Seattle Art Museum Announces Auction
November 8, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Seattle Art Museum will sell several paintings at Sotheby’s in New York later this month as part of an effort to raise funds to buy other artworks, reports The Seattle Times.
Among the paintings to be auctioned are “New York Abstraction” by John Marin, “That Which the Sea Gives Up” by Chauncey Foster Ryder, and Preston Dickinson’s “Still Life No. 1.” The sale is expected to raise $1- to $1.5-million, the Times reports.
Some expressed concern over the decision to sell these and other works in the museum’s American collection.
But Patti Junker, American art curator at the museum, said these paintings are not ones that the museum would show, calling them “minor examples.”
