WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, recently acquired American painter Thomas Moran’s Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, 1881, a gift of the Milligan and Thomson Families. It was ten years after his first trip west in 1871 that Moran co…
LACMA And The Getty Museum Acquire Robert Mapplethorpe Art And Archive
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust announced their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers of the second half of t…
Donation of Two Works by Leading Irish Sculptor James McKenna to the Irish Museum of Modern Art
DUBLIN.-The donation of two works by leading Irish sculptor James McKenna to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, made by Desmond, Vivienne, Kate and Bebhinn Egan, was celebrated at an event at the Museum. The more recent donation Aisling, Scariff, 1964, is…
Neo-Expressionist Painting from Berlin on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition is held in honor of Susan and Martin Sanders’ generous gift to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which includes important works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionists active in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hödicke…
Neo-Expressionist Painting from Berlin on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition is held in honor of Susan and Martin Sanders’ generous gift to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which includes important works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionists active in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hödicke…
National Gallery Acquires Nine Exceptionally Rare Prints by Rembrandt, Durer and Whistler
OTTAWA, ON.- Thanks to a generous gift from the collection of the former medieval historian, writer, lecturer and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Margaret Wade Labarge (1916-2009), the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired four prints by Dutch ar…
National Gallery Acquires Nine Exceptionally Rare Prints by Rembrandt, Durer, Piranesi and Whistler
OTTAWA, ON.- Thanks to a generous gift from the collection of the former medieval historian, writer, lecturer and Order of Canada recipient Dr. Margaret Wade Labarge (1916-2009), the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) has acquired four prints by Dutch ar…
Crocker Art Museum Receives Gift of Ceramics by Rob Barnard
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has received a gift of 37 works by ceramist Rob Barnard, one of the foremost practitioners of the wood-fired tradition. The collection, given by Rob Wood, brings to the Museum a fully developed view of Barnard…
Portrait of Secretary Norman Y. Mineta Presented at the National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Former Transportation and Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta was recognized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program with the installation of his portrait in a private cere…
Portrait of Secretary Norman Y. Mineta Presented at the National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Former Transportation and Commerce Secretary Norman Y. Mineta was recognized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program with the installation of his portrait in a private cere…