February 25th, 2011 
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Antiques at Music Valley had a totally different feel than the Heart of the Country Show. The State Fairgrounds provides ample yet unassuming space for the show. Neither show would be mistaken by visitors for the shows as high-end as the Winter Antiques Show in which “price upon request” in some cases means “price you [...]
February 25th, 2011 ewmiller 
On the way in to preview what is likely a once in a lifetime opportunity to see masterworks from the New York Historical Society in Fort Worth, I noticed a portrait of Amon Carter by portrait artist Scott Gentling had been moved. Adjacent to it now hangs a portrait of Ruth Carter Stevenson by the [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum, Show & Gallery 
Tags: Amon Carter, Asher B. Durand, Crystal Bridges, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Keats, Jonathan Sturges, Linda Ferber, New York Public Library, Rebecca Lawton, Ruth Carter Stevenson, Scott gentling, Thomas Cole, William Cullen Bryant, William hart 
2 Comments » February 23rd, 2011 UAA Team 
Doyle New York auctioned the estate of the legendary performer and civil rights pioneer Lena Horne on Wednesday. The exhibition and auction attracted thousands of her fans, and hundreds of them participated in this historic auction. The Lena Horne collection comprised approximately 200 lots of elegant costume jewelry, accessories, gowns, memorabilia, decorations, silver, furniture, books [...]
Posted in Auction Tags: David Burliuk, Doyle, Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, James Van Der Zee, Lena Horne No Comments » February 23rd, 2011 ewmiller 
Since the show’s beginnings in the early 1980s, the Heart of Country show has been one of the premiere destinations for fans of Americana in the Country. This year dealer Bettianne Sweeney, who promotes her own Americana-themed show the weekend after Thanksgiving in Virginia, was crossing having a booth at the Heart of Country off [...]
Posted in Antiques Tags: Amon Carter, Antiques Show, Bettianne Sweeney, Bev Norwood, Bill Kelly, Bruce Rigsby, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Gaylord, George Inness, Gordon Harrison, harrison Galleries, Heart of Country, Hemingway Cat, Hobo, Jane Langol, Nashville, Opryland, Remington, Ron Christman, Susan Hunkins, Woody Straub No Comments » February 21st, 2011 ewmiller 
Moderating a presentation at the Heart of Country Antiques Show in Nashville, veteran painting and furniture dealer Woody Straub commented the slump in the current market was actually the third such dramatic decline in his lifetime. If you walked over to a table along a side wall and picked up a complimentary issue of Maine [...]
February 18th, 2011 UAA Team 
A self-portrait by Andy Warhol brought more than $17 million at a Christie’s sale in London Wednesday. The high estimate was just over $8 million. According to the auction notes, the Self-Portrait series of 1967, originally made for the American Pavilion (a huge geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller) at Expo ’67 in Montreal, constitutes [...]
Posted in Art, Auction Tags: Andy Warhol, Christie's, Jean -Michel Basquiat, Phillips de Pury No Comments » February 17th, 2011 Geo 
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) recently announced a gift of the collection of art by women from Philadelphia art collector and artist Linda Lee Alter. This collection includes approximately 400 works of art spanning the 1910s to the present in all media and by a wide range of artists from the well-known [...]
Posted in Art, Museum Tags: Alice Neel, Ana Mendieta, Beatrice Wood, Betye Saar, Christina Ramberg, David R. Brigham, Edna Andrade, Elizabeth Osborne, Gertrude Abercrombie, Gladys Nilsson, Janet Fish, Joan Brown, Kiki Smith, Linda Lee Alter, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Nancy Spero, PaFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sarah McEneaney, Sue Coe, Viola Frey No Comments » February 17th, 2011 UAA Team 
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust recently announced their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe. The vast majority of the acquisition comes in the form of a s gift from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, and the remainder from funds provided [...]
February 17th, 2011 UAA Team 
Mainline Media News reports that The Friends of the Barnes Foundation has filed a petition to reopen his 2004 decision to permit the gallery in Merion to move its art collection to Philadelphia. The petition cites newly available indications of misconduct on the part of then-Attorney General Michael Fisher as revealed in the documentary “The Art [...]
February 16th, 2011 UAA Team 
Jasper Johns was at the White House Tuesday to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside Warren Buffett, Angela Merkel, Yo-Yo Ma, former president George H.W. Bush and others. The last painter and/or sculptor to receive the medal was Alexander Calder, given posthumously by President Gerald Ford. Presenting the award to John’s, the president remarked: It [...]
