Sentences with phrase «renowned as a collector»

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A favorite among shell collectors, the diminutive cone snail — larger specimens grow to be about 23 centimeters in length — is as renowned for its beautiful shell as it is for its potent venom.

To launch the Autograph Collection, Marriott has partnered with Kessler, a renowned hotelier and avid art collector, whose independent properties are widely regarded as inspiring and unique.

Join over 200 world - renowned art and cultural influencers from more than 20 countries, including museum directors, gallerists, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, designers, urban planners, government officials and tourism organizations, as well as corporate and civic leaders at Art for Tomorrow.

Few collectors of emerging artists devote as much time, energy, and resources to ferreting out the cutting - edge as Michael and Susan Hort, who trawl the nooks and crannies of galleries and art fairs to find work by up - and - comers that catch their eye — and who often, with their support, go on to widespread renown.

Tonight we welcomed cultural luminaries and civic leaders as well as renowned artists, collectors, and devoted patrons of the arts.

Six internationally renowned private collectors have been asked to act as curators and to each choose four artists who play key roles in the formation of their collections.

As a way of honoring those collectors who have made generous gifts to the Museum in recent years, Arts & Letters commissioned a new song by renowned composer Robert Beaser and poet Daniel Mark Epstein entitled Vision at Dawn, which premiered at this event.

A gift of 47 paintings, sculptures and works on paper from collector, scholar and advocate Gordon W. Bailey, featuring such renowned 20th - century artists as Leroy Almon, Burlon Craig, Roy Ferdinand, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Elijah Pierce, Herbert Singleton, Purvis Young and Thornton Dial, Jr. — This is Bailey's third substantial gift to the High since 2010 and further underscores his commitment to helping build the Museum's collection, which is recognized as one of the world's most significant public repositories of work by American self - taught artists.

The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili became an international celebrity early as a result of the «Sensation» exhibition, then morphed his style away from the collaged and encrusted canvases that brought him renown to create sensuous paintings of Afrocentric fantasias — works that are irresistible to collectors but occupying a lower public profile.

Renowned for its innovative and high - level programming, Paris Photo is a key event for collectors and art world professionals, as well as photography enthusiasts.

Through fellow collector Eugene V. Thaw, already then renowned as a dealer in old master drawings, they met Andre Emmerich, proprietor of one of Manhattan's leading contemporary art galleries.

Fergerson's expertise as an art handler and curatorial assistant facilitated relationships with artists and collectors and he oversaw the installation of LACMA's renowned Art and Technology exhibition at the Japan Exposition in 1970.

A renowned collector, McDermott donated more than 3,000 works of art, including sculpture by Aristide Maillol and paintings by Van Gogh, to the Dallas Museum of Art, where she served as a trustee for 57 years.

As she proceeded to acquire Expressionist and Abstract works, Garbo was advised by some of the world's most renowned collectors, including Albert Coombs Barnes and Alfred H Barr Jr, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Alexander Calder, Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning are just a few of the legendary names whose works lined the walls of these collectors» homes, as well as having been exhibited in renowned museums.

In a recent interview, Gagosian credited the dealer with such kindnesses as introducing him to Condé Nast publisher and renowned collector Si Newhouse and with «show [ing] me that you could have a lot of fun being a dealer....

Hosted by the Morris Collectors, one of the museum's affiliate groups, this year's fair features such leading dealers as Hampton3 Gallery from Taylors, South Carolina and Augusta's Tire City Art Gallery, both showing and selling the work of nationally, internationally, and locally renowned printmakers; artists» atelier King Snake Press from Greenville, South Carolina, representing the work of more than a dozen artists; Augusta State University art professor Kristin Casaletto; ASU gallery director, artist Jack Cheatham; University of Georgia professors and artists Melissa Harshman and Jon Swindler; Savannah College of Art and Design professor and artist Dale Clifford, and artists Kent Ambler, Suzy Schultz, Andrea Emmons, and Katherine Linn.

If the process of offering first dibs on available artworks to higher profile buyers acts against the interests of those who aren't as renowned, a waiting list disadvantages collectors even more by requiring them purchase more than just what they wanted.

Renowned art advisor, collector and Whitney Museum patron Thea Westreich describes Neleman's assemblage work as, «embedded with a unique and original vocabulary, from where abstract and intuitive visual narratives and associations flow with poetic rawness.»

Tracing AAA's trajectory from its beginnings as a renowned print publisher, to its expansion into advertising and interior decor, to its eventual demise in 2000, the first - ever comprehensive survey to focus on this remarkable company illuminates how it inspired and cultivated American collectors for more than sixty years.

In the mid-80s, a handful of renowned LA artists — Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Paul McCarthy and Ed Ruscha among them — embraced Pettibon, as did a number of key collectors and curators subsequently.

The auction features work by renowned and emerging Middle Eastern artists, providing an opportunity for established as well as new collectors to acquire works and support the mission of the non-profit, Alwan.

Gaining much of the attention was renowned actor, artist and art collector Dennis Hopper, who with art - world figure Jean Stein, founding editor of Grand Street, a literary and art magazine, served as honorary chairs of the event.

Though today many museums in the United States, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, or the Phillips Collection, and collectors of international renown possess works by Eilshemius, the artist has faded into ever - greater obscurity, especially since the advent of Pop and Minimal Art.

Fine art photography is also well represented in the museum's collection with photos from renowned photographers such as Man Ray (1890 - 76) and Ansel Adams (1902 - 84); as well as nearly 4,000 photos acquired in 2002 from the well known collector Manfred Heiting.

The list ranges from internationally renowned figures like Ai WeiWei and Cindy Sherman, to private collectors such as Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Founded by Rudiger Weng, a German contemporary fine art collector and dealer, Weng Contemporary stages a show of original prints to launches a new website www.wengcontemporary.com selling limited editions by internationally - renowned artists such as Gary Hume RA (below) and Alex Katz.

The 18th - century physician and art collector William Hunter was renowned for his dissections — and William Blake satirised him as a butcher, but his appetite for anatomy — was part of an Enlightenment curiosity about nature that also led him to support equine painter George Stubbs.

Other panelists this year included such renowned artists, collectors, curators, and critics as Richard Flood, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thelma Golden, Glenn Ligon, Billy Al Bengston, and Paul Schimmel, to name only a few.

Founded by the renowned art critic, dealer and collector Clara Diament Sujo, and initially known as Estudio Actual, the gallery opened its doors in Caracas in 1968 with the first posthumous exhibition of the work of Marcel Duchamp.

As a world - renowned corporate collector of contemporary art, Deutsche Bank and the Guggenheim Museum have shared a productive synergy.

The booth was specially designed by the renowned American architect and collector, Peter Marino, who imagined it as an intimate, elegant viewing space.