February 22nd, 2012 
UAA Team 
In January the Musée du Louvre in Paris opened “New Frontier: Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America.” The exhibition is the first of a four-year collaboration devoted to American Art, with the Louvre, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas), and the Terra Foundation for [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum 
Tags: Catskill, Guillaume Faroult, Hudson River, Louvre, Paris, Thomas Cole 
No Comments » February 21st, 2012 ewmiller 
PhiladelphiaAntiquesWeek.com recently offered visitors to Philadelphia’s Antiques Week five reasons to revisit this year including a new home at the Convention Center for the Philadelphia Antiques Show, an exhibit on firefighter memorabilia at the 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show, some recently acquired paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, an exhibit relating to Dr. Barnes [...]
February 16th, 2012 UAA Team 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired one of only 16 known casts of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Abraham Lincoln, the Man (Standing Lincoln), a rare, authorized reduction of the large bronze monument that the sculptor originally created for Lincoln Park in Chicago between 1884 and 1887. The Met’s 40-1/2-inch-high bronze statuette was one of a limited [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Augustus Saint Gaudens, Chicago, Clara Stone Hay, Gorham, Lincoln, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tiffany Studios, William McKinley No Comments » February 10th, 2012 ewmiller 
Looking through the Western Galleries at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, many visitors compare the work of Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell. Quite often the conclusion is something like Remington was a better painter, but Russell knew the frontier better. When making these assessments, for the most part we’re looking [...]
February 8th, 2012 Hui 
Nocturnal views are for painters of specialty. They speak with different vocabulary. For some, the limited tonality and values reduce aerial perspective of traditional landscape into designs of forms; for others, the changes in colors through subtle various light sources liberate their pallete to achieve their visions as colorists. Sarah Williams’ Night Fall series, currently [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Dallas, Gallery Crawl, Marty Walker, Sarah Williams No Comments » February 8th, 2012 UAA Team 
Two Fort Worth Museums will be displaying watercolors by Charles M. Russell in the coming months. Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell opens at the Amon Carter and Charles M. Russell: Watercolorist opens at the Sid Richardson Museum, both on February 11. Russell created approximately 3,000 works of art in his lifetime—paintings, watercolors, drawings [...]
Posted in Artist, Museum Tags: Amon Carter, Charles M. Russell, Romance Maker, Sid Richardson No Comments » February 7th, 2012 UAA Team 
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) saw a record visitor turnout on the opening weekend of Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, a major exhibition of artwork by African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, on view through April 15. The exhibition contains more than 100 works, including 12 paintings that had never been shown [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Show & Gallery Tags: Art, Des Moines, French, PaFA, Paintings, Philadelphia, Tanner No Comments » February 6th, 2012 Hui 
Without experienced auction appraisers or reputable dealers fanning out forgery or poor-condition, eBay may not be a primary source for fine art and antiques collectors. Here a lack of hands-on experience forces the decision to be made soley on a few amateur photos under dim lighting. But great finds are abundant. In particular, quite often [...]
February 5th, 2012 Hui 
Many great artworks were for sale at Skinner Auctions on Feb 3, 2012 (American & European Paintings & Prints Sale). Two lots captured my attention. Although they were seemingly far apart with respect to artistic temperament, both have featured a female. “An Artist at Her Easel” was a rare example by Birge Harrison, who has [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Auction Tags: Ayn Rand, Birge Harrison, Jose Manuel Capuletti, Skinner Auction 2 Comments » February 5th, 2012 Hui 
Of many objects auctioned at Estate Unlimited Antiques Fine Art Auctions on Jan 28, George Henry Hall’s Still life of Red, White and Blue flowers in the muzzle of a Springfield rifle truly stands out. In a seemingly simple composition of tri-colored flower arrangement, Hall clashed the feminism traditionally associated with flowers as decorative naturalism [...]
