One of the mottoes of the Midwest Fine Art Exchange is “No reproductions. Just original art.” It’s true. There are no reproduction or commercial prints on the MFAE site–however, there are prints. Fine art prints by two of the most noteworthy printmakers currently creating in the upper Midwest: Larry Welo and Chad Nelson. Here is [...]

In a Q and A profile for the Sioux Falls Business Journal, Kara Dirkson discusses some motivations behind developing the Midwest Fine Art Exchange: Why a regional marketplace for art?      A big driver behind MFAE is the fact that there is some world-class artwork in the upper Midwest—either created right here by our own [...]

A recent appraisal assignment led me to revisit the work of writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten whose work I interacted with during my first exposure to fine art appraising.  Van Vechten is most likely the most famous 20th century portrait photographer you’ve never heard of. He was a noted writer for the New York [...]

This starts the first in a series of posts which will be ruminations on individual artists and artwork that, for whatever reason, are front of mind for me at any given time.  Subject matter for the “Art-to-Go” series will be inspired by current appraisal assignments, a mood for the day, a recommendation by a friend [...]

A remarkable exhibition is coming to the Midwest–the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has collaborated with the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art to curate the largest exhibition of Rembrandt’s work to ever appear in the U.S. The show opens in Minneapolis June 24th and runs through Sept. 16, 2012.  Remarkably, [...]