Category: Art

Posted in Art

A couple months ago, one of my favorite auction houses featured one of its big Gallery Auctions, with the focus on what it called “Orientalia.” It had over 500 lots of Asian screens, artwork, furniture, carvings…

September 8, 2009

sherry

Cartoonist Bo Brown’s ink drawings

Posted in Art

I had never heard of a cartoonist named Bo Brown. But when I came across some of his original pen drawings among some papers I picked up at one of my auctions, I knew I…

August 19, 2009

sherry

5 Comments

An art discovery of MC “Five Cent” Jones

Posted in Art

As I strolled through a list of catalog items on the web for a Decorative Arts auction recently, I wandered onto some watercolors that were interesting. The first piece was an African American woman. Next to…

“ART WITH HEART: How I Built a Sweet Collection by Buying Cheap at Auction”

I collect art, but I’m not someone who has the means to pay $500,000 for a Charles White or $12 million for a Rembrandt. I’m one of the “rest of us” who want beautiful artwork in our homes but can’t afford to pay big bucks for it.

I found a novel way to build my collection – by buying art for very little money at mom-and-pop auction houses near where I live. I started out buying African American artists whose works spoke to me and were ignored by the mainstream art world. Then I discovered some other neglected artists who called out just as loud.

My book “ART WITH HEART” Is a selection of stories of how I found art that I loved, how I lost out on some, won others, learned some lessons that I share with you – and enjoyed every minute of it.

So, grab a seat next to me as I take you through the moments I spent building a collection that stirred my heart.

Watch the Book Trailer

Listen to and read an excerpt