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 .
The Newark Museum is putting Thomas Cole s The Arch of Nero (1846) on the auction block at Sotheby s, carrying an estimate of $500,000-$700,000
An open letter signed by more than 50 art historians, curators and researchers was submitted today to the Newark Museum of Art protesting its plan to sell works from its collection, most prominently Thomas Cole’s 1846 painting
The Arch of Nero, organisers say.
The letter, addressed to Linda Harrison, director and chief executive of the museum, denounces the sales, known as deaccessioning, as a “senseless monetisation” of the art. Among the works being offered by the institution are examples by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Burgoyne Diller, Thomas Eakins, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, Thomas Moran, Georgia O Keeffe, Frederic Remington and Charles Sheeler.
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Located in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Mütter Museum is without a doubt one of the creepiest and macabre museums out there. Part of the college of Physicians in Philadelphia, it has been displaying a large range of medical oddities, anomalies, and grotesqueries, weird specimens, wax models, and all manner of bizarre medical equipment and tools, as well as a large collection of books called the Historical Medical Library since the collection first began in 1858 with a donation from Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter. There are over 20,000 individual objects available for display here, many of them in turns haunting, revolting, fascinating, and at many times mysterious.