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Hunt Slonem (born Hunt Slonim; July 18, 1951) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker.He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of butterflies, bunnies, and his tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from 30 to over 100 live birds of various species. [1]
An estimated $110 million of art was lost in the September 11 attacks: $100 million in private art [1] and $10 million in public art. [2] Much of the art was not insured for its full value. [1] In October 2001, a spokesperson for insurance specialists AXA Art described the attacks as "the biggest single disaster ever to affect the [art ...
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery's Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource Archived 7 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine Large online collection of about fifty paintings on canvas and works on paper of William Holman Hunt; William Holman Hunt in the "History of Art" — a paper by Albert Boime published originally in The Art Bulletin 84 no1 94-114 Mr ...
Ogden was recognized for his years of service with many non-profit organizations as well as his devotion to Southern art and his initial gift to the Ogden Museum of about 600 paintings and sculpture. [5] The Ogden Museum was selected to receive a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of its Arts Innovation and Management Program.
Lost artworks are original pieces of art that credible sources or material evidence indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or private collections, as well as works known to have been destroyed deliberately or accidentally or neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship.
It sold to an Australian art collector for £7,500. [4] The painting was subsequently submitted for verification by Roberts expert, Helen Topliss, author of a Roberts catalogue raisonné. Topliss found inconsistencies with the painting’s brushwork, composition and signature and determined the work was not an authentic painting by Roberts. [5]
As of 2012, Hunt is creating a collection of paintings of the Winterthur Museum featuring the rooms, spaces, and grounds. [3] The project began in 1996 and is still in progress. In order to maintain the integrity of the collection, none of the original paintings have been sold. [ 4 ]
Hunt believed the fire to be a pious fraud which brought Christianity into disrepute. He intended the painting to be a satire in the manner of William Hogarth. Hunt published an elaborate keyplate explaining the identity of the various characters depicted. It is now in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.