Collectors - a question

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Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:41 am

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Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:23 am

ricv64 wrote:
piemel wrote:Anyone out there with a significant collection ever thought about a next move .... ie musea, donation, taxes, consolidating with other collectors... to name a few keywords out there?
This is pretty much a subculture with in a subculture . While a handful of institutions are vaguely interested , they still consider it commericial art . Someone with deep pockets , like that Moon Alice guy , would have to build a wing before they jump on those offers of donations .
it's true. I work for a museum. we acquired a nice lot of 60's era BG/FD posters a few years ago, but it was only after one of the print curators found a trustee to finance the purchase and exhibition costs. there isn't any real interest in "modern era" gig posters, at least not here.
The Denver Art Museum is the only fine art institution I'm aware of who might be interested in this stuff. the Experience Music Project in Seattle or maybe the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame might be candidates for accepting a collection.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:29 am

If you donate these to a museum they will be in a basement for a hundred years until some curator decides to do spring cleaning, then it's coin toss on whether or not they think commercial art is "quaint" enough to have a small exhibit for.


You're better off selling if you want them to be appreciated.



just my opinion, I like my collection and consider it cataloguing art history but if that doesn't do it for you...then Haven's suggestion made me lolz and i'd jump on that train also. (but for your old mat daly's :) )
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:29 pm

talkingdeads wrote:If you donate these to a museum they will be in a basement for a hundred years until some curator decides to do spring cleaning, then it's coin toss on whether or not they think commercial art is "quaint" enough to have a small exhibit for.

I like my collection and consider it cataloguing art history.
This may be precisely why the poster scene will ultimately matter in the greater context of the art world.
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Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:33 am

Posters received enormous interest, with many collectors and museum exhibitions from about 1895 through about 1920.

By then tastes had changed and, probably more importantly, commercial printing had also changed allowing, especially, the easy and

inexpensive reproduction of photographs.
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I farted
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I like your style
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That's what she said
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Codeblue wrote:Look who's back from the dead.
RupertPupkin wrote:I live by this rule and this rule alone: people are drymounting idiots.
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Codeblue wrote:
Codeblue wrote:Look who's back from the dead.
Do I need to slap anyone or do you have it under control here?
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piemel wrote:I farted
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Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:45 pm

piemel wrote:I farted

Someone throw this into the "fudge '03ers Say" thread.
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Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:54 pm

pj101ca wrote:Do you like movies?
Do you like crappy movies with even crappier posters? Join a Commission club.
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Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:20 am

there's still a small band of holdouts who collect these things called gig posters

http://forum.expressobeans.com/viewtopi ... 32&t=99085
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