Jackson Hole Art Auction Sept. 19 showcases Western painters

Thomas Moran (1837-1926), ‘Cascade Falls, Yosemite,’ 1905, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 20in, signed lower right. Estimate: $750,000-$1,250,000. Jackson Hole Art Auction image

JACKSON, Wyo. – Trailside Galleries and the Gerald Peters Gallery will to present the 14th annual Jackson Hole Art Auction, on Sept. 19, 2020 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This year’s sale will be held virtually and live streamed from the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson, with just over 300 lots on offer. Bid absentee or live online through LiveAuctioneers.  Continue reading

Appeals court rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted art

Camille Pissarro’s ‘La Rue St. Honore, effet de Soleil, Apres-Midi.’ Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a Camille Pissarro painting a Jewish woman traded to the Nazis to escape the Holocaust in 1939 may remain the property of a Spanish museum that acquired it more than a half-century later.

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Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum to reopen Sept. 12

View of the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s original 1933 building and the ‘Shuttlecocks’ installation from the south side. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, closed since March 14 due to COVID-19, will reopen to the general public on Saturday, Sept. 12. Continue reading