting a time in history. Weisman, a world renowned art conservator and collector, is the director of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. The exhibit, which showcases pop art pieces from the 1960s to the present, was previously ... More Magic: The Gathering card sets bring $608,215 at Weiss AuctionsLYNBROOK, NY.- Three complete sets of significant, early Magic: The Gathering cards from 1993 the complete Alpha, Beta and Arabian Nights sets, with many BGS-graded examples in each sold for a combined $608,215 at an auction held June 26th by Weiss Auctions, online and in the gallery at 74 Merrick Road in Lynbrook. The auction posted an overall gross of $830,000. Magic: The Gathering cards are hugely popular and highly sought after by collectors. The initial sets, released in 1993, were the limited Alpha and Beta sets of cards, before the Unlimited format was introduced. The first expansion, Arabian Nights, was released in December 1993, after the Limited Editions were printed and sold out. The cards popularity never abated over the years. Graded standout cards included Alpha Black Lotus, 8.5; Alpha Mox Pearl, 9.5; Beta Time Vault, ... More Springfield Art Museum acquires Nick Cave SoundsuitSPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum announced the acquisition of Nick Caves Soundsuit (2009), currently on display in Nick Cave through July 28. Cave is perhaps one of the most famous contemporary artists from Missouri and has not only exhibited nationally and internationally but has work in public and private collections worldwide. The Soundsuits are Caves most well-known body of work to date. The Soundsuits are intended to camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender, and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgement. Cave has continued to investigate the power of these sculptural garments, even as he has moved on to other larger, more immersive installation projects. There are several thematic groups of Soundsuits including: buttons, sticks/twigs, toys, sequins, and hair. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino was born July 02, 1486. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately.
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