HEATHER SACRE and JAMES CARONA Owners
Twenty-five years ago, we opened our first gallery, a small space on an elegant street in a resort community. With backgrounds in art, art history, education, and finance, we curated our gallery to feel like a tiny museum, with the finest art and cultural antiquities we could find, while providing education, information, and curated experiences for each of our clients. We wanted every person who came in to our gallery to feel enriched in some way, to have a personal experience with the art, to understand its importance within art history, and to feel a connection to it. As Heather James has grown, we have maintained the standard of providing top notch customer service, while continuing to make that personal connection between the art and our client. We have always been enchanted by the beauty of the object and intrigued by its history – where it was made, and why, who touched it, owned it and loved it in the past, and sharing these stories with our clients, and seeing them fall in love with a work of art, is both a joy and a reward. We invite you to come in to one of our galleries and experience what Heather James Fine Art has to offer. We are confident that you, too, will find yourself enriched by the experience.
jim@heatherjames.com o: 760-346-8926 c: 760-861-1018
NEW YORK PALM DESERT JACKSON HOLE LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO PALM BEACH MONTECITO NEWPORT BEACH NEW ORLEANS LONDON BASEL
ABOUT US Heather James Fine Art has been in business for 25 years, presenting important works spanning time periods and genres including Contemporary, Modern, Impressionist, American, Latin American, and Old Masters. We have galleries located in Palm Desert, and Jackson Hole, as well as consultancies in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Montecito, Newport Beach, San Francisco, New Orleans, London, and Basel. Each of our gallery locations presents new exhibitions every season. Some of the highlights include Picasso (Palm Desert), Alexander Calder (Palm Desert), Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art (Palm Desert), The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill (San Francisco), and de Kooning x de Kooning (New York). We are proud to work with museums, placing artwork from our inventory in top institutions around the country, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and many more. We are dedicated to presenting exceptional artwork and to building lasting connections with our clients. Beyond a simple transactional relationship, we aim to share our knowledge and passion for visual art, assisting our clients however we can with a variety of services, including acquisitions, consignments, collections management, appraisals, estate and tax planning, logistics management, and additional operational resources.
ABOUT US
PALM DESERT 45188 Portola Avenue Palm Desert, CA 92260 760-346-8926
JACKSON HOLE PO Box 3580 172 Center Street, Suite 101 Jackson Hole, WY 83001 307-200-6090
CONSULTANCIES NEW YORK
LOS ANGELES
NEWPORT BEACH
SAN FRA
NEW ORLEANS
ANCISCO
PALM BEACH
LONDON
MONTECITO
BASEL
Home curation: in-house installers and in-house curators to help place and design the collection; advising on lighting and custom display systems such as pedestals and vitrines Facilitation of conservation, restoration, and preservation
Strategic loans to museums globally
In-house registrar department to oversee logistical planning, necessary paperwork, and documentation for museum loans
SERVICES We provide a wide range of client-based services
APPRAISALS Updated appraisals and real-time market updates
Interface with auction houses, dealers and private clients
Logistical coordination with auction houses, including packing, pick-up, transport, and installation Relationships with dealers and private clients for sourcing artwork Assessing artwork condition and quality for purchase consideration; assistance obtaining certificates of authentication from artist foundations or expert scholars
COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Collection documentation
Cataloguing your collection with detailed inventory documentation including photography, condition reports, and certificates of insurance organized and maintained in our digital records
Installation and security
Full-service installation for all art types and sizes Wall-to-wall art handling services: installation and de-installation; custom packing for transport or storage; specialized installation for earthquake mitigation and theft mitigation; consultation on security systems
Negotiations with home buyer who also seeks to purchase the artwork on display
Art Advisory
FINANCIAL SERVICES Lending for purchases and liquidity Assisting with loans for acquisition or against existing owned art
Longstanding partnerships with appraisers for efficient and thorough documentation
ESTATE AND TAX PLANNING
Access to market research tools for valuation, including market price index graphs and auction comparables
Full documentation of the artwork or collection with digital records, photography, and condition reports for Fair Market Value estate planning
Complete documentation of artwork information, including provenance, exhibition history, and literature references
Facilitation of appraisals for insurance purposes and estate tax filing
Insurance advisory
ACQUISITIONS
Exchange and installation of artwork that may sell while on display as all works provided for staging remain active gallery inventory
Art trusts
Museum gifting
Certificates of insurance and appraisals for insurance purposes
Interfacing with museums to facilitate donations, including assistance navigating the necessary tax documents and legal forms
LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
Obtaining appraisal documents for donation purposes
Location tracking, packing, storing, delivery
Climatized storage and transportation: secure storage on-site or at external facilities; coordination with trusted partners and fine art shipping companies White glove handling to ensure the safety of the artwork at every step of transportation by air, ground, or sea, from crating and packing to unpacking and installation Personalized solutions for multimodal art shipping nationally and internationally
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Framing
Re-framing, re-glazing, and advising on lighting and display
Conservation and restoration
Facilitating conservation and restoration treatments from beginning to end, through communication with conservators, treatment proposals, secure transport, and treatment documentation
Home staging
Consultation visits, artwork selection for key walls and spaces, and installation
Picasso
November 2009 - May 2010
NOTABLE EXHIBITIONS Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art November 2010 - May 2011
Alexander Calder
The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill
de Kooning x de Kooning
Sam Francis: From Dusk to Dawn
November 2015 - May 2016
November 2018 - February 2019
March - September 2018
November 2018 - April 2019
The National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
The Barry Art Museum Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
The Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado
The C Sac
MORRIS LOUIS (1912-1962) Sub-Marine, 1948, oil on canvas
JULES OLITSKI (1922-2007) Embraced: Yellow and Pink, 2005, acrylic on canvas
TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004) Stocking Nude, 1980, pencil on paper
PA Stockto
The Currier Museum of Art Manchester, New Hampshire
The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois
The Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, Ohio
ELAINE DE KOONING (1918-1989) Michael Sonnabend, 1951, oil on canvas
EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967) Attic in Nyack, 1899, charcoal on paper
JUAN SORIANO (1920-2006) Bull, 2004, bronze
The Smit Northam
THERE Armistice Day Para
Crocker Art Museum cramento, California
The Mint Museum Charlotte, North Carolina
AUL SAMPLE (1896-1974) on, c. 1935-1936, oil on canvas
JOHN LESLIE BRECK (1860-1899) Suzanne Hoschedé-Monet Sewing, 1888, oil on canvas
th College Museum of Art mpton, Massachusetts
ESA BERNSTEIN (1890-2002) ade: The Altar of Liberty, 1919, oil on canvas
SELECTED MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS The Wittliff Collections Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952) Potter Building Her Kiln, 1906, vintage copper photogravure printing plate
Selection of art acquired from our gallery by notable museums
THANK YOU
James Carona Owner Please contact me directly and I would be happy to share more information about our gallery jim@heatherjames.com o: 760-346-8926 c: 760-861-1018
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