During a lifetime devoted to creative output, many artists find themselves being caretakers of countless unsold artworks and file-boxes packed with documents, with no idea what to do with them. They resolve to tackle the job, but they procrastinate, or are interrupted by varioius distractions. Many just want to keep working; hopeful of being rediscovered, or the glorious swansong of a museum retrospective. This is seldom how their stories end, unless they become proactive and take steps to create a durable legacy plan.

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A cautionary tale about the dispersal of SoHo artist Mary Beth Edelson: READ THE STORY

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Brian O’Doherty Estate Appraisal 

Brian O’Doherty (1928-2022)

It was a privilege, pleasure, and honor; to have completed an appraisal of artworks in the estate of the late Brian O’Doherty, whose long career included being an art critic and presenter for NBC and PBS. He was an editor at Art in America magazine, and the author of numerous essays, and several novels.Long before before art fairs and the Internet, his influential book Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space described how late 20th-century art was defined as much by the sterile environments in which it was exhibited, as by the art itself.  O’Doherty was a prolific visual artist who excelled in a variety of practices; from drawing and painting, to installation and performance. He invented a number of alter-egos— the most famous of which was Patrick Ireland; a persona adopted in protest to the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on January 30, 1972.  After peace finally came to Northern Ireland in 2008, O’Doherty held a wake and burial of Patrick Ireland in the  formal garden of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The importance of this significant artist’s life has yet to be reckoned, but it is sure to be lasting.

O’Doherty is represented by Simone Subal Gallery in New York, Galerie Thomas Hoffmann in Friedberg, Germany, and Galerie Thomas Fischer in Berlin.

Every two years, USPAP-complaint appraisers are required to complete a seven-hour refresher course. With over two million “appraisers” reportedly working in the United States, less than five percent have ever passed the examination of the fifteen-hour USPAP course, and fewer still remain current with USPAP.

So— what is USPAP? The Uniform Standards and Practices for Appraisal Professionals  “is the generally recognized ethical and performance standards for the appraisal profession in the United States.  USPAP was adopted by Congress in 1989, and contains standards for all types of appraisal services, including real estate, personal property, business and mass appraisal.  Compliance is required for state-licensed and state-certified appraisers involved in federally-related real estate transactions.”

There is no state licensing requirement for personal property (art & antiques) appraisals, but those appraisers who take the 15-hour USPAP course, passing its examination test, and taking a 7-hour refresher course every two years demonstrate credibility by holding themselves to the highest ethical and performance standards in the field.

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Author and visual artist James Lancel McElhinney spoke with artists and estate managers to find out how creative lives are preserved for posterity. Find out what you can do, as artists nearing the end of active careers, or as manager of the creative legacy of a loved one. Learn what steps anyone can take to advance the visibility of artists’ lives, in ways that may help to re-establish and maintain their work’s position in the art market.

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When an artist reaches the end of his or her working life, they, their family, friends and heirs may be uncertain about how to manage the accumulation of papers and artworks that represent a life in art. Some may assume that marketing these holdings is of paramount concern, but forming an archive and finding it a home is of equal importance.

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Taking steps to assure durable reference value is essential to create demand and encourage sales that will be needed to support the activities of whatever entity that you, your lawyer and accountant decide is appropriate
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1. Looking South From Fort Lee

2. Revolutionary War Battery, Fort Lee, New Jersey

3. Heather Garden. Fort Tryon Park. Washington Heights.

4. The Jersey Palisades from Below the Cloisters

5. Yonkers from State Line Park Lookout

6. Looking South from the Lamont Weather Station at Piermont

7. Hook Mountain and Tappan Zee from Croton Point

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PALISADES: North River Suite Volume Two is now on view in James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew, at Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York. (September 13, 2019-February 16, 2020) Following the success of McElhinney’s Hudson Highlands: North River Suite Volume One (2017) and O.T.W. The Schuylkill River (2018). McElhinney’s prints can be found in the following collections:

Albany Institute of History and Art Avery Fine Art and Architecture Library, Columbia University
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York
City of Philadelphia. Water Department Archives.
University of Denver. Library Special Collections. Denver Colorado
Free Library of Philadelphia. Print and Picture Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers New York
Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California
Independence Seaport Museum
Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois
New York Public Library. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photography
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Archives and Special Collections
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Temple University. Samuel L. Paley Library Special Collections
West Point Museum, United States Military Academy
Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven Connecticut,
And in private collections in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Zealand.

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