Collections

• Valuation services, including market analyses, estimates of current market value, and appraisals for insurance, estate, and donation purposes (compliant with USPAP, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice)

• Deaccession strategies, procurement and assessment of sales and donation opportunities, negotiation of preferential terms, and client representation

• Assessment of areas of interest and guidance on collection development, including acquisition research and recommendations, sourcing artwork, negotiating discounts, and bidding at auction

• Collection management and care, such as object inventories, cataloguing, image documentation, housing, framing, storage, condition assessments, and conservation guidance

Anna Atkins, Ferns. Specimen of Cyanotype, 1840s, cyanotype, Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.