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Reginald Baxter - Artist
Category: Arts and Entertainment Asked by: karla-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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05 Sep 2002 17:52 PDT
Expires: 05 Oct 2002 17:52 PDT Question ID: 62124 |
I came across an original painting of the "Leopard" by Reginald Baxter. I have searched the internet to the best of my ability and can't find out anything about Baxter. What country does he live in and How can I reach him? I want to find out the value of this painting. The Painting is 54" x 42". Thank you, Peter Sahula |
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Re: Reginald Baxter - Artist
Answered By: sublime1-ga on 05 Sep 2002 23:41 PDT |
karla... Here's a page with 2 prints of his called "Cheetah", and your painting, "Leopard": http://www.respree.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/product/pages/sku/LCLACC347?E+scstore These are 24" x 30" prints for $28. This page indicates that he lives in Toronto: "KENDERDINE GALLERY" "Continuing to Dec. 19, "Copycat: Adventures in Intertextuality", an exhibition exploring issues of authenticity, authorship and intertextuality. Includes works by artists Reginald Baxter (Toronto), Lucy Hogg (Vancouver), Damian Moppett (Vancouver), Brigitte Radecki (Montreal), and Monica Tap (Guelph). Each artist has interpreted historical paintings through a variety of visual and theoretical filters, producing altered representations. Curated by Kent Archer. For info. call 966-6816." http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/Nov26-99/museums.html Here's a cached page regarding an exhibit at another Canadian Gallery through March, 2002: "February 22 to March 23, 2002 King Charles Cavalier Spaniel - Reginald Baxter * Where: Stride Gallery, 1004 MacLeod Trail SE, Calgary, Alberta Cost: Free Admission!" http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:B840pFv1xf8C:www.artists-society.ab.ca/cal_month_results.asp%3Fcmth%3D3+%22Reginald+Baxter%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Here's a recent review, by Jennifer McVeigh, of a recent exhibition by Reginald Baxter: "Have you ever seen those shrink-wrapped "Original Oil Paintings" at a dollar store? Stacks of images that appear to be exactly the same, but with subtle differences in individual brushstrokes? True to the claim, each one is produced by hand." "Reginald Baxter has investigated this phenomenon with his ongoing work, "King Charles Spaniel," showing until March 23 at Stride Gallery. Baxter copied his dog from an "original art catalogue" where the artists’ names appear to have been fabricated, and has made 30 nearly identical versions of the painting. What began as a printed reproduction of a dubious image developed into an original body of work." http://www.greatwest.ca/ffwd/Issues/2002/0307/art2.htm Unfortunately, most of the 325 results from a search for his name link to shops selling posters of his "big cat" prints. There is little personal information except that he resides in Toronto. I would suggest that you contact one of the galleries at which he has exhibited for contact and pricing information. The Kenderdine Gallery, noted previously, has a webpage with extensive contact information here: http://www.usask.ca/kenderdine/staff.html The Stride Gallery, also mentioned above, has a webpage, with contact information, here: http://www.stride.ab.ca/toc.html Searches done, via Google: "Reginald Baxter" ://www.google.com/search?q=%22Reginald+Baxter%22&num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=50&sa=N "Kenderdine Gallery" ://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Kenderdine+Gallery%22 "Stride Gallery" ://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Stride+Gallery%22 If you need further assistance before rating this answer, please feel free to post a request for clarification. sublime1-ga | |
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Reginald Baxter - Artist (Additional Information)
From: respree-ga on 06 Sep 2002 02:44 PDT |
Hi Peter: I see you took my advice about Google Answers. Here is some additional info. Reginald Baxter appears to be a copycat artist (forger of other people's works). He is also known as "Mark Bell," but signs his works Reginald Baxter. http://glabush.fol.nl/copy_cat.htm Both Reginald Baxter (a.k.a. Mark Bell) and Damien Moppet use humour to great effect in their installations. Baxter examines notions of artistic merit and intent by examining his experience as a professional painter working in the basement of a mid-town New York gallery, producing endless copies of the "King Charles Cavalier Spaniel." In the process of repeatedly painting this dog portrait and signing it Reginald Baxter, Mark Bell assumed the fictitious identity. Even after his stint as a "professional" painter, Baxter has continued producing versions of this painting at the rate of four or five a year since 1990. Looking at these fifteen seemingly exact copies one cannot help but marvel at their mechanically perfect mimesis, but with further reflection the viewer is made aware of minute yet significant differences. This googly-eyed cur painted with "old master" deftness and remarkable attention to nuance is a substantial yet entertaining affront to the idea of originality and authorship. http://www.greatwest.ca/ffwd/Issues/2002/0307/art2.htm Reginald Baxter has investigated this phenomenon with his ongoing work, "King Charles Spaniel," showing until March 23 at Stride Gallery. Baxter copied his dog from an "original art catalogue" where the artists’ names appear to have been fabricated, and has made 30 nearly identical versions of the painting. What began as a printed reproduction of a dubious image developed into an original body of work. In the exhibition essay, David Weaver has built an elaborate history around the series, noting that Baxter first appeared in the Elizabethan era, then again 200 years later as a war artist during the Crimean War, painting the same spaniel all the while. http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:q_7pxjFpp6AC:www.ausu.org/voice2002/voicejan23.pdf+%22King+Charles+Cavalier+Spaniel%22+baxter&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Since 1990 Reginald Baxter has been painting copies of a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel that at a rate of about 4 to 8 each year. The source for this image itself is a bit of amystery as it was extracted from an "original art" catalogue where the artists' names appeared to have been fabricated. Upon the first examination the 30 or so dog paintings appear to be replicas of one another, but on closer inspection it is quite easy to spot subtledifferences that render each work as a unique original. The paintings are a crude counterpart to current technologies (like photography or videography) where there is no such thing as an original, but only mechanically made duplicates. These collection ofpaintings that begun as a mechanically reproduced image of a forgery painting have ironically ended up as original pieces revealing the non-mechanical nature of the human touch and our ways of seeing. BIOGRAPHY: Reginald Baxter graduated from the Ontario College of Art with Honours in Fine Art in 1989. His work has been widely exhibited in Canada and abroad in various galleries including Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Mercer Union, Toronto, ON; and 494 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and the Venice Biennial, Canadian Pavillion (collaborative bookwork with Tom Dean), Venice, Italy. You may want to contact the following (it appears he has had an exhibit here) Stride Gallery 1004 MacLeod Trail S.E. Calgary, AB CANADA T2G 2M7 www.stride.ab.ca E-mail: stride2@telusplanet.net PHONE: 403.262.8507 FAX: 403.269.5220 Contact Lissa Robinson, Director at 403.262.8507. The Stride Gallery is an artist-run gallery that is funded in part by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Calgary Region Arts Foundation, the Canada Council and the generous support of the Calgary community. Hope that helps a little. Garrick Saito www.respree.com |
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