Slog - Comments on Aha! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha So this is what SAM was after. Since May, Seattle Art Museum has sold $2.35 million in American art at auction, and a portion of that money went to pay for this painting, John Singleton Copley's Sylvester Gardiner (circa 1772). In a recent conversation, SAM American art curator Patti Junker told me that major early American paintings were so expensive that they were "out of the question." I guess all I can say to that is: um, not? Sylvester Gardiner, measuring 40 by 50 inches, pictures a physician and real-estate developer born in Rhode Island who happened to be on... Copyright 2008 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:06:53 -0800 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:44:58 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by him Watch out, that traitor is reaching for his flintlock!

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538837 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538837 Arts Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:02:22 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell I think he's got a can of hairspray under there.

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538875 Arts Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:04:06 -0800 Comment by cite Wow, you're pretty clueless about what this painting cost.

]]> cite http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538904 Arts Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:52:08 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Cite, please do tell.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538959 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c538959 Arts Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:17:50 -0800 Comment by Shit!!! Paintings of important white men are going for that paltry sum? Shit! I'm outraged at our sudden lapse in running the world!

A DEAd white man in a POWDERED WIG no less? Those are the most important kind!

]]> Shit!!! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c539162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c539162 Arts Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:56:34 -0800 Comment by elswinger What a boring painting. If SAM wants to a world respected museum it needs to purchase works of art that people actually want to see. I wish we had a museum of modern art.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c541702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c541702 Arts Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:15:17 -0800 Comment by cite $400,000? The last Copley of comparable quality sold for nearly $3.5 million, in 2005.

]]> cite http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c543159 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c543159 Arts Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:04:39 -0800 Comment by Tim Quinn Isn't that Ben Stein in that picture?

]]> Tim Quinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c548081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/aha#c548081 Arts Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:44:58 -0800