The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, the first U.S. exhibition in twenty-five years of eighteenth-century Spanish painter Luis Meléndez (1715-1780). Meléndez is now recognized not only as one of the greatest [Read More]
Caspar David Friedrich, the leading painter of the German Romantic era, is nowadays regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of art. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown in Sweden outside art history circles. This October, Nationalmuseum will set out [Read More]
On view at the Parrish from September 27 through November 29, 2009 The Parrish collection has long been known for its impressive array of landscape paintings and this exhibition marks an important opportunity to bring together these treasured works in a display [Read More]
Meadows and Mountains celebrates the work of William F. Jackson, Sacramento’s leading painter from 1880 to 1936 and the first director of the Crocker Art Museum. This first solo exhibit of Jackson’s work, opening November 6, 2009, brings together 20 of his [Read More]
Open Roads and Bedside Tables: American Modernism in the Frye Collection, on view from September 26, 2009 through January 10, 2010, presents works from the Frye Collection that explore how American artists created distinctly American subjects for American audiences. In the early [Read More]
The Board of Trustees of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle announced today that the internationally respected museum director, curator and scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker will become director of the museum, effective Oct. 1, 2009. She will assume leadership of the Frye [Read More]
Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs, a major retrospective exhibition of work by this highly regarded artist and teacher, is on view at Tacoma Art Museum September 26, 2009, through January 10, 2010. Vital Signs features an extraordinary selection of Joe Feddersen’s printmaking, collage, [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts, featuring Fine Silver, on Saturday, Oct 3rd at 10 a.m. in the Boston gallery located at 63 Park Plaza. More than 750 lots of material will be offered, including 350 [Read More]
This hoard is perhaps the most important collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in England. It compares and perhaps exceeds those objects found at Sutton Hoo. Originally discovered by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in July 2009 and subsequently excavated by Birmingham University Archaeology [Read More]
“Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” will arrive in New York City in April 2010, marking the first time a collection of treasures from King Tut’s tomb has visited the city since the groundbreaking 1979 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum [Read More]
The art and rhetoric of Robert Motherwell helped define the New York School, a group of abstract painters active in the 1940s and 1950s that also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With an extensive academic background, Motherwell acted [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers is delighted to announce the third of their 2009 California and American Art Auctions, to be held Tuesday, October 13th. Showcasing a spectacular selection of pre-1945 California plein air landscapes, California Style watercolors, and Western art drawn from private [Read More]
Christie’s London announced the discovery of a rare portrait of Sir Alfred James Munnings Reading, circa 1910, by Harold Knight, R.A. (estimate: £30,000-50,000) which will be offered in the sale of Victorian & British Impressionist Art Including Drawings & Watercolours on Wednesday [Read More]
Freeman’s Auctioneers hosted a sizeable contingent of international buyers during our Fine Asian Arts sale held September 14, 2009. The large auction comprised many fine antiques and pieces of art from China, Japan and other Asian nations. The enthusiasm present in the [Read More]