Museum News
The Portland Art Museum acquired seven significant works of art, including a major landscape painting by Paul Cézanne titled Paris: Quai de Bercy-La Halle aux Vin. The acquisitions also include paintings by noted American artists Thomas Moran and David Salle. The new works will be permanently installed in the museum’s renovated 240,000-square-foot space, which is scheduled for completion in August 2000.
The C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT, announced that it has met the Kresge Foundation’s challenge to raise $5.7 million in order to be awarded $450,000 from the foundation. The majority of the funds are earmarked for museum expansion.
Recognition
The Rotary Foundation of Santa Fe, NM, has named Taos painter Agnes Martin its distinguished artist of 1999. The foundation will honor Martin at a dinner on October 9 at the Eldorado Hotel.
The Society of Animal Artists has tapped Joy Kroeger Beckner for membership. Beckner is a Missouri-based bronze sculptor.
Tidbits
The Internet auction company eBay has purchased Butterfield & Butterfield, the 134-year-old, San Francisco-based auction house.
The Art Dealers Association of America has established a fine-arts exhibition space on the Internet. Fine Arts Market Online is located on the organization’s Web site at www.artdealers.org. Visitors to the site can view paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from all periods that are for sale by ADAA member galleries.
Show Results
Prix de West Invitational ExhibitionNational Cowboy Hall of Fame andWestern Heritage CenterOklahoma City, OK; June 1999
Overall sales: $1.8 million
Awards:
Michael Coleman, Prix de West Purchase AwardKen Carlson, Frederic Remington AwardClyde Aspevig, Robert Lougheed Memorial AwardDan Gerhartz, Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyers’ Choice AwardCollectors SaleAltermann & Morris GalleriesDallas, TX; May 1999
Overall sales: $2,003,200
Top lots:
E.I. Couse, Meditation, oil, 20 x 24, $94,600Henry Shrady, Elk Buffalo [1899], bronze, h14, $72,600Curt Walters, Still Edge of Wildness, oil, 60 x 80, $57,200Michael Coleman, Last Glow Blackfeet Encampment, oil, 40 x 60, $56,100Clark Hulings, The Yellow Bedspread, oil, 27 x 32, $55,000E.I. Couse, Afternoon on the Hondo, oil, 16 x 12, $51,700Kenneth Riley, Dog Dancer, oil, 40 x 32, $49,500Clark Hulings, The Orange Juice Stand, oil, 16 x 30, $46,200Roy Andersen, The Kiowa Banner, oil, 48 x 32, $45,100Frank McCarthy, Dawn Patrol—Flankers Out, oil, 26 x 40, $38,500
American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture (Including Taos and Western Paintings and Sculpture From a Private Collection)Sotheby’s New York, NY; May 1999Overall sales: $29,207,500
Top lots:
Frederic Edwin Church, To the Memory of Cole, oil, 32 x 49, $4,732,500Winslow Homer, Woodchopper in the Adirondacks, oil, 10 3/4 x 15 1/4, $992,500Martin Johnson Heade, Two Orchards in a Mountain Landscape, oil, 17 x 23, $937,500Thomas Moran, A Showery Day: Grand Canyon, oil, 25 x 20, $745,000Walter Ufer, Sunspots, oil, 31 x 35, $745,000William Merritt Chase, Afternoon Shadows, oil, 14 1/2 x 16, $673,500Frederick C. Frieseke, The Japanese Parasol, oil, 32 x 25 3/4, $635,000Maxfield Parrish, Cleopatra, oil, 30 1/2 x 34, $607,500
American and California Paintings and SculptureButterfield & ButterfieldSan Francisco, CA; June 1999
Overall sales: $3,601,580
Top lots:
Guy Rose, The Cathedral Tours, oil, 28 3/4 x 23 1/2, $321,500Guy Rose, Arch Beach Cove, oil, 23 3/4 x 28 3/4, $222,500Maurice Braun, El Cajon Valley, oil, 30 x 40, $85,000John Marshall Gamble, Wild Buckwheat Near Capistrano [1921], oil, 20 x 30, $79,500Frank Weston Benson, Sunset Over the Surf [1891], oil, 15 x 30, $74,000Clifford Prevost Grayson, Tired of Waiting, oil, 54 x 48, $57,500Granville Redmond, Farm Pond at Night, oil, 26 1/4 x 36, $57,500Henry Percy Gray, Trees and Wildflowers, watercolor, 20 x 28, $54,625
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