Welcome to American Fine Art Magazine! This is our annual museum issue and managing editor Sarah Gianelli has put her heart and soul into this issue. In fact, her editors’s letter on the next page provides insightful thoughts about the importance of museums for the public in general and to our daily lives. This issue also provides significant auction coverage including sales presented by Freeman’s | Hindman, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Swann Auction Galleries, Jackson Hole Art Auction, Bonhams Skinner, Shapiro Auctions and more. Our auction coverage is like a historical treasure hunt for collectors. Often an entire collection becomes available, such as the Freeman’s | Hindman sale of the Renny Reynolds Collection. Sometimes museum pieces come up for auction and collectors can acquire a work of historical art that was displayed in a museum for years. Most exciting is when a piece of art emerges onto the market after spending generations in a family collection—as was the case with the long-lost Norman Rockwell leading Shapiro Auctions’ October sale. These gems are a rare and special opportunity for collectors and we want to help you find one in every issue.
Many auction houses dealing in historic American art have a subgenre that they are associated with. John Moran Auctioneers emphasizes historic California art while Freeman’s | Hindman is known for its strong offerings of Pennsylvania Impressionism. There is definitely something for you on the block this month and the secret is to register early and be present whether in person or virtually. Our gallery shows are also very energized this month with three very different but equally illuminating exhibitions: American Scene paintings at CW American Modernism; Al Hirschfeld drawings at Helicline Fine Art and women tonalists at Hawthorne Fine Art—all accessible online.
Whether you enjoy historic art through museum exhibitions or you own rich pieces of history yourself, this issue is sure to feed the appreciation of our beloved American masters!
Enjoy!
Wendie Martin and Adolfo Castillo
Publishers
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