Dispute over Thomas Cole painting heading to courtAUBURN, N.Y. (AP) – A descendent of Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state is asking a judge to force a foundation to return a valuable painting to a central New York museum. Thomas Cole’s Portage Falls on the Genesee was removed from the Seward House Museum earlier this year. Museum officials say they intend to sell […]
Museum’s decision to sell Thomas Cole painting draws fireAUBURN, N.Y. (AP) – Descendants of 19th-century American statesman William H. Seward say they’re angered by plans to sell a valuable painting that had hung in his central New York home for years. The Emerson Foundation, former operator of the Seward House Museum in Auburn, announced last week in a letter to supporters that Thomas […]
Philadelphia Museum of Art displays Thomas Cole’s ‘Arch of Nero’PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Museum of art announced it will display in its American galleries The Arch of Nero, a masterpiece by the great 19th-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801–1848), as a long-term loan from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. Purchased by the Foundation at Sotheby’s American art auction in New […]
Art Institute of Chicago acquires monumental Tiffany windowCHICAGO –The Art Institute of Chicago announced Wednesday the acquisition of an extraordinary memorial window attributed to Agnes F. Northrop and made by Tiffany Studios in 1917. Originally commissioned for the Central Baptist Church (now known as Community Church of Providence) as the gift of Mary L. Hartwell in memory of her husband, Frederick W. […]