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.

Connecting the Community Through Paint

Connecting the Community Through Paint

When Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner, executive director of the American Jazz Museum, wanted to develop a community project that would provide a contrast to the racial tensions and divisions in the news, she approached Michael Toombs, a local artist and muralist. Toombs proposed a mural, and on Nov. 4, the museum unveiled “Harmony on the Vine: Spill […]

Exhibit of 1930s Woodcuts Illumines Depression-Era Collecting in KC

Exhibit of 1930s Woodcuts Illumines Depression-Era Collecting in KC

“Originality, Simplicity, Freedom of Expression, and above all Sincerity, with a clean cut block, are characteristics of a good wood block print.” These are the words of Blanche Lazzell, a champion woodblock print maker and probably the best-known artist in the exhibit, “The 1930s in Prints: A Gift to Kansas City from The Woodcut Society.” […]

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 […]