Urban Art and Antiques

Rembrandt Peale Portrait Of George Washington Sets Record for a Porthole Portrait

UAA Team — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:07:56 +0000

Rembrandt Peale’s iconic portrait of George Washington realized a new world record for a porthole portrait by the artist when it sold for $662,500- a record for a porthole portrait by the artist-to lead Heritage Auctions’ recent American art events in Dallas. Peale’s portrait of Washington was presented with his equally iconic portrait of Martha [...]

Oil and Canvas, Art for Jack and Jackie

ewmiller — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:44:28 +0000

Senior Curator of European and American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, Oliver Meslay told a crowd of docents assembled at the museum Monday that it wasn’t the easiest exhibit to put together, nor the most obvious. Rather the need for Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy [...]

Grant Wood’s Sketchbook Up for Auction

UAA Team — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:58:33 +0000

Grant Wood’s sketchbook containing images related to a 24-foot stained glass window in Cedar Rapids will be auctioned May 12 at Leslie Hindman in Chicago. The 24-foot tall window in the Veterans Memorial Building in Grant Wood’s hometown was the largest in the United States in 1929. It features a central figure of a Lady [...]

Amon Carter Acquires Major, Little Seen, Duncanson Painting

UAA Team — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:25:52 +0000

A major painting by 19th-century landscape artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872), the first African-American artist to achieve international acclaim, has been purchased by Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Painted in 1869, the work titled The Caves was originally owned by Cincinnati Abolitionist Richard Sutton Rust (1815–1906), and it remained in his family [...]

Hundreds Shrug Off Floods to Attend Botanic Garden Opener

ewmiller — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:15:26 +0000

The preview party at Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques and Garden Fair is at the top of everyone’s list as far as antique-oriented events in the city. The significant flooding that occurred yesterday could however put a damper on anyone’s plans. “You might have assumed not many would show up,” says Melissa Sands who covered the [...]

Early Texas Art, A Primer: Part One

ewmiller — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:12:17 +0000

Nearly 200 people made it to the Witte Museum in San Antonio for the Annual CASETA conference. If you’re not familiar, CASETA stands for the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art. Before you start, there are two things to know about Early Texas Art. First, if you spend time hanging around [...]

Gifts of Inner Life Celebrated at the Clark

Geo — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:31:59 +0000

Eight landscapes by George Inness given to the Clark by Frank and Katherine Martucci will go on display June 9 with two Inness paintings collected by the museum’s founders. The exhibition examines the artist’s late work when Inness had moved away from plein-air painting and naturalistic portrayals of landscapes towards a more conceptual approach to [...]

Brooklyn Flea Expanding to Philly

UAA Team — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:44:40 +0000

Northern Liberties may be a Philadelphia neighborhood, or a suburb of Brooklyn. It may be hard to tell when the Brooklyn Flea opens up shop next month. The popular market’s website shows Mark Wahlberg sporting vintage Philadelphia Eagles gear announcing the June 2 opener. Brooklyn Flea Philly will include mainstay vendors, and undoubtedly some from [...]

Christie’s to Enter China Auction Market

UAA Team — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:55:18 +0000

Bloomberg News reports that Christie’s will hold its first auction in Mainland China this fall. In doing so it will become the first international auction firm to hold its branded events there. The article cites the European Fine Art Foundation which concludes the $13.7 billion market is the second-largest in the world. The move may begin [...]

Art of the American South at Colonial Williamsburg

UAA Team — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:07:57 +0000

Presented by The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, curators say a new exhibit called Painters and Paintings in the Early American South is the first exhibition of its kind that explores the scope of this region of early American art while bringing new vitality, excitement and scholarship to the forefront. “Nothing like this has been done [...]