Collecting American Paintings

Collecting American Paintings

The origin of this text began several decades ago in a number of interesting experiences I had when beginning to collect American paintings. The chapters are written with a degree of independence; hence there is some duplication. Hopefully it can be examined as a reference text or read as a novel. This text is written for the initiate, and for the collector who has assembled a number of paintings through random acquisitions that provide no thematic identity and little satisfaction with either the process or the achievement.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

ART SPEAK

COLLECTING

INVESTING

TOOLS OF TRADE

SELECTION

AUTHENTICITY

VALUE

COLLECT THE BEST

SOURCES

WORKS ON PAPER

IT’S IN THE FRAME

CONDITION OF OIL PAINTINGS

DETERMINING CONDITION

AMERICAN BARBIZON

TONALISM AND NOCTURNES

IMPRESSIONISM

COLOR PERCEPTION

THE ASHCAN SCHOOL

COLLECTING REGIONAL ART

EXPATRIATE AMERICAN ARTISTS

PORTRAITURE

STILL LIFE

ENHANCING VALUE

DECORATIVE VALUE

SHARING AND MANAGING

FUNDING AND FINANCING

FROM COLLECTOR TO PATRON

MISTAKES AND MISHAPS

DONATING

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VALUES