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Nicholas Walter George Wilder (1937 – May 12, 1989) was an American art dealer and owner of an eponymous contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. . He later closed his gallery, returned to his native New York, and developed a second career as a paint
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...
Hilary Wilder, Violet in Rome (Rocks and Bullets), oil, acrylic and embroidery wool on canvas, 40" x 30", 2019. Hilary Wilder is an American visual artist and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. [1] [2] [3] She is primarily known for painting and installation art, but has also worked in sculpture and video.
The painting will be auctioned on Nov. 20 in Toronto, with its value estimated at $100,000 to $200,000. Canadian painter Emily Carr’s artwork will be sold at auction. Facebook
An 18th century British painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought it for $7,500 during the Great Depression, the FBI ...
John E. Weyss (1820–1903), artist and cartographer; Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), painter; 1821 Robert Duncanson (c. 1821–1872), painter, muralist; Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist; 1822 Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer; 1823 Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter
Peter Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $44 billion to $48 billion (in 2024 ...
The Art Department's focus was on modern American painting, works painted in the 17 years since the 1876 Centennial Exposition. [1] Hundreds of American painters submitted works, and more than 1,000 paintings in oil and more than 200 in watercolor were selected for exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts.