The Artmere Journal
Stories from the studio, notes on collecting, and a closer look at the rooms art calls home.
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Collecting
The real reason you bought it
Most first original paintings are not chosen under decorator influence. They are chosen under memory, a kitchen window in late afternoon, a room a...
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Collecting
The thirty-inch mistake
Most first-time collectors buy a painting roughly thirty percent smaller than the wall actually asks for. A small notebook at the Brooklyn atelier tracks...
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Collecting
What estate sales never deliver
A collector in Aspen discovered six months after an estate sale that the painting on her wall had been returned in 2019 by a...
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Collecting
The painting she almost sent back
The atelier offers a sixty-day return window. In three years, six recipients walked to the edge of it around day eighteen, twenty-two, or forty-one,...
