Geo | March 18, 2008

Can’t make it to the Brooklyn Museum of Art? Is the Westmoreland out of reach? Visit our galleries and find some highlights of some of the country’s great art museums. Included are selections from the Carnegie, Met, National Gallery and more.
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Geo | March 18, 2008

Concept Art Gallery has two paintings by Western Pennsylvania artist George Hetzel in an upcoming auction. The first, depicts a wooded scene with some less common features for a Hetzel work including a fence and a bright red tree. Rather than a summer scene in the deep woods, this fall scene clearly shows signs of [...]
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Geo | March 8, 2008

This weekend saw two local events focusing on the art and antique community in Pittsburgh. In Wilkinsburg, an auction at Dargate saw the sell of many American and Continental European items including several pieces of Pittsburgh Glass. Among them, six Bakewell Glass Flutes brought $1,000 and a pair of Celery Vases brought $850.
Items relating to [...]
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Tags: Bakewell, Christian Walter, George Hetzel, Kerr Museum
Geo | March 5, 2008

The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair™ returns to Chicago’s Merchandise Mart for its 11th year April 25-28, 2008, with the finest assortment of objets d’art and worldly treasures, as well as exciting new show elements. Known as the premier antiques fair in the Midwest, the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair provides collectors, connoisseurs, designers and [...]
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Geo | March 1, 2008

Every once in a while you look at a painting and recognize similarities, in feeling if not structure. Sometimes these similarities are obvious, and sometimes they are not so obvious.
A obvious example, or what seemed obvious to me anyway, was a painting in the Butler Museum of American Art. William Gropper’s “The Youngstown Strike” reminded [...]
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Tags: Butler Museum of American Art, Delaware Art Museum, Depression, Guernica, Paris Exposition, Picasso, William Gropper