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April Gornik's Blue Moonlight Offered By The Smithsonian

Filed under: Art

The Smithsonian Associates has announced their latest commission, a limited-edition lithograph from April Gornik titled "Blue Moonlight." The Art Collectors Program offers Smithsonian members and non-members the chance to purchase Smithsonian-commissioned contemporary fine art prints and posters by acclaimed American artists. The limited-edition prints are numbered and signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Smithsonian. The collection also includes Studio Editions of glass art by Dale Chihuly.

Blue Moonlight is a quiet landscape with double reflection of the moon. Gornik is a prominent landscape painter whose paintings and prints are in major private and museum collections, including the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The seven-color lithograph is a signed and numbered edition of 100, printed on Rives BFK paper and sold unframed. The price is $1200 for nonmembers and $950 for Smithsonian Associate Members.

[via Art Daily]

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Travel + Leisure Commissions Artists for Project Globe Auction

by Tracy Chait (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions, Art, Charity, Big Givers

Travel + Leisure has announced its collaboration with 18 prominent artists including Maya Lin, Manolo Blahnik and April Gornik, to create specially-commissioned pieces to be auctioned as part of its second annual Project Globe event. Following the auction, the magazine will donate all proceeds to Future Generations, a non-profit conservation and community development organization. The online auction starts today at tlprojectglobe.com, where bidders are swiftly staking their claims.

The diverse group of photographs, sculptures and jewelry, all of which aim to celebrate travel's positive impact, will be shown at GlassHouses in New York City on September 19 and 20. Photographs from the auctioned items will be featured in Travel + Leisure's October Style + Culture issue, on newsstands September 23. See the gallery for a selection of items at auction.

Gallery: Project Globe Auction