Geo | August 7, 2010
It was seventy percent public relations and thirty percent art, but the thirty percent kept me long enough to take a quick look at thirty or so objects on display in the Dallas Galleria. I had missed the opening for the Red Bull-sponsored Art of Can, but no matter I imagine the energy drink was [...]
UAA Team | July 31, 2010
B can now officially stand for baffling. We said it was a hard quiz we posted July 17 and it looks as if we have only one correct answer–not set of answers, representing a high score of 25 percent. Here are the answers–all were b. 1) The medium in this painting is b, oil. By [...]
Hui | July 28, 2010
The 19th century American Art collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art is on the second floor of its Italian Renaissance Mansion. Upon entering the first room slightly on the leftside of the staircase, one is greeted by a large winter scene painting by Bruce Crane, donated by Laura A. Clubb in 1947. New England [...]
UAA Team | July 17, 2010
Here is a four-question art quiz. We’ll randomly choose among those with the correct answers July 31, 2010 and send a free Urban Art and Antiques T-Shirt to a winner. It’s not the world’s easiest quiz, but we’re confident someone will present four correct answers. Click images to expand . 1) This medium of image [...]
Hui | July 7, 2010
“The two cities are totally different. In Dallas, they call it sushi. In Fort Worth, they call it bait,” said Royd Riddell, a Dallas dealer in maps and fine prints at the art sale from the Collectors of Fort Worth last Friday. The sale was held at Fort Worth Community Arts Center (the old Modern [...]
ewmiller | June 25, 2010
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. This Grif Teller painting failed to bring even the minimum bid of $15,000 a few months ago at William Bunch Auctions. June 22nd it brought $61,000. This may put questions into the minds of consignors. Is the hammer price an actual estimate of an items value? Should [...]
Hui | June 19, 2010
George Platt, as a still-life painter, may not stand out among his peers from the Northeast. With neither the lush colors under suffused light as in Fall River School, nor the sumptuousness of George Henry Hall, Platt’s works are not widely collected in the art institutes of America nowadays. But as one of a few [...]
Hui | June 8, 2010
Back in February, A large painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister was for sale in the Swann Auction Galleries. It was, according to the auction catalog, the largest painting by the renowned African American painter of Barbizon school came to auction, although Renwick Gallery (a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum near the White House) [...]
Hui | June 6, 2010
Maybe our article “Won’t You Try Saturday” reached the management of the auction houses, now Heritage Auctions is offering previews on Saturday (at least for the current Signature Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Fine Art sale). There’s no lack of weekend previews in New York city. Auction houses draw large crowd from collectors who may not [...]
Hui | June 3, 2010
During the visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, Geo and I were surprised to see an important piece of work by a painter we love: Henry Ward Ranger’s “Brooklyn Bridge”. It was more surprising that the painting was hung in the 20th century American Decorative Art gallery, a long narrow corridor on the second [...]
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