Nan Chisholm

Nan Chisholm

Nan Chisholm is an art consultant and appraiser of 19th- and 20th-century paintings. After a long association with Sotheby’s, she founded her own business in 2003.  She has appeared as a fine art appraiser on Antiques Roadshow since its inception in 1995.  Based in New York, she grew up in Kansas City and visits frequently.

Crystal Bridges Exhibit Captures Power of Dance

John Singer Sargent’s Capri Girl on a Rooftop dancing to a tambourine. William H. Johnson’s modernist depiction of an African American couple jitterbugging. The iconic picture of an exuberant flatboatman dancing a jig by George Caleb Bingham. These are a handful of the artworks gathered in the exhibit “The Art of American Dance,” opening Oct. […]

Collector’s Corner: Roland Sabates

Collector’s Corner: Roland Sabates

His current pursuit is Ross Braught, a noted artist and muralist who was head of the Kansas City Art Institute’s painting department in the 1930s. Roland Sabates is an ophthalmologist and passionate collector of American, African and Latin American art. In 2013 he opened Oak Street Mansion, a bed and breakfast which displays part of […]

“Venus Rising” Contains More Than a Female Body

“Venus Rising” Contains More Than a Female Body

Raphaelle Peale’s famous still life embeds a dialogue with his artist father. One of the gems of the Nelson-Atkins’ American painting collection is Raphaelle Peale’s Venus Rising from the Sea—A Deception. Often acknowledged as the artist’s most important work, it was a natural choice for inclusion in the exhibit, “Audubon to Warhol: The Art of […]

Eastward Ho for “Missouri’s Artist”

Eastward Ho for “Missouri’s Artist”

An exhibition of Missouri’s artist ends its journey at the MET. Next to Thomas Hart Benton, George Caleb Bingham is probably the best-known artist of Missouri and the first major American painter to be based west of the Mississippi.   He was born in 1811 in Virginia and moved to Boon’s Lick, Mo., as a young […]

Himmel and Holle

Himmel and Holle

Marsden Hartley painting on loan encourages inspection of WWI art. It is always a pleasure to run into an old friend when one is out of town. Such was the case at the Los Angeles County Art Museum where I recognized Himmel, a work loaned by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for the exhibition, Marsden Hartley: […]

Picasso Retrospective Looks at Artist’s Youth and Flair

We have all attended museum retrospectives … Room after room displaying the painter’s earliest struggles to find his artistic voice, the familiar mature works and the late examples which may shed new insight on their creator or pale in comparison to their predecessors. A recent exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery in London, Becoming Picasso: Paris […]