Art Collectors Can't Resist Park West Cruise Auctions at Sea

PARK WEST GALLERY customers provide lots of wonderful feedback about Park West art auctions and artists. We want to share the following compliments from some art collectors who recently experienced Park West cruise art auctions at sea…____________________________

“We just completed our 5th cruise, and on each of the last four we have purchased beautiful art pieces from Park West Gallery. Every time we cruise we find more paintings or drawings that we can’t resist. They are all beautiful.

We own works by Tarkay, Max, Dali, Mouly, and Steynovitz. A new artist that we added this time was Slava Ilyayev. We love his work, and plan to add more from him in the future.

Our auctioneer, Brandon, did a superb job and was very professional and helpful. The auctions are fun and never boring. We look forward to more in the future.

Thank you for the great art auctions.”

Michael & Claudia F.
Sonora, California

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Related Links:

• View more artwork by Slava Ilyayev (artwork shown above)
• Cruise Auctions at Sea Thrill Park West Art Collectors
• Park West Auctioneer on the Advantages of a Career Selling Art at Sea
• Discover more about your favorite artists at Park West Gallery
• More testimonials from Park West Art Collectors

Artist Birthdays – August 18: TELEMACO SIGNORINI

TELEMACO SIGNORINI (August 18, 1835 – February 1, 1901)

• Nationality: Italian
• Field: Painting
• Art Movement: Macchiaioli
• ARTiFact: He was a primary member of the Macchiaioli group, forerunners of the Impressionists who were dissatisfied with the antiquated conventions taught by Italian art academies. They painted outdoors in order to capture natural light, shade, and color and believed that areas of light and shadow, or “macchie” (patches or spots), were the chief components of a work of art.
• Artist Quote: “Do you know what in our view is great art? It is not what historical culture or imaginative talent demand from the artist but a conscious and precise observation of the infinite forms and character of the countryside surrounding us.”
• Important Artwork (shown below): Leith (detail), 1881.

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Related Links:

• Learn more about the artist Telemaco Signorini 
• Discover your favorite artists at Park West Gallery 

New Restaurant Will Dish Out Fried Chicken, Apple Pie and Norman Rockwell

NEW YORK — Norman Rockwell’s warm and fuzzy portraits of Americana are widely admired, even though his visions may have been more dream than reality. Soon, Rockwell’s paintings of an idyllic America will be popping up on Long Island, but not in an art gallery.

Bill Sukow, a Sayville restaurateur, plans to open the first of about eight Norman Rockwell-themed restaurants in Stony Brook in January. Sukow, has signed a deal with the Norman Rockwell Estate Licensing Co. in Niles, Ill., giving him the right to display copies of the Rockwell drawings and sell artifacts at the 3,500-square-foot, moderately priced restaurants. They will feature such American dishes as Southern fried chicken and apple pie.

Sukow got the idea after visiting a Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Mass. The agreement he signed calls on him to open eight to ten such restaurants in the next five years. A total of four will be on Long Island. People, Sukow thinks, “are yearning for Americana.”

Mary Seitz-Pagano, the Rockwell Estate’s licensing director, said there are no such theme restaurants in the country. “I think this is a great idea,” she said.

[August 6. 2009 | Source: newsday.com]

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Related Links:

• The Norman Rockwell Museum Official Website
• Read Experiencing Rockwell - an essay by Morris Shapiro, Park West Gallery’s Director
• Learn more about Norman Rockwell at the Park West Gallery artist biography pages