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Is art a good investment?
The India Art Summit just finished recently. A lot has been written in the press over the past few years on the values that different artworks and artists have commanded in India. So, does art investing make sense for you, should you rather invest in art over say gold or real estate? And, what kind of an asset is art? Read more…
By iTrust Financial Advisors (www.itrust.in) 7 MIN READ
Posted On Tue March 02nd 2021
How To Invest In Art - Is It A Good Investment?
Investing in art may be a great idea if it's something you truly love. But it can be risky, so you need to do your research.
Art can do more than brighten a living space. The art market has become one of the hottest new investment crazes in recent years. Painting and sculpture collectors frequently buy pieces with an eye towards adding to their investment portfolio.
But will art investment really earn you a profit? Or is this new asset class mostly hype? Read the article
Amy Bergen | Modified date: December 22, 2020
Posted On Tue March 02nd 2021
Black Art Matters
Charles Sebree, American painter
(click to view painting)
Size 10.25 X 11.25 on 3D Foam Board
Charles Sebree was an American painter and playwright best known for his involvement in Chicago's black arts scene of the 1930s and 1940s
Black art has exploded on to the art market as highly sought after and very collectible. As most artists during this time, Charles Sebree’s art was not appreciated until much later in his career. Sebree grew up on the South Side of Chicago, after moving there with his mother in the early 1920’s. He took an interest in art at an early age, attended public school and sold his first painting at ten years old to the Renaissance Society for twenty-five dollars. He graduated high school in 1932, attended the Chicago School of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1942 Sebree was drafted into the army was stationed in an all-black division in Illinois. Here he met his lifelong friend Owen Dodson, a playwright and poet. Sebree was multi-talented artist and he and Dodson wrote and performed uplifting plays for the soldiers. The playwrights wrote the “Ballard of Dorie Miller” the first black soldier to receive the prestigious Navy cross for heroism during the attack of Pearl Harbor.
Sebree wrote several plays that notaries such as Eartha Kitt performed both on and off Broadway. Sebree also was charged with painting set designs, performing and was a dancer during his time as a playwright and performer.
Charles Sebree continued to paint and was influenced by the works of Picasso, Kandinski, Klee and Russian icons. His contemporaries called his works a revolutionary spirit and Duke Ellington said his work was “beyond category”. We are offering several very colorful works mostly gouaches on foam board and signed.
Gallery founder Bill Union is a member of the New England Society of Fine Arts Appraisers.
He has long specialized in the works of Cape Cod artist Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872 - 1930) and William Paxton (American, 1873 - 1965).
Art and Antique Gallery specializes in Seventeenth through Twentieth Century American and European Art. The Gallery is open for viewing by appointment only. The inventory includes White Mountain artists, marine art, Impressionism and post-Impressionism. Mr. Union is always seeking estates of artists, sporting art and Hudson River art.
He has sold art to museums, private collectors and galleries.For more information call Bill Union at 508-259-4694.
Mary Cormier, Art Antique Gallery
Posted On Sat August 07th 2021
White Mountain
This is a wonderful source for Whit Mountain Artists
https://www.whitemountainart.com/about-3/subjects/entire-gallery/
