LONDON.- Sotheby’s announce Noblesse Oblige, the sale of an exquisite selection of decorative and fine arts with remarkable links to some of Europe’s most important aristocratic families on Thursday 14th April 2011. A highlight of the sale is…
National Portrait Gallery in Washington Presents "Calder’s Portraits: A New Language"
WASHINGTON, DC.- Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was also a prolific portraitist who created hundreds of likenesses over the course of his lifetime. An exhibition of these works is being shown at the …
National Portrait Gallery Presents "Calder’s Portraits: A New Language"
WASHINGTON, DC.- Best known for his abstract mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) was also a prolific portraitist who created hundreds of likenesses over the course of his lifetime. An exhibition of these works is being shown at the …
Experts Debate on Authenticity of Probable Third Known Photograph of Chopin
WARSAW (AP).- Chopin experts are trying to determine whether a photo that has surfaced in Poland is really of the 19th century composer. If authentic, it would be only the third known photograph of Chopin, who lived from 1810-1849. Wladyslaw Zuchowski…
Sir Claude Francis Barry Exhibition at The Royal Cornwall Museum Reveals Masterful Work
CORNWALL.- Described by one national critic as ‘the greatest artist you never heard of’, Barry (1883-1970) was a prolific painter and etcher who spent years working alongside Newlyn School greats like Stanhope Forbes, Henry Scott Tuke and Nor…
Sir Claude Francis Barry Exhibition at The Royal Cornwall Museum Reveals Masterful Work
CORNWALL.- Described by one national critic as ‘the greatest artist you never heard of’, Barry (1883-1970) was a prolific painter and etcher who spent years working alongside Newlyn School greats like Stanhope Forbes, Henry Scott Tuke and Nor…
Photographs by O. Winston Link Bring the Romance of Trains to Reynolda House Museum of American Art
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- As steam engines were about to fade from railroading in the late 1950s, photographer O. Winston Link sought to capture the nostalgia, mystery and symbolism they evoked of a rapidly changing post-war America. This spring, Reynolda …
Frick Collection Exhibition Considers Rembrandt Through the Eyes of Two Collectors
NEW YORK, NY.- In the century that has passed since the collectors Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) and Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884-1970) began to acquire works by Rembrandt van Rijn, the world’s view of the artist has changed dramatically. In the late ni…
Frick Collection Exhibition Considers Rembrandt Through the Eyes of Two Collectors
NEW YORK, NY.- In the century that has passed since the collectors Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) and Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884-1970) began to acquire works by Rembrandt van Rijn, the world’s view of the artist has changed dramatically. In the late ni…
Milwaukee Art Museum Offers a Fresh Perspective on Frank Lloyd Wright with New Exhibition
MILWAUKEE, WI.- On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home, studio and school in Spring Green, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Art Museum presents a major exhibition offering a fresh perspective on celebrated architec…