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Building a Collection and Art as an Investment

Artifactual History Appraisal

This will help you better target the sorts of artists and works that will suit your collection's vision. With a little research, one can find contemporary artists making works in a variety of styles encompassing the entire span of art history, as well as older antique works.

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John E Dillingham

Antique Prints

By the middle of the nineteenth century, lithographic publishers were popping up around the country and this provided a new outlet for the artistic and commercial interests of American artists. One artist who tried to career path was a Connecticut born artist named John E. Dillingham. Case,” that is Francis M.

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Mabel Dwight's American Scene

Michael Rose Fine Art

From the urban explorations of John Sloan or Edward Hopper to the more nuanced and human-focused prints of artists like Elizabeth Catlett or Sister Corita Kent, printmaking experienced something of a long golden age. In a 1936 lithograph, titled Ninth Avenue Church , Dwight’s wry sense of humor is on display. Mabel Dwight, Ninth Ave.

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Print or Poster?

MIR Appraisal

" But there are many types of prints, only a few being etchings, lithographs, screen-prints, and wood-cuts. Etching as a means of printmaking was most prominent during the sixteenth century, utilized by such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. This is where things can get confusing.

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Thomas Doughty, Printmaker

Antique Prints

Thomas was evidently a self-taught artist, listing himself as a “painter” in the second decade of the nineteenth century, one of the first Americans to list this as an occupation. This led to the Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports with Illustrations , where his output reached a new level of vision and quality.

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How Do I Get My Art Appraised?

Fine Art Estates

That is, unless you happen to know that a similar work by that artist has just sold for $25,000 at auction. If you know the artist’s name, you can use one of the auction databases (listed below) that appraisers and dealers subscribe to. The problem is, of course, how will you know that happened unless you have it appraised?

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Fine Art Prints vs. Reproductions

Art Peritus

Have you ever wondered why two seemingly identical prints by the same artist can have vastly different price tags? The artist is usually not involved at all – or if so, minimally – and they can be either authorized or unauthorized reproductions. If the print does not meet the artist’s criteria, it is destroyed.