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Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House

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A couple of blocks west of the central plaza in Santa Fe, approaching the red-brick Greek Revival Windsor Betts Art Brokerage House via a shaded path, you might think you’ve suddenly been whisked out of Santa Fe and set down in a small town in Mississippi. But inside, almost every wall is crammed floor to ceiling, frame to frame with southwestern art. Owner Alex Windsor Betts says her business exists to help collectors resell paintings and sculpture purchased from local dealers. This arrangement is mutually beneficial to both galleries and collectors, she adds, because “when clients admire a work in our space, we send them to the gallery that represents the artist.” A Los Angeles real estate broker and photo-studio art director before moving to Santa Fe in 1986, Betts learned at the knee of the late gallerist Elaine Horowich, the grande dame of the contemporary art scene in Santa Fe. The brokerage house represents the “major museum artists” of the Southwest, including Native Americans Fritz Scholder, Kevin Redstar, Earl Biss, Doug Hyde and T. C. Cannon, and such non-Indian artists as Dick Jemison, Paul Shapiro, Warhol contemporary James Havard and de Kooning protégé Michael Wright. An extensive electronic archive of the work on offer can be viewed on a video monitor placed just inside the door, as if it were a work of art itself. (via Elements of Living)

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Riva Yares Gallery

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One of the best art spaces, across the street from Windsor Betts, is Riva Yares Gallery, the Santa Fe outpost of its eponymous Israeli-born owner’s flagship gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. When you’ve finished admiring works by Milton Avery, Alex Katz, Helen Frankenthaler or other name-brand twentieth-century artist, take a moment to look down, at one of the most appetizing high-shine epoxied cement floors you’ll ever see. (via Elements of Living)

Updated Apr 12, 2006

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Price Dewey Galleries

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On the second floor of the historic Catron Building in Santa Fe is the spacious and beautifully lit Price Dewey Galleries. When Victoria Price bought the Dewey Gallery in 2003 and rechristened it, she also expanded the original gallery’s emphasis on Native American textiles, pottery, jewelry and artifacts. Now on display as well are contemporary art and design like the totemic painted folk sculptures carved from fenceposts by the Navajo artist Charlie Willeto; tweaked traditional pottery (think purgatory depicted as a hot tub) by Marie Romero Cash; early New Mexican tin retablos; mid-century furniture from Scandinavia; and highly original found-metal pieces like the Carrier 3 bench by Tom Emerson. (via Elements of Living)

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Clay Angel

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A stroll across the plaza to Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe takes you to the Clay Angel, where shelves and shelves of beautifully displayed high-end, high-color pottery from Mexico, Italy, Spain and France occupy the front of the shop. Take a few steps up to the mezzanine to study the large variety of Provençal and other fine, mostly French, table linens. Custom linens are also available. (via Elements of Living)

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Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc

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Located in Sante Fe, the Andrew Smith Gallery for photographs has impressive archives of western landscapes and portraits by such early masters as Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Karl Moon and August Sander, and the lesser known but mightily deserving Josef Sudek. A striking photograph by contemporary artist Flor Garduño, a Mexican living in Switzerland, depicts a black night in which a crow is barely distinguishable but for one glittering eye. Another contemporary photographer, Jack Spencer, shoots affectingly dusky dogs, horses and views of Monument Valley. (via Elements of Living)

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Chelsea Galleria

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Chelsea Galleria, located in the Miami Design District, represents a well-chosen roster of fine artists and photographers, some of whom venture a little into the exotic. (via Elements of Living)

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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Kagedo

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Kagedo Japanese Art in Seattle is one of about ten galleries in the States to focus exclusively on Japanese fine art at this level. It is a serene space with pale walls and soaring ceilings, dim lighting and tinkling fountains—the perfect setting for its museum-quality art and antiques: painted scrolls and screens, lacquer work, basketry, bronze metalwork sculptures, cloisonné vases and tea-ceremony objects. Of particular interest to the owner, Jeff Cline, is Japanese painting from the Art Deco period. A catalog from his exhibition earlier this year at the International Asian Art Fair in New York, <i>Light Through Clouds: Modern Japanese Painting</i>, features works from the 1920s and 30s. "I want to educate people," says Cline. "Most Americans think of Japanese art as a chrysanthemum painted on a screen. But Japan has its Picassos too." (via Elements of Living)

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Distant Lands

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At Distant Lands, Lorenzo Moog, the store manager, points out special items from the store’s vast collection of rare and unusual antiques from northern China, Tibet and Mongolia. Highlights include a Tibetan urn from Sezo; a 350-year-old, ten-panel screen made of Chinese elm (in perfect condition); and a rare scholar’s stone from the Hebei Province: The Chinese call such stones, which are balanced on carved wooden stands, the "bones of the earth." (via Elements of Living)

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Lucca Great Finds

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In the Ballard district of Seattle is Lucca Great Finds, where vintage and beaded chandeliers seem to cover every square inch of the ceiling. In addition to scented French candles and toiletries from Santa Maria Novella, the 800-year-old pharmacy in Florence, Francine Katz and Peter Riches’s quaint shop is stocked with racks and racks of enchanting papers and reams of colorful ribbons. You can’t leave this place without buying something. (via Elements of Living)

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Souvenir

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Curtis Steiner is a known collector of strange and mysterious objects, and his Seattle-based store, Souvenir, showcases just that. Past two recessed display windows (one holding four demure gilded ballroom chairs and the other, antique cherubs with origami-like folded paper roses), Steiner stands behind a weathered, antique grocer’s cabinet from Amsterdam, stroking his hefty nine-pound Chihuahua. Dark wood tables display an assortment of carved ivory bracelets and candle snuffers, Japanese geisha wigs and glass candelabra. Each of the grocer’s drawers holds more treasures: pince-nez, lacquered trays, Chinese sugar labels, silver pen quills. Steiner’s collectibles are not limited to his shop; items from his personal collection exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum last summer are still on display. (via Elements of Living)

Updated Apr 11, 2006

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