
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
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I spent over 30 years working in art galleries in New York, specializing in American art of the 19th and 20th centuries. During that time, I placed major works in private and museum collections across the country. I have also had an active career as an art critic. My articles, essays, and reviews about art have been published in such magazines as Art in America, The Magazine Antiques, Art &..
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
1w ago
In the wake of the devestating Los Angeles wildfires, the world is discovering many pieces of art have been lost forever. Read more about it.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
1M ago
Reagan Upshaw, art consultant, discusses Orlando Whitfield’s new book "All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art." Read his analysis.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
2M ago
Art consultant Reagan Upshaw discusses needing more transparency in buying and selling art, and how galleries and artists can accomplish that. Read now.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
3M ago
Tamara de Lempicka is one of the hottest Art Deco artists, and her art is seeing a resurgance in popularity now. Learn more about Lempicka - read now!
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
4M ago
The Old Master art market is very hot right now for diverse pieces from women or artists of color. Read my reflections on Old Master art.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
6M ago
Booms and busts are inevitable in the art world, where things are based on the value its buyers assign to it. Read more about the fickleness of art valuation.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
6M ago
Norman Rockwell achieved something that few artists do: created paintings that have become anonymous memes in the area of social media.
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Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
8M ago
“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting,” the painter Ad Reinhardt once famously opined, and it’s true that the physical accommodations that sculptures demand have made them problematic for many collectors. They take up so damned much space, and their weight, for anything larger that a table-top piece, means they’re pretty much going to stay wherever they’re plopped. This inconvenience is true for institutions as well as for private collectors: a church the size of St. Peter’s in Rome can handle a 14-foot-high sculpture such as Bernini’s Sain ..read more
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
9M ago
Can something horrible be made beautiful? It’s a question that came to mind after Roberta and I recently visited The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). EJI is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 to provide legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, poor prisoners without effective representation, and others who were denied a fair trial. It guarantees the defense of anyone in Alabama in a death penalty case. Through the efforts of EJI’s attorneys, several persons wrongfully ..read more
Reagan Upshaw Fine Art Blog
10M ago
O’Keeffe’s art is currently having a moment. Not Georgia O’Keeffe’s – that’s as popular as it’s ever been. No, I’m talking about the art of her little sister, Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe (1889-1961), which scored a huge success at Christie’s last week.
Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Ida studied art with the same teacher as her older sister and a younger sister, Anita, in Williamsburg, Virginia, where the family had moved when she was 13. The sisters’ family was artistic – both grandmothers had been artists, and yet another sister, Catherine, was also a painter – but family finances were often pr ..read more