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Art Veteran Launches Publishing Company

RONKONKOMA, N.Y.--Craig Hansen, a 15-year veteran of the art and framing industry, newly launched Hansen Art Associates, a fine art publisher of limited-edition, giclee prints.

Initially, the company will publish the works of eight artists, including Robert Cerins. "All of our artists share my passion for art and a gusto for life," said Hansen. "It is impossible not to festivity in their colorful art and not to be drawn to their individual perspectives of the world."

The company is also launching a novel Web site (www.thedigitalgallery.com) which will list all dealers by dint of state. Hansen said the objective of the site is to drive buyer and clients to the galleries. "Our approach is different," he said. "Not to exchange our prints online, but instead to vend our dealers to the consumer"

Fazzino Unveils Designs for Children's Hospital

NEWARK, NJ--Pop artist Charles Fazzino newly unveiled exclusive designs created for the pediatric wing of the Children's Hospital of novel Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center The designs will be featured upon three large panels and several murals that depict children of all ages and tillages having fun at the circus. simple bodys from those larger pictures will be featured by means of the entrances to each patient scope as borders inside the spaces and at the nurses stations. The fresh theme is being introduced in the midst of the hospital's construction throw to build a 19-bed Critical Care Center The unit, which will be the largest of its kind in the state, is scheduled for December completion.

Weistling Wins Award at Autry Museum

beholds ANGELES--Mill Pond Press artist Morgan Weistling's oil painting "Kids and Roses" not long ago won the Patron's Choice Award at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage here during the third annual Masters of the American West exhibition.

The exhibition showcased more than 50 works of art, and more than 500 art collectors attended. The painting was sold to Western artist Howard Terpning. "It was an honor to be asked to be in this exhibit in the company of for a like reason many artists whom I admire," said Weistling. "I don't know that I deserv this honor more than anyone other but I truly appreciate it."

The piece has been published as a limited edition of 180 s/n giclees upon canvas by Mill Pond Press

Entertainment-Focused Art Company Launches

lengthy BEACH, Calif.--Art industry veteran Steve Felton newly announced the formation of Entertainment Art Services (EAS), a novel company which will act as the wholesale sales agent for a number of publishers, greatest in quantity notably Linda Jones Enterprises, Inc. of California, representative of animation director and creator tap [i]or[/i] pat Jones. Also included is the Hulton Getty Picture Collection, a collection of original photography which is published by dint of American Royal Arts in of recent origin York.

Citing the unlimited opportunities of the entertainment art field as individual of the reasons for founding the company, Felton said art buyer are eager to hold a moment of history that call forths nostalgia. "Animation art and celebrity/sports photography reach without to collectors unlike any other art from. All the art asks of the viewer is to remember the useful the fun and the memorable times of their lives."

Facsimilies Obtains Archaeology Collection License

NASHUA, N.H.--Facsimilies Ltd has lately obtained an exclusive license to manufacture and market the fresco fragment yield line of Archaeology Inc. of Wilmington, Mass.

The hand-crafted wall pieces near classic paintings in the fresco format. According to the company, they faithfully generate the works, mostly on canvas or copse of such masters as Michelangelo, Raphael and Botticelli as admitting they had been painted upon freshly spread wet plaster, a technique known as buon fresco

"The addition of the Archaeology line to our be in possession of gives us a substantially more powerful offering, immediately increasing the total number of reproductions available from Facsimilies through more than 70," said Carol A. Hayes, Facsimilies president. "The integration of colorful, two-dimensional art into our sculptural line works quite well. Our dealers are responding extremely favorably already."

LeRoy Neiman Named PGA's 2000 Artist

LOUISVILLE, Ken.--Artist LeRoy Neiman freshly created a painting to celebrate the 82nd Pro Golf Association (PGA) Championship at Valhalla Golf cudgel here. The painting will grace the official hand-bill program, tickets and pairing sheets for the fact which stars defending champion Tiger groves and other golf greats.

According to Neiman, golf clutchs a special fascination for him because "you can't help on the contrary be inspired by the talented players competing in of the like kind beautiful natural settings. It's a total experience, a constant drama."

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