The Fine Art of Reselling Fine Art Seattle ArtREsource

Client Email Update...

2011-07-08T13:17:00.000-07:00

We just sent out our latest Client Email Update. See it here: New Inventory

Seattle's only gallery devoted to the resale of fine art.

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2011-03-18T12:48:00.000-07:00

NEW INVENTORY!
March 2011
GAYLEN HANSEN
TWO DUCKS WITH TARGET AND ROSE, 1970s Oil on unstretched canvas, 26 x 25 images (36 x 35 inches, full canvas size) $6,000.

JOHN TAYLOR
EMPIRE (II), 2008 Found metal, wood, nails, wire, computer chips, postage stamps, mixed media, glue and tar with internal lighting fixture, 22 x 53 x 7.25 inches $4,400.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
UNTITLED (Anthology Film Archives), 1982 Screenprint on wove paper 29 x 21.5 inches signed, dated from the edition of 75, printed by Styria Studio, published by the Anthology Film Archives, New York $6,000. SOLD

KENNETH CALLAHAN
EXODUS, 1954 Tempera on board, 30 x 22 inches $18,000.

JOHN FRANKLIN KOENIG
SHIKISHI #4, 1972 Mixed media, collage on paper 15.5 x 14.5 inches, framed In original frame with Richard White Gallery label $1,800.

ALDEN MASON
STARGAZER, 1977 Acrylic on paper 31 x 35 inches $5,500. SOLD

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Reproduction of the triptych AS I OPENED FIRE, 1964 (Corlett, app. 5) Set of three offset color lithographs on paper, each sheet measures 25 x 21 inches, unsigned as issued, $1,400. set of three

HELMI JUVONEN
UNTITLED (NW Plank), undated Ink on paper 10.75 x 14 inches $1,400.
Reduced from $2,200:
seller needs cash, a great opportunity to get a unique piece for the price of her prints

MICHAEL EHLE
METAMORPHOSIS, 1990 Gouache on rice paper 84 x 28 inches; 87.75 x 32 inches framed $6,500

KEN STEVENS
VESSEL (WHITE), 1972
Glazed ceramic 16.5 x 9 x 9 inches $300.
VESSEL (BROWN), 1974
Glazed ceramic 21.5 x 10 x 10 inches $300.
VESSEL (GRASS), 1974
Glazed ceramic 19.5 x 8 x 8 inches $300.

FAY JONES
BROACH, 1983 Enameled gold-tone with pinback, 1 1/8 x ¾ inches, signed on the front "FJ" & "83" (Believed to be one of two designs Jones produced) $150.

Available, but not yet in the Gallery:
GAYLEN HANSEN
KERNAL WITH BEAR, RAINBOW AND SNAKE, 1970s, oil on canvas, 45 x 66 inches $25,000.

Available, but not yet in the Gallery:
CHERYL LAEMMLE
NO WAY IN, NO WAY OUT, 1989 Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches $16,000.

Available, but not at the Gallery; Viewing by appointment only:
GENE GENTRY MCMAHON
OFFERING, 1988 Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 inches, $8,500.

Our Current Special Exhibition!

2010-08-10T15:24:00.000-07:00

From the oddball and quirky to the traditional and famous, ArtREsource's WINGS exhibition focuses on things pertaining to flight all from our current consignment inventory.

Includes work by: Joe Andoe, Tony Angell, Alfredo Arreguin, Virginia Banks, Alistair Bell, Kenneth Callahan, Michael Ehle, Rev. Howard Finster, Tony Fitzpatrick, Morris Graves, Gaylen Hansen, Paul Horiuchi, Fay Jones, Helmi Juvonen, Charles Krafft, Alden Mason, John McQueen, Jeffry Mitchell, Michael Nakoneczny, Isaac Osuitok, Charles Peterson, Susan Plum, Amy Jean Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Herb Ritts, Isaac Smith, Jay Steensma, Charles Stokes, Whiting Tennis, Sanzo Wada, Andy Warhol, James Washington, Jr. Also several anonymous works: several vernacular found photographs, a folk art bird painting from 1800s, a Spencerian ornamental flourish drawing, two of Bernard Kobel’s infamous tattoo mail-order photographs.

Receptions:
FIRST THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
FIRST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7
from 5-7pm

HORIUCHI SHOW EXTENDED!

2010-05-13T17:02:00.001-07:00

We received so many calls from folks who couldn't make it in the last week of the Paul Horiuchi show, so...WE EXTENDED THE SHOW until Saturday, May 29. It must come down after that so we can hang the rest of our inventory. A few new pieces are: Three small Guy Anderson paintings and one charcoal drawing, two Alden Mason acrylic on canvas paintings, two Virginia Banks paintings, a lovely colorful Kenneth Callahan painting, three Mark Tobey prints (one is illustrated here), a bold John Buck print, two excellent Michael Ehle paintings on ricepaper, a great Charles Krafft bird painting and an early Krafft camel drawing, the largest print Susan Rothenberg every produced (illustrated here), a very early Alfredo Arreguin painting....see it all: http://www.seattleartresource.com

The Arts | Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery | Seattle Times Newspaper

2010-04-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

The Arts | Art review: Horiuchi's collages, some rarely seen, demonstrate his mastery | Seattle Times Newspaper

Check out the wonderful review by Gayle Clemons of our Paul Horiuchi show! Open through May 8, 2010

2009-09-08T15:00:00.001-07:00

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Inventory Update!

2009-08-27T12:35:00.000-07:00

THE BEST selection of inventory yet at ArtREsource! Click here to see it:
LetterPop Art Update

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It's 2009...almost

2008-12-30T13:15:00.000-08:00

As you prepare to bring in the New Year, be sure to check out the New Art that's arrived at ArtREsource:

KAREN GANZ - nice large work on paper at a GREAT price!

CHARLES KRAFFT - early watercolor

SNOWPOCOLYPSE 2008

2008-12-23T16:18:00.000-08:00

Seattle is stuck in a Winter Wonderland...first we wish for snow, then after a few days of not getting into work, we wish for clear roads. Well, after several days stuck at home, I made it in to the Gallery today - by way of a three hour commute walking through snow and then waiting for and riding a Metro bus. Not too many folks out and about downtown, especially for the limited hours left for holiday shopping, but I'm here and will be tomorrow (Wednesday December 24) until 3pm. If it dumps snow again, I'm crossing my fingers - call if you plan to stop by tomorrow! We'll be closed December 25 - 29.

So, what's new? Mark Calderon, Paul Horiuchi, Jacob Lawrence:

MARK CALDERON
MADRINA, 2001 Bronze with patina, 57 x 20 x 20 inches, edition of 5 $29,500. Viewing available by appointment only

PAUL HORIUCHI
WEATHERED BY TIME, 1991 10-color lithograph, 29 x 36 inches, printed by John Lysak $1,950.

JACOB LAWRENCE
GRAND PERFORMANCE, 1993 Lithograph, 36 x 29 inches framed, P/P $5,000.
Commissioned by the NAACP as a fund-raiser for its Stay in School Program

JACOB LAWRENCE
MEMORABILIA (Nesbett 90-3), 1990 Lithograph, 31.25 x 23 inches; 32 x 41 inches framed, P/P outside Edition/100 $6,000.
Commissioned by Vassar College on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the African Studies Program

Francine Seders Gallery up in Greenwood just opened a lovely Lawrence exhibition - if you're not snowbound, go see it!

JUST IN! PHOTOS COMING SOON:
KAREN GANZ
UNTITLED (red man looking into black hole), 1998 Mixed media on paper 32 x 28 inches $1,800.

CHARLES KRAFFT
UNTITLED (figures/bird/breasts), 1968 Ink on paper 23 x 17.25 inches $900.

Stay tuned for information on our February SPECIAL EXHIBITION of work from a wonderful local collector - the work spans over 60 years of collecting from her trips around the world! Work included by Guy Anderson, Richard Gilkey, Alfredo Arreguin, pre-Colombian figures, masks from New Guinea and Guatemala and Northwest tribes, Robert Sperry ceramics, bronzes, and erotic terra cotta works from Mexico, just to name A FEW! Email if you want to be on this list for updates!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Jena Scott Weaver

RECENT REDUCTIONS of work by Alden Mason + Joan Miro

2008-11-28T13:16:00.000-08:00

ALDEN MASON
LOVE IS IN THE AIR, 2003
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 55 inches
NEW PRICE: $7,500.
The proceeds of the sale of this painting go to funding the creation of "Alden Mason - Artist," a documentary film by John Forsen and the late Maury Duchamp. The movie premiered on Seattle Channel and at Foster/White Gallery in October. This new price is about half of current market value for similar-sized paintings currently at Foster/White Gallery.

JOAN MIRÓ
BARCELONA, PLATE NO 6 (Dupin. 597), 1973
Aquatint and carborundum, hand signed
41 x 27 inches
Edition of 50
NEW PRICE: $17,000.
A huge reduction of $3,000. on a beautiful and large print!

See our latest Inventory Update Newsletter here: Winter 2008
Stop by the gallery to see several options for those seeking to spend $500 or less...

INVENTORY UPDATE

2008-11-18T17:44:00.000-08:00

NOVEMBER 2008
Just a few new additions to our resale inventory - look for them to appear on the website this week:

GUY ANDERSON
A color woodcut, framed in metal leafed wood and a large-scale, classic painting with the perfect Anderson motifs.

ROGER SHIMOMURA
An erotic color silkscreen and an acrylic on canvas from his "A Jap's a Jap" suite of paintings. A bit about this series:
"The artist's collection of stereotypical W.W.II depictions of Japanese males as slant-eyed, buck-toothed, yellow-skinned demons, served as inspiration for the Jap's A Jap series. Combining these facial features with the bodies of typically dressed Americans in typical social situations, these paintings represent a reality for many Asian Americans - that not a day goes by when they are not, in some way, reminded how they are perceived as being different from the people around them. The term, "a Jap's a Jap" is a direct quote from 1941 by General Dewitt, commander of the Western Defense Command, who publicly expressed his support for the placement of all Japanese Americans in concentration camps during the war." - Greg Kucera Gallery

CHARLES KRAFFT
A playful painting on canvas

JOHN FORD
A set of two paintings from this student of Mark Tobey. These come from the personal collection of Mark Tobey.

GALEN GARWOOD
A colorful, abstract painting in a great natural wood frame

T. MICHAEL GARIDNER
A painting with all Gardiner's classic style - this image was reproduced in the New Yorker, 1996

HARRY BERTOIA
A rare Sonambient sound sculpture that makes a "long play" chiming sound. Hear it on our website. Although best known for his modern chair designs in the 1950s, this artist's sound sculpture is rarely seen in Seattle. We are honored to be able to display this amazing work.

JAMES CASTLE
A wonderful interpretation of the "Jesus wall" in the farm's main residence. See the current show of his work at Greg Kucera Gallery through December 24, 2008. You can also see more by this artist at a Castle retrospective exhibition currently on view through January 4, 2009 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This amazing show will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Berkeley Art Museum, through 2009.

"Best Deal" at ArtREsource

2008-08-15T17:01:00.000-07:00

The top deal as of TODAY:
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1. George Tsutakawa sumi ink drawing Reduced in price from $8,500. to $7,000. Owner needs quick sale!!

End of Summer Update

2008-08-15T16:40:00.000-07:00

It's been a summer of ups and downs as far as traffic, but overall, a good season. We were happy to place several works to the new Four Season's Hotel currently being built across from the Seattle Art Museum. We also sold a few significant works, which make us happy, indeed. One of my favorite items to arrive is a beautiful, modern "apple vase" (1959) by Ingeborg Lundin...great for that mid-century home or office! If you haven't checked the website lately, you're missing out on several new works in inventory - a few are seen below...

Click HERE to see the Inventory

NEW INVENTORY!

2008-01-11T15:40:00.001-08:00

WOW! 11 new Gaylen Hansen paintings and drawings arrived, as well as some other choice pieces from Mark Tobey, Terry Turrell, Kennth Callahan, Peter Millett, George Tsutakawa, Paul Horiuchi, Victoria Adams, and a new shunga/erotica painting! Today we received a great bunny print by Jeffry Mitchell and a painting by Anne Siems - both wonderful NW artists. We expect to receive two prints by Frank Stella soon (one is pictured in the image posted here) ...we are awaiting on the final details of transport to be hammered out. Also - many new price reductions. Here's the deal, if things are here longer than six months, we ask for a lower price in order to continue the consignment, so check out the latest additions here: REDUCED! Click the images to enlarge and see them in detail...

We are the link between collectors.

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2007-02-21T12:26:00.001-08:00

A Blog about Seattle ArtREsource

2006-11-29T13:38:00.000-08:00

Finally there is a place for collectors to buy and resell their secondary market fine art. ArtREsource is in the historic Pioneer Square neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. What kind of business is it? It's a new type of gallery for Seattle called ArtREsource, your source for buying art from private and corporate collections as well as a place to consign art from your collection.

I thought a more personal blog might be a great way to keep tabs on what's happening here, how the venture is progressing and what kind of inventory is coming and...seems I get new inventory each week, but can't always get it photographed and up on the web site fast enough. We've been open almost a month and so far, the quality of work consigned has been stellar and diverse. My hope is to keep it varied and keep the price range wide so seasoned as well as new collectors can find something they can take home.

Although we have many nationally recognized artists in the inventory, we also consign northwest artist's work. Note I didn't say ALL northwest artist's work...we have to be selective and only take in work we know we can sell. Please also note that I didn't say we are consigning art DIRECTLY from artists. That's not what this gallery is about. We are the link between collectors. I have put guidelines on our website to introduce you to our consignment process.

What is great about this venture is that it fills a big hole in the art scene. As someone who worked in a gallery for many years, I feel I can say that galleries really aren't interested in consigning secondary market artwork....and for good reason. Galleries are contracted to work for artists - to sell an artist's newest work. Why would a gallery be motivated to sell an earlier work (getting a reduced cut of the profit and helping a collector instead of their artist) when they already have a storeroom of art they are contracted to sell for the artists? You will find few galleries willing to take in art for resale.

In Washington State, the artist sees no profit from the resale of their work (although this is changing slowly - in NY living artists get a small percent of the work resold and other states are in the process of adopting such a law. Read about Europe's new resale law.

So, you have an artwork you no longer want to keep...as sad as that sounds, cheer up..because ArtREsource is here. We DO want secondary market fine art. We DON'T work directly with an artist. 10% of our profit (a mere 30% of the sale price) goes to Artist Trust, a non-profit arts organization.

The fact is, sometimes art needs to find a new home. There is a need for collectors to have a respectful place to exchange artwork that no longer fits in their life.

One point to make clear at this point is that this does not mean the work at ArtREsource is sub-par or a worthless example from an artist's oeuvre. Let's face it, collector's tastes change and frequency of buying can increase or diminish with age or financial changes. For example, a collectors has a large collection she has groomed for years, but is now retiring and moving to a smaller home - where does all the art go? What if you inherit a great painting from your Uncle, but you only collect black and white photography? Or maybe a collector has been collecting for decades and the initial pieces that got their attention in the beginning no longer hold their interest. What I find even more frequently is seasoned collectors taking inventory of their collection as they begin estate planning - what happens if these collectors have children with "zero" art appreciation? (When these collectors must decide where their collection will reside, I hope they FIRST consider a donation to their local museum so eyes will still see the work...after that, I hope they think of us!) For these reasons, Seattle needs ArtREsource.

What do the Artist think about a resale gallery?

What happens when an artist visits and sees their work hanging on our walls? Starting a business such as this has been tricky regarding the emotional side of selling art from a private collection. As an artist myself, I had to grapple with how this was going to work out since it's probably just a matter of time before I see one of my paintings arrive for resale.

Artists may find it difficult to think a patron has released your painting or sculpture from their collection. I ask the artists to stop and think...hasn't the artwork you have traded for over the years changed? Even an artist's tastes and interests shift and head in different directions. That piece is no less valuable because it is on the wall of a resale gallery. It is best to realize that the collector who consigned it actually respects you and felt a need to find a new home for your piece. It's also exposure that helps any current shows you may be having in town.

The best part of this venture is how great it can be to find a jewel by a favorite artist. I once was working on installing a show of work by an artist I truly admire. At the time I didn't have the money to buy the piece I fell in love with at that show...I came to work each day wishing I had something to sell so I could take it home. It didn't happen and I dismissed the idea of owning it, but continued to watch the artist grow. Several years later the buyer of that same painting came into the gallery with the work tucked under her arm. Due to financial distress she needed to sell the painting...and to my joy I bought it from her immediately. This type of exchange happened with clients several times at Greg Kucera Gallery gallery...and it's an occurrence I hope will begin happening at ArtREsource.

Who Am I?

My name is Jena Scott. Long ago I was an art student at college. I ended my college days at grad school with a Masters degree in drawing. Dreaming of being a visual artist was where it all began, yet I never thought the degree would really take me anywhere of merit since I had no interest whatsoever in teaching art. Gee, what else can you do with an art degree, right?

I moved to Seattle in the late '80s and after a few months of working in a deli and freelance illustrating by day (and scouring clubs at night to see the grunge band of the hour), I ended up at an art supply store. I spent a few happy years there "working in the real world" and meeting some great artists as well as working my way up the ladder to management. I eventually left after a disagreement with management (long story...not getting into it here). As I walked out of the building for the last time, it hit me that I had no paycheck coming in two weeks and I freaked out. I had a mortgage! I had car insurance to pay! Dog food to buy! I had to make a decision: take my large back-pay check for all the vacation days I never took and go to Europe for a year OR panic and find a job. The nervous, financially-sound worry-wort side won out - I grabbed a Seattle Weekly and searched the employment ads.

Long story short, 14 years ago, after three interviews with Greg Kucera, I began working as the manager of his gallery, the Greg Kucera Gallery, in Seattle. It turns out this experience was useful - and so was my degree! Much was learned and many relationships cultivated. The job was quite worldly, fun, full of travel and visually stimulating. After a dozen years, I eventually found myself (at 40 years old) asking if I was doing something that was satisfying at this point in my life. I was also recently married for the first time and with that marriage came a stepdaughter. My husband had a great job and it was soon clear that it was time to leave the gallery life. I spent the last year working for myself...painting, illustrating, learning how to play mom to a tweener and to take inventory of my life.

Fast forward to last September, almost a year to the day I quit at the gallery. I received a call from Greg. He had an idea he wanted to throw my way. To make the second long story short, I liked the idea and found being a housefrau wasn't really me - I missed the people I knew and the daily life in Pioneer Square. Greg, his partner Larry (that's them at left with me) and I worked out details and Seattle ArtREsource was born. I had a new horizon. And here I am.

So, stop by and see the space, ask questions and enjoy the art!