Amon Carter Museum receives bequest from Finis Welch collection

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation
Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation 9. ‘Levitation #99,’ 1954, gelatin silver print, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Finis Welch, © Aaron Siskind Foundation

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) today announced the acquisition of more than 240 photographs and works on paper that significantly expand the Museum’s renowned photography and works on paper holdings. A bequest from the estate of Texas economist, entrepreneur, and collector Finis Welch, who passed away in 2020, the gift includes prints by Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and more, which together greatly strengthen the Carter’s ability to tell the story of early photographic modernism in America. Works on paper by Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Lewis Rubenstein, and Rufino Tamayo add dimension to existing collection holdings by these artists, while three works by abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell are the first prints by the artist to enter the collection.

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1966 Peanuts comic strip art sets new auction record

A December 1966 Sunday ‘Peanuts’ strip in which Linus repeats the message at the core of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ sold for $360,000 and a new world auction record for original ‘Peanuts’ art.
A December 1966 Sunday ‘Peanuts’ strip in which Linus repeats the message at the core of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ sold for $360,000 and a new world auction record for original ‘Peanuts’ art.

A December 1966 Sunday ‘Peanuts’ strip in which Linus repeats the message at the core of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ sold for $360,000 and a new world auction record for original ‘Peanuts’ art.

DALLAS – Christmas comes early for Charlie Brown. An original Charles Schulz Peanuts Sunday strip, published Dec. 18, 1966, sold for $360,000 September 10 at Heritage Auctions. That is the highest price ever paid at auction for original Peanuts artwork.

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Fantastic Four, Pokemon enliven Bruneau’s Sept. 25 auction

Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four #1, est. $15,000-$20,000
Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four #1, est. $15,000-$20,000
Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four #1, est. $15,000-$20,000

CRANSTON, R.I. – Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers’ Comic, TCG & Toy auction slated for Saturday, September 25, is shaping up as one of the firm’s best ones yet. It’s bursting with more than 450 lots of Pop Culture treasures, pulled from prominent collections across the United States. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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AUDIO: Unpublished Lennon/Ono interview, song with Danish schoolboys to be auctioned

Image courtesy of Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen. Creative Commons Attribution

COPENHAGEN – A never-before-published cassette tape of an interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their famous winter stay in Thy, Northern Jutland, Denmark in 1970 is going to be auctioned on September 28 by Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers in Copenhagen. The 33-minute-long recording includes a conversation between the famous couple and the four 16-year-old schoolboys, who were allowed to interview Lennon and Ono. At one point the never-published song “Radio Peace” is also played. The cassette tape has an estimated price of DKK 200,000-300,000 (US$32,000-$47,000).Continue reading

Hubert Phipps’ monumental ‘Rocket’ sculpture chosen for public art initiative

Rocket. Photo courtesy of the artist Hubert Phipps. Photographed by Jacek Gancarz

BOCA RATON, Fla. –  The monumental new Hubert Phipps sculpture titled Rocket has been selected for an Art in Public Places initiative in South Florida, at the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC), the historic tech landmark where the first IBM Personal Computer was invented. This new public art program is part of a cultural partnership between the Boca Raton Museum of Art and CP Group, the owner of BRiC and a premier developer and operator of commercial real estate.

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