A Sunday trip to the Birmingham Museum of Art doesn’t provide enough time to cover its comprehensive collection, especially its Vietnamese ceramics exhibition, one of the finest in the world, and its Wedgewood collection, the largest outside England. Fortunately, the American Art and Decorative Art collection is substantial, yet not overwhelming. Paintings are largely organized … Continue reading One Sunday in Birmingham @ the Museum
Tag: Raphaelle Peale
Rare Still Life by Duncanson Enters Collection of National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast … Continue reading Rare Still Life by Duncanson Enters Collection of National Gallery of Art
Philadelphia History at Auction
A still life by Raphaelle Peale that passed through Christie’s auction house appeared in today’s New York Times Arts section today. The article is about the long-raging debate of deaccessioning. The still life brought the Philadelphia History Museum $842,000. I don’t want to repeat the content of the article here, but feel it necessary for … Continue reading Philadelphia History at Auction
Christie’s American Painting Sale Preview
There were a good crowd at Christie's in the first afternoon preview of American Painting Sale. Among the consignors, there are museums such as Delaware Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery and other art institutions. Geo commented that one hundred years ago the first generation of collectors and philanthropists such as Cargenie, Frick, Morgan and Mellon, conglomerated … Continue reading Christie’s American Painting Sale Preview
Another Round of Museum Deaccession at Christie’s
1. Harold McGuffey, by Eastman Johnson, from Corcoran Gallery, to be sold at Christie's on Dec 2, 2009 Harold McGuffrey, by Eastman Johnson 2. Early Autumn, Adirondacks, by Alexander Helwig Wyant, from Corcoran Gallery, to be sold at Christie's on Dec 2, 2009 Early Autumn, Adirondacks, by Alexander Wyant 3. Mountainous Landscape by Moonlight, by Albert Bierstadt, … Continue reading Another Round of Museum Deaccession at Christie’s
A Pastel Painting at Doyle
Learned from this single painting, I feel the charm of still-lifes. It is the fact that they are of common daily objects that enable us to easily distinguish and identify those of true artistic values: The greatest still life does not imitate the nature but demands eyes to revisit and reexamine the familiarity in the subconsciousness of unknown and challenges our minds to see the world with freshness and inspiration. One nice painting came upon Doyle Auction on Wed, July 15. [Read More...]
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