Remembering Norman Rockwell
Many might describe art as an outlet for tranquility and understanding in this world. It has proven to be necessary as such in difficult...
Blanche Hoschedé-Monet: In the Shadow of Claude Monet
A young woman, at the age of seventeen, found herself pushing a wheelbarrow full of canvases and an easel in the 1882 summer air. She was...
Salvador Dalí
Rebelling against the ideas of rationalism brought on through the course of the Enlightenment, Surrealism was rooted in the principal...
Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger (1862-1925)
The last few months of Van Gogh’s life were spent frantically creating artwork, with the artist often finishing entire canvases in a...
Aleksandra Kasuba
MIR Appraisal Services has recently had the opportunity to appraise a lifetime of work for Lithuanian artist Aleksandra Kasuba. Scheduled...
Kerry James Marshall
MIR Appraisal Services has come across a wide selection of artists to research over the years. From small town Impressionists of the...
Artist Biographical: Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Alexander Calder was born on July 22, 1898 in Lawnton, Swatara Township, Pennsylvania. The famous mobile-creating artist was born into a...
Artist Biographical: Lucien Clergue (French, 1934-2014)
Lucien Clergue’s career was shaped by tragedy, opportunity, and experimentation. In a time where photography was just beginning to...
Yaacov Agam
Yaacov Agam was born in 1928 in Mandate, Palestine, which is now Rischon LeZion, Israel. His father was a rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and...
Eisenstaedt and the Appraisal of Photography
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s work has come in and out of MIR Appraisal Services’ office for years. The famous LIFE Magazine, black and white...