Art of Estates

Did you know that the first black-on-black jar by Maria and Julian Martinez was exhibited in July 1920 in Santa Fe? It’s amazing how far this innovation in tec...hnique has come in just 100 years! The jar on the upper left is one of their first pieces and the plate below is how quickly the imagery and style of painting had evolved by 1927. Learn more about these and other exceptional art in clay in our galleries or online. Kinggalleries.com #kinggalleries #coolpueblopottery #bestinscottsdale #santafegalleries #spokenthroughclay See more

Showing The Kansas City Chiefs our spirit the biggest way we can! Go Chiefs!

Contemplation Environments

Hooray, the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery is open again! We are back to our regular hours of Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1... to 5 p.m. We've extended the 122nd annual Midwest Art Exhibition through August 16, 2020. The exhibitions include: Steve Scott is Steve Scott: a retrospective by former Lindsborg artist Steve Allan Scott (1947-2017) Beauty Born of Fire: the enamels of Fern Aspelin Cole (1917-1979) Featuring Familiar Friends: works by James Mages of Hays, Kansas A Selection of Works by Women from the Gallery's Permanent Collection When visiting, we ask that you please follow these guidelines: 1. Do not enter if you have symptoms of Covid-19 2. Wear a facial mask or shield. 3. Sign the guest book and sanitize your hands (it's provided). 4. Please social distance from staff and other visitors. 5. Avoid touching surfaces. Here's a fast (very fast!) overview of the exhibitions. . .to see the slow-motion version, visit the Gallery before August 16th!

Pac-Man, the biggest arcade game of all time, turns 40 today. Released by the Japanese company Namco on May 22, 1980, Pac-Man was instantly addictive, eating quarters as rapaciously as its protagonist swallowed pixels: https://wired.trib.al/b0hSCbu

Luxury property selling well in the downturn. We provide appraisal services on this area of the personal property market.

Happy Birthday John Steuart Curry! "Tornado Over Kansas" by John Steuart Curry American, 1897-1946 Oil Painting, 1929 Hackley Picture Fund Purchase... #MuskegonArtMuseum #ThanksCharles #Tornado Galleries and Store open 10 am to 8 pm with Free Admission after 4 pm https://muskegonartmuseum.org/ See more

If you can't go to the Louvre, bring the Louvre home Credit: Famille Barassou Confinement

Where are we today?

We're heading down to Ozark (just outside of Springfield two weeks from tomorrow for an appraisal fair. Will you be there to help raise funds for the library?

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Arkansas Society of Printmakers steamroller printing at the Galleries at Library Square. I was the driver!! Neal Harrington

How can you not love Pflueger Frogs.....

Have friends in the Springfield, Missouri area? Tell them about an event we're working at on November 2nd, 2019.

Same old hat, but a new story!

On a day like today, American artist Edward Hopper was born. July 22, 1882. The AKMA is honored to have in its collection Civil War Campground 1926 Waterco...lor on paper. If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Edward Hopper #akma #art #artmuseum #fineart #stjoemo See more

Old School Vs. New School

KC Studio Article regarding "Collecting in America: The Sabates African Art Collection"

Sunrise on Menemsha Pond 1969 Oil on Canvas 18 x 24.25 Location as of [2008] Collection of Jessie Benton The Bentons’ daughter, Jessie, celebrates her bi...rthday on July 10th. On the back of this lovely landscape of Martha’s Vineyard is written Happy Birthday to Jessie from Momy & Dad. Similar to the Lily Pond painting we shared a few weeks ago, this is another idyllic scene, with no people in view. Tom Benton often went to his studio early in the morning, painting in some of the best light of the day. Don’t we all wish we can start our workday with an inspiring view like this? And if you happen to be on the Vineyard this summer, be sure to visit the new exhibition Benton’s Martha’s Vineyard https://mvmuseum.org/exhibitions/. The Benton Home State Historic Site was happy to lend several artifacts for this show, and we hope they get a great turn-out. See more

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That’s a big crate! #sculpture #esschubert #bronze #statue #crate #kcmo #upsfreight

Landscape oil paintings by Sandzen are absolute bliss!

Attention Contemporary Art Collectors

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THIS WEEK IN BENTON HISTORY: BoxOffice May 27, 1963: The Kansas City Art Institute held a special dinner for Walt Disney as an honorary distinguished alumn...us. Disney was not a graduate of the school, but he started out in Kansas Cityhis first studio was Laugh-O-Gram Studio at 1127 E. 31st Street, not far from the mid-town art institute. Thomas Hart Benton was also at the dinner honoring Disney. He and Walt at one point discussed doing a Davy Crockett project together and had a mutual admiration for each other’s work. Benton commented at the dinner, I’m the kind of artist who says the artist is not important. It’s the meaning he makes. This fellow [Disney] has made more meanings for people around the world than anybody. Maybe he is the greatest artist of our day. See more

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The weekend IS here and so is Master Weaver Elsie Bia and this marvelous Two Grey Hills weave! This Two Grey Hills is absolutely OUTSTANDING !!! Details: Styl...e: Two Grey Hills Weaver: Elsie Bia circa: 2018 Size : 50" x 72" Item #Churro 1588 Contact us for more information, pricing or to order [email protected] or 520-455-5020 -- We will be glad to help you! A unique blend of history, Native American culture and storytelling make these weavings an art like no other.

#ClosedMondays A Dutch architect and furniture designer, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888-1964) began his training as an apprentice in his father's cabinetmaking bu...siness and later studied architecture in Utrecht. In the early 1930s, Dutch department store Metz & Co. asked Rietveld to do something unprecedented: design a chair for mass production. In response, Rietveld proposed a Z-shaped perch made from four slices of sturdy elm supported by dovetailed joints and metal screws. The visual simplicity of the armless, legless, cantilevered form--called the Zig Zag chair--belies its relatively complex construction and remains an expression of Rietveld's application of the tenets of the De Stijl movement to his work. See the Snite's Zig Zag chair in the first floor Ashbaugh Decorative Arts Gallery. We are open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thursdays until 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, 12 noon-5 p.m. We are closed Sundays and Mondays. Zig-Zag Chair, designed 1934, executed 1950 Designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Dutch, 1888-1964 Made by Gerard van de Groenekan Netherlandish, 1904-1994 elm wood with brass fittings Museum purchase by exchange, Mrs. Maude C. Clarke 1988.046

Abstract Tablecloth 1911-12 Oil on Ecru Satin fabric 50.25 x 35.5 Location as of [Current] Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio We’re very excited to share t...his unusual piece with you! Over the winter of 1911/12, 22-year-old Tom Benton moved back into his parents’ home after finishing his art studies in Paris, France. During this brief break in Neosho MO, and before embarking on his career in New York City, Benton painted an abstract design on a satin tablecloth. At the bottom center he included his mother’s monogram, EWB [Elizabeth Wise Benton]. Luckily, Mrs. Benton took the tablecloth with her when she moved to Long Island shortly after. This is one of the few early artworks to survive the fire that destroyed the Benton homestead in 1917. Eventually the painted fabric ended up at the New Britain Connecticut Art Museum. A few years ago, New Britain offered it to our historic site. Although the tablecloth had received some conservation work in the past, it was ready for another cleaning. The Friends of the Benton Home paid to have a treatment, stabilization, and Plexiglas encasement performed by Van Witt Fine Art Conservators. The unique, early Benton artwork is now on display in the dining room, and we encourage you to come by for a tour of the Benton Home to see it. See more

THIS WEEK IN BENTON HISTORY: Miami Herald April 15, 1958: We want to give a big Happy birthday! to Tom, as tomorrow is the 130th anniversary of his birth.... TODAY, come visit the Benton Homewe’re having our annual meeting at 2:00 to give the public updates on the house and our plans for this year; afterward you can go through the house for FREE and see our two new pieces of Benton art on display! See more

Will we see you in one week? Find Art of Estates providing time to KPTS again, just like in 2015, in Kansas City on April 13th, 2019!

They'll be closed for a bit.

And we helped! Check out our collection online. https://www.kcur.org//google-says-kansas-city-first-us-cit

Stan Herd is from Lawrence Kansas!

Will we see you soon?

Our painting Cedars in the Foothills, 1922, is on its way to Kathmandu, on loan to the new American ambassador to Nepal via the "Art in Embassies" program

The Conservation Story and the history of this authentic Pony Express Trunk is on the blog today! Visit: http://www.vanwittart.com/blog To read more...

Thomas Hart Benton was inspired to paint "Trail Riders" after a 1964 trip that he took with a good friend to the Canadian Rockies. The artist recollected that t...hey had ridden from Banff to Mount Assiniboine in 9 and a half hours over the course of two dayshis first horseback trip in more than 30 years. Mount Assiniboine is known as the Matterhorn of North America because of its triangular shape. The artist represented himself and his traveling companion as miniscule figures on horseback at the bottom of the composition, dwarfed by the majestic landscape. Imagine you are standing in the space depicted here. What would you smell? Hear? Taste? Thomas Hart Benton, "Trail Riders," 1964-1965, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Artist