Publications
Art collecting and investing
A discerning guide to the inner workings of the art world, Art Collecting & Investing offers expert insight into building, managing, and safeguarding a refined collection. From understanding authenticity and provenance to navigating auctions, dealers, and estate planning, this book equips collectors with the knowledge to make informed, confident decisions in a complex and often opaque market.
Edmund C. Tarbell & the Boston School of Painting
Tarbell was a founding member of The Ten American Painters (1898), theHead art instructor at Boston’s Museum School and the Director of the Corcoran Gallery’s school. He is world renown for his natural-looking portraiture and depicting the members of Boston’s genteel society doing everyday tasks within light-filled rooms or outdoors. Edmund C. Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting deals with the careers of Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, Joseph DeCamp, William Paxton, Marguerite S. Pearson, Philip and Lilian Westcott Hale and many other American painters as they built their reputations as artists and teachers of eminence.
Edward Henry Potthast, More than One Man
Leading an unassuming creative existence, it never occurred to Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) that after his death a person he trusted would betray his integrity, assume his artistic identity and imitate his stylistic oeuvre. That person’s unconscionable actions gave powerful, fraudulent dealers and so-called experts the opportunity to misrepresent purposefully another man’s paintings as the work of Potthast. Because the scandal escalated for decades into other forms of forgery the art community did nothing to stop it. This book candidly reveals the whole truth in an attempt to restore the Father of American Beach Painting’s true artistic legacy.
The Ten (American Painters)
The Ten is the first book ever written on American’s most competent and influential American Impressionist painters.The Ten include Frank W. Benson, Joseph R. Decamp, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund C. Tarbell, John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir and William Merritt Chase who replaced Twachtman in 1902.
The Watercolor World of J.W.S. Cox
Cox (1911-1981) was a renown Boston-Rockport, MA watercolorist who painted throughout the world. His theories and discoveries regarding the wet on-wet watercolor painting techniques influenced scores of artists to change their working habits and ways of painting. Cox founded the New England School of Art and Design in Boston. He won numerous awards, the recipient of numerous one-man exhibitions and he was a member of the American Watercolor Society. His work is in a class by itself.
Jane Peterson An American Artist
With an introduction by Patricia Jobe Pierce and limited to 750 copies this retrospective explores the creative output of an artist who absorbed the technical points and emotional input of several artistic schools blending them to establish her own bold unique style, vision and painterly execution.
John Joseph Enneking, American Impressionist
Enneking was the first American painter to train abroad and paint alongside Monet, Pissarro and Renoir in Monet’s Garden of Argenteuil (where he painted Monet’s son and wife) and return to America an Impressionist in 1974. By his death in Boston in 1916, Enneking was renown for his paintings during all four seasons of New England. Although he is often dubbed “The New England Sun-set Painter,” he painted so much more!
Richard Earl Thompson, American Impressionist
This is the first biography or major compilation regarding the life and work of this famous modern day master of Impressionism from Wisconsin. Thompson captured in paint the rich visual realities of nature in a uniquely beautiful and proficient manner.
