About James Few, PSA Expertise Painting -- Specifically soft Pastels medium. I am listed in Whos Who in American Art. Signature member of the Pastel Society of America. My paintings have been exhibited in numerous National Juried Exhibits across the US. I can best answer questions about pastels and pastel technique, My secondary medium is acrylics.
Experience I have been painting with pastels since 1980
But am no longer painting regularly.
Question I have a signed Huldah painting. It is a woman with a parasol with a small girl. They are walking around a lake with two children in sailor suits playing with a sail boat in the lake. The two main characters have large eyes. Can you appraise this piece?
Answer Sorry John,but art ID and appraisal is not my thing. I usually answer questions about the use of the soft pastel medium only.
However you might try these guides:
Artist Research Library
www.artincontext.org
Find Thousands of Artists by Name, Discipline, Period, Term & More.
For identification help, you might contact the American National Gallery research library or look in their online inventory for the artist's name.. http://www.nga.gov/resources/dldesc.shtm
If price is your concern, I recommend that you contact an appraisal service in your area. You may also wish to use the services of an online appraisal service such as www.eppraisals.com, or http://www.artomania.com/ . However I cannot vouch for their veracity.
Price always depends on supply and demand regardless of what you are selling. It is worth exactly what you can get a buyer to pay for it. Cost is not the same as price.
And
Free information and advice is worth exactly what it costs ---- nothing!
It could also be a reproduction, copy or fake.... Gallery copies made by (honest) student artists who go into museums and copy master works for practice are usually marked "after- so and so," and in some cases certified as such by the museum staff -- usually on the back. Incidentally that is the best way to get into another artist's head....
