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As the weather warms and more COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed, tourism officials are preparing for the summer. In Greene County, officials are reminding potential visitors of parking and trail regulations meant to prevent overcrowding at a popular waterfall.
Bagshaw: So Kaaterskill Falls is popular in many ways. One is its beauty, not only of the hike and the viewing platform, but also in its height, as it s a two-tier cascading waterfall, which is the highest in New York State. And therefore the majestic of that in itself is absolutely gorgeous. So that s what makes it so unique. And one of the other pieces people enjoy is that Thomas Cole, the founder of Hudson River School of Art, has many paintings of the various hikes around in and around the Kaaterskill Falls.
Georgia O Keeffe s
Green Oak Leaves (ca. 1923) was the star lot of the Newark Museum s sale. Courtesy of Sotheby s.
The Newark Museum of Art today sold off a slate of works at Sotheby’s, despite considerable objections from experts and scholars, to bring in $5.9 million into the institution.
Of the 11 works on offer at the auction of American art in New York, one was unsold, two sold for under estimate, and the remaining eight exceeded their presale expectations.
The highest price paid was $1.2 million for Georgia O’Keeffe’s
Green Oak Leaves (1923), which had an irrevocable bid and was estimated at $500,000 to $700,000.
A handful of U.S. museums sent collection artworks to the auction block at a Sotheby's American art sale that totalled $15 million on Wednesday. Women artists in the sale including Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grandma Moses and Gertude Abercrombie brought big prices for some small-sized works overall. Although some of the sales could be earmarked to fund new acquisitions, the sell-off from public institutions falls within a two-year period in which museum association guidelines .
Sale of Museum Paintings Helps Conclude Strong Auction Season
The deaccessioning of 15 works by museums, including an important Thomas Cole painting, helped raise Sotheby’s total art sales over the last week to more than $715 million.
Thomas Cole’s “The Arch of Nero” (1846) was auctioned at Sotheby’s for the Newark Museum of Art on Wednesday. Historians had campaigned against the museum’s deaccessioning.Credit.via Sotheby s
By Zachary Small
May 19, 2021, 2:37 p.m. ET
Fifteen objects from cultural institutions passed through Sotheby’s at auction on Wednesday, showing that the debate among museum and industry leaders over deaccessioning hasn’t stopped these sales from occurring.