Over 1,500 oil paintings from public collections in Hertfordshire are presented for the first time in a stunning new catalogue published by The Public Catalogue Foundation today. This is the 21st volume in The Public Catalogue Foundation’s acclaimed series of photographic catalogues recording all publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK. A further 70 catalogues in [...]
A painting by Neosho, Mo., native Thomas Hart Benton is the latest acquisition announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Museum founder Alice Walton made the announcement Wednesday night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., at an annual business event. Ploughing It Under, which 1 1 measures 20 / 8 [...]
The media are richly varied.
Among them are acrylics and watercolors, oil paintings and pencil illustrations, experimental and traditional photographic prints, computer-generated works and sculpture constructed of metal and other things.
“There are many different kinds of art,” says Christopher Varner, 20, of Pittsburgh, “but they all have one thing in common — creativity and passion.”
The student [...]
A $60 million painting by Kazimir Malevich. A $40 million self-portrait by Francis Bacon. It hardly seems the ideal moment to be selling such pricey art. As Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury brace for their big fall auctions in New York, starting with a sale of 71 Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculptures [...]
