New York City’s Ever Growing Arts Scene: “Unfinished” at the new Met Breuer
When the Whitney Museum of American Art moved to its new location downtown in 2015, the Metropolitan Museum expanded from its iconic 5th Avenue location to include the vacated 1966 building designed by Marcel Breuer located at E. 75th and Madison. Opened on March 18, 2016, the intent of the newly leased space is to […]
Read More2015 Global Art Market Sales: Up in U.S. and Down Around the World
To keep artists and collectors apprised of developments in the global art market, we continue our ongoing series with our annual update that coincides with the conclusion of the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) held every March in Maastricht. Held from March 11-16, the fair drew about 75,000 visitors and featured over 35,000 works created […]
Read MoreNew York Armory Week & Expansion of International Art Fairs
With the end of Armory Arts Week in New York (Feb. 28-March 6th), we thought it would be a good time to follow-up on our blog last year about the future of international art fairs by examining the rising importance of New York as a hub for such fairs. As explained in Video #6 in […]
Read MoreFounding Connoisseur Confirmation of Membership Thank you for becoming a Founding Connoisseur of Collectors for Connoisseurship! Your membership helps us to promote the vocations of the living artist and the Dominicans. To log-in to the Members-Only programs and benefits: Go to our website at www.windowstothedivine.org and click on “Member Login” on the Main Menu on […]
Read MoreLynn Kircher
Born in Decatur, Illinois, Lynn grew up in Saint Louis. At the age of nine he started studying the masters Michelangelo, Bridgeman and Shephard. In high school, he continued studies with the Minneapolis School of Art on a full scholarship. Enlisting early at the age of 17, he joined the “kiddy cruise” to Viet Nam, […]
Read MoreRon Richmond
Art collector D. R. Heiniger captures the essence of Ron Richmond’s work by describing his paintings as “the presence of absence—or, the exquisite longing for the unattainable.” Richmond has exhibited his paintings in solo and group shows in galleries and museums in major cities such as New York, Washington D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Scottsdale, San Francisco, and London. His […]
Read MoreRamon Kelley
Ramon is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Allied Artists of America, Pastel Society of America, Prix de West (formerly National Academy of Western Art), Knickerbocker Artists, Oil Painters of America, Representational, and the Whiskey Painters of America. In 1985, the Pastel Society of America designated Ramon a Master Pastelist, and in 1986, Ramon was elected to the Pastel Hall of […]
Read MoreLucong
Lu Cong was born in Shanghai, in 1978. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1989. He attended the University of Iowa and the University of Colorado. Lu turned his focus to art after earning degrees in Biology and Humanities. His works have been exhibited at Henoch Gallery, New York, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, Arcadia […]
Read MoreDavid A Leffel
Born in New York City, David A Leffel graduated from Parson’s School of Design while also attending Fordham University at night. Between 1959 and1960, with the help of a Merit Scholarship, he learned the fundamentals of chiaroscuro painting at the Art Students League of New York in Frank Mason’s class. Only a few years later, […]
Read MoreSherrie McGraw
As a young woman in Oklahoma City in 1978, Sherrie McGraw was urged by her teachers Richard and Edith Goetz to move to New York City to study at the famed Art Students League where they had studied within the lineage of Robert Brackman and George Bridgeman. In her initial years at the League, McGraw […]
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