Stage-worn Elvis jumpsuit gets top billing at GWS Sept. 4 auction

Elvis Presley stage-worn Eyelet jumpsuit and cape, designed by Bill Belew, est. $1.5 million-$2 million
Elvis Presley stage-worn Eyelet jumpsuit, designed by Bill Belew, est. $1.5 million-$2 million

LOS ANGELES – GWS Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house specializing in entertainment memorabilia, royal artifacts and fine jewelry has announced an unprecedented offering for auction of iconic Elvis Presley memorabilia to be included in the Artifacts of Hollywood and Music auction to take place September 4 beginning at 10 am Eastern time. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Cleveland exhibitions capture 20th-century New York’s gritty side

‘Sailor and Girl, Times Square, New York,’ 1939, printed 1970s, Lou Stoumen (American, 1917–1991). Gelatin silver print; 30.4 by 22.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2018.378. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts
‘Sailor and Girl, Times Square, New York,’ 1939, printed 1970s, Lou Stoumen (American, 1917–1991). Gelatin silver print; 30.4 by 22.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2018.378. © Lou Stoumen Archive / Museum of Photographic Arts

CLEVELAND — A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920–1950 and Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900–1940 opened in July at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). The exhibitions explore urban life in New York City during the first half of the 20th century through street photography and urban realism in printmaking.

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Baltimore museum to host first major US Juan Gris exhibit in decades

Juan Gris, ‘Mandolin and Fruit Dish,’ 1925. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Photo © 2021 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Image courtesy of the Baltimore Art Museum (BAM)
Juan Gris, ‘Mandolin and Fruit Dish,’ 1925. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Photo © 2021 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Juan Gris, ‘Mandolin and Fruit Dish,’ 1925. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Photo © 2021 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Image courtesy of the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents the first U.S. exhibition in more than 35 years dedicated to the Spanish artist Juan Gris. Co-organized with the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and on view in Baltimore from September 12 through January 9, 2022, Color and Illusion: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris highlights the artist’s pioneering contributions to the Cubist movement through more than 40 paintings and collages, spanning from 1911 to 1927 — the year of Gris’s tragically early death at age 40.

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