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September Issue 2005
Charleston Art Auction, LLC, Delays Event Until Fall 2006
Charleston Art Auction, LLC, in association with the Red Piano Art Gallery and Morris & Whiteside Galleries, on Hilton Head Island, SC, will produce a fine art auction in Charleston, SC, in the fall of 2006. The sale was originally scheduled and advertised for Nov. 2005 of this year but the associated galleries, who have been proven leaders in the fine art auction business in Arizona, New Mexico, South Carolina and Texas for over twenty years, said the emergence of Charleston as an art destination city in America deserves careful planning.
Charleston Art Auction president, Jack A. Morris, Jr., is a former executive director of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC (1965-1980) and Chairman of the South Carolina Arts Commission (1972-1973) and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island.
"We have had considerable success in the west," Morris said in announcing the Charleston sale, "and we made significant progress with our art auctions in Hilton Head over the past five years. We have come to recognize, however, that an active art market has been stimulated in Charleston over the past decade by the establishment of a number of high quality, fine art galleries" he added. Morris further attributed the fertile art environment to the Charleston Fine Art Dealers Association and praised their efforts to institute and maintain the highest professional standards in the fine art trade.
Morris' business associates include J. Ben Whiteside, with eleven years of art auction experience, J. Randolph Light, Jr. and David G. Leahy of Hilton Head Island and Savannah, GA. "We have a wealth of experience that we hope to share with the Charleston market," Whiteside commented, "and we look forward to attracting collectors from throughout the country to this stimulating venue."
Initially, the sale is expected to be comprised of contemporary, representational paintings and sculpture featuring artists and subjects east of the Mississippi. Other works by nineteenth and early twentieth century American masters and antique prints by Audubon and Catesby are also being sought for consignment. "It is important to build regional and national support for the living artists," Morris said, 'but we also want to build a balanced sale that will attract a broad cross-section of American collectors."
Charleston Art Auction, LLC, is currently seeking
and accepting on consignment works for the fall 2006 sale.
For more information contact Jack A. Morris, Jr. or J. Ben
Whiteside at 843/842-4433 or at (www.charlestonartauction.com).
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